New Haven/Madison

Recent Films Screened in New Haven/Madison:

The Art of the Steal

North Face

The Last Station

Co-Moderator John MacKay

John MacKay studied at the University of British Columbia, the Pushkin Institute in Moscow, and Yale University. He is now an assistant professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Yale, specializing in Russian film, 19th and 20th century Russian literature, and the theory of film and literature. He has translated essays on film by Theodor W. Adorno, Walter Benjamin, Rudolf Arnheim, Siegfried Kracauer, and Imre Kertesz, and is currently working on a project about Dziga Vertov and the documentary tradition.

Co-Moderator Michael Kerbel

Michael Kerbel received his graduate degree in film from the Columbia University School of the Arts. He is Director of the Yale Film Study Center — which houses the University's extensive film and video collection — and is Lecturer in Yale's Film Studies and American Studies Programs. His courses at Yale include U.S. Cinema from 1960 to the Mid-1970s and The Films of Woody Allen, Spike Lee and Martin Scorsese. His publications include two books on film actors and articles on film and television for The Village Voice, Cineaste, Film Comment and others.