On November 3rd, Film Quarterly Editor-in-Chief B. Ruby Rich moderated a discussion of the changing conception of binge-watching during the Covid-19 pandemic with Neta Alexander (Colgate University), Tanya Horeck (Anglia Ruskin University), Tina Kendall (Anglia Ruskin University), and Kartik Nair (Temple University), whose special focus on binge-watching appears in the Fall 2021 issue of Film Quarterly.
On May 27th, FQ’s B. Ruby Rich moderated a discussion with FQ contributors Christian Rossipal and James Williams and filmmakers Amel Alzakout (Purple Sea, 2020) and Dagmawi Yimer (Asmat, 2015) on new forms of expression in documentaries about Europe’s refugee crisis.
On January 22nd, João Luiz Vieira and FQ’s B. Ruby Rich moderated a discussion with FQ contributors Fábio Andrade, Marcelo Ikeda, Tatiana Monassa, Janaína Oliveira, and Lívia Perez about the New Brazilian Cinema.
On the occasion of the exhibition of Isaac Julien‘s celebrated 10 screen installation, Lessons of the Hour, Film Quarterly collaborated with the McEvoy Foundation for the Arts on a webinar to mark this meditation on Frederick Douglass and his times. On October 28th, FQ editor B. Ruby Rich moderated a discussion of Julien’s genre-breaking and immersive moving-image practice with the artist himself as well as with professors Kass Banning (University of Toronto) and Warren Crichlow (York University, Toronto), authors of the first major study of the exhibition, “A Grand Panorama: Isaac Julien, Frederick Douglass, and Lessons of the Hour,” (FQ 73.4).
On September 25th, Film Quarterly launched PAGE VIEWS LIVE, its new webinar series showcasing the best in recent film and media studies publications. The series kicked off with a conversation between Page Views editor Bruno Guaraná and Samantha N. Sheppard about her highly anticipated new book, Sporting Blackness: Race, Embodiment, and Critical Muscle Memory on Screen.
On June 5th, Brian Hu and FQ editor B. Ruby Rich moderated a virtual roundtable on Asian American filmmaking in New York during the 1980s and 1990s. With FQ special dossier contributors Roddy Bogawa, Shu Lea Cheang, Daryl Chin, Vince Schleitwiler, and Rea Tajiri.
On May 22, Brian Hu and FQ’s editor B. Ruby Rich moderated a virtual conversation celebrating fifty years of Asian American film. With FQ special dossier contributors Lan Duong, Viola Lasmana, Josslyn Luckett, Melissa Phruksachart, and Oliver Wang.