LANDSCAPES OF RESISTANCE - A WORKSHOP WITH JORDAN CRONK

Event details Date: Friday, October 23, 2026 Time: 10:30 AM to 1:30 PM Location: School of Cinematic Arts - SCA (SCA) - 255 - 900 West 34th Street, Los Angeles, CA 90089 Cost: FREE RSVP Type: Lecture / Talk / Workshop Campus: Capital Campus Department: Center for Ethnographic Media Arts, School of Cinematic Arts Audience: Students, Alumni, Faculty/Staff About this event In this workshop, film critic and programmer Jordan Cronk will discuss his approach to criticism and curation, and how the two practices inform one another. Participants will be given texts by various journalists and programmers about the works in the accompanying shorts program and will be asked to share a written reflection on a film of their choice. A conversation will then take place about the program’s themes of portraiture, landscape, and historical memory, followed by considerations of the participant’s texts and a larger discussion about how the people working in each of these fields approach artists’ cinema and its place in the current festival ecosystem. FREE ADMISSION. OPEN TO ALL USC STUDENTS, FACULTY, STAFF, ALUMNI, AND THE GENERAL PUBLIC. RSVP to CEMA@usc.edu This event is co-sponsored by USC Center for Ethnographic Media Arts and USC School for Cinematic Arts Official event details: https://calendar.usc.edu/event/landscapes-of-resistance-a-workshop-with-jordan-cronk