Cinema

A grid of four black-and-white photographs showing a man in a suit and tie seated at a desk with a clipboard, pen, cigarettes, and a glass of water. He is captured in different conversational poses: looking left while speaking, gesturing with his hand, listening thoughtfully with a finger to his lip, and smiling while holding his pen.

The Mike Wallace Interview

This AVAnnotate project, created by Trent Wintermeier, presents several annotated interviews of famous figures, such as Frank Lloyd Wright and Salvador Dalí, from the Mike Wallace interview, held in the Harry Ransom Center collections. The project is designed as a teaching and learning tool to show how instructors can incorporate archival audiovisual material into coursework.

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Picture of Lester Hamlet doing a peace sign with his hands

Lester Hamlet in Depth

The project was created by Jack Riordan and focuses on the work of Lester Hamlet, the distinguished and influential Cuban filmmaker. Offering bilingual content (English and Spanish), the project explores Hamlet’s poetry, archival materials, and cultural contexts. It presents a richly annotated digital edition of Hamlet’s poems alongside historical documents and interactive commentary, allowing readers

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An evening street scene featuring the Yara cinema in Havana, Cuba. The theater has a prominent red corrugated facade with "YARA" in bright neon letters above a brightly lit entrance and marquee. A blurred car streaks across the dark foreground street. In the background looms a tall white high-rise building with "habana libre" on the roof, alongside another building adorned with a blue and white abstract mural.

Cuba en Pantalla

The project “Cuba en Pantalla” was created by Jack Riordan and draws on his experience taking the “Curso de Cine Cubano” at the Instituto Cubano del Arte e Industria Cinematográficos (ICAIC) in the fall of 2019. The project explores Cuban history, identity, and social imaginaries through a curated selection of films spanning from the 1960s

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A film still showing a man in a bright red spacesuit walking through a futuristic, brightly lit white octagonal corridor lined with dark rectangular panels, recognizable from the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey.

Auterism

This project by Jack DeVry Riordan explores the theory and topic of Auteurism and some of the filmmakers who best represent it, including filmmakers Stanley Kubrick, Wes Anderson, Tomás Gutiérrez Alea, Andrei Tarkovsky, Akira Kurosawa, and more.

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A yellow-tinted still from a silent film showing a young woman with short hair sitting on a wooden chair in a modest bedroom, holding a dark object, possibly a shoe, in her lap.

Lois Weber’s Shoes

This comparison project by Luke Sumpter annotates Lois Weber’s 1916 silent film Shoes. In one of the annotation sets, the first contributor traces the film’s narrative through its use of intertitles to establish a timeline, pathos, dialogue, and its overall exegesis. The second set of annotations traces the film’s editing techniques, which in 1916, were

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Several flowers of various types and sizes illustrated.

Digital Florilegium

This project is an interdisciplinary study by Luke Sumpter, an undergraduate student at UT Austin, of time in digital media. Sumpter annotates and discusses films by Denis Villeneuve, Derek Jarman, a radio play adaptation of The Glass Menagerie, and a recorded conversation between Carson McCullers and Tennessee Williams held at the Harry Ransom Center.

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