Public Talk w/ Ying Qian (Columbia University) ​ //Friday, February 20, 2026 //2:00 PM //GEM Lab, 630.15 //1250 rue Guy This project takes ethnographic documentary filmmaking in Yunnan in the late 1950s and early 1960s as a point of departure to think about filmmaking as a chronopolitical technology employed by state and local actors to contest over conflicting regimes and experiences of time during China’s socialist transition. I focus my analysis on two films, The Wa ( Wa

//February 27th //2:00-5:00 PM //GEM Lab, FB 630.15 //1250 rue Guy The inaugural Work-in-Progress PhD Symposium brings together graduate students in film and media to share ongoing doctoral research. Across two panels, presenters explore how moving-image practices are reshaped by circulation, technological change, and archival reconfiguration – from streaming platforms and multiview interfaces, to orphan films, design pedagogy, and low-tech media histories. The moderated pane

A talk on hidden legal forces shaping moving-image art today Tiffany Sia, What Rules The Invisible , 2022 (still). Courtesy of the artist and Video Data Bank //February 16th //5.30 PM //GEM Lab, FB 630.15 //1250 rue Guy Artist and filmmaker Tiffany Sia explores the often-unseen legal infrastructures that govern the circulation, ownership, and risk of moving image artworks today. Expanding on materialist film theory, this talk examines how censorship, copyright, and national s