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NO ONE NOTICED THE WINDOWMarch 11, 6:30 PMNave Presentation SpaceCalifornia College of the Arts-No One Noticed the Windo...
02/26/2026

NO ONE NOTICED THE WINDOW
March 11, 6:30 PM
Nave Presentation Space
California College of the Arts
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No One Noticed the Window brings together the moving image work of three second-year MFA Film candidates at California College of the Arts: Huxiruyi Alimu, Kylie Mungenast, and Abraham Montes, who will introduce one another’s work.

Working across experimental cinema, narrative form, and essayistic modes, the artists approach film as a space for self and cultural examination, genre revision, and critical inquiry. Their works trace the complexities of place, belonging, sexuality, private and public apocalypse, and resistance, and post-colonial inheritances. Windows become frames, thresholds, and portals—sites where interior and exterior worlds meet, and where what is seen, felt, and reconsidered remains in motion.

Coming up on Thursday! Join our colleagues in the Critical Ethnic Studies Program for their May Day Happening.This is a ...
04/29/2025

Coming up on Thursday! Join our colleagues in the Critical Ethnic Studies Program for their May Day Happening.

This is a special public event by the students of the Critical Ethnic Studies Program course, Collective Practices and Resistance. It will showcase student-led creative interventions reflecting on this current political moment and encouraging belief in our agency to shape an equitable future for all.

There will be Pan-African maypole plaiting every 45 minutes starting from 11:15am. Refreshments will be available.

Join us for a time of connection and hope. Stay for as long or as little as you like.

This event is funded by an endowment gift to support The Deborah and Kenneth Novack Creative Citizens Series at CCA, an annual series of public programs focused on creative activism.

SAVE THE DATE! We are so excited for our upcoming Spring Showcase featuring the work of our graduating BFA and MFA stude...
04/09/2025

SAVE THE DATE! We are so excited for our upcoming Spring Showcase featuring the work of our graduating BFA and MFA students. The screening will take place at the historic Roxie Theater in San Francisco, with seating beginning at 5:30pm. Can’t wait to see you there!

Looking for an Upper-Division studio class to fill out your schedule in the fall? Consider The Theory and Practice of Ph...
03/14/2025

Looking for an Upper-Division studio class to fill out your schedule in the fall? Consider The Theory and Practice of Photographing the Supernatural, taught by film faculty Don Matthew Smith!

Photography has been around for 183 years. Used extensively as evidence of the natural world and events held there within. It’s ubiquitous and that fact has made it the perfect medium to define, not only what is natural, but what is supernatural as well. From the start - superimpositions were employed to expand the realm of photographic evidence into the realm of the supernatural. Spirit Photography, UFO’s, flourished in this dual “tradition” and has been energized by digital technology. Moreover, digital advances have made their way into the hands of the most novice image-makers. Instagram, SnapChat, used by millions, are the method of imaging a new collective history, whose sensibilities lean toward manipulating the ambiance of the past rather than documenting it. A sweeping, supernatural reality of deep fakes swirl about us now. We will ask a basic question - has photography lost its mantle as the gold standard of truthiness? Upper Division Interdisciplinary Studios extend a student’s cross-school experience from Core Studio up into their upper division years. 3 units of Interdisciplinary Studio are required of all majors and must be completed in the junior or senior year. This advanced level studio is thematic in nature. Technical demonstrations are paired with thoughtful readings, seminar discussions and ambitious projects. Collaboration, experimentation and presentation skills are developed in concert with critical thinking.

Film Student Misha Kastrilevich is looking for students of all majors to work on a senior film. Check the poster for det...
03/11/2025

Film Student Misha Kastrilevich is looking for students of all majors to work on a senior film. Check the poster for details!

Next week! We are SO excited to be hosting a representative from the legendary NYC photo/video/audio/everything store B&...
03/11/2025

Next week! We are SO excited to be hosting a representative from the legendary NYC photo/video/audio/everything store B&H! Come by from 11am-1pm in the Nave to demo some of the latest gear, grab some free swag, and sign up for their education discount program!

Our undergraduate seniors have been honored to have a series of Zoom talks with some incredible contemporary filmmakers....
03/06/2025

Our undergraduate seniors have been honored to have a series of Zoom talks with some incredible contemporary filmmakers. Up next is Crystal Moselle on March 13th!

Crystal Moselle is a New York based director best known for her Sundance Grand Jury Prize award winning documentary, The Wolfpack. Moselle’s short film for Miu Miu, That One Day, premiered at The Venice Film Festival. The feature version of the film “Skate Kitchen” premiered at the Sundance Film Festival 2018, and following that concept she created a series called “Betty” for HBO in 2020 that ran for two seasons. Most recently she released her film, “Black Sea,” conferenced with Derrick B. Harden.

Though the live Zoom will only be available to students in the Senior Thesis class, we will have a recording available soon after. Keep an eye out for those links!

Mark your calendars! CCA Film will be hosting Film Chair Giselle Bailey for a Voices in Moving Image talk on her boundar...
03/05/2025

Mark your calendars! CCA Film will be hosting Film Chair Giselle Bailey for a Voices in Moving Image talk on her boundary-pushing approach to documentary storytelling. The talk will take place Wednesday, April 9th in the Nave Presentation Space from 6–7:30 pm.

Giselle Bailey is a filmmaker and artist whose work reimagines the role of pop-culture in shaping identity, history, and the future. Her films and multidisciplinary projects fuse documentary and narrative forms, blurring the lines between cinema, commerce, and cultural movement. Through a diasporic lens, Bailey explores the intersections of spirituality, radical self-definition, and the ways youth across the globe are forging new mythologies. With a distinct visual language, her work subverts convention while creating new spaces for Black and diasporic narratives to thrive.

A MASSIVE congratulations to professor emerita Jeanne Finley for premiering AND winning the People’s Choice Award at the...
03/03/2025

A MASSIVE congratulations to professor emerita Jeanne Finley for premiering AND winning the People’s Choice Award at the Wild and Scenic Film Festival for her latest film, A Radical Thread. The film explores how in the face of climate-fueled wildfire, a Sierra Foothills community passes 50 years of innovative sustainability to the next generation while collectively stitching their stories of challenge and celebration into a 83-foot tapestry, one tiny stitch at a time. Though Jeanne recently retired from teaching, her influence will always be felt in the Film Department, at CCA as a whole, and within the Bay Area film and video community. We can’t wait to see what she does next!

Another Film treat coming up next Thursday, February 27th! CCA Animation will be hosting Film faculty Kota Ezawa for a V...
02/20/2025

Another Film treat coming up next Thursday, February 27th! CCA Animation will be hosting Film faculty Kota Ezawa for a Voices In Moving Image talk on his medium-bending works. The talk will take place in Timken Hall from 6-7:30pm. Hope to see you there!

Kota Ezawa (b. 1969 Cologne, Germany) is best known for his light-boxes, works on paper and animations that make use of found images, video, and film to comment on contemporary culture, appropriation, and historical events. Described by the artist himself as “moving paintings,” Ezawa’s works serve as conduits of events for both history and pop culture, translating them into personal memories and experiences. His works have the ability to transcend the specificity of the image into a more universal realm by reducing the forms and content to their most basic elements.

Big week coming up! Starting off with the second half of the sound workshop series, this time focusing on post-productio...
02/20/2025

Big week coming up! Starting off with the second half of the sound workshop series, this time focusing on post-production sound. We will be covering foley, ADR, mixing, and post-production software like Adobe Audition and ProTools. Taking place next Wednesday, February 26th from 12-3pm, meeting in the Image Lab, (room 204)!

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