A recent study carried out by the University of Southern California, in collaboration with private health company Humana Inc, has revealed what we all feared – that institutional ageism in films, marginalisation and offensive "old-and-useless" stereotyping may contribute to depression and poor health among older film audiences.
It is, in other words, the institutional form of film criticism.
The question that dominated early philosophical inquiry into film was whether the cinema a term that emphasizes the institutional structure within which films were produced, distributed, and viewed could be regarded as an artform.
("The Other Half" is available on DVD only for institutional purchase, from dGenerate Films, although the company does offer a reasonably priced online rental).
Yesterday, Catherine Shoard attended a forum on gender equality where a variety of names, from politics and film, discussed institutional sexism in Hollywood.
The Hunting Ground, directed by previous Oscar nominees Kirby Dick and Amy Ziering, will be screened in Britain from 19 October onwards as the pair take part in question and answer sessions on, what the film calls, "institutional cover-ups" and the brutal social toll on the victims and their families.
The app launched at the Venice Film Festival in conjunction with July's short film and includes institutional partners around the world, including LACMA, The New Museum, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, The Walker Art Center, Museo Jumex and others.
The sheer quantity of artistically ambitious work offered by the TriBeCa program is something that no other New York film festival or institutional series can begin to match.
About 12 hours after Cardinal George Pell began giving testimony to the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, a film called Spotlight, about journalists uncovering systemic child abuse within the Catholic Church, picked up the Best Picture at the Oscars.
Of note, institutional reconciliation commissions and HHR film series, two answer options in the questionnaire, were not selected by any survey respondent.
