Our outstanding film and video program features excellent filmmaking instruction, and a fine visiting filmmaker series as well as occasional conferences on vital filmmakers and issues.

The John Sacret Young endowed lectureship brings major filmmakers to campus. Speakers include:
Robert Beavers
David Duchovny
Amy Heckerling
Peter Kubelka
Jonas Mekas
Francesco Rosi
Paul Schrader
Martin Scorsese
Christine Vachon
John Sacret Young

The Visual Arts Program has recently sponsored a number of film conferences on topics including Hollis Frampton, Chantal Akerman, and Magic and The Avant-Garde.

  The film courses in the Visual Arts Program are also part of the Film Studies Committee, which coordinates courses in cinema with various departments, programs and schools including Architecture, Art and Archaeology, Comparative Literature, English, French, Germanic Languages and Literatures, Italian, Religion, Romance Languages and Literatures, Slavic Languages and Literatures, Spanish, and Women’s Studies.
> Film studies Website

A cooperative arrangement with Anthology Film Archives in New York City provides free admission to film screenings for all Princeton students and staff. Faculty, undergraduates, and graduate students have curated programs at Anthology Film Archives related to their research, theses, and dissertations. Princeton students have also worked in the archives as summer interns.
In collaboration with the Program in Hellenic Studies, a group of Princeton faculty and students participated in the Temenos screenings in Greece in 2004.