Friday, December 2, 2011 (13)

Dec 2, 2011
September 27, 2011
Tuesday
  • Atelier Francophone

  • Sep 27, 2011 at 3:00pm to Dec 6, 2011 at 2:00pm
  • Location: Midtown West
  • Description: L'atelier Francophone est un cours de théâtre proposant des exercices sur l'imagination, le corps et la voix afin d’élaborerun jeu créatif et "réel". Nourrir ce jeu, c’est mettre à contribution la vie intérieure de l'acteur, explorer la richesse et le potentiel de sa propre individualité, et découvrir le lien harmonique qui l’unit à son partenaire.  

    Le cours intègre des méthodes diverses d'apprentissage du jeu (Meisner, Stanislavski, Chekhov, etc.) pour que l'acteur puisse découvrir les outils les plus utiles à son répertoire.

    L'accent est mis sur le travail en groupe. L'intérêt est de créer une troupe d'acteurs composée d’individus qui apprécient et essaient tout autant de nourrir le travail de la compagnie entière que d’enrichir leur propre savoir-faire.  

    Ce semestre, nous travaillerons sur des scènes diverses écrites par des auteurs contemporains francophones.
  • Created by: Manisha Snoyer - Actress/Teacher
November 10, 2011
Thursday
  • THE CONQUEST/LA CONQUETE

  • Nov 10, 2011 to Dec 2, 2011
  • Location: Lincoln Plaza and Angelika Film Center
  • Description: The day is May 6, 2007, France’s run-up to the presidential elections. As the French people are getting ready to go to the polls to elect their new president, presidential candidate Nicolas Sarkozy has shut himself away in his home. Though Sarkozy soon knows he has won the election, he is alone, gloomy and despondent. For hours he has been trying to reach his wife, Cécilia but to no avail. The last five years start unfurling before our eyes, recounting Sarkozy’s unstoppable ascent, riddled with in-party backstabbing, media manipulation, riots, sarcastic confrontations and extra-marital affairs.

    THE CONQUEST chronicles the volatile right-leaning Sarkozy’s startling rise to become President of France and the emotional and psychological stakes involving the conquest of power.  On the day the diminutive Sarkozy conquered his ultimate ambition, his wife, who for twenty years had struggled to pull the man she loved from the shadow into the light, walked out on him for another man.
  • Created by: Aimee Morris
 
  • Exhibition: Clergue in America

  • Nov 10, 2011 at 6:00am to Dec 21, 2011 at 1:00pm
  • Location: FIAF Gallery
  • Description:

    Free and Open to the Public.

     

    Clergue in America showcases French photographer Lucien Clergue’s powerful depictions of the United States in an exhibition that spans the White Sands desert in New Mexico, the highways of Santa Fe, the expansive deserts of California, and the streets of New York.

    Through his use of light, textures, and form, Clergue captures both the impressive sights of the United States and the raw beauty of the human form, often juxtaposing natural and manmade wonders.

    A catalogue of Lucien Clergue’s work will be available to visitors, and, for the first time, an edition of the catalogue will also be accessible as a free iPad app.

  • Created by: FIAF
November 15, 2011
Tuesday
  • TOMBOY

  • Nov 15, 2011 to Dec 9, 2011
  • Location: Film Forum
  • Description:

    A French family with two daughters, 10-year-old Laure and 6-year-old Jeanne, moves to a new neighborhood during the summer holidays. With her Jean Seberg haircut and tomboy ways, Laure is immediately mistaken for a boy by the local kids and passes herself off as Michael. Filmmaker Sciamma brings a light and charming touch to this drama of childhood gender confusion. Zoé Heran as Laure/Michael and Malonn Lévanna as Jeanne are nothing less than brilliant. “Heran gets it just right. Not only is she/he piercingly photogenic, but she affects the self-conscious swagger of a boy with striking authenticity. Levana is another natural, oozing wit and wisdom beyond her six years.” — Mike Goodridge, Screen Daily. This is a relationship movie: relationships between children, and the even more complicated one between one’s heart and body.

