Events for Wednesday, November 30, 2022
Open Face at Eastman Museum is open 10 a.m.–5 p.m.
Perspectives: Recent Gifts of Contemporary Art
The works presented in this exhibition showcase different ways that photographers see, depict, or manipulate the concept of space. All of the works are recent gifts to the George Eastman Museum collection, which the museum actively expands through donations and purchases.
One Hundred Years Ago: George Eastman in 1922
This annual display in the historic mansion provides a glimpse of George Eastman’s life and work one hundred years ago. The new selection of objects highlight the goings on in 1922—most notably the opening of the Eastman School of Music and the Eastman Theatre in downtown Rochester.
Machines of Memory: Cataloging and Digitizing the Cinematographic Equipment Collection
Members Only This virtual talk will highlight historically significant items from the museum's technology collection, such as the world’s first 35mm motion picture camera and projector system and the world’s first 35mm sound synchronized motion picture projector.
I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians
The Story of Film The title refers to a speech military dictator Ion Antonescu gave at the council of ministers in the summer of 1941. In the film, a young director (Ioana Iacob) is asked to stage a public performance relating to Romanian history. When she chooses to re-enact the massacre of thousands of Jews at the hands of the Romanian military, she encounters resistance from the current government.