In mid-January, Columbia Global Centers | Beijing hosted Professor Richard Peña, Professor of Professional Practice, Film at Columbia University, for his lecture series in Beijing.
On January 15, at the Today Art Museum, Professor Peña spoke on immersive filmmaking, followed by a screening of Leviathan, a best-known piece by Harvard's Sensory Ethnography Lab.
Professor Peña gave two more lectures to high school students on January 17. In Beijing Western Academy, Professor Peña offered an introduction on the history of short films. In the evening, Professor Peña talked about the origins of film at Keystone High School. He used examples from the fields of optics, mechanical engineering, art history, and psychology to explain the process through which the film was created in the 19th century, and the implications of that process for the development and future of the medium.
