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UCHV Palazzo Talks & Workshops

Running concurrently with the ArtHouse Memes Film Festival Part Two co-organized by the UCHV Film Forum and ECC-Italy

The Palazzo Talks & Workshops are co-organized by the European Cultural Center-Italy, a parallel exhibitor of the Venice Biennale, and the University Center for Human Values, Princeton University. The collaboration with ECC-Italy started with exhibitions and screening by the UCHV Research Film Studio & Film Forum. The intellectual retreat in Venice provides an opportunity for professors from different academic fields to engage with the cinematic oeuvre of Afro-American auteurs introduced in the ArtHouse Memes exhibition created by Erika A. Kiss and her Princeton students. ArtHouse Memes has already been viewed in Venice by hundreds of thousands of people since its April opening and can be seen until November 24 in Palazzo Mora. The exhibition is based on Kiss’s Princeton course Hidden History of Hollywood . The films studied in class are transformed by students into new video art and video essays. The participants of the 1st Palazzo Talks will be able to stream the six films chosen for informal discussions from this website soon.

October 14

Dinner

Welcome Dinner for the students with Profs. Alan Patton and Erika Kiss.

October 15

Conversations on a
HIDDEN AMERICAN ARTHOUSE FILM CANON

9:00 - 10:30

Tour of the ArtHouse Memes Exhibition by Princeton University’s Research Film Studio (with celebratory words from Alan Patten, Director of UCHV)

Coffee break

11:00 - 12:30

Films to be discussed:

Julie Dash, Daughters of the Dust (1991)

Charles Burnett, The Killer of Sheep (1978)

Lunch

14:30 - 15:30

Afternoon tour of the national pavilions of the 2024 Venice Art Biennale (optional)

Dinner

October 16

Conversations on a
HIDDEN AMERICAN ARTHOUSE FILM CANON

9:00 - 10:30

Films to be discussed:

Julius Onah, Luce (2019)

Ekwa Msangi, Farewell Amor (2020)

Coffee break

11:00 - 12:30

Films to be discussed:

Wendell B. Harris Jr., Chameleon Street (1989)

Julie Dash, Illusion (1982)

Lunch

14:30 - 15:30

Tour of Palazzo Mora and Palazzo Bembo, the Pinault Collection and the Guggenheim Museum (optional)

Palazzo Mora virtual tour

Palazzo Bembo virtual tour

ArtHouse Memes Film Festival Venice – 2024 

18:30 - 20:30

Screening:

Wendell B. Harris Jr., Chameleon Street (1989)

Post screening discussion and reception

The screening is a public event of the ArtHouse Memes  Film Festival Part II. Participation is optional.

Dinner