{"id":70,"date":"2014-06-07T02:39:02","date_gmt":"2014-06-07T02:39:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/italian-2500\/?page_id=70"},"modified":"2022-06-14T01:40:15","modified_gmt":"2022-06-14T05:40:15","slug":"films","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/italian-2500\/films\/","title":{"rendered":"Short Films &amp; TV Episodes"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_35\" style=\"width: 827px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/francobrambilla.com\/artwork\/516657_More_Than_Real.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-35\" class=\"wp-image-35 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/italian-2500\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/542\/2014\/06\/brambilla-napoli.png\" alt=\"brambilla, napoli\" width=\"817\" height=\"582\" srcset=\"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/italian-2500\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/542\/2014\/06\/brambilla-napoli.png 817w, https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/italian-2500\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/542\/2014\/06\/brambilla-napoli-300x213.png 300w, https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/italian-2500\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/542\/2014\/06\/brambilla-napoli-624x444.png 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 817px) 100vw, 817px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-35\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u00a9 Franco Brambilla, &#8220;More Than Real&#8221; (2008)<\/p><\/div>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a id=\"required-and-recommended-top\" name=\"required-and-recommended-top\"><\/a> <strong>Table of Contents:<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"#required-and-recommended-helpful-information\">Helpful information<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#required-and-recommended-short-film-and-tv-episodes\">Short film and TV episodes<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#required-and-recommended-feature-length\">Recommended feature-length films<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a>Recommended short films<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a>Recommended TV series<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a id=\"required-and-recommended-helpful-information\" name=\"required-and-recommended-helpful-information\"><\/a> <strong>HELPFUL INFORMATION:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 a brief list of basic film criticism terminology <a href=\"https:\/\/www.geneseo.edu\/~finkelst\/250filmtermsF05.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 a bit more in-depth one <a href=\"https:\/\/www.filmsite.org\/filmterms6.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 an even more in-depth one <a href=\"https:\/\/filmglossary.ccnmtl.columbia.edu\/term\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#required-and-recommended-top\">Back to top<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a id=\"required-and-recommended-short-film-and-tv-episodes\" name=\"required-and-recommended-short-film-and-tv-episodes\"><\/a><strong>\u00a0SHORT FILM AND TV EPISODES (ORGANIZED CHRONOLOGICALLY):<\/strong><br \/>\nChris Marker, <em>La Jet\u00e9e<\/em> (France, 1962; 28m) on digital reserve <a href=\"https:\/\/bowdoin.kanopy.com\/video\/la-jetee\">here<\/a><br \/>\nR. Bare and D. Knight, <em>To Serve Man<\/em> [S3E24 of <em>The Twilight Zone<\/em>] (USA, 1962; 24m) <a href=\"https:\/\/blackboard.bowdoin.edu\/webapps\/blackboard\/content\/listContentEditable.jsp?content_id=_742440_1&amp;course_id=_30260_1&amp;mode=reset\">BB<\/a><br \/>\nWanuri Kahiu, <em>Pumzi <\/em>(Kenya, 