Sound Design for Narrative Filmmaking: Understanding Post-Production Sound Layers
Sound Design for Narrative Filmmaking: Understanding Post-Production Sound Layers
February 9th, 1pm
1568 Avenue Pl, Suite 140 Room 118
Award-winning sound artist Bo Li visits Emory to deliver a special guest lecture at our brand-new Film Production Studio at Emory Point. It is entitled, "Sound Design for Narrative Filmmaking: Understanding Post-Production Sound Layers".
University Event Topic: Arts. School: All Emory University. Department / Organization: Arts at Emory. Film & Media.
Monday, February 9, 2026, 1:00 PM.
1568 Avenue Pl, Suite 140, Room 118.
Naomi Molnar: Memory of a Larger Mind — Artist's Talk & Poetry Reading
Naomi Molnar: Memory of a Larger Mind
Artist’s talk: February 9, 2026, 2:30pm Callaway S420
Poetry reading: February 9, 2026, 6:30pm Callaway S420
Daniela Naomi Molnar is a poet and artist who creates with color, water, language, and place. "Memory of a Larger Mind” is an ongoing interdisciplinary project that metabolizes memories of genocide and ecocide, transforming difficult memories from violence to love, desecration to beauty. Globally dispersed and multimodal, the project consists of paintings, sculptures, installations, community events, and three books.
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At 2:30pm, Molnar will discuss her forthcoming museum retrospective, “Memory of a Larger Mind,” which will open at the Oregon Jewish Museum in Portland in 2027. Molnar forages stones, flowers, shells, and wildlife bones from specific sites—former concentration camps, previously glaciated spots, abandoned mines—which she then transforms to pigments. These pigments in turn form palettes with which Molnar explores deep time, intergenerational…
University Event Topic: Arts. School: All Emory University. Department / Organization: Arts at Emory. Film & Media. Visual Arts Program. Event Open To: All (Public).
Monday, February 9, 2026, 2:30 PM – 8:30 PM.
Callaway Room S420 | 537 Kilgo Circle, Atlanta, GA 30322.
Ethics on the Stage: Fires, Ohio
Ethics on the Stage: Fires, Ohio, Monday, Feb 9 from 6:30 pm to 8 pm EST
Emory University Center for Ethics, Room 102
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On Monday, February 9 from 6:30-8:00pm, former Center for Ethics Director, Paul Roote Wolpe, will return for an Ethics on the Stage staged readings and discussions from the Alliance Theater’s upcoming production of Fires, Ohio.
As wildfires rage closer and closer to a small Ohio college town, the mopey grown children and second wife of a sort-of-mediocre professor are threatened by another kind of crisis: a visit from a family friend that threatens to bring all of their tensions to a towering inferno. Now, each of them will be forced to choose: stay and smolder, or leave and burn? Inspired by the classic family drama Uncle Vanya, FIRES, OHIO updates a beloved story for our painfully absurd present, taking a hilarious and heartfelt look at the natural (and personal) disasters that transform our everyday lives. .
University Event Topic: Arts. School: All Emory University. Department / Organization: Arts at Emory. Center for Ethics. Film & Media. Event Open To: All (Public). Cost: Free. Registration / R.S.V.P. link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/ethics-on-the-stage-fires-ohio-tickets-1980680441519?aff=oddtdtcreator#location.
Monday, February 9, 2026, 6:30 PM – 8:00 PM.
Emory University Center for Ethics Room 102 | 1531 Dickey Drive, Atlanta, GA 30322.
Emory Cinematheque: Ashes and Diamonds
Emory Cinematheque: Ashes and Diamonds
Directed by Andzrej Wajda, 1958 | 103 min.
Andzrej Wajda’s third film on World War II Polish experience is still arguably his greatest. Its tight 24 hour time frame takes place in a small town on the pivotal day when the Nazis have retreated but the Soviet military are rolling in to assume authority--The long-time underground resistance fighter Maciek Chelmicki (the charismatic, dynamic Zbigniew Cybulski, called “the Polish James Dean”) has fought both enemies---and he weighs the moral and emotional dimensions of his latest assignment--to assassinate the new local Communist leader. Jerzy Wójcik’s absolutely stunning deep focus cinematography conveys this utterly compelling story of Poland complex and tragic history in luminous images.
Free event and open to public.
