Join us for three days of incredible film and discussion as part of the Flaherty Film Seminar NYC Pod! The Flaherty Film Seminar is an internationally recognized forum for collective inquiry into the form and function of non-fiction cinema, fostering field-building dialogue, encouraging the exchange of cinematic ideas across generations and cultures, and promoting the expansion of the limits of cinema itself. The 71st Flaherty Film Seminar will be taking place this year in Marlboro, Vermont with films and discussions programmed from October 8 through October 10th. Our NYC Pod will take place simultaneously on the campus of The New School alongside several global Pods. 

After co-hosting the 70th anniversary Flaherty Seminar here last summer (along with Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) and Firehouse: DCTV’s Cinema for Documentary Film), The New School’s MA Media Studies is excited to be hosting this year’s NYC Pod. The seminar schedule is rigorous, with up to 3 screenings with discussions each day, punctuated by coffee and meal breaks. The NYC Pod  is free and open to the public but space is limited, registration is required, and an honest effort to engage with the entire 3-day program is expected. Register at the link (to left) for the entire seminar (see schedule below).

NYC Pod Schedule:
DAY 1 - Thursday, October 8

Location: Starr Foundation Hall 

6:00 PM – 9:30 PM

Program 1 + discussion

DAY 2 - Friday , October 9
Location: Starr Foundation Hall

12:00 PM – 1:30 PM

Program 2

1:30 PM – 2:00 PM

Coffee break

2:00 PM – 3:30 PM

Program 3

3:30 PM – 6:00 PM

Program 2+3 discussion

6:00 PM – 7:00 PM

Dinner break

7:00 PM – 9:30 PM

Program 4 + discussion

DAY 3 - Saturday , Octobe 10
Location: Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Auditorium (Room 101)

1:00 PM – 2:30 PM

Program 5 + discussion

2:30 PM – 4:00 PM

Break

4:00 PM – 6:30 PM

Program 6 or 7 + discussion

What to expect at the Flaherty Seminar: Gestures of Refusal

The Seminar is an exploratory experience that emulates the concept of non-preconception. To this end, the organizers do not announce the Seminar program beforehand. Beyond the programmers and production team, no one knows what they will be watching until the lights go down. Film notes and trigger warnings will be made available upon request to participants before each screening begins. The Seminar is programmed as a continuum wherein individual screening programs relate to, riff off of, and expand upon one another.

About this year’s seminar theme:

Programmed by The Flaherty team, the 71st Flaherty Seminar will delve into images that resist disintegration: works that excavate what empire and erasure have buried beneath systems, structures, and the surfaces of images themselves. Through fragmentation, recollection, and archival intervention, this year’s program will explore how memory is constructed, displaced, or reclaimed.