    Ms. Sciamma’s first feature, “Water Lilies,” a coming of age story about two young girls’ burgeoning sexuality, catapulted her as one of France’s most notable wome

  • Created by: Aimee Morris
November 18, 2011
Friday
  • Georges Hugnet: The Love Life of the Spumifers

  • Nov 18, 2011 at 6:00am to Jan 28, 2012 at 1:00pm
  • Location: Ubu Gallery
  • Description:

    November 16–January 28, 2011
    Exhibition Opening: November 15, 6 to 9PM

    Ubu Gallery is pleased to announce Georges Hugnet: The Love Life of the Spumifers, an exhibition of hand-painted photographic postcards by the eminent Surrealist artist, poet, bookbinding designer and critic. These bizarre, lusciously painted images illustrate Hugnet’s work, The Love Life of the Spumifers where each accompanying text poetically and humorously catalogues the mating habits of a fantastical creature or Spumifer.


    The Love Life of the Spumifers, or La Vie Amoureuse des Spumifères, combines Surrealist poetry’s fascination with l’amour and Dada’s tendency towards deliberate grammatical spontaneity and absurdity. Words like bowoodling, friskadoodling and alabamaraminating are concocted by Hugnet to describe the seductive strategies of his imaginary creatures. Each text is dedicated to a different creature, describing how it woos, teases, gropes and molests its intended love conquest. Each Spumifer is illust

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November 24, 2011
Thursday
  • THE ARTIST

  • Nov 24, 2011 to Feb 29, 2012
  • Location: Paris Theatre
  • Description:

    Hollywood 1927. George Valentin (Jean Dujardin) is a silent movie superstar. The advent of the talkies will sound the death knell for his career and see him fall into oblivion. For young extra Peppy Miller (Berenice Bejo), it seems the sky's the limit - major movie stardom awaits. THE ARTIST tells the story of their interlinked destinies.
     
    Starring Jean Dujardin, Bérénice Bejo, John Goodman, Malcolm McDowell, James Cromwell, Penelope Ann Miller.

  • Created by: Aimee Morris
November 25, 2011
Friday
  • African Diaspora International Film Festival

  • Nov 25, 2011 at 9:00am to Dec 13, 2011 at 6:00pm
  • Location: Several venues in Manhattan
  • Description:

    Established in 1993, the African Diaspora International Film Festival (ADIFF) is an international film festival which offers a unique quality cinematic experience that places at its center the humanity of people of color all over the world. 

     

    Through its rich and diverse programming, ADIFF offers an alternative world view to that typically offered by other international film festivals.

     

    ADIFF’s programming encourages its audience to explore and reflect upon their own perceptions of the humanity of people of color in an intellectually stimulating and entertaining environment that features exchanges with guest filmmakers, panel discussions and social events such as receptions and screening after parties.  

     

    The ultimate goal of ADIFF is to serve as a bridge across cultures thus empowering people of all cultures to learn about each other and become better human beings in the process.

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November 30, 2011
Wednesday
  • Ben VAUTIER

  • Nov 30, 2011 at 5:00am to Jan 14, 2012 at 1:00pm
  • Location: Chelsea
  • Description:

    Vicky David Gallery presents an installation of paintings by Ben  Vautier. Through his use of phrases, quotes and statements,  BEN juggles with words to deliver a  concise  and  polished message. Also bringing to light the falsely naive, impertinence and accuracy of the words used. BEN, who lives and works in Nice, France, is a self-taught French artist and performer of Swiss origin born in 1935.  He became well known in the 1960s, primarily for his "manuscript paintings."  At which time, he co-founded the Fluxus movement, inspired by Yves Klein and the New Realists.  Similar  to  the  neo Dadaist  movement, Ben questions the reality and declared  "All  is  art”  in  1962.    Heir  to  Duchamp,  his  work  leads  one  to  reflect  on  the notoriety of the artist and commercialization of the art world over all. Ben's oeuvre are on display throughout major private and public collections around the world.

  • Created by: Vicky David
December 2, 2011
Friday
  • Transcolonial Fanon: Trajectories of a Revolutionary Politics

  • Dec 2, 2011 from 4:30am to 1:30pm
  • Location: Buell Hall, East Gallery at Columbia University
  • Description: To mark the fiftieth anniversary of Frantz Fanon's death, an international group of scholars addresses the diverse sources, trajectories and reinscriptions of his thought. Participants will consider Fanon's biographical and intellectual migration between the French Caribbean and North Africa, and between the theory of race and the project of anticolonial nationalism, and discuss his legacy across continents and across disciplines.

