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Dr. Stephanie Becker, who earned her doctorate from UNM’s Department of Spanish and Portuguese while serving as a Cinematic Arts TA, became an Adjunct Lecturer, uniting research and writing in Mexican/US Latino Studies to create our newest version of “Latin American Film” and Spain’s “Films of Almodovar.” She has extended her studies to include comparative analysis of gender construction and performance in Chicano film and literature. She is currently working on a comparative project in which she explores how the 'political is personal' in which family dysfunction mirrors political upheaval in films from Chile, Mexico, and Argentina. To contact, please email SBECKER@UNM.EDU Teresa Cutler-Broyles has a Master's Degree in Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature and is a Ph.D. candidate in American Studies with a focus on representation, popular culture, film and performance. She hosts writing workshops to Italy through InkWell International LLC, and teaches courses such as Cult Film, Middle Eastern Film, Social Transformation through Film, and Monsters in Film. Writing professionally since 1992, her work includes short fiction and novels, non-fiction, travel essays, book reviews, and profiles. To contact, please email TERESA_CUTLER@COMCAST.NET The subjects of Dr. Susan Dever’s sabbatical scholarship and practice—Eastern philosophy and film art—continue to inform a series of new Cinematic Arts courses in Contemplative Cinema and Visual Epistemologies. The ever-changing “EveryDay Art: Mindfulness for Moviemakers and Other Poets,” plus all the different iterations of “Celluloid Buddhas,” have garnered high marks from “group/independent study” students discovering, through the combined practice of secular sitting meditation and interdependent cinematic artmaking of all sorts, what it means to be an artist. Contact at SUSANDEV@UNM.EDU FALL 2013 FACULTY Associate Professor Nina Fonoroff’s hybrids of collage, painting, and musical composition from sampled sound and cinema have recently resulted in new variations of her wellreceived courses. Central to her creative process is a deep involvement in almost all of the phases of a film’s production—from scripting and shooting to editing and finishing of image and sound elements—enriching our students’ vision and skill. Most recently, Fonoroff has begun experimenting with hand-processing film. To contact, please email at NFONOROFF@AOL.COM The newest member of the full time faculty, Associate Professor Deborah Fort, is a Digital Media Artist working with live image synthesis, using Max/MSP/Jitter. Her experiments have culminated in several interactive, real-time video projects using a rock band drum set, among other toys and gadgets. Uniting filmmakers, dancers, composers, and other artists in her interactive, feature length documentaries and performance pieces, Fort is now transferring endless creative skills to teaching her current students in the new-for-us “Advanced Editing” and documentary film courses To contact, please email at DEBFILMS@UNM.EDU Daniel Gallassini originally wanted to be an architect, but realized that somebody makes the movies, so why not do that. In his 25 year career he has done special effects for various features, TV programs and commercials. He has been the Post Production Engineer at Loyola Marymount University in LA and the Theater Engineer for the Dynatheater at the New Mexico Museum of Natural History. He is currently on faculty at UNM and Trinity Southwest University. He is the staff cinematographer for the Tall el-Hammam Excavation Project, an archaeological project in Jordan, producing on a documentary on the dig. Dan is a fourth generation New Mexican and doesn’t know why anyone would live (or film)
anywhere else. To contact, please email at DGALASSINI@UNM.EDU Visiting Professor Caroline Hinkley (MFA, California Institute of the Arts; MFA Claremont Graduate School) is an internationally-regarded artist/scholar whose teaching and expositions encompass film theory, motion and still photography (digital and conventional), immersive spaces (including museums, sacred spaces, and the "elsewhere" of exile). Caroline has been the recipient of a WESTAF/NEA, the Phelan Award for excellence in Photography from the San Francisco Foundation. Associate Professor Hinkley has recently received grants from the Icelandic Visual Arts Association, Cill Rialaig in County Kerry, Ireland linking her current photographic art with on-going explorations of the Himalayas. In 2011 Caroline was part of a collaborative exhibition of Irish and American artists at the Lesley Heller Workspace in NYC. Please contact at CINEH@UNM.EDU Lecturer Bryan Konefsky is a self-taught media maker and self-described counter-culture worker. He is the director of Experiments in Cinema film festival and the president of Basement Films. Additionally, he serves on the board of advisors for the Ann Arbor Film Festival. Konefsky’s creative work has received numerous awards including grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, The Banff Centre for the Arts, The New Mexico Film Office, and the Trust for Mutual Understanding. Additionally, Konefsky has lectured internationally at venues such as The Bienal de la Imagen en Movimiento in Buenos Aires, The Smolny Institute in St. Petersburg Russia, The Directors Lounge in Berlin Germany, Dongguk University in South Korea, and Anthology Film Archive in New York City. To contact, please email at BRYANK@UNM.EDU Jessie Lenderman has worked as a documentarian, film editor and educator in New Mexico and New York in a variety of settings and with diverse clients. She also works as a personal biographer, has a background in music and has worked as an art curator and administratot with local non-profit organizations. She holds degrees in Education and filmmaking from Eugene Lang Collage at the New School for Social Research and from the College of Santa Fe. To contact, please email at JLENDERMAN@UNM.EDU Snow Balls, Professor of Practice Matt McDuffie’s new work, will be produced by its writer and shot in New Mexico. His students will now have even greater insight into the workings of the professional film world. To contact, please email at BUZZBLANCO@COMCAST.NET Treating his students to new experiments in the sonic world, Adjunct Instructor James Roy collaborated with CFA’s Master of Sound, Manny Rettinger, to produce four concerts in the Electric Ensemble’s “Live at the ARTS Lab” series. This semester-long project brought renowned local and national talent to UNM, where artists’ performances were recorded to CD and video-taped to DVD for distribution. To contact, please email at JASROY@UNM.EDU Assistant Professor Dr. James Stone’s British Film Institute research in London led to his presenting a paper at a conference in the Netherlands on the cinema of Michael Powell, soon to be published by the University of Groningen. Another article, “Enjoying 9/11: The Pleasures of Cloverfield,” was accepted for publication by Duke University’s Radical History Review, paving the way for a new iteration of CA’s “Science Fiction.” To contact, please email JSTONE@UNM.EDU 11
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