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Bradford Young
Film+Media
Lighting the way
Published March 20, 2019
Academy Award-nominated cinematographer Bradford Young mentors film students as part of visiting artist series
Screenshots of films screened in Tournées Film Festival
Tournées Film Festival
French film foray
Published Feb 25, 2019
Suzanne Roos, the Tournées Film Festival programmer, discusses the festival's lineup and shares her favorite classic French films
From left: Chloe Soares, Kyra Lesser, Bobby Peretti, and Irving Nestor
Studio North
Homewood to Hollywood
Published July 2, 2018
Studio North production company gives aspiring filmmakers essential hands-on experience creating films
A man runs frantically
Q+A
An intimate portrait of a working-class life
Published May 10, 2018
In advance of the premiere of his fourth film, 'Sollers Point,' Johns Hopkins lecturer Matthew Porterfield sits down to talk filmmaking, creating complex characters, and the colors of summer in Baltimore
A woman in a prom queen crown
Film
Have a ball at the JHU Film Fest
Published April 18, 2018
Student-curated festival, which runs through Saturday, presents feature films exploring balls, proms, and formals
Black and white photo of artists in costume
Q+A
Body talk
Published April 4, 2018
Artists-in-residence Mary Reid Kelley, Patrick Kelley on their visual language, wordplay, and the politics of language
A little boy peeks out from his hockey mask
Film
Being 7 in Baltimore
Published March 26, 2018
'7 in the City' project, which received Idea Lab funding in 2017, will premiere 12 short documentaries and a related web project in May
'Black Panther'
Commentary
'Black Panther' taps centuries of dreams
Published Feb 16, 2018
Historian N.D.B. Connolly explores the historical inspirations, both real and imagined, for the film's fictional world of Wakanda / The Hollywood Reporter
Walter Murch
'Walter just knows stuff'
Published Winter 2017
Oscar-winning film editor and sound designer Walter Murch likes to dive into obscure subjects—including some discounted 18th-century astrophysics that, he thinks, deserves another look / Johns Hopkins Magazine
Sabrina Bouarour
Film
Baltimore's unrest, through a Parisian's lens
Published Sept 29, 2017
One-time Johns Hopkins visiting scholar Sabrina Bouarour puts final touches on documentary exploring the imagery of Baltimore's 2015 protests