University Event Topic: Arts. Department / Organization: Arts at Emory. Film & Media. Event Open To: All (Public).
Wednesday, February 11, 2026, 7:30 PM.
White Hall 208 | 301 Dowman Dr.
Film & Media Blood Drive
Film & Media Blood Drive
Wednesday 2/18 10am-2pm
Math and Science Center Atrium
The Film and Media Department invites you to a Blood Drive run by the American Red Cross in honor of our friend and colleague, Maureen "Mo" Downs. Mo was a welcoming presence in the Office suite, helping students, staff and faculty alike.
Mo was also an active and enthusiastic blood donor. She gave blood regularly and often convinced others to do the same. Her kindness helped many patients and donor recipients over the years. When Mo was undergoing her cancer treatment, she started regularly receiving infusions which brought her comfort and helped ease the toll of her treatment.
In honor of her memory and advocacy, the Film and Media Department is hosting a memorial blood drive. We encourage anyone who can give blood to attend.
Walkins are welcome but you can sign up to donate by visiting www.redcrossblood.org and entering the sponsor code EmoryFilm.
University Event Topic: Arts. School: All Emory University. Department / Organization: Arts at Emory. Film & Media. Event Open To: All (Public).
Wednesday, February 18, 2026, 10:00 AM – 2:00 PM.
Math and Science Center Atrium | 400 Dowman Dr, Atlanta, GA 30307.
Emory Cinematheque: The Lives of Others
Emory Cinematheque: The Lives of Others
Directed by Florian Hencken von Donnersmarck, 2006 | 137 min.
Screening introduced by Dr. Caroline Schaumann, Professor of German Studies.
Florian Hencken von Donnersmarck burst onto the international scene with this Oscar-winning exploration of oppressed life and artistic censorship during the 1980s in repressive, authoritarian East Germany. When a die-hard STASI (secret police) agent begins surveilling a successful, government-approved playwright and his partner, a leading actress, he begins to question his work and his own beliefs. With an exquisitely complex script and superb performances from his cast, von Donnersmarck crafted one of the greatest films of the 21st century, a truly moving example of coming to terms with the past and the unquenchable desire for freedom.
Free event and open to public.
University Event Topic: Arts. Department / Organization: Arts at Emory. Film & Media. Event Open To: All (Public).
Wednesday, February 18, 2026, 7:30 PM.
White Hall 208 | 301 Dowman Dr.
Ethics at the Movies: WINN
FREE Screening at Emory University — WINN, Thursday, February 19, 2026 7:00 PM EST
Rita Anne Rollins Building, Room 102
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In partnership with the Center for Ethics in the Arts at Emory University, the Atlanta Film Society presents a free screening of WINN and a Q&A with Joseph East, Co-Director & Pamela Winn, Film Protagonist. This screening is a part of Emory University's ongoing Ethics At The Movies series.
WINN Short Synopsis:
After miscarrying her baby in prison due to shackling, Pamela Winn becomes an activist, leading millions to support the Dignity Bill. Winn exposes the horrifying experience that incarcerated pregnant women endure and documents Pamela’s mission to end shackling and ultimately prison birth.
Ethics at the Movies is a documentary screening series presented by the Center for Ethics at Emory University, featuring in-person post-film conversations with members of creative teams. Ethics at the Movies has screened over 40 films and hosted such distinguished guest artists as Peabody…
University Event Topic: Arts. School: All Emory University. Department / Organization: Arts at Emory. Center for Ethics. Film & Media. Event Open To: All (Public). Cost: Free. Registration / R.S.V.P. link: https://atlfsyr.eventive.org/schedule/696543c8bafb6e5ac055c279.
Thursday, February 19, 2026, 7:00 PM.
Rita Anne Rollins Building Room 102 | 1531 Dickey Dr, Atlanta, GA 30322.
Emory Cinematheque: The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
Emory Cinematheque: The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
Directed by John Ford, 1962 | 123 min.
The western genre mythologized America’s frontier expansion, and John Ford’s last great film in this genre manages to sum up both his own work and the genre itself. Through the multiple confrontations among the murderous outlaw Liberty Valence (Lee Marvin), the quintessential western loner hero Tom Doniphon (John Wayne) and naïve eastern lawyer Ransom Stoddard (James Stewart), this ultimately elegiac film explores and dismantles the mythology of the settling of the west while dramatizing the process of establishing a western state—and at what cost. Suspenseful, funny and ultimately melancholy, Liberty Valence‘s dramatization of competing values of individualism and community and the place of gun violence in American history remain strikingly relevant today. The three leads give iconic performances.
