Fellows 2010-11
FSC-Radcliffe Fellows
FSC-Harvard Fellows
McMillan-Stewart Fellow
RABAH AMEUR-ZAÏMECHE
The McMillan-Stewart Fellowship in Distinguished Filmmaking
Rabah Ameur-Zaïmeche was born in Algeria in 1966 and moved to France in 1968, where he grew up in Montfermeil, on the outskirts of Paris. After studying sociology, in 1999 he founded his own production company, Sarrazinc Productions. In 2002, he made his first feature film, Wesh Wesh, qu'est-ce qui passe? (2002), which won many prizes including the Louis Delluc Award and Berlin’s Wolfgang Staudte Award. With Bled Number One, he won the Young Audiences Prize at Cannes 2006 and a Special Mention Award at the 24th Torino Film Festival. Dernier marquis premiered at Cannes in 2008. He is currently working on a new film.
FELICITY AULINO
A graduate student in Anthropology, Felicity Aulino's project is Gaam: An ethnographic vilm exploring the daily caregiving routine of two sisters caring for their elderly mother and the profound elements of this ordinary experience.
EDGAR BARROSO
Collaborators Aryo Danusiri, Juan de Dios Vázquez, and Yen-Ting Cho
The Nahua operetta Zazanilli (which in Nahuatl means both "story" and "enigma") is a collaboration between composer Edgar Barroso, poet Juan de Dios Vázquez, filmmaker Aryo Danusiri, and designer Yen-Ting Cho. It will portray the mesmerizing Nahua myth of a young girl who becomes a starfish. The goal is to represent the unrepresented, to provide though structured musical figuration an understanding of invisible forces and principles that regulated not only the myths, riddles and proverbs of ancient Aztecs but also the pulse of contemporary indigenous politics.
Edgar Barroso is a PhD Candidate in Music Composition at Harvard University. An interdisciplinary approach has become the core of his work. His education includes a Master in Digital Arts, a Postgraduate Diploma in Composition and Contemporary Technologies and a Bachelor in Music Composition. He has been granted by the Mexican National Fund for Art and Culture with a 2010-2011 “Programa Jóvenes Creadores” Award. Aryo Danusiri is a visual artist and Ph.D. Candidate in Anthropology/Film Visual Studies. His latest work, "On Brodway" (2010) was premiered at Rotterdam Film Festival, The Netherlands.
SHARON HARPER
An assistant professor at VES, Sharon Harper received an MFA in photography and related media from the School of Visual Art in New York in 1997 and a BA from Middlebury College in literary studies. She works with photography and video to record a subjective experience of landscape, exploring ways that technology mediates our relationship with the natural world and generates perceptual experiences. Her current project is Crash which explores the intersection of photography and video—the place at which motion approaches the still image and the place within still photography at which stationary time break down.
JOHN HULSEY
A graduate student in VES, John Hulsey's project 72 Hours is an audiovisual installation that uses projected images and sound to evoke the lived experience of three families facing foreclosure. Working closely with Boston-area tenants' rights group City Life/Vida Urbana, the participants and collaborators in 72 Hours aim to make public, visible, and felt the struggles of those undergoing foreclosure.
By temporarily occupying apartment buildings, foreclosed houses, or vacant bank-owned properties and transforming them into sites for multimedia projection, 72 Hours makes visible the absences and traces left behind when residents are evicted from their homes. See a full description and press on John Hulsey's website
RUTH LINGFORD
Ruth Lingford has been making animated films since 1990. Her films have won several Festival awards all over the world. Since 2006, she has been Professor of the Practice of Animation at Harvard. Her current project is Little Deaths, an 11 minute animated film based on recorded interviews about the experience of orgasm.
IRENE LUSZTIG
Film Study Center–Radcliffe Fellow
Irene Lusztig was born in England to Romanian parents, grew up in Boston and has lived in France, Italy, Romania, China, and Russia. She received her BA in filmmaking and Chinese studies from Harvard and completed her MFA in film and video at the Milton Avery Graduate School of Fine Arts at Bard College. Her work has won film festival awards and has been screened around the world, including at MoMA, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Anthology Film Archives, Pacific Film Archive, IDFA, and on television in the US, Europe, and Taiwan. She has also been the recipient of grants from the Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities, Massachusetts Cultural Council, LEF Foundation, and New York State Council for the Arts. She has worked as a freelance documentary editor and taught at Harvard, SUNY Purchase, and Temple University. She currently teaches filmmaking at UC Santa Cruz. Her current project is The Motherhood Archives.
ROBB MOSS
PETER GALISON
Peter Galison and Robb Moss together made Secrecy which was released at Sundance in 2008. Their current project, Nuclear Underground, is about radioactive plutonium waste that will remain deadly for tens of thousands of years, and our desperate attempt to seal that waste and warn a far-distant future.
