FastForward: FilmVideo Alumni Panel
Tuesday, Jan 28, 2014
7:00 – 8:30p in the Conference and Lounge Rooms, 2nd Floor in the Kennedy Building
Please join us in advance of the panel for a food and drink reception at 6:30pm. The panel will begin at 7pm. Panelists will briefly present their career trajectories, detailing both industry experiences and artistic practices, and speak to current trends in film, video and expanded media before opening up the floor to audience questions.
Featured speakers include: Ian Bearce, Head of Content at The Mill, an award-winning special effects house; Eileen Cohen, Editor at Vice Media, Inc. and member of the underground artist collective The Space; and Rian Orso-Brown, Artist, Associate Professor of Cinema Studies and New Media at Oberlin College and Director of the Apollo Outreach Initiative media literacy program. The panel is co-presented by the Film/Video Department and Career Services to create cross-dialogue between current students, alumni and the larger New England media art community.
PANELISTS BIOS:
Ian Bearce is the Head of Content for Mill+ in New York City where as a production executive he is responsible for growing The Mill’s digital content development capabilities across a wide range of media platforms. Prior to joining The Mill in 2010, Bearce spent a year as Executive Producer at Minneapolis-based RUNNER RUNNER, Fischer Edit/VFX and Modern-Music where he managed projects from creative inception all the way through production and final media delivery. During his 6 years (2003-2009) as Head of Production at Partizan Los Angeles, Bearce worked with an A-list roster of directing talent including Traktor, Michel Gondry and Antoine Bardou-Jacquet and Oliver Gondry. Bearce oversaw production at Partizan for a wide array of global brands including Axe, Nissan and Nike in tandem with agency clients such as BBDO, BBH, Crispin Porter + Bogusky, Goodby Silverstein + Partners, Wieden + Kennedy, Mother and TBWA Chiat Day.
Eileen Cohen graduated from MassArt in 2004 with a BFA in film and video. After teaching editing for 3 years, and working as a freelance editor both in NYC and LA, she now works as an Editor at VICE Media in Brooklyn At VICE she edits both for VICE on HBO and VICE News creating content for their short form online documentaries. Alongside of developing her editing career, Cohen has been a member of the NYC non-profit artist collective group called The Space since 2004. Working at The Space as both an artist and a facilitator whose goal is to increase the usage of underutilized real estate properties in the name of art, Cohen continues to create her own videos and paintings.
Rian Brown is a filmmaker, video artist and Associate Professor of Cinema Studies and New Media at Oberlin College. She grew up in a family of artists and as a child lived in many different parts of the U.S., studied art at the Massachusetts College of Art and received her Masters of Fine Arts in film from the University of California, San Diego. Brown’s work spans a variety of film genres–including experimental, personal narrative, documentary and video installation–and explores notions of motherhood, identity, landscape, memory, and nostalgia
in both narrative structure and visual style.
Her work has shown around the world at film festivals and museums including the The Wexner Art Center, L.A. Hammer Museum of Art, the Harvard Film Archive, Museum of Contemporary Art in Cleveland, The Allen Art Museum and the Milano-Athenia in Athens. Brown was an artist in resident at the Headlands Center of the Arts, and in 2011 she was awarded an Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award. With her frequent artistic collaborator, Geoff Pingree, she also founded and directs the Apollo Outreach Initiative, a media education and community outreach program housed in Oberlin’s historic Apollo Theater. She is currently co-directing a documentary film with Pingree about the Nobel Prize winning author, Toni Morrison called The Foreigner’s Home which will be completed in 2014. She lives in Oberlin, Ohio with her husband and two sons.
