Once a year, distinguished film and media makers are invited to the School of Media Studies as our Hirshon Artist-In-Residence to conduct master classes and special screenings. We also host bi-weekly Doc Talks and numerous other events year-round. Visit our events calendar for more info.
The 2024 Hirshon Artist in Residence, Academy Award nominated producer, Christine Vachon, hosted a public event featuring her work and engaged in a discussion with the School of Media Studies Dean Vladan Nikolic. She also held two master classes for Media Studies Students. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=peaCpUpwm2M Christine … Read More »
Sam Pollard, the School of Media Studies’ 2021 Spring Hirshon Artist-in-Residence, hosted a public event featuring his work and engaged in a discussion with Michelle Materre, Director of the Media Management Program & Associate Professor of Media Studies and Film. He also held a master … Read More »
One of the most distinctive voices of the independent film movement of the last 20+ years, Mary Harron made her debut as a feature-film writer / director in 1996 with I Shot Andy Warhol. The film won star Lili Taylor a Special Jury Award at … Read More »
Raoul Peck’s documentary film, I Am Not Your Negro, on the life of James Baldwin, was nominated for Best Documentary Feature at the 89th Academy Awards and won the Audience Award at both the Toronto and Berlin International Film Festivals, LA Film Critics’ Best Documentary Award, … Read More »
As the 2018 Hirshon Director-in-Residence, Sean Baker was honored for his socially engaged and stylistically brave approach to filmmaking—hallmarks of a School of Media Studies education. “Sean’s films resonate with our students and the type of filmmaking we foster at the School of Media Studies,” … Read More »
Since 1972, Jon Alpert and Keiko Tsuno have worked to expand public access to electronic media through the Downtown Community Television Center in New York City. Driven by the belief that citizen access to media production strengthens democracy, the pair have provided free or low-cost production courses … Read More »
Toni Dove, 2014 Dorothy H. Hirshon Artist-in-residence at the School of Media Studies at The New School, lives and works in New York. Since the early 1990s, Dove has produced unique and highly imaginative embodied hybrids of film, installation art and experimental theater. Exploring motion sensing … Read More »
Over the last four decades, artist and filmmaker Lynn Hershman Leeson, 2013 Dorothy H. Hirshon Artist-in-residence at the School of Media Studies at The New School, has been internationally acclaimed for her art and films. One of the most influential media artists, Hershman Leeson is widely … Read More »
The 2013 Director-in-Residence was Benh Zeitlin, the extraordinarily gifted young filmmaker whose first feature, Beasts of the Southern Wild (2012), won the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival, the Camera D’Or at Cannes, and received four Oscar Nominations including Best Picture and Best Director.
Ramin Bahrani, 2012 Director-in-Residence, is an American director and screenwriter. Film critic Roger Ebert listed Bahrani’s film Chop Shop as the 6th best film of the 2000s and hailed Bahrani as “the director of the decade.”[1] Bahrani was the recipient of the prestigious 2009 Guggenheim Fellowship, and was the subject of several international retrospectives … Read More »
Guy Maddin is a Canadian filmmaker with numerous shorts and 11 feature films to his credit, including the Emmy Award-winning ballet film Dracula — Pages From A Virgin’s Diary (2002); The Saddest Music in the World (2003); My Winnipeg (2007); and US National Society of Film Critics Best Experimental Film Prize-winners Archangel (1990) and The Heart of … Read More »
Haile Gerima is an Ethiopian film director, screenwriter, writer, producer, and philosopher. He has been a professor of film at Howard University in Washington, DC, since 1975. After the award-winning Ashes & Embers (1982) and the documentaries Wilmington 10—U.S.A 10,000 (1978) and After Winter: Sterling Brown (1985), Gerima filmed his epic, Sankofa (1993). This … Read More »
Jim Stark, 2009 Director-in-Residence, is a seminal independent film producer, whose career spans over thirty years. He produced Jim Jarmush’s Down by Law, Coffee and Cigarettes, Mystery Train and Night on Earth; Alexandre Rockwell’s In the Soup, which launched Steve Buscemi’s career; Greg Araki’s The … Read More »
Cynthia Wade, 2008 Director-in-Residence who taught cinematography in the graduate certificate program in Documentary Media Studies, was nominated for her second Academy Award with her film Mondays at Racine. She previously won the same category, Best Documentary (short subject) in 2008 for Freeheld. With over 20 years of filmmaking … Read More »
American actor, writer, director, and producer John Cameron Mitchell is best known for the long-running off-Broadway rock musical Hedwig and the Angry Inch (starring himself as Hedwig and co-written with composer Stephen Trask) that became a Golden Globe®-nominated film in 2001. He has also earned three Obies and … Read More »
Laurie Anderson is one of America’s most renowned – and daring – creative pioneers. Known primarily for her multimedia presentations, she has cast herself in roles as varied as visual artist, composer, poet, photographer, filmmaker, electronics whiz, vocalist, and instrumentalist. Recognized worldwide as a groundbreaking … Read More »
John Samuel Waters Jr. is an American film director, screenwriter, author, actor, stand-up comedian, journalist, visual artist, and art collector, who rose to fame in the early 1970s for his transgressive cult films. Aside from filmmaking, John is also an accomplished writer, photographer and visual artist. He has published multiple collections … Read More »
2003 Directors-in-Residence, Hegedus and Pennebaker’s films are done in the Direct Cinema style. “Voice-of-God” narration is avoided, as are formal “Talking Head” interviews. A mobile hand-held camera and diegetic sound are also characteristic. Usually Direct Cinema films show us the “back stage”, be it of the Rolling … Read More »
The MA in Media Studies gives students experience in creative media making, critical analysis, and entrepreneurialism. The Media Management MS offers the practical experience you need to succeed in today's media industries. The Documentary Studies Certificate program provides an opportunity to study documentary filmmaking in a small, tightly focused program. The Media Management Certificate Program provides a strong foundation of management principles and leadership skills to find work in the ever-changing global media landscape.
Over three evenings, short documentaries made by students in the Documentary Media Studies graduate certificate program are screened for the public. The films are the products of a year of study in documentary production, history and theory. The program has just completed its tenth year.
This annual event features film and video works produced by students taking graduate, undergraduate, and certificate classes in the School of Media Studies. Finalists are selected by an external jury of film professionals.
New School graduate students exhibit and discuss their works-in-progress in this popular monthly media workshop and screening series. Presenting students receive constructive feedback on their film, video, and audio work.
Mixed Messages is an annual exhibition showcasing outstanding creative work by graduate students in the School of Media Studies. Selected by a panel of distinguished jurors, projects include installations, interactive experiences, Web-based projects, and works on paper.
Kinoscope is a screening series designed to foster dialogue about film as cinematic art. Kinoscope events include discussion and analysis at the end of each program. Kinoscope’s mission is to enhance the awareness and understanding of the film and filmmaking process by screening a wide variety of national and international films.
Immediacy is a student-centered online journal produced by the School of Media Studies that provides a space for fresh approaches and perspectives on the understanding of media.