Free event and open to public.
University Event Topic: Arts. Department / Organization: Arts at Emory. Film & Media. Event Open To: All (Public).
Wednesday, February 25, 2026, 7:30 PM.
White Hall 208 | 301 Dowman Dr.
Photography Speaks: Clarissa Bonet
Photography Speaks: Clarissa Bonet
Monday, March 2 at 7pm via zoom.
On Monday March 2 at 7pm, join us for a discussion with Chicago-based photographer, Clarissa Bonet via zoom: https://emory.zoom.us/j/7505037670
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Organized by Associate Professor Jason Francisco, PHOTOGRAPHY SPEAKS is an ongoing series of artist’s talks in and around contemporary photography. Approaching the medium in a decidedly anti-essentialist way—as a crossroads where diverse inquires meet in visual form, from art and literature to history and politics, science and spirituality—the series gathers artists from a wide range of positions, modes, and practices.
If you have questions, please ask Professor Francisco: jfranc9@emory.edu.
University Event Topic: Arts. School: All Emory University. Department / Organization: Arts at Emory. Film & Media. Visual Arts Program. Series: Photography Speaks. Event Open To: All (Public).
Monday, March 2, 2026, 7:00 PM.
Online (Zoom) - https://emory.zoom.us/j/7505037670.
Emory Cinematheque: Notorious
Emory Cinematheque: Notorious
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock, 1946 | 102 min
Hitchcock’s best black and white Hollywood film, the recently restored Notorious shows the master of suspense in complete command of cinematic storytelling and simultaneously marked his new level of commitment to portraying romance. In this espionage thriller, Hitchcock vividly portrays the intense romantic triangle and swirl of sexual jealousy involving proto-CIA agent Devlin (Cary Grant), the amateur spy Alicia Huberman (Ingrid Bergman) and the man she is assigned to seduce in Brazil, the Nazi Alex Sebastian (Claude Rains). The three leads are at the top of their game, thanks in part to the brilliant, often cynical and morally complex script by Ben Hecht.
Free event and open to public.
University Event Topic: Arts. Department / Organization: Arts at Emory. Film & Media. Event Open To: All (Public).
Wednesday, March 4, 2026, 7:30 PM.
White Hall 208 | 301 Dowman Dr.
Emory Cinematheque: The Third Man
Emory Cinematheque: The Third Man
Directed by Carol Reed , 1949 | 104 min.
Arguably no film better captured the sense of post-World War II disillusionment than Carol Reed’s realization of an original Graham Greene script about despicable crime and corruption in Vienna. Declared by at least one critic as “probably the greatest British thriller of the postwar era,” the film, featuring exteriors shot on location in Vienna, is largely a detective noir featuring an out of his depth American pulp fiction writer Holly Martens (Joseph Cotton), his old friend Harry Lime (Orson Welles) and the woman they both love (Alida Valli). Reed elicited memorable performances from his cast (also including Trevor Howard). Cinematographer Robert Krasker furthered the film's unsettling atmosphere with his extensive use of canted angles. And Anton Karas’s zither “Third Man Theme” achieved top-charting status for nearly three months. You will have a hard time forgetting it or more to the point, the film.
Free event and open to…
University Event Topic: Arts. Department / Organization: Arts at Emory. Film & Media. Event Open To: All (Public).
Wednesday, March 18, 2026, 7:30 PM.
White Hall 208 | 301 Dowman Dr.
Ethics at the Movies: SISTER SALAD DAYS and THE GIVERNY DOCUMENT
FREE Screening at Emory University — SISTER SALAD DAYS and THE GIVERNY DOCUMENT, Thursday, March 19, 2026 7:00 PM EDT
Rita Anne Rollins Building, Room 102
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In partnership with the Center for Ethics in the Arts at Emory University, the Atlanta Film Society presents a free screening of SISTER SALAD DAYS and Q&A with writer/director Adesola Thomas. Plus THE GIVERNY DOCUMENT.