     

    9:45-10:30 a.m. Opening Remarks by Frances Negron-Muntaner, CSER & English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University

     

    10:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m. Panel 1: Origins and Departures

    • Chair: Kaiama L. Glover, French & Africana Studies, Barnard College
    • Madeleine Dobie, French, Columbia University
    • Myriam Cottias, History, CNRS and EHESS
    • Seloua Luste Boulbina, Philosophy, Collège International de Philosophie
    • Ronald Judy, English, University of Pittsburgh

     

    12:15-1:15 p.m.: Maryse Condé, Writer and Professor Emerita, French, Columbia

     

    2:15 -3:45 p.m.  Panel 2: Practice, Perform

  • Created by: Columbia Maison Francaise
 
  • THE DSK SCANDAL: TRANSATLANTIC REFLECTIONS ON SEX, LAW, AND POLITICS

  • Dec 2, 2011 from 5:00am to 7:00am
  • Location: Cardozo School of Law
  • Description:

    Cardozo School of Law (55 Fifth Avenue)
    Institute of French Studies, New York University, at La Maison Française of NYU (16 Washington Mews)

    With the co-sponsorship of IRIS (CNRS/EHESS) & Faculty of Law, Université Paris Ouest Nanterre, and the support of UMI Transitions (CNRS/NYU)

    Co-organized by Éric Fassin, Stéphanie Hennette-Vauchez, Julie Suk, Frédéric Viguier

     

    10 am – 12 pm  - Panel II  Justice for Whom? Rape and Comparative Criminal Procedure 
    (Moot Court Room, Cardozo School of Law)


    Panelists:
    Taina Bien-Aimé (Lawyer and Consultant to Equality Now)
    Pauline Delage (IRIS)
    Emmanuel Saint-Martin (France 24)
    Julie Suk (Cardozo School of Law)
    James Q. Whitman (Yale Law School)
    Moderator:  Paris Baldacci (Cardozo School of Law)

    This panel will be devoted to comparisons of French and U.S. criminal procedure as they were understood throughout the DSK scandal –and how they are actually used by feminist activists in both countries. Discussions will cover such issues as the (infamous) “perp walk,” und

  • Created by: La Maison Française of NYU
 
  • THE DSK SCANDAL: TRANSATLANTIC REFLECTIONS ON SEX, LAW, AND POLITICS

  • Dec 2, 2011 from 8:30am to 11:00am
  • Location: La Maison Francaise of NYU
  • Description:
    With the co-sponsorship of IRIS (CNRS/EHESS) & Faculty of Law, Université Paris Ouest Nanterre, and the support of UMI Transitions (CNRS/NYU)

    Co-organized by Éric Fassin, Stéphanie Hennette-Vauchez, Julie Suk, Frédéric Viguier
    1:30-4 pm - Panel III  The Politics of Seduction:
    The Role of Sex in Democracy
    La Maison Française of NYU

    Panelists:
    Delphine Dulong (Université Paris I – Panthéon-Sorbonne)
    Eric Fassin (Ecole normale supérieure and IRIS)
    Renée Kaplan (France 24)
    Ruth Rubio Marín (European University Institute, Florence)
    Joan Scott (Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton)
    Moderator: Frédéric Viguier (NYU)


    The DSK scandal is the latest chapter in an ongoing transatlantic debate about the politics of seduction.  The French and American political cultures reflect different attitudes about the relevance of a politician’s sexual affairs to their ability to govern.  The two legal cultures reflect different understandings of the line between seduction and sexual aggression.  The concept of seduct

  • Created by: La Maison Française of NYU
 
  • Tagnawittude

  • Dec 2, 2011 from 1:00pm to 4:00pm
  • Location: Teacher's College, the Chapel
  • Description: Rahma Benhamou El Madani, 2010, 80 min.

    Followed by Q & A with director

    Event Location: Teacher’s College, The Chapel, 125 Zankel

    $9 tickets for CUID holders and members

    Algerian filmmaker Rahma Benhamou El Madani explores the traditional practice of trance she remembers from her childhood, and sets out on an odyssey to Morocco, Algeria and Mali to discover the roots of this ancient sound.

    Event co-sponsored with the African Diaspora Film Festival, www.nyadiff.org

  • Created by: Columbia Maison Francaise
 
  • IN FRENCH WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES

  • Dec 2, 2011 at 2:00pm to Dec 4, 2011 at 3:00pm
  • Location: Florence Gould hall
  • Description:

    In French With English Subtitles" is a Manhattan French film festival featuring the latest of 2011 Movies in French language with English Substitles.

    Yvan Attal will be presenting his film R.I.F at the Gala opening Friday December the 2nd at 7pm.

  • Created by: Anne-Celine Grandury