Film as Collaborative Art

Discussions, demonstrations and student film screenings are featured during the Saturday, May 5, “Film as Collaborative Art” symposium offered collaboratively by the College of the Arts and Department of Radio-TV-Film and funded by a university Mission and Goals Initiative. The daylong program is free and open to the public.

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Among the guest speakers will be filmmaker Stacey Steers, an animator who creates her works — including “Night Hunter” and “Phantom Canyon” — by hand on paper.

Also scheduled is a film music panel discussion featuring composers Chris Young, Sharon Farber and Thom Sharp, with Veronika Krausus as moderator.

The program concludes with a 8 p.m. concert, featuring the New Music Ensemble with the guest film composers, as well as faculty members Pamela Madsen, Jean Ferrandis, Larry Timm and Mikhail Korshev, in the Meng Concert Hall.

Schedule:

• 12-2 p.m. — World Electroacoustic Listening Room Project
• 2 p.m. — Animation filmmaker Stacey Steers, lecture, demonstration and screening of film
• 3 p.m. — Film music panel: Chris Young, Sharon Farber and Thom Sharp. Veronika Krausus, moderator
• 4 p.m. — Lecture-demo with Chris Young
• 5 p.m. — Lecture-demo with Sharon Farber
• 5:30 p.m. — Lecture-demo with Thom Sharp
• 6 p.m. — Screening of student films with guest filmmakers

For more information, contact Pamela Madsen, 657-278-2152.

May 3, 2012