SISTER SALAD DAYS Short Synopsis:
Sister Salad Days is a magical realist narrative short that explores Black sisterhood, gendered and religious ideas of marital obligation, and the interpersonal harm that is caused in the pursuit of piety. This is a film about promise-keeping among Black women, living vestiges of the past, and one woman’s desire to build a self-determined life in the Atlanta ethnoburbs.
THE GIVERNY DOCUMENT Short Synopsis:
Filmed on location in Harlem, USA and in Claude Monet’s historic gardens in Giverny, France, The Giverny Document is a multi-textured cinematic poem that meditates on the safety and bodily…
University Event Topic: Arts. School: All Emory University. Department / Organization: Arts at Emory. Center for Ethics. Film & Media. Event Open To: All (Public). Cost: Free. Registration / R.S.V.P. link: https://atlfsyr.eventive.org/schedule/696540f6b01ac22e0c52553c.
Thursday, March 19, 2026, 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM.
Rita Anne Rollins Building Room 102 | 1531 Dickey Dr, Atlanta, GA 30322.
Emory Cinematheque: High and Low
Emory Cinematheque: High and Low
Directed by Akira Kurosawa, 1963 | 143 min.
Akira Kurosawa is best known for his innovative samurai films, but he took special pride in his contemporary dramas like Ikiru / Living (1952) and this masterful kidnapping detective thriller, recently reconfigured by Spike Lee as Higher 2 Lowest (2025). Immediately after shoe company executive Kingo Gondo (frequent collaborator Toshiro Mifune) mortgages everything to buy a controlling interest in his company, he faces a moral dilemma as to whether to pay an outrageous ransom for the kidnapping of his chauffeur’s son. Kurosawa, at this point fearless in his storytelling prowess, uses every cinematic technique at his disposal to produce a gripping, unpredictable, exhilarating film that is both intimate and epic in its scope.
Free event and open to public.
University Event Topic: Arts. Department / Organization: Arts at Emory. Film & Media. Event Open To: All (Public).
Wednesday, March 25, 2026, 7:30 PM.
White Hall 208 | 301 Dowman Dr.
Photography Speaks: Nicolai Howalt
Photography Speaks: Nicolai Howalt
Monday, March 30 at 7pm via zoom
On Monday March 30 at 7pm, join us for a discussion with Danish artist, Nicolai Howalt via zoom:
https://emory.zoom.us/j/7505037670
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Organized by Associate Professor Jason Francisco, PHOTOGRAPHY SPEAKS is an ongoing series of artist’s talks in and around contemporary photography. Approaching the medium in a decidedly anti-essentialist way—as a crossroads where diverse inquires meet in visual form, from art and literature to history and politics, science and spirituality—the series gathers artists from a wide range of positions, modes, and practices.
If you have questions, please ask Professor Francisco: jfranc9@emory.edu.
University Event Topic: Arts. School: All Emory University. Department / Organization: Arts at Emory. Film & Media. Visual Arts Program. Series: Photography Speaks. Event Open To: All (Public).
Monday, March 30, 2026, 7:00 PM.
Online (Zoom) - https://emory.zoom.us/j/7505037670.
Emory Cinematheque: The Gold Rush
Emory Cinematheque: The Gold Rush
Directed by Charles Chaplin, 1925 | 96 min.
1920s silent comedy was America’s gift to the world, and Charlie Chaplin’s film about the Tramp’s adventures in the frozen north remains the peak of his considerable 1920s achievements. He had solved the challenge of combining stand-alone comic episodes into a fully realized narrative and created a fully realized fictional world. Chaplin remains the greatest screen performer in cinema history, and this film—for which he wrote the script, the music and which he directed--showcases his trademark inventiveness via the imaginative transformation of objects, hilarious slapstick, as well as The Tramp’s enduring, endearing yearning for love and acceptance. We are screening the brand new restoration print celebrating the film’s 100th anniversary.
Free event and open to public.
University Event Topic: Arts. Department / Organization: Arts at Emory. Film & Media. Event Open To: All (Public).
Wednesday, April 1, 2026, 7:30 PM.
White Hall 208 | 301 Dowman Dr.
Emory Cinematheque: Sense and Sensibility
Emory Cinematheque: Sense and Sensibility
Directed by Ang Lee, 1995 | 136 min.
