Join us for a screening of “Linotype,” a film about typesetting in the old days and how it’s demise disrupted the design industry.

Ramapo COMM students who will be joined by 8-10 members of the Art Directors Club Design Education Council who will facilitate an informal discussion with the students on their experiences with the transition between the old typesetting and new. The council members are bringing samples of lead type, holders, and other typesetting paraphernalia and they’ll be demonstrating typesetting as it used to be done before the days of computerized type.

This event is open to all students.

 

Jules David Bartkowski made his directorial debut with Pastor Paul, which was first screened at the Alliance Francaise in Accra, Ghana, and went on to a sold out world premiere at Lincoln Center as a part of the New York African Film Festival in May, 2016. Bartkowski won an award for his performance in Pastor Paul at the Chicago Underground Film Festival. The film’s European premiere was at the International Filmmakers Festival in Berlin.

Bartkowski is a life-long actor, musician, and writer who is currently composing and producing the score for an upcoming film starring Willie Nelson, entitled My Cricket and Me, and recently released an album of original songs and videos under thepseudonym, Goolis, with a second album to be released this Thanksgiving.

For more information contact: Shalom Gorewitz, Professor, Visual Arts (sgorewit@ramapo.edu)

This event is free and open to the Ramapo College community.

PASTOR PAUL explores the remarkable confluence of New African Cinema, Christianity and Witchcraft; and undermines the classic symbolic imagery of the “white-man” in Africa, whether he be tourist, missionary, actor, or ghost.

Filmed in Ghana and Nigeria in 2013 on a micro-budget, Pastor Paul was the result of a guerilla-style international co-production with Pidgen Films. Pastor Paul also features performances by Edi Osei and Kwame Owusu.

Nollywood recently surpassed the United States in annual film productions, making Nigeria the second largest entertainment industry in the world. Since its inception in the early 1990s, many Nollywood films have been about witchcraft and Christianity and the disparity between rural and urban life in Africa. These narratives are relevant to contemporary Africans and the style has spread all over the continent. Pastor Paul is an homage to the spirit and the spirits of Nollywood’s self-determined narratives.

For more information contact: Shalom Gorewitz, Professor, Visual Arts (sgorewit@ramapo.edu)

This event is free and open to the Ramapo College community.

Cinematheque Special Programs Presents:

Award-winning filmmaker Lynne Sachs will screen and discuss her films Your Day is my Night, Every Fold Matters, and The House of Drafts: A Bosnian American Web Collaboration.

Lynne Sachs makes film, installations, performances, and web projects that explore the intricate relationship between personal observations and broader historical experiences by weaving together poetry, collage, painting, politics, and layered sound design. Strongly committed to a dialogue between cinematic theory and practice, she searches for a rigerous play between image and sound, pushing the visual and aural textures in her work with each and every new project. Lynn Sachs teaches at NYU, and her work has screened globally. In 2014, she received a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship in Film and Video.

 

Co-sponsored by the Gross Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Ramapo College and the Platinum Fund.

A CONTEMPORARY ARTS MULTIDISCIPLINARY EVENT

Premiere Film Screening

Tango: A “New” Language

An exploration of the work of several artists in Buenos Aires, Argentina, that use tango as a tool for social awareness.

A documentary by Marta N. Bautís

 

Performances

Musicians

Maurizio Najt, piano, and Rodolfo Zanetti, bandoneon

 

Tango Dancers

Sandra Antognazzi and Walter Pérez

 

For more information: Marta N. Bautís, mbautis@ramapo.edu