Film School Associate Chair Paula Amanda’s ambition to build a professional film “hub” inside the Garson Studios has become reality. As of November, employees of Midthunder Casting, Cosmic Forces, 12FPS, and Film 4 Change have found their new offices packed with zealous film students and their supply of limited resources suddenly replenished by the equipment, expertise and passion of the Film School staff and their Film Biz Hub neighbors.

Shannon Elliott, head of SFUAD’s dance department, takes a deep breath, double checks her computer screen for details and lists off yet another event that the dance majors will be participating in this semester. Her plans to keep the dancers busy and give them performance opportunities has already taken off.

The renowned styles of Godfrey Reggio (Koyaanisqatsi) return in his latest cinemagraphic ride, Visitors, one of three films showing this week at The Screen.

In the first of a series of interviews with student bands at the Santa Fe University of Art and Design, Jackalope Magazine talked with the musicians from Venus and the Lion.

If you’ve walked around campus in the past week, you may have seen a string of gold-lettered graffiti tags reading “SOLID GOLD CLIT” on various buildings and structures. A movement started by artist Sophia Wallace, the “SGC” tags themselves(the most “controversial” of which were on the Shepard Fairey mural on the quad) were spread around campus by an unknown person(s). On  Jan. 19, a community fine of $250 was imposed on every resident living on campus. Both the tagging and the fine soon sparked strong responses on the Student Life Facebook page. Initially, the SFUAD student life Facebook page lit up with frustrated students voicing their concern with the fine. Eventually, the comments turned bitter over the entire situation, with some students calling out their peers and staff members with rather heavy and hateful language. “People were running around campus trying to figure out who it was and people got really nasty on the Facebook page in terms of body-shaming (people saying clits,[which are] something as natural as an elbow, are dirty and inappropriate),” said Katie Collins via email. Collins, a sophomore film student, participated in Wallace’s discussion when the artist visited last semester. Once Wallace became aware of the situation, she posted a statement in support of the students to her Tumblr and Facebook page. In an email interview, Wallace told Jackalope that “There is a wonderful opportunity for SFUAD as an institution to be at the forefront…Whoever did the tagging put something into the public discourse that the entire society is telling them from a young age should never, ever be spoken of”…“Imagine if the ways your genitals are spoken of, and frequently are, almost exclusively to humiliate and shame. What is happening right now at SFUAD is powerful. I am excited to...

Awkward Shelby returns for Spring, 2014. This weekly comic is created by SFUAD studio art major Shelby Criswel. For more of Criswell’s work, check out the Awkward Shelby Comic series and her Tumblr....

The Screen Presents: Jan. 22 – 28 The Best Offer Starring Goeffrey Rush, Jim Sturgess and Donald Sutherland High-end antique dealer Virgil Oldman (Geoffrey Rush) receives a call from a mysterious heiress (Sylvia Hoeks) who, despite her need for reclusion, invites Oldman to evaluate art in her home. Virgil soon finds himself enveloped by a passion that will transform his grey existence forever. Directed by Giuseppe Tornatore (Cinema Paradiso) and featuring a score by legendary Italian composer Ennio Morricone, Black Howard of That Movie Show calls it a “cinematic palimpsest in the vein of Hitchcock’s Vertigo.” Opens this Friday. Let the Fire Burn Winner of Special Jury Award of the 2013 Tribeca Film Festival On May 13 1985, a controversy between the urban radical group MOVE and the city of Philadelphia ended in a deadly fire. In this documentary, constructed entirely from found footage, the truth of the military-grade explosive that resulted in the death of 11 people is revealed. David Edelstein of New York Magazine calls Let the Fire Burn a time machine demonstrating how “footage already shot can make history in all its terrible finality breathe.” Opens this Friday.      Remember that Robert Redford movie, All Is Lost? You have yet another week to watch it! Visit thescreensf.com or movie times 505.473.6494 1600 St. Michael’s Drive Santa Fe, NM 87505 thescreensf.com https://www.facebook.com/thescreenhttps://twitter.com/thescreensf...