As many as 30 student-produced short films will be shown at DVD Fest 2006 on Saturday, Feb. 25 at 7:30 p.m. in the Carleton College Skinner Memorial Chapel. The event is free and open to the public; doors open at 7:10 p.m.

“Russian Ark,” a visually spellbinding film about St. Petersburg’s Hermitage museum, will be screened Monday, Jan. 23 at 7 p.m. The location has been changed to Olin Hall, Room 149. The event is free and open to the public.

“Russian Ark,” a visually spellbinding film about St. Petersburg’s Hermitage museum, will be screened Monday, Jan. 23 at 7 p.m. in Carleton College’s Boliou Hall, Room 104. The event is free and open to the public.

In an unusual but refreshing change of pace, the Carleton Orchestra, under the new direction of former band conductor and Professor of Music Ronald Rodman, presented a night of music of the films, combining aspects of two Carleton departments, music and cinema and media studies.

Annie Humphrey, Ojibwe singer/songwriter, and The Long Hairz Collective, a Detroit based Native American/African America spoken word trio, will give bookend performances at a screening of “Trudell,” a documentary film about the life of Native American Santee activist and poet John Trudell, at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Nov. 10, in Carleton College’s Severance Great Hall. The event is free and open to the public.

The Carleton College Cinema and Media Studies program and local Northfield organization ArtOrg announce a four-week Japanese animation festival, titled “Anime Genres: Aspects of a Global Cultural Consciousness.” Film showings will be held every Friday in October (7, 14, 21, and 28) at 7 p.m. at Carleton in Boliou Hall, Room 104. Frenchy Lunning, professor of liberal arts at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design (MCAD), will present lectures before some of the showings. The festival events are free and open to the public.

Michael Medved, a conservative talk radio host and film critic whose daily show emphasizes the interaction between politics and pop culture, will give a convocation address titled "Hollywood's Three Biggest Lies" at 10:50 a.m. on Friday, April 8, in the Carleton College Skinner Memorial Chapel. The event is free and open to the public.

Crowds of enthusiastic Carleton students gathered at Carleton’s Concert Hall last Saturday to take comfort with pre-final exam relief in the form of student-produced five minute films.

Carleton students will hold the College's fourth annual DVD Fest at 7:30 p.m. on Saturday, March 5, in Carleton’s Concert Hall.

The Program in Ethical Reflection (PERC) at Carleton College will present a screening of a new documentary film titled “Wellstone!” at 8 p.m. on Monday, Oct. 25 in Olin Hall, Room 149. There will be a discussion following the screening with one of the film’s producers, Lu Lippold, a member of the Carleton class of 1976. The event is free and open to the public.

Screenings of 15 South Asian documentaries will be held at various locations at Carleton from Wednesday, May 5, to Tuesday, May 11. The films, part of a traveling festival designed to promote South Asian films, were originally shown at the Film South Asia festival held every two years in Kathmandu. View schedule (PDF Document)

Barrie Osborne, producer of “The Lord of the Rings” movie trilogy and a 1966 Carleton graduate, will give a convocation address titled “Storytelling and Technology” at 10:50 a.m. on Friday, April 16, at Carleton’s Skinner Memorial Chapel. The address will discuss the role of special effects in advancing a narrative. The event is free and open to the public, but seating is limited and priority will be given to Carleton students, faculty, staff and alumni.