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Under Construction: Film & TV Research Seminar Series Under Construction is an ongoing series of public research seminars in the field of Film and Television Studies, that highlights ongoing research and work in progress. Direct enquiries to Adrian Martin. Selected recordings of previous seminars are available for download. Extra screenings: Semester 2 2009 Under Construction is held every second Thursday throughout the semester S704, Menzies Building, Clayton Campus, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia 4-6pm 13 August 2009 PINK (Greece, Alexander Voulgaris, 2006) From the home of civilization and philosophy comes the ultimate ‘BAD CINEMA’ teen trash movie! Do not skip out before the ending. 27 August 2009 SHIRIN (Iran, Abbas Kiarostami, 2008) Melbourne premiere of a film scandalously omitted from MIFF! This is the latest masterpiece by the great Iranian director – a film like no other, about the act of watching films. 10 September 2009 THE BURNT THEATRE (Cambodia/France, Rithy Panh, 2005) IMDb has only two words to describe this film: ‘documentary’ and ‘war’! Panh is among the key political filmmakers of our time. 24 September 2009 AFTERNOON (Germany, Angela Schanelec, 2007) Angela Schanelec (born 1962) is a part of what has been dubbed the "Berlin School" of the "New German Wave" of the past decade. Alongside filmmakers including Valeska Grisebach and Christian Petzold, Schanelec's films "consistently focus on middle class people drifting through their lives, unable to make decisions that could free them from their constant state of melancholy" (Ekkehard Knörer). A modern adaptation of Chekhov's THE SEA GULL, AFTERNOON is "concerned with both qualities of light and with passages, moments of transition and liminality" (Michael Sicinski). All films are selected and introduced by PhD student, programmer and blogger André Dias, visitor to Monash from Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal ALL SCREENINGS IN S704, MENZIES BUILDING, CLAYTON THURSDAYS 4-6PM Inquiries: Adrian.martin@arts.monash.edu.au