Special Sessions

Giant Stories Tiny Screens

Monday, July 21 - opening session
People used to say that the best camera was the one you had with you. Today, by a miracle of technology and social behavior we’re walking around with those best cameras all the time. And—thrillingly and/or terrifyingly—our cameras now talk to one another. What do we do with the possibilities in our pockets? How does what we do slot into the history of the moving image? Together, we’ll dip into 120 years of filmmaking for inspiration and technique and add our own bits to the ever-swelling river of moving imagery.

Daniel Liss is a Creative Director, filmmaker, and technologist with a rich background in visual storytelling across various media. As Creative Director for the National Design Award-winning Local Projects, Daniel was lead creative and team leader on projects ranging from the BMW Guggenheim Lab, New York Botanical Gardens, The Tenement Museum, Google Creative Lab, and the Sugar Hill Children’s Museum of Art and Storytelling. With an extensive background in filmmaking (National Geographic, Discovery Channel, PBS, music videos, and commercial work) he first began to forge a link between his film work and the emerging realm of interactive technologies with a prolonged engagement on Steven Spielberg’s Survivors of the Shoah Foundation, the historic multimedia oral histories archive. Daniel teaches in the Interactive Telecommunications Program at NYU and in Norway at Bergen Arkitektskole. He’s most recently the founder of S+7, the design firm creating the JBFC’s new education website.

Jodorowsky’s Dune

Monday, July 21 - 10:15 am 

The story of cult film director Alejandro Jodorowsky's ambitious but ultimately doomed film adaptation of the seminal science fiction novel, this stunning documentary speaks to the innate power and importance of creativity and passion.

http://jodorowskysdune.com/

Boyhood screening & discussion

Wednesday, July 23

If you haven’t heard of the film Boyhood, you probably haven’t been watching TV, reading the newspaper, or surfing your social media. This phenomenon of a film from the legendary Richard Linklater is a profound and poignant coming-of-age portrait, not only of a boy, but also of a family. We’ll see the film in all its big-screen glory and place it into context through a talk by Dr. Cynthia Lucia, on cinema its time-bending possibilities.

http://boyhoodmovie.tumblr.com/ 

Cynthia Lucia is Professor of English and Director of the Film and Media Studies Program at Rider University. She has been an editor of Cineaste and of the magazine’s Film Review section for more than two decades and is author of Framing Female Lawyers: Women on Trial in Film (University of Texas Press, 2005). She is co-editor of The Wiley-Blackwell History of American Film (2012), a four-volume series named an Outstanding Academic Title of the Year by Choice, of the American Library Association. Beyond Cineaste, her writing has been published in numerous anthologies, including Law, Culture and Visual Studies. She was a beloved presenter in the JBFC’s Summer Teachers Institute in early years, and we are thrilled to welcome her back.