ICE-Vision: Postal (Uwe Boll, 2007)
Wednesday, January 23 at 8 PM
Lamar Dodd School of Art Room S150
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ICE-Vision continues with Film Studies major Daniel LoPilato’s weekly selections of eclectic, idiosyncratic, psychotronic, or otherwise eccentric excursions into world cinema.

Produced amid the aimless hinterland of the United States’ search for Osama Bin Laden, lately depicted in Kathryn Bigelow’s maniacally realist “Zero Dark Thirty,” this farcical comedy from agent provocateur Uwe Boll, who once went head-to-head in a series of boxing matches with critics vocal about this film and others, is a trashy, irreverent, and at times reprehensible treatment of post-9/11 America. Boll’s public persona preserves the brash confrontation of another German director, Werner Herzog, without the artistry or the credentials. What we’re left with in art’s stead is a spat of video game adaptations funded on the German government’s dime, a strange man, his inexplicably and stubbornly terrible output, and what some might see as a refreshingly offensive take on the United States and the legacy of its War on Terror. Or not.

Steven Tepper Podcast and Lecture Video Now Available

Steven Tepper talks about cultural policy and the creative campus movement as part of the ICE Conversation series. Podcast and transcription are available at https://ugaartscollaborative.com/arts-collab-podcast/.

A DVD of Steven Tepper’s lecture, “Creative Work and the Work of Creativity: How Colleges and Universities Can Prepare Graduates to Reinvent Our World,” from January is now available for use by UGA faculty and students.

Steven Tepper
Creative Work and the Work of Creativity: How Colleges and Universities Can Prepare Graduates to Reinvent Our World
Tuesday, January 22 at 4 PM
Georgia Museum of Art
M. Smith Griffith Auditorium

Ideas for Creative Exploration (ICE) is pleased to host Steven Tepper, a leader in the field of cultural policy and research on the impact of the arts on everyday life, for a public lecture supported by the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts and the Georgia Museum of Art.

Steven Tepper is the Associate Director of the Curb Center for Art, Enterprise and Public Policy and an Associate Professor of Sociology at Vanderbilt University. At the Curb Center, Tepper works to develop national policy reports and to create research tools that examine and measure the effectiveness of support models for the arts. He currently serves as the principal investigator of “Artful Living: Examining the Relationship Between Artistic Practice, Subjective Wellbeing and Materialism Across Three National Surveys,” supported by a research grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.

Tepper’s most recent publication is a book entitled Not Here, Not Now, Not That! Protest Over Art and Media in America. He was the co-editor, with Bill Ivey, of Engaging Art: The Next Great Transformation of America’s Cultural Life. His articles appear in numerous publications, including the Chronicle of Higher Education, Review of Policy Research, Journal of Arts Management, Law and Society, and the Journal of Cultural Economics.

Tepper earned a bachelor’s degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a master’s in public policy from Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government. He received a Ph.D. in sociology from Princeton University, where he later served as Deputy Director of the Princeton University Center for Arts and Cultural Policy Studies.

Commedia Robotica
Saturday, December 1 at 8 PM and Sunday, December 2 at 4 PM
Fine Arts Building Cellar Theatre, Room 55

Premiere workshop performance of original play featuring interactions between live performers and Zeeb Zob the robot in the style of commedia dell’arte. Developed by David Saltz, head of the department of theatre and film studies, with faculty and students in the department, in conjunction with Dr. Chi Thai of the College of Engineering. The free show runs approximately 30 minutes.

ICE-Vision: The Hired Hand (Peter Fonda, 1971)
Wednesday, November 28 at 8 PM
Lamar Dodd School of Art Room S150
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ICE-Vision continues with Film Studies major Daniel LoPilato’s weekly selections of eclectic, idiosyncratic, psychotronic, or otherwise eccentric excursions into world cinema.

“Peter Fonda’s first venture as a filmmaker (1971) is close in spirit to his father’s pastoral dramas. Seven years after he abandoned his wife and son to become an outlaw with Warren Oates, Fonda returns home and takes a menial job on what was once his own ranch. The back-to-the-land sentiments often have a dilettantish, posthippie feel, but Verna Bloom has great authority as the wife and Fonda’s direction is appealingly modest and lanky.” – Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader

With a stand-out soundtrack by folk musician Bruce Langhorne.

ICE-Vision: American Pop (Ralph Bakshi, 1981)
Wednesday, November 14 at 8 PM
Lamar Dodd School of Art Room S150
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ICE-Vision continues with Film Studies major Daniel LoPilato’s weekly selections of eclectic, idiosyncratic, psychotronic, or otherwise eccentric excursions into world cinema.

The outsider-animation master Ralph Bakshi mixes live action footage, newsreel, and vibrant animation in this excavation of four generations of American music. Bakshi, whose animated features regularly sparked controversy for their adult themes and approach to the cartoon, gives us something like the drug-blitzed Altamont music festival as seen through the eyes of R. Crumb.