Legacy Russell — acclaimed author of GLITCH FEMINISM: A Manifesto, and Executive Director and Chief Curator of The Kitchen — presents her BLACK MEME video essay and book about “Black imagery that recasts our understanding of visual culture and technology.” Response by C. Riley Snorton, English and Comparative Literature and the Institute for the Study of Sexuality and Gender.

Professor of the Arts and Dean Emerita Carol Becker discusses her new memoir about the complexity of a father/daughter relationship that will “resonate with anyone whose family has come undone when a member refuses to adhere to conventional expectations, whether around gender, sexuality, race, class, religion, politics, or culture” with Gideon Lester, Artistic Director of the Fisher Center at Bard College.

In New Orleans, hard-working and independent Tiana (Anika Noni Rose) dreams of opening a restaurant. When an evil witch doctor casts a spell on a visiting prince, turning him into a frog, Tiana, mistaken for a princess, is also transformed. The two journey through the bayou searching for someone with the magic to change them back. One of Disney’s last hand-drawn animated feature films, The Princess and the Frog is an American fairy tale adventure.

One-Night Only Performance! 

Celebrated visual and performance artist Karen Finley looks back at New York City upended by the COVID-19 pandemic in a moving, one-night only performance that “pierces the heart” with “rawness that feels like a jolt,” according to the New York Times. Performed to mark the five-year anniversary of the COVID-19 pandemic and the launch of Finley’s titular new book of poetry.

Columbia University Film and Media Studies Memorial to Fredric Jameson honors his work on the science fiction genre in film and literature. Screening one of his favorite films returns us to his lesson: how to read the politics of our historical moment in the products of mass culture.

Photographer Diana Matar traversed the United States for ten years, documenting locations where citizens were shot or tasered by law enforcement officers, to ask: “What does it mean to live in a land where the people responsible for protecting its citizens can so often be involved in their deaths?” Introduced by Professor of the Arts and Dean Emerita Carol Becker. Responses by Lisa Sutcliffe, Curator in the Department of Photographs at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and Kendall Thomas, Columbia Law School.

Arrietty is a tiny teenager, living with her family in the walls and floors of a country house. As she ventures forth for sugarcubes and other supplies, she befriends a human boy, but will this friendship risk her family’s safety?  From Japan’s famed Studio Ghibli, The Secret World of Arrietty invites us into a miniature world that might be hiding within our very homes.

Every Work Has Several Faces: A Conversation with Yoko Tawada about Writing and Translation, Co-Moderated by Writing Professor Rivka Galchen ‘06 and Literary Translation at Columbia (LTAC) Director, Susan Bernofsky.

Hundreds of royal artifacts were looted from the African kingdom of Dahomey by French colonial troops during the invasion of 1892. This powerful documentary by Mati Diop follows twenty-six of these objects as they are repatriated from Paris to their homeland — now located within the Republic of Benin.

Osmosis Jones blends live action and animation to tell a story about an unhealthy zookeeper, Frank (Bill Murray), and a white blood cell, Osmosis “Ozzy” Jones (Chris Rock), who helps battle the consequences of Frank’s not-so-hygenic habits.

Fantastic Voyage follows a team of medical scientists who are reduced to the size of microbes and injected into the bloodstream of a patient whom they must save before the miniaturization wears off.

Live-action and stop-motion animation tell the story of Marcel (Jenny Slate), a one-inch-tall shell who is discovered by a documentary filmmaker amid the clutter of an Airbnb. A survivor of a mysterious tragedy, Marcel sees a chance to find his long-lost family with the help of his new human friend.

Chaplin's first full-length feature is a masterpiece about a tramp who takes-in an orphaned child.  Chaplin directed, produced and starred in this film, and also composed the score. Ben Model returns to perform live musical accompaniment for this silent comedy classic.