Reframe and Refresh: Unlocking Conversations About the Mind Through Film
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Reframe and Refresh is a new series for the education and filmmaking community to have refreshing conversations that reframe our perspectives.
Join filmmakers Kimi Takasue, Victor Ilyukin, and Olga Lvoff as they discuss making films about the inner workings of the mind, how these stories have changed people's perspectives and how their documentaries can be used by educators and mental health professionals.
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ABOUT THE SPEAKERS
Kimi Takesue is a professor in the Department of Art, Culture, Media at Rutgers University and the director of Rosewater, a short film about a solitary man's struggle to cultivate beauty in a desolate, post-apocalyptic world. She is an award winning filmmaker who explores the complex dynamics of cross-cultural encounters. She is the recipient of Guggenheim and Rockefeller Fellowships, as well as the prestigious 2018 “Breakthrough Award” and fellowship from Chicken and Egg Pictures. Her films have been featured at over 250 film festivals and museums internationally including Sundance, New Directors/New Films, Locarno, Los Angeles, SXSW, Rotterdam, BAFICI-Buenos Aires, and the Museum of Modern Art-NYC. Her other works include 95 and 6 To Go, Looking for Adventure, and Where Are You Taking Me?
Victor Ilyukhin is a non-fiction producer who has worked internationally in documentary film and television. He produced a documentary, Busy Inside, that tells the true story of Karen and Marshay, two idiosyncratic women with Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID). The film premiered at The Moscow International Film Festival, won the audience award at Middlebury Film Festival in 2019, and was screened at Doc NYC and aired on PBS’s WORLD channel. Victor also worked on the producing team of Elephant Path (Rue des elephants) acquired by PBS’s WORLD channel and Al-Jazeera, Welcome to Chechnya which premiered at Sundance and Berlinale in 2020 and acquired for broadcast by HBO as well as Two and Twenty Troubles.
Olga Lvoff is an award-winning documentary filmmaker and a member of The European Film Academy. Her feature documentary, Busy Inside, has been featured in the New York Times, Psychology Today and CBS News. It was theatrically released in over 30 theaters in Russia. Olga’s previous full-length documentary film, “When People Die They Sing Songs,” was broadcast on NHK (Japan), theatrically released in Russia (Documentary Film Center in Moscow), participated in festivals around the world including Doc NYC (New York) and Message to Man (St. Petersburg). Olga’s editing work has been shown at Tribeca Film Festival and Lincoln Center. Olga leads film workshops in Columbia University and Hunter College in New York. Olga Lvoff received an MFA in Social Documentary from the School of Visual Arts in 2013.