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The Auteur As A Critic: Amy Taubin Reviews Steven Soderbergh, Maria B. Bernedo

Senior Projects Fall 2023

In this project, we seek to understand the role of the film critic in the modern world through my favorite film critic: Amy Taubin. As a throughline, we use Steven Soderbergh’s most notable works: Sex, Lies, and Videotape (1989) and The Knick (2014-15)

We additionally study the role of the auteur, and what its impact is on the development of film criticism. We focus on Taubins career over the last 30 years and its impact on the concepts we have around filmmaking, criticism, and auteurism. Mostly, this is a piece about what passion for cinema will lead different creators to. …

Andy & Edie, Warhol & Sedgwick, Sabine Paris

Senior Projects Spring 2023

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Arts of Bard College.

The Familiarity Of Hapticity Overrides The Rationality Of Sight: 'Hair Aesthetics' And Photographic Seeing, Diana Ferrell Mccready

Senior Projects Spring 2023

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Arts of Bard College.

All The Things That Don't Make Sound, Caleb Wyatt

Senior Projects Spring 2023

Longing is a silent call. This film exists at the intersection of both my deepest desires and my greatest fears. All the Things That Don’t Make Sound. How do you articulate a yearning that is so incredibly silent? The desire to belong, the fear that you never will. These are all questions that I asked myself at the beginning of this process. I struggled to find Tulu’s wants because the simple act of yearning is to not speak power to the feeling, it is an act that’s done in silence. Tulu is a character born out of all the things …

Goodbye? Reflections And Stream Of Consciousness On, Underneath And Around The Creation Of “Hello?”, Leonard Shevel Gurevich

Senior Projects Spring 2023

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Arts of Bard College.

Towards A Queer Weimar Cinema: Spaces, Narratives, And Influences, Elizabeth M. Lynch Sullivan

Senior Projects Spring 2023

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Arts of Bard College.

Más Grande Que Una Isla, Georgi Elizabeth Valero

Senior Projects Spring 2023

Más Grande Que Una Isla is a film about the political leanings of Cuban-Americans in Miami-Dade County, highlighting the dissonance in supporting policies that negatively affect the immigration process for others when they were incredibly privileged in the programs and opportunities available to them. It explores these political beliefs by tracing back to their origination, drawing out the privilege in the Cuban immigration experience that has existed for over half a century, leading us back to the present. While the film extends to a broader discussion, exploring the views of the Cuban community in Miami, it is personal at its …

Rendering The Cyberfag: An Examination On The Spatial Sociology Of Grindr, Matthew Paul Gershovich

Senior Projects Spring 2023

Rendering the Cyberfag: An Examination on the Spatial Sociology of Grindr attempts to dissect, theorize, and expose the current dismality of gay existence and space in direct correlation with the inception of the digital realm. The investigation begins by establishing a lexicon of socio-spatial attributes that aim to establish the reader within a basis of the spatial vulnerabilities attached with queer identities. A contextualizing chronology of aspects of queer history is presented; beginning with the act of cruising, and its subsequent demise during the AIDS epidemic. In parallel, the thesis follows the creation of the internet, which birthed gay anonymous …

My Last Oyster At The End Of The World, Miriam Ruth Lubin

Senior Projects Spring 2023

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Arts of Bard College.

Otzar, Nicole Frederique Goldberg

Senior Projects Spring 2023

The Guf, or הָאוֹצָר, is an example of an Otzar . It describes a heavenly storehouse, intended for treasure. There, treasures are souls which blossom and ultimately fall from the tree of life.

These souls are often regarded as birds, and the Guf, their cage. To the tune of a sparrow’s song, angel hands reach down and pluck, selecting a soul for birth. It is said that once the Guf is emptied, and the souls run out, the messiah will come and the world will swiftly end. Birth prolongs the arrival of death with its embryonic beauty, but can simply …

Nothing Happens Here, Kai Diego Parcher-Charles

Senior Projects Spring 2023

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Arts of Bard College.

Honey, Mason Forman

Senior Projects Spring 2023

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Arts of Bard College.

Broken Up, Over Easy, Abigail Rose Collins

Senior Projects Spring 2023

Broken Up, Over Easy is a colorful, feminine coming of age comedy. The story follows a girl named Flo who is down in the dumps after a devastating break up. Her closest friend, Izzy, decides she needs to help Flo get her groove back. Izzy’s brilliant revenge plot is to egg the ex-girlfriend’s house while simultaneously breaking in to steal back Flo’s childhood stuffed animal (Mr. Brownie).