Peter Galison is Pellegrino University Professor of the History of Science and of Physics at Harvard University. In 1997 Galison was awarded a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Fellowship; won a 1998 Pfizer Award (for Image and Logic) as the best book that year in the History of Science; and in 1999 received the Max Planck and Humboldt Stiftung Prize. His books include How Experiments End (1987), Einstein's Clocks, Poincare's Maps (2003), and most recently Objectivity (with L. Daston, 2007). He has worked extensively with de-classified material in his studies of physics in the Cold War. His film on the moral-political debates over the H-bomb, "Ultimate Weapon: The H-bomb Dilemma" (44 minutes, with Pamela Hogan) has been shown frequently on the History Channel and is widely used in courses and seminars in the United States and abroad.
Robb Moss's film, The Same River Twice, premiered at the 2003 Sundance Film Festival, was nominated for a 2004 Independent Spirit award, and played theatrically in more than eighty cities across North America. Other films have shown at the Telluride Film Festival, screened at Lincoln Center and the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, and at numerous venues around the world, including in Amsterdam, Paris, Munich, Sydney, Ankara, and Rio de Janeiro. As a cinematographer he has shot films in Ethiopia, Hungary, Japan, Liberia, Mexico, Turkey on such subjects as famine, genocide and the large-scale structure of the universe many of these pieces were shown on Public Television. He was on the 2004 documentary jury at the Sundance Film Festival and has thrice served as a creative advisor for the Sundance Institute documentary labs. He is the past board chair and president of the Association of Independent Video and Filmmakers and has taught filmmaking at Harvard University for the past twenty years.
VERENA PARAVEL
J.P. SNIADECKI
Véréna Paravel as taught ethnography in France, where she received her PhD. She started making films in 2008 at the Sensory Ethnography Lab. There, she produced 7 Queens, an (anti)-ethnographic video exploring evanescent forms of intimacy. Her recent work Re:Visit Series consists of 5 short pieces (shot through Skype) that explore media, intimate relations at a distance and space. J.P. Sniadecki is completing his doctorate degree in Social Anthropology. His previous films Demolition (Chaiqian) and Songhua, shot in China, have drawn international attention. Demolition was included in lthe 2008 Viennale and won the 2009 Joris Ivens Award at Paris’ prestigious documentary film festival Cinéma du réel. Their current film project with the Film Study Center, Foreign Parts, is a portrait, over the course of seasons, of a New York City’s junkyard as the threat of demolition looms.
MAXIM POZDOROVKIN
JOE BENDER
Maxim Pozdorovkin is a filmmaker and doctoral candidate in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Harvard University. His first film Capital (in collaboration with Joe Bender) is a modern day city symphony that tells the story of Astana, Kazakhstan’s new capital, during its ten-year anniversary. Other recent projects include Soviet Americanism (in collaboration with Ana Olenina), a 30-minute audio-visual essay to supplement the DVD of Miss Mend, a 1926 Soviet adventure serial to be released by Flicker Alley. Maxim’s current project (also with Bender) is 100 Million AKs: a feature length documentary about the history of the AK-47, the world’s most popular gun, and the meaning of very large numbers.
DAVID REDMON
Film Study Center–Radcliffe Fellow
AMIE SIEGEL
Amie Siegel's project is 2010: An essay film -- a stark visual work documenting American preoccupations with wealth, real estate and advertising—the recently ended gilded era of extreme architecture and extreme privilege.
STEPHANIE SPRAY
Stephanie Spray is a filmmaker and doctoral candidate in social anthropology at Harvard University. She received her B.A. in the study of world religions at Smith College and a master’s degree at Harvard Divinity School. She has been engaged in various fieldwork-based projects in Nepal since 1999. In 2001 she was the recipient of a Fulbright-IIE grant, which she used to begin fieldwork with the Gaine, a caste of itinerant musicians. Two such musicians were the subjects of an observational digital video, Kale and Kale, produced in 2007 with the support of the Sensory Ethnography Lab and the South Asia Initiative at Harvard. Likewise, her last two video projects, Monsoon-Reflections and As Long as There’s Breath, are experimental documentaries depicting aspects of the lives of one such Gaine family. Last year she was engaged in two new projects in Nepal: Remembering Sarasvati, an intimate video piece exploring the moral worlds and experiences of three Nepali sisters, and Blue Sky, White River, a sound project with the Gaine of Nepal. Her current project is Reflections on the Seasons: A series of inter-related video and sound works united in their focus on the cycles of the seasons and the ways seasonal routines of labor connect people to the land.
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