Please join us for two short screenings and a conversation with Christopher Harris, this coming Monday, April 15, from 2:30 to 4:20pm, in Paccar 291.
Christopher Harris is the F. Wendell Miller Associate Professor and Head of Film and Video Production at the University of Iowa. Harris's celebrated films and installations employ a wide variety of experimental approaches to African American historiography, including manually and photo-chemically altered appropriated moving images, staged reenactments and interrogations of documentary conventions.
His films have appeared widely at festivals, museums and cinematheques, including an upcoming solo screening at the 2024 Whitney Biennial. Previous screenings include solo shows at the Museum of Modern Art, the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, the Locarno Film Festival, and Arsenal Berlin, a two-person screening with Su Friedrich at the Cinémathèque Française in Paris and group screenings at the New York Film Festival, the International Film Festival Rotterdam, and the Vienna International Film Festival, among many others. Harris is the recipient of the 2023 Herb Alpert Award in the Arts in Film/Video, a 2015 Creative Capital Award and fellowships from the Mellon Foundation, Radcliffe, and Chrysalis. He currently lives in Iowa where he is the F. Wendell Miller Associate Professor in the Department of Cinematic Arts at the University of Iowa.