The IU Cinema has announced several guest speakers for this spring, including five filmmakers who will appear as part of the Jorgensen Guest Filmmaker Lecture Series.
According to an IU Cinema press release, spring 2016 marks the fifth anniversary of both the IU Cinema and the Jorgensen series.
The first of this year’s Jorgensen Guest Filmmakers is writer-director Jeremy Kagan, who recently finished filming “Shot,” his eleventh feature film.
Kagan’s lecture will be 3 p.m. Feb. 11 and will be followed later that day by two of his films, “The Chosen” from 1981 and “The Journey of Natty Gann” from 1985.
Robby Benson, star of “The Chosen,” will also appear as part of the series at 3 p.m. Feb. 12. Benson, a professor of practice in the Department of Telecommunications, wrote and starred in the 1977 film “One on One,” which will screen at 7 p.m. that day.
Other filmmakers in the series include anthropologist and documentary filmmaker Lucien Castaing-Taylor, who directed the 2012 film “Leviathan” and will visit campus Feb. 16; experimental artist and filmmaker Joseph Bernard will visit March 11.
Actress-director Kris Swanberg will visit March 25.
In the release, the cinema also announced guest appearances from writer David Ebershoff, who wrote the 2000 novel “The Danish Girl,” Gail Mutrux, who produced the novel’s 2015 film adaptation, and former Olympic diver Greg Louganis.
Details of the events can be found at cinema.indiana.edu.
Jack Evans
