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.

 

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.

Melissa Donovan will screen her award-winning film Zemene and discuss her multiple roles as as director, editor, cinematographer, and producer on the film. Co-sponsored with Gross Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies. Zemene (USA, 55m) is a feature documentary about a young Ethiopian girl’s bravery in the face of enormous odds. Living in a remote village with a rare curvature of the spine, Zemene struggles with poverty, poor education, and potentially life-threatening illness. But a chance encounter int he street of Gondar with Dr. Rick Hodes sets in motion a series of events that will change Zemene’s life forever. Shot throughout the beautiful countryside of Ethiopia, the film is a poetic testament to the power and bonds of compassion and the potential within us all.

Following a second screening of Zemene, Professor Pat Keeton, communication arts, will lead a discussion of the film, including the multiple roles of the filmmaker Melissa Donovan as director, producer, cinematographer, and editor of this award-winning film. Co-sponsored with Gross Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies.