He recently delivered the keynote address at the National Storytelling Conference, celebrating the role of storytelling in the 21st century, and was subsequently honored to reprise the presentation at The Cradle of Creativity conference in Cape Town, South Africa, as an American delegate to the international congress of ASSITEJ.
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An acclaimed professional storyteller (ORACLE AWARD, National Storytelling Network), he works with full faith that planting stories in the world is a bit like the work Johnny Appleseed once did. Rives Collins was honored with a Charles Deering McCormick Professorship of Teaching Excellence at Northwestern University, where he has taught in the Department of Theatre for the past thirty five years. Collins, Professor of Theatre at Northwestern University.Īn initiative of the COOLIDGE CORNER THEATRE, with major support from the ALFRED P. Stunningly restored by the Munich Film Archive, OUR HEAVENLY BODIES remains an unforgettable feast for the eyes and the mind alike, almost 100 years after its production.įor this screening, Block Cinema will welcome sound artists Stephan Moore (RTVF) and Scott Smallwood to perform a live original score to the complete film English narration of the film’s intertitles will be performed by Rives B. Created as a “kulturfilm”-a didactic form of cinema that emerged in Weimar-era Germany to promote public education and uplift-OUR HEAVENLY BODIES makes dramatic use of animation, multiple exposures, miniatures, and other special effects more commonly seen in the Expressionist films of Kornblum’s contemporaries like F.W. Director Hanns Walter Kornbum’s silent 1925 masterpiece takes viewers on an interstellar tour from the distant corners of the earth to the far reaches of the known universe, offering as comprehensive and accurate representation of astronomical knowledge as cinema could produce.
(Hanns Walter Kornblumm, 1925, 91 minutes, DCP, silent with live score)Īt once an astounding feat of visual imagination and a rigorous explication of celestial mechanics, OUR HEAVENLY BODIES represents an early and lasting pinnacle in the use of cinema as an educational medium. With live accompaniment by Stephan Moore, Scott Smallwood, and Rives Collins
She is the winner of the Divinity School's 2021 Race and Religion Essay Contest.WUNDER DER SCHÖPFUNG (OUR HEAVENLY BODIES) We will consider how Catholicism becomes racialized, interpreted and presented for public consumption in ways that conceal the Church’s legacies of colonialism and imperialism in the West.Īlexia Williams is Assistant Professor of Religion and African American Studies, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. This lecture will explore the exhibit’s sacred objects alongside the fashions worn by celebrities at the Met ball to understand the exchanges of secular and religious authority mediated by the Met’s collaboration with the Vatican. However, in celebrating the material and visual religion that inform the Catholic imagination-that is, the distinctly Catholic sensibility for interpreting the world through enchanted objects-the fashions on display exposed the hold that Roman Catholicism maintains on the secular imagination. The exhibit explored the religious imagination inherited by fashion designers who were raised in the Roman Catholic tradition. Monday, April 25, 4pm | Swift Common Room (1st floor)Īttracting 1.7 million visitors and spanning 60,000 square feet of exhibition space, Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination remains the most popular installation in the history of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Please join us for a public lecture by Alexia Williams: “The Archbishop Wears Prada: Heavenly Bodies & the U.S. Martin Marty Center Dropdown for Martin Marty Center.Our Community Dropdown for Our Community.Research & Faculty Dropdown for Research & Faculty.Undergraduate Program in Religious Studies.
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