2009;\u00a023m) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=IlR7l_B86Fc\">Youtube<\/a><br \/>\nLisa Jackson,\u00a0<em>The Visit <\/em>(Anishinaabe, 2009; 4m) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nfb.ca\/film\/vistas_the_visit\/\">here<\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 1rem\">Giacomo Cimini, <\/span><em style=\"font-size: 1rem\">The City in the Sky <\/em><span style=\"font-size: 1rem\">(Italy-England, 2009; 27 mins) <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 1rem\">Kim Jee-woon <\/span><em style=\"font-size: 1rem\">The Heavenly Creature <\/em><span style=\"font-size: 1rem\">in<\/span><em style=\"font-size: 1rem\">\u00a0<em>Doomsday Book <\/em><\/em><span style=\"font-size: 1rem\">(Korea, 2012; 30mins) <\/span>on digital reserve<br \/>\nNanobah Becker,\u00a0<em>The 6th World<\/em> (Navajo, 2012; 15m) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=7f4Jm0y_iLk&amp;feature=emb_logo\">Youtube<\/a><br \/>\nKibwe Tavares,<em>\u00a0Robots of Brixton <\/em>(England, 2012; 5m) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=tWQxsQK7H3g\">Youtube<\/a><br \/>\nDon Hertzfeldt, <em>World of Tomorrow 1, 2, &amp; 3<\/em> (USA, 2015-2020; 16-20m each) <a href=\"https:\/\/blackboard.bowdoin.edu\/webapps\/blackboard\/content\/listContentEditable.jsp?content_id=_742440_1&amp;course_id=_30260_1&amp;mode=reset\">BB<\/a><br \/>\nAntoine Ca\u00ebcke &amp; H\u00e9l\u00e8ne Jeudy, <em>Anvil<\/em> (Japan\/Belgium, 2017) <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/181706731\">Vimeo<\/a><br \/>\nHelen Haig-Brown, <em>The Cave<\/em> (Tsilhqot\u2019in, 2018) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=SHZsdgfo11w\">Youtube<\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 1rem\">Robert Valley, <\/span><em style=\"font-size: 1rem\">Zima Blue<\/em><span style=\"font-size: 1rem\"> [Episode 14 of <\/span><em style=\"font-size: 1rem\">Love, Death, and Robots<\/em><span style=\"font-size: 1rem\">] (Canada, 2019;10m) <\/span><a style=\"font-size: 1rem\" href=\"https:\/\/www.netflix.com\/watch\/80223962?trackId=13752289&amp;tctx=0%2C15%2C00e6134d-2bb6-414a-88e0-8b59fd4801f2-1016158%2C%2C\">Netflix<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/blackboard.bowdoin.edu\/webapps\/blackboard\/content\/listContentEditable.jsp?content_id=_742440_1&amp;course_id=_30260_1&amp;mode=reset\">BB<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#required-and-recommended-top\">Back to top<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><a id=\"required-and-recommended-feature-length\" name=\" required-and-recommended-feature-length\"><\/a> <strong>SOME RECOMMENDED FEATURE-LENGTH FILM (NOT REQUIRED, BUT IF YOU CAN SEE ONE OR MORE DURING THE SEMESTER, GREAT!):<\/strong><br \/>\nFritz Lang, <em>Metropolis<\/em> (Germany, 1927; 3h 30m)<br \/>\nIshiro Honda, <em>Godzilla <\/em>(Japan, 1954; 96m)<br \/>\nMario Bava,<em> Planet of the Vampires<\/em> (Italy, 1965; 88m)<br \/>\nElio Petri, <em>The 10th Victim<\/em> (Italy, 1965; 1h 33m)<br \/>\nAndrei Tarkovsky, <em>Solaris <\/em>(Russia, 1972; 2h 70m)<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=yOGHMmKpASk&amp;feature=relmfu\"><br \/>\n<\/a>Ren\u00e9 Laloux, <em>The Fantastic Plane<\/em>t (France, 1973; 71m)<br \/>\nR.W. Fassbinder, <em>World on a Wire <\/em>(Germany, 1973; 3h)<br \/>\nNicolas Roeg, <em>The Man Who Fell to Earth <\/em>(UK, 1976; 2h)<br \/>\nAndrei Tarkovsky, <em>Stalker <\/em>(Russia, 1979; 2h 30m)<br \/>\nPiotr Kamler, <em>Chronopolis<\/em> (Poland, 1982; 65m) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=b6LcCp6nJZs\"><br \/>\n<\/a>Terry Gilliam, <em>Brazil <\/em>(UK, 1985; 2h)<br \/>\nGeoff Murphy, <em>The Quiet Earth <\/em>(New Zealand, 1985; 91m)<br \/>\nEliseo Subiela, <em>Man Facing