We are delighted to announce that the award-winning independent American filmmaker Todd Solondz will be at the Centre for Film and Screen in early May of the Easter Term, 2019.
Solondz is one of the leading figures in what has come to be known as 鈥榠ndependent cinema鈥欌�攃inema produced outside the Hollywood studio system鈥攁 mode of filmmaking that was anticipated by the 鈥渘ew Hollywood鈥� movement of the听 1970s听 and rose to prominence in the 1990s.
Welcome to the Dollhouse (1995), Solondz鈥檚 second feature film, brought him world-wide recognition and the loyalty of cinephile audiences. Since then, films such as Happiness (1998), Storytelling (2001), Palindromes (2001), Life During听 听Wartime (2004), and Dark Horse (2011) have pushed narrative boundaries and upset generic conventions. His most recent film is the acclaimed Wiener Dog (2016), which won the Jury Prize at the Deauville Film Festival.
His films constitute a stylistically and thematically coherent body of work and have been noted for their dark humour, their narrative experimentation, and their subversive critique of American public and domestic life. Solondz is, significantly,听 听both a screenwriter and a director, and has been awarded and critically recognised for his achievements in both capacities.
During the time of his residency, Solondz will听teach a sequence of master classes, and be in conversation about his work following a series of screenings at the Arts Picturehouse Cinema in 海角社区.
The residency will culminate with a symposium on his work. Speakers will include Karen Pinkus (Cornell University), Linda Ruth Williams (University of Exeter and Visiting Fellow at Corpus Christi College), the filmmaker Hope Dickson Leach, and the film critic Mark Kermode.
The programme of Filmmakers in Residence at the University鈥檚 Centre for Film and Screen was launched in 2016, with Joanna Hogg, who was followed by Gianfranco Rosi (2017) and Lucrecia Martel (2018). We have been fortunate in bringing to the University and to the city of 海角社区 some of the most important and innovative contemporary filmmakers.
Screenings (all are held at Arts Picturehouse 海角社区)
12 May (17.15)听听听听听听听听听听 Welcome to the Dollhouse
13 May (18.15)听听听听听听听听听听 Storytelling
14 May (18.15)听听听听听听听听听听 Life During Wartime
15 May (18.15)听听听听听听听听听听 Dark Horse
Master Classes (13th and 14th May)
Members of the University community (with @cam.ac.uk addresses) should write to graduatestudies@mml.cam.ac.uk听to reserve a place for the classes.
Symposium: The Work of Todd Solondz
16 May, Winstanley Lecture Hall, Trinity College, 10:00-16:00
Speakers: Mark Kermode, Hope Dickson Leach, Julian Murphet, Karen Pinkus, Linda Ruth Williams
Winstanley Lecture Theatre
Trinity College
Trinity Street
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10:00
Welcome
10.15
Julian Murphet (University of New South Wales), 鈥楤ad Taste, Kitsch, and the Space of the Subject in Todd Solondz鈥檚 Cinema鈥�
11:00
听Hope Dickson Leach (filmmaker), 鈥楰illing Peter Paul: the Ultimate Act of Love鈥�
11.30
Karen Pinkus (Cornell University and Leverhulme Visiting Professor, 海角社区), 鈥楤edside Tables: On the Margins of the Shot鈥�
12.15 lunch break
13.15
Linda Ruth Williams, 鈥楬ow to Be (or Not to Be) a Girl: Performing Adolescence in Todd Solondz's Films鈥�
14.00
Mark Kermode, 鈥楩atally Flawed: A Critic鈥檚 Miserably Failed Attempts to Make Sense of Solondz鈥�
15:00
Round table: Todd Solondz in conversation
Todd will be joined by all of the day鈥檚 speakers
Moderated by John David Rhodes
