Whitney Humanities Center
Film Screening and Q & A: Retrospective with Directors Tizza Covi and Rainer Frimmel : Yale
Whitney Humanities Center 320 York Street, New HavenPlease join us for a mini-retrospective of their work 9/19 Screening of VERA (2022), 5pm, L01 in the Humanities Quadrangle Preceded by the Opening reception of Film & Media Studies Program at 3:30 pm Followed by a Q+A with directors Tizza Covi and Rainer Frimmel after the screening of Vera led by Fatima Naqvi (FMS) […]
Film Screening: Fire of Love: Sara Dosa (2022) at Yale
Whitney Humanities Center 320 York Street, New HavenFranke Program in Science & the Humanities FIRE OF LOVE: From National Geographic Documentary Films comes the extraordinary love story of intrepid French scientists Katia and Maurice Krafft, who died just as explosively as they lived—capturing the most spectacular imagery ever recorded of their greatest passion: volcanoes. Katia and Maurice Krafft loved two things—each other and […]
Film Screening: World Documentaries Today!: Ramona Victoria Linares Villegas (2023) at Yale
Whitney Humanities Center 320 York Street, New HavenJoin us for the second installment of Films at the Whitney’s Fall 2024 screening series, World Documentaries Today! Victoria Linares Villegas, RAMONA (2023, 82 min., Spanish with English subtitles) Nearly one in five teenage girls in the Dominican Republic is a mother. This is the subject of the fictional drama that filmmaker Victoria Linares Villegas originally set out to make. But when lead actress Camila Santana struggles to relate to her character—a pregnant teenaged runaway […]
Film Screening: World Documentaries Today!: Iron Butterflies Roman Liubyi (2023) at Yale
Whitney Humanities Center 320 York Street, New HavenRoman Liubyi, IRON BUTTERFLIES (2023, 84 min., Ukrainian, Russian, English, and Dutch with English subtitles) On July 17, 2014, a passenger jet en route from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur crashed over eastern Ukraine, killing all 298 people on board. Roman Liubyi’s poetic documentary film interweaves archival material, news and social media clips, and dramatized and animated scenes in order to reveal the strategies that were used to shroud […]
Film Screening: World Documentaries Today!: Man in Black Wang Bing (2023) at Yale
Whitney Humanities Center 320 York Street, New Haven"WANG Xilin, 86, is one of China’s most important modern classical composers. The film exhibits the body and soul of a man scarred by a life of suffering, a "man in black" who is yet still capable of deep and sincere compassion. With excerpts from his symphonies, he revisits some of the horrifying events that […]
Film Screening and Community Conversation with the Filmmakers : Trans Dudes with Lady Cancer : Yale Alice Cinema
Whitney Humanities Center 320 York Street, New HavenWhat are the chances that two transmasculine people living under the same roof would be diagnosed with “lady cancer” in the same month—one with breast cancer and the other with ovarian cancer? Trans Dudes with Lady Cancer is a courageous short film documenting the personal journey of the filmmakers, their family, and their community […]
Angela Davis : Tanner Lectures at Yale: Whitney Humanities Center
Whitney Humanities Center 320 York Street, New HavenSave the dates! Angela Davis will deliver the 2025 Tanner Lectures on Human Values, April 15–16. For more information Humanities Quadrangle (HQ) (L02) "The Tanner Lectures on Human Values is a multi-university lecture series in the humanities, founded in 1978, at Clare Hall, Cambridge University, by the American scholar Obert Clark Tanner. In founding the lecture, he defined their purpose as follows: I […]