Emma Thompson’s perceptive and witty Oscar-winning screenplay provided the foundation for this outstanding adaptation of Jane Austen’s first novel. We remain always at the side of the dispossessed Dashwood sisters, especially the practical Elinor (Thompson) and the passionate Marianne (Kate Winslet), as they debate how best to approach matters of the heart, over which they, like all of Austen’s heroines, have so little control. Boasting a fine cast of British actors--including the three romcom heartthrobs Hugh Grant, Greg Wise and Alan Rickman--the film perfectly marries Ang Lee’s penchant for long takes and stories of repressed emotion to late 18th century British society.
Free event and open to public.
University Event Topic: Arts. Department / Organization: Arts at Emory. Film & Media. Event Open To: All (Public).
Wednesday, April 8, 2026, 7:30 PM.
White Hall 208 | 301 Dowman Dr.
Ethics at the Movies: NATCHEZ
FREE Screening at Emory University — NATCHEZ
Thursday, April 9, 2026 7:00 PM EDT
Rita Anne Rollins Building, Room 102
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In partnership with the Center for Ethics in the Arts at Emory University, the Atlanta Film Society presents a free screening of NATCHEZ and a Q&A with Suzannah Herbert, Producer / Director.
NATCHEZ Short Synopsis:
After generations of showcasing its pre-Civil War mansions and hoop-skirted guides, Natchez, Mississippi, is now reckoning with a romanticized past, an uncertain future, and the debt it owes to the descendants of slavery. A cinematic portrait of a tourist town at a crossroads, NATCHEZ follows an array of historic homeowners, activists, and tour guides as they tell their versions of the past, and clash over who gets to tell America’s story.
Ethics at the Movies is a documentary screening series presented by the Center for Ethics at Emory University, featuring in-person post-film conversations with members of creative teams. Ethics at the Movies has screened over 40 films…
University Event Topic: Arts. School: All Emory University. Department / Organization: Arts at Emory. Center for Ethics. Film & Media. Event Open To: All (Public). Cost: Free. Registration / R.S.V.P. link: https://atlfsyr.eventive.org/schedule/696545abbbbf5671f58d5cb7.
Thursday, April 9, 2026, 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM.
Rita Anne Rollins Building Room 102 | 1531 Dickey Dr, Atlanta, GA 30322.
Emory Cinematheque: The Lady Eve
Emory Cinematheque: The Lady Eve
Directed by Preston Sturges, 1941 | 94 min.
With The Lady Eve, the brilliant writer-director Preston Sturges created the Hollywood screwball comedy to top them all. It’s full of impossible situations, clever, double-entendre dialogue (necessary in the era of the Production Code) and plentiful pratfalls. When con artist Jean Harrington (Barbara Stanwyck) seduces and then falls for an out-of-his-depth snake-studying heir Charles Pike (Henry Fonda) on an ocean liner, she gets more than she bargained for and resolves to set things right. Boasting a cast of Sturges comic regulars, as well as the always delightful Charles Coburn as Jean’s deceitful father “Colonel” Harrington, The Lady Eve was written expressly for Stanwyck and she goes to town in this “woman on top” romp. Meanwhile Fonda demonstrates his comic chops to the fullest. Who knew?
Free event and open to public.
University Event Topic: Arts. Department / Organization: Arts at Emory. Film & Media. Event Open To: All (Public).
Wednesday, April 15, 2026, 7:30 PM.
White Hall 208 | 301 Dowman Dr.
Emory Cinematheque: The Rules of the Game
Emory Cinematheque: The Rules of the Game
Directed by Jean Renoir, 1939 | 110 min.
Jean Renoir’s satire of the French bourgeoisie “dancing on the edge of a volcano” (e.g. the Fascist threats at its borders) is the crowning achievement of his golden decade of filmmaking in France (though a case can be made for his magnificent anti-war Grand Illusion). Classically structured, Rules transforms from an urbane comedy of manners among an amoral, adulterous group of mostly wealthy Parisians into a fast-paced, upstairs/downstairs slapstick farce when all hell breaks loose at a costume ball at a Loire chateau. Renoir here achieves the height of naturalism through his signature style--complex staging captured by his frequent use of a mobile camera and long takes. The film is imbued with Renoir’s generous affection for all his characters, no matter how badly they behave.
Free event and open to public.
University Event Topic: Arts. Department / Organization: Arts at Emory. Film & Media. Event Open To: All (Public).
Wednesday, April 22, 2026, 7:30 PM.
White Hall 208 | 301 Dowman Dr.