April 16th, 2009
On Thursday, April 23, the KSC Architecture Department will host the AIA New Hampshire’s monthly meeting (the state chapter of the American Institute of Architects), with a tour of the KSC architecture studios, where students will be discussing their year-end projects.
The tour, open to the campus and Keene community, will be followed by dinner and a screening and discussion of the film Bird’s Nest – Herzog & de Meuron in China. (Pre-registration is required for the dinner and film.) This film chronicles the five-year effort by Swiss architects Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron for the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games’ brand new, 100,000-seat National Stadium, as well as their design for a new city district in Jinhua, involving hotel, office, and residential buildings. Both projects involved complex and often difficult negotiations and communications between two cultures, two architectural traditions, and two political systems. For more information, contact Peter Temple.
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April 9th, 2009
From Jonathan Schwartz, Film Studies: The KSC Film Society is hosting an evening with artist and filmmaker Ben Russell on Tuesday, April 14, in the Putnam Lecture Hall at 7 p.m.
Russell is an itinerant photographer, curator, and experimental film/video maker whose works have screened in spaces ranging from 14th-century Belgian monasteries to 17th-century East India Trading Company buildings, from police station basements to outdoor punk squats, from Japanese cinematheques to Parisian storefronts, and from the Sundance Film Festival to the Museum of Modern Art. Russell began the Magic Lantern screening series in Providence, Rhode Island, and has made films about the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, the exploration of Easter Island, Richard Pryor, and the end of the world. For more information contact Jonathan Schwartz, jschwartz@keene.edu.
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April 2nd, 2009
Tom Cook’s (Film) advanced production crew caused a stir in Portsmouth’s Market Square on March 28. Foster’s Daily Democrat reported that “crowds of curious gawkers” gathered to watch KSC film students shoot scenes for a senior thesis movie. Read the complete story: “A Twisted Love Story: ‘Kelly’ Falls for Furry Lion in Market Square Film Shoot.”
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