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Umass Film Studies is an interdepartmental and interdisciplinary program that offers a film major (BA), a graduate certificate in Film Studies, as well as two online certificates: undergraduate in film studies, and graduate in videographic criticism The Certificate Program in Film Studies offers a comprehensive course of study in the history, criticism, theory, aesthetics, and production of the moving image in the unique context of an interdepartmental and interdisciplinary program. The Interdepartmental Program in Film Studies is the home of the Massachusetts Multicultural Film Festival, an annual series that brings to the campus and Five College community important new international films and visiting filmmakers. Certificate students are encouraged to participate in the Festival’s one-credit colloquium and internship program as well as in the annual Five College Student Film and Video Festival which showcases the best work of students in the Five Colleges and offers valuable opportunities to Certificate students interested in production to screen their film and video projects and to participate in producing and organizing the Festival.

With College of Humanities & Fine Arts at UMass Amherst – I just got recognized as one of their top fans! 🎉
09/22/2026

With College of Humanities & Fine Arts at UMass Amherst – I just got recognized as one of their top fans! 🎉

If you are in the area, please join us on Monday Sept. 21 at 4:00PM in ILC 412 for the talk by Evelyn Kreutzer "Generati...
09/18/2026

If you are in the area, please join us on Monday Sept. 21 at 4:00PM in ILC 412 for the talk by Evelyn Kreutzer "Generative AI and Audiovisual Nostalgia". Evelyn Kreutzer is a media scholar, video essayist, and curator. She currently co-leads the research group "The Video Essay: Memories, Ecologies, Bodies," funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation, with Kevin B. Lee and Johannes Binotto), in which she primarily focuses on exploring questions of memory, practice, and Al videographically. Her talk addresses how we might reconsider and apply pre-digital concepts of nostalgia to the current moment, in which generative AI challenges our relationship with the aesthetic, documentary, and environmental realities of audiovisual media.

Welcome to ECO-LAB: Eco-Criticism & Eco-Praxis, the Film Studies Program's Environmental Humanities Lab at the Univers...
09/18/2026

Welcome to ECO-LAB: Eco-Criticism & Eco-Praxis, the Film Studies Program's Environmental Humanities Lab at the University of Massachusetts. ECO-LAB unites ecological theory with hands-on media experimentation, from analog 16mm filmmaking to sustainable, plant-based film processing. Please check us out and contact us if you are interested in getting involved! https://www.umass.edu/film/eco-lab
of Humanities & Fine Arts at UMass Amherst ,

Interested? We can still override you! Just contact us.Want to take a course with Ariel Avissar, our visiting filmmaker ...
09/16/2026

Interested? We can still override you! Just contact us.
Want to take a course with Ariel Avissar, our visiting filmmaker and media scholar?

This semester, Ariel is teaching:
VIDEOGRAPHIC TELEPHILIA FILM-ST 391V
What happens when you study television through editing?
Rework it. Juxtapose it. Transform it. Make your own videographic projects with the television you love.
Fulfills the Film Production Concentration of the Film Major.

PARTICIPATORY FAN PRACTICES FILM-ST 591M
For graduate + undergraduate students
Remix. Vidding. Fan fiction. Forensic viewing. Transformative media practices.
Explore fan cultures and media convergence while using videographic criticism as a tool for thinking, making, and experimenting.
No advanced editing experience required.
Ariel Avissar is a video maker and media scholar at Tel Aviv University and Associate Editor of [in]Transition: Journal of Videographic Film & Moving Image Studies.
LAST DAY. DON’T MISS IT.

CONGRATULATIONS on your graduation, Film Studies Seniors! Good luck on your future endeavors and be sure to stay in touc...
05/13/2026

CONGRATULATIONS on your graduation, Film Studies Seniors!
Good luck on your future endeavors and be sure to stay in touch! We will miss you all!

Hello UMass Film Studies — here are the listed classes for THIS SUMMER!Session 1: • African Film — Instructor: Patrick ...
05/08/2026

Hello UMass Film Studies — here are the listed classes for THIS SUMMER!