Southeast<\/em> (Argentina, 1986; 1h 45m)<br \/>\nVincent Ward, <em>The Navigator<\/em> (Australia-New Zealand, 1988; 93m)<br \/>\nMamoru Oshii, <em>Ghost in the Shell <\/em>(Japan, 1995; 82m)<br \/>\nLuc Besson, <em>The Fifth Element <\/em>(France, 1997; 2h)<br \/>\nGabriele Salvatores, <em>Nirvana <\/em>(Italy, 1997; 1h 51m)<br \/>\nMoon-saeng Kim, <em>Wonderful Days \/ Sky Blue <\/em>(Korea, 2003; 1h 26m)<br \/>\nSatoshi Kon, <em>Paprika<\/em> (Japan, 2006; 1h 30min)<br \/>\nKonstantin Lopushansky, <em>Ugly Swans<\/em> (Russia, 2006; 1h 49m)<br \/>\nNacho Vigalondo, <em>Timecrimes <\/em>(Spain, 2007; 1h 28m)<br \/>\nAlex Rivera, <em>Sleep Dealer <\/em>(Mexico, 2008; 1h 30m)<br \/>\nTarik Saleg, <em>Metropia <\/em>(Sweden, 2009; 1h 26m)<br \/>\nJohn Cabrera and Cosimo De Tommaso, <em>H+: The Digital Series<\/em>\u00a0(world, 2012; 4h)<br \/>\nAri Folman,\u00a0<em>The Congress\u00a0<\/em>(Israel, 2013; 2h)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#required-and-recommended-top\">Back to top<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a id=\"required-and-recommended-short-films\" name=\"required-and-recommended-short-films\"><\/a> <strong>SOME RECOMMENDED SHORT FILMS (NOT REQUIRED):<br \/>\n<\/strong>Carl E. Rinsch,\u00a0<em>The Gift\u00a0<\/em>(UK, 2010) <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/33025640\">Vimeo<\/a><br \/>\nZaramella,\u00a0<em>Viaje a Marte\u00a0<\/em>(Voyage to Mars) (Argentina, 2012?) <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/52433800\">Vimeo<\/a> (click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zaramella.com.ar\/shorts\">here<\/a> to visit Zaramella\u2019s website.<br \/>\nFactory Fifteen,\u00a0<em>Gamma <\/em>(Ukraine and Kazakhstan, 2012) <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/36753544\">Vimeo<\/a><br \/>\nJosh Tanner, <em>The Landing <\/em>(USA, 2013) <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/113841869\">Vimeo<\/a><br \/>\nSupamonks Studio,\u00a0<em>Voyager<\/em> (France, 2015)<br \/>\nThe Brother Lynch, <em>The Trial <\/em>(UK, 2016) <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/150586243\">Vimeo<\/a><br \/>\nGiacomo Cimini,\u00a0<em>The Nostalgist <\/em>(UK, 2016) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?time_continue=61&amp;v=ZzCQtoQ8ypk&amp;feature=emb_logo\">Youtube<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/181706731\"><br \/>\n<\/a>Oats Studios,\u00a0<em>God: Serengeti <\/em>(USA, 2017) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Q1_HfhtB5eo\">Youtube<\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 1rem\">Brett Foxwell, <\/span><em style=\"font-size: 1rem\">Fabricated\u00a0<\/em><span style=\"font-size: 1rem\">(USA, 2017; 20m) <\/span><a style=\"font-size: 1rem\" href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/285023446\">Vimeo<\/a><br \/>\nThe Brother Lynch, <em>Dust <\/em>(UK, 2019)<br \/>\nNative SF films and trailers, <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/space-anthropology\/native-sci-fi-films-and-film-trailers-ce6d3c4d8309\">here<\/a><br \/>\nOptimistic SF short films,\u00a0<em>Better Worlds<\/em>. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2018\/12\/5\/18055980\/better-worlds-science-fiction-short-stories-video\">here<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2018\/12\/5\/18055980\/better-worlds-science-fiction-short-stories-video\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#required-and-recommended-top\">Back to top<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a id=\"required-and-recommended-tv-series\" name=\"required-and-recommended-tv-series\"><\/a> <strong>SOME RECOMMENDED TV SERIES (NOT REQUIRED):<\/strong><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><em>The Twilight Zone <\/em>(USA,1959-64)<em><br \/>\nDoctor Who <\/em>(UK, 1963-)<br \/>\n<em>The Stranger <\/em>(Australia, 1964-65)<em><br \/>\nThe Outer Limits <\/em>(USA, 1963-65)<em><br \/>\nStar Trek: Original Series <\/em>(USA, 1966-69)<br \/>\n<em>The Prisoner<\/em> (England, 1967-68)<br \/>\n<em>A come Andromeda<\/em> (Italy, 1971)<br \/>\n<em>Quatermass<\/em> (England, 1979)<br \/>\n<em>Star Trek: The Next Generation<\/em> (USA, 1987-1994)<br \/>\n<em>Star Trek: Voyager<\/em> (USA, 1995-2001)<br \/>\n<em>Star Trek: Enterprise<\/em> (USA, 2001-2005)<br \/>\n<em>Firefly<\/em> (USA, 2002)<br \/>\n<em>Battlestar Galattica<\/em> (USA, 2004-2009)<br \/>\n<em>Steven Hawking&#8217;s Sci-Fi Masters<\/em> (USA, 2007)<br \/>\n<em>Black Mirror<\/em> (England, 2011-)<br \/>\n<em>H+ <\/em>(all over the place, 2012) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ZedLgAF9aEg&amp;list=PLE6A2F3ACDDA10C28\">Youtube<\/a><br \/>\n<em>Real Humans<\/em> (Sweden, 2012-)<br \/>\n<em>Continuum<\/em> (Canada, 2012-15)<br \/>\n<em>Orphan Black<\/em> (USA 2013-)<br \/>\n<em>Sense8<\/em> (USA, 2015-)<br \/>\n<em>The Expanse<\/em> (USA, 2015-)<br \/>\n<em>Colony<\/em> (USA, 2015-)<br \/>\n<em>Westworld <\/em>(USA, 2016-)<em><br \/>\n<\/em><em>Dark <\/em>(Germany, 2017-)<br \/>\n<em>Star Trek: Discovery<\/em> (USA, 2017-)<br \/>\n<em>Legion\u00a0<\/em>(USA, 2017-2019)<br \/>\n<em>Star Trek: Picard<\/em> (USA, 2020-)<br \/>\n<em style=\"font-size: revert\">Foundation\u00a0<\/em><span style=\"font-size: revert\">(USA, 2021-)<br \/>\n<\/span><em style=\"font-size: revert\">Station 11<\/em><span style=\"font-size: revert\"> (USA, 2021-)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#required-and-recommended-top\">Back to top<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\"><b>Questions, suggestions, and recommendations:<br \/>\n<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">These are welcome and may be sent to Arielle Saiber: <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">asaiber@bowdoin.edu<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><strong>Copyright Information:<\/strong><br \/>\nThe information on this website is licensed under <a href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc\/4.0\/\">Creative Commons 4.0<\/a>.<br \/>\nThe images are \u00a9 <a href=\"http:\/\/francobrambilla.com\/home.html\">Franco Brambilla<\/a>.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i.creativecommons.org\/l\/by-nc\/3.0\/88x31.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"88\" height=\"31\" \/><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Table of Contents: Helpful information Short film and TV episodes Recommended feature-length films Recommended short films Recommended TV series HELPFUL INFORMATION: \u2022 a brief list of basic film criticism terminology here \u2022 a bit more in-depth one here \u2022 an even more in-depth one here Back to top \u00a0SHORT FILM AND TV EPISODES (ORGANIZED CHRONOLOGICALLY): [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":134,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-70","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/italian-2500\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/70","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/italian-2500\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/italian-2500\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/italian-2500\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/134"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/italian-2500\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/italian-2500\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/70\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/italian-2500\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}