School of the Arts Film and Media Studies and the Maison Française present a screening of Lumière Co. film footage - 1895–1905 as part of Cinema Across Continents: Rediscovering the Lumière Brothers Film Footage.

Adama Delphine Fawundu '18 discusses her creative process, Kpoto Patchwork, and her stunning exhibition We be the luminous blues… with Professors of English and Comparative Literature, Farah Jasmine Griffin and Shana L. Redmond.

When teenager Marty McFly is accidentally blasted back to 1955 in a plutonium-powered DeLorean, he finds himself tangled in his own parents' high school love story — and if he can't get them back together, he'll erase his own existence. With the help of Doc Brown, Marty races against time to fix the past and find his way home.

Carlos Barragán '24 discusses his astonishing work of immersion journalism about four young romance scammers in Lagos, Nigeria, exploring how and why they scam, and the moral dilemmas they face, with Wendy S. Walters, Associate Professor, Writing

Hundreds of years in the future, ten-year-old Arco sneaks off in his sister's rainbow time-traveling suit before he's old enough to fly—and crash-lands back in the year 2075. There, he befriends Iris and her robot caretaker, Mikki. Together, they set off on a quest to get Arco home and to save Iris’s world from peril.

Screening: Filmmakers for the Prosecution. The screening is presented in conjunction with Staging Nuremberg: How the United States and the Soviet Union Fought Over the Portrayal of Nazi Crimes, a conversation with Sylvie Lindeperg and Annette Insdorf, on Monday, October 19, at the Maison Française.

Novelist and essayist Maaza Mengiste discusses her wide-ranging career with writer and translator Lars Horn for Columbia University’s Art + Life series, a program of intimate conversations with poets and writers organized by Undergraduate Creative Writing. 

Lewis is a young orphan inventor determined to find the mother he never knew. When a mysterious boy named Wilbur whisks him away to the year 2037, Lewis is welcomed into the wonderfully wacky Robinson family—and discovers that the family he's searching for might be closer than he thinks.

Comedian Buster Keaton stars in his own directorial debut as a determined suitor pursuing the love of his life across three different eras: the Stone Age, Ancient Rome, and the Roaring Twenties. Our screening brings this silent classic into the present with live musical accompaniment by Ben Model.