Session 1:
• African Film — Instructor: Patrick Mensah
• The Horror Film — Instructor: Barry Spence
• Seminar: Principles of Editing — Instructor: William Digravio
• The Video Essay: Working with Surfaces — Instructor: Evelyn Kreutzer

Session 2:
• The Undead Souths — Instructor: Patrick Mensah
• Film Production: How the Craft Works — Instructor: Nefeli Forni Zervoudaki
• Writing for the Screen: Creating the TV/Streaming Series Pilot — Instructor: Tom Benedek
• Seminar: Film Podcasting — Instructor: Daniel Pope

Be sure to check out spire and enroll!

Hello UMass Film Studies — here are the listed classes for THIS SUMMER!Session 1: • African Film — Instructor: Patrick ...
05/08/2026

Hello UMass Film Studies — here are the listed classes for THIS SUMMER!

Session 1:
• African Film — Instructor: Patrick Mensah
• The Horror Film — Instructor: Barry Spence
• Seminar: Principles of Editing — Instructor: William Digravio
• The Video Essay: Working with Surfaces — Instructor: Evelyn Kreutzer

Session 2:
• The Undead Souths — Instructor: Patrick Mensah
• Film Production: How the Craft Works — Instructor: Nefeli Forni Zervoudaki
• Writing for the Screen: Creating the TV/Streaming Series Pilot — Instructor: Tom Benedek
• Seminar: Film Podcasting — Instructor: Daniel Pope

Be sure to check on spire and enroll for Summer 2026!

We warmly invite you to come celebrate the Film Studies community, our excellent graduating seniors, and the conclusion ...
05/06/2026

We warmly invite you to come celebrate the Film Studies community, our excellent graduating seniors, and the conclusion of the academic year!

Come to the party this Friday May 8th from 4:00 to 6:30 pm in the Film Studies area on the 4th floor of the ILC.

We will have food and cake and beverages and a bountiful flow of cinephilic conviviality!

We very much hope to see you there!

Barry, Barbara, Daniel, David, & Ian

05/02/2026

Last Wednesday was the MMFF’s last film screening of the semester! If you missed it, here’s our recap. Thank you to everyone who came to support, and we hope you come by next year!

We were delighted to screen short film “A Cyborg Manifesto” (2020) by Four Chambers, and our feature film by Annapurna Sriram “F**ktoys” (2025) starring Annapurna Sriram, Sadie Scott, Francois Arnaud, Big Freedia, Brandon Flynn, & Damian Young. We’re also so grateful to have hosted Q&A with “F**ktoys” costar, Sadie Scott!

Thank you to our sponsors who have been able to make this possible: Amherst Cinema, College of Humanities & Fine Arts, UMass Amherst, UMass Art Council, College of Social & Behavioral Sciences, UMass Amherst, Department of Languages and Cultures, UMass Amherst, & The Five College Film Council.

And of course our amazing organizing team! Ayanna Dozier as the guest curator, Laura Caballero Rabanal, PhD Candidate in Spanish and Portuguese Program at UMass as assistant curator, Ian Sedelow as financial manager, Kanishka as graphic designer, and Yasmiin Ali, Dinis Diogo Carpin, Kaiti Cook, Paola Delmaschio, Anthony Ericsson, Jean Hur, Nicholas Savage, Dex Veitch, and Dahn Yook as festival and media interns.

05/01/2026

Interested in getting those credits up during the summer? Look no further! Professor will be teaching COMM 140 Intro to Film Studies!

This course provides students with an introduction to the fundamental approaches, theories, and perspectives essential for an understanding film and its major transformations across the 20th-century. Throughout the term we will explore the many ways in which film has been a vehicle for both propaganda and a tool for counterinsurgency. We will also examine how the origins of film not only established its role as a global medium but how exile-ship, diversity, immigration, and gender, race, and class have all shaped approaches to filmmaking.

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