It begins as a classic rom-com and abruptly turns into an absurd, girly heist movie that ends in a dance number. When writing my short film, I was interested in creating lovable characters, …

From Fashion, To Violence, To A Forgotten Era: The Zoot Suit And Mexican-American Youth Culture In 1940’S America, Adelaide Iris Ord Treadwell

Senior Projects Spring 2023

Senior Project submitted to the Division of Social Studies of Bard College.

1, Dia Rose Reiner

Senior Projects Spring 2023

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Arts of Bard College.

I Look At You And I See Art: Sapphic Contemporary Cinema And The Desiring Gaze, Lena Behrendt-Harrer

Senior Projects Spring 2023

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Arts of Bard College.

Do Androids Dream Of Improvisation?, Aidan J. Samp

Senior Projects Spring 2022

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Arts of Bard College.

Persistence, Sacrifice, And Resistance: Life In Occupied Palestine In Three Films By Hany Abu-Assad, Hudson Hart Hooton

Senior Projects Spring 2022

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Arts of Bard College.

魔道祖师: An Exploration Of Characterisation And Character Dynamics Between Two Cinematic Adaptations, Allegra Tsao Robinson

Senior Projects Fall 2022

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Arts of Bard College.

Getting Under Your Skin Until You Jump Out Of It: The Psychological Effects Of Music On The Experience Of Film, Clare Ellen Herzog

Senior Projects Spring 2022

Music is like magic. It can sweep you off your feet and spirit you away to places you never thought possible: it can serve as a teleportation device, achieve time travel, and let us read minds. Some pieces of music exist for their own sake, like Rachmaninoff’s Isle of the Dead, while others accompany different forms of media: ballets such as The Nutcracker and operas like La Bohème are instantly recognizable for their grandiose and immersive scores. For a moment in time, audiences can really believe that they are traveling to a magical world with Clara, and even without the …

Imagined Realities: The Rise Of New Wave Cinema In Post-War Japan, Asia Miro Smudde Tom

Senior Projects Spring 2022

Project Submitted to the Division of Social Studies of Bard College.

My thesis explores cinematic representation in post-war Japan leading up the the New Wave movement. I examine the work of Yasujiro Ozu and Sun Tribe youth films and their relationship with conventions of cinema to bring awareness to narrative constructions of historical periods.

Sensing Space In Cinema: Widescreen And Sound As Immersive Offerings, Eloise Colette Schiffman-Eller

Senior Projects Spring 2022

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Arts of Bard College.

9/11: News Media As Prism, Luka L. Murro

Senior Projects Spring 2022

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Arts of Bard College.

Of Archives And Ghosts, Zara Ruth Franke

Senior Projects Spring 2022

This project, is about Bard's history of ghosts, subcultural lore and what makes something "home" to you. In a place and time, in students life, when things seem dispossessed and temporal. As the subtitle of my written sproj suggests:Temporal spaces of home for Bard students now and then, their connections with each other and how we process memories, ghosts and subcultural lore.

My installation is about these moments in life, when everything seems to freeze for a second, hold still, and you feel like this moment is forever but also not at all. "Ephemerality", in academic, theory terms but also …

"I Love You 3000": Marvel Studios, Fandom, And Their Symbiotic Relationship, Katrina Carmen Aronovsky

Senior Projects Spring 2022

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Arts of Bard College.

Thinking On Animation:The Problem Of Specificity Thesis, Wandi Liang

Senior Projects Spring 2021

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Social Studies of Bard College.

Indecent Desires: Constructing Deviance And Morality In Doris Wishman’S Wide World Of Sleaze, Emily Ahn

Senior Projects Spring 2021

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Arts of Bard College.

The Auteur As Adapter: From Literature To Film In Rossellini, Godard, And Pasolini, Sundar S. Pratt

Senior Projects Spring 2021

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Languages and Literature of Bard College

No Sentiments, Peter Cheung

Senior Projects Fall 2021

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Arts of Bard College.

Dreams To Remember, Seamus William Heady

Senior Projects Fall 2021

Dreams to Remember is a hybrid short film, somewhere between documentary and narrative fiction, offering a peek into the mind of my aging father, Peter. Eight years ago, Peter was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease, and subsequently Parkinson’s disease. As Peter’s body withers and his mind begins to betray him, he seeks refuge and redemption in his dreams.

Dreams to Remember’s candid narration, recorded in documentary style interviews with Peter, tell a story of struggle, grief, and mortality. Juxtaposing the frailty and solitude of life’s final chapter, preposterous dream sequence vignettes inject Peter’s humor and desires, allowing Peter to rewrite …