Contemporary Film at the Jacob Burns Center

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This course will meet every Tuesday night at the Jacob Bums Film Center in downtown Pleasantville to see a contemporary film. The Jacob Burns Film Center is a world-class cultural arts center dedicated to presenting the best of independent, documentary, and world cinema and making film a vibrant part of the Westchester community. The class will meet in two ways: online in Blackboard for assignments and submissions of class work and at the Bums Center on Tuesday nights for film screenings. Students will research, experience and write about lndie, foreign, and first-run films plus documentaries, screened each week in this state-of-the-art complex in downtown Pleasantville. Whenever possible, we will take advantage of discussions with filmmakers, critics and people from the industry following some screenings. Students must make their own arrangements for travel to the Burns Center. Campus busses go to the Pleasantville train station, which is a 1-minute walk from the Burns Center.