Friday, February 05, 2010
Don't miss Icarus Films titles at MoMA in NYC!
Karen Cooper's Carte Blanche at MoMA features 3 of our titles:Battle of Chile, Pt. 2 – Feb. 7Underground Orchestra – Feb. 7&8Colette – Feb. 14Click here for more information and showtimes.
Labels: battle of chile, Chris Marker, colette, Heddy Honigmann, karen cooper, MoMA, patricio guzman, screening, underground orchestra, yannick bellon
Tuesday, January 26, 2010
Free screening of A ROAD TO MECCA tomorrow in NYC!
On Wednesday January 27th, 7pm, at Alwan for the Arts, there will be a free screening of A ROAD TO MECCA: THE JOURNEY OF MUHAMMAD ASAD, followed by a discussion with Talal Asad, son of Muhammad Asad, Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, and Joseph A. Massad, associate professor of modern Arab politics and intellectual history at Columbia University.Do not miss it!Click here for more information and details on the event.Labels: Joseph Massad, Muhammad Asad, new york, road to mecca, screening, talal asad
Thursday, January 21, 2010
3 Icarus titles selected in the ALA Video Roundtable Notable Videos for Adults
MALLS R US, OPERATION FILMMAKER and IN SEARCH OF MEMORY made the cut!
Make sure to check them out if you have not seen them already.
Press release available here.
Labels: ALA, american library association, awards, in search of memory, malls r us, operation filmmaker
Tuesday, January 05, 2010
IN SEARCH OF MEMORY opening at the IFC Center NYC on Friday 8th
Dr. Eric Kandel in person for a Q&A!
We are thrilled to announce the theatrical opening of the film IN SEARCH OF MEMORY, the documentary on the life and work of one of the most important neuroscientists of the 20th century, Nobel Prize winner Eric Kandel.
Do not miss your chance to ask questions to Dr. Kandel during the Q&A following the 7:35pm screening on Friday 8th. Get your tickets now!
The IFC Center is located on Sixth Avenue at West 3rd street in New York City.
Showtimes: 1pm, 3:10pm, 5:25pm, 7:35pm, and 10pm.
It will run for one week only!
Click here for more details and to purchase tickets.
Labels: eric kandel, ifc center, new york, nobel prize, Q and A, screening, theatrical
Tuesday, December 01, 2009
4 Icarus Films at the American Anthropological Association conference
The 108th AAA annual meeting is taking place in Philadelphia from December 2 to 6. Four of our films will be presented:
- REVUE
- RAPAYAN
- UMBRELLA
- LUCANAMARCA
For more information, please visit the AAA website here.Labels: academic conferences, anthropology, cultural anthropology
Monday, November 09, 2009
Spend an Afternoon with Icarus Films at the Margaret Mead Film & Video Festival!
On Saturday November 14th, the Margaret Mead festival at The Museum of Natural History in NYC will present two Icarus Films releases:
- 2pm: WAR AND LOVE IN KABUL
- 5:30pm: HOW I AM (from our newly acquired catalog of Fanlight Productions titles)
Do not miss them!
For more information, please visit the festival's website here.Labels: festival news, film festival, new york, screening
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
A very special event: Conference honoring filmmaker and professor Elizabeth Fernea
Icarus Films is proud to announce a conference organized by the University of Texas Austin in honor of the late professor Elizabeth "BJ" Fernea.
Fernea was a leading scholar, author and filmmaker whose work focused on Women's Issues in the Middle East. Her memoir “Guests of the Sheik: An Ethnography of an Iraqi Village” (1965) which detailed her immersion into the lives of the women of Al-Nahra, was a national bestseller.
The conference will take place from October 15 to 17 and is free and open to the public. Click here for more details and a list of speakers, and click here to download the information poster.
For a complete list of Elizabeth Fernea's films distributed by Icarus Films, please click here.Labels: academic conferences, Elizabeth Fernea, keynotes, Middle East, panel, UT Austin, women issues, women's studies
Thursday, September 10, 2009
Two (2) New Subject Areas created / Index pages Added!
As our collection has developed horizontally (variety of new subject areas) as well as vertically (depth over time) we have added two new Subject Area index pages, to try and make it easier for you to find films that are most suitable for your interests and useful for you. So now we have created new pages for films about BIOLOGY, and films about CHRISTIANITY. Of course all of our Subject Areas may always be found HERE! Labels: biology, christianity, subject pages
Tuesday, September 08, 2009
New MIDDLE EAST STUDIES Catalog now OnlineWe've just published a brand-new 24-page catalog describing 41 films on DVD about the Middle East and Islam, including six New Releases. You can open a PDF of it by clicking
HERE! or go to our online catalogs page and browse all available booklets
here!
Thursday, September 03, 2009
New Catalog!
Check out our new catalog for Neuroscience and Psychology.
22 thought-provoking films to add to your library.And stay tuned for more catalogs to be added soon!Labels: catalogs, neuroscience, psychology
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