Spring Film Screenings
Guest Speakers
DAVID MORTON, Ph.D.
Florida Film Historian at UCF
The Monuments Men, April 29, 6-8 p.m.
Image Credit: Hollywood East Film Interview Still
I am an author, educator, filmmaker, and historian based in Orlando, Florida. My research interests are in Silent Era Cinema, Holocaust Memory, and Digital Storytelling. I hold a Ph.D. in Texts and Technology at the University of Central Florida, where I teach introductory level history courses. I am a recipient of the 2016-17 Fulbright scholarship, where I conducted research on the activities of American distributors in Belgium during the interwar period as a visiting scholar at the Centre for Cinema and Media Studies (CIMS) at Ghent University.
I also serve as the head archivist and curator for the UCF Home Movie Archive and the online exhibit Roadside Memories: A Digital Tour of Florida Roadside Attractions, 1945-1975. As well as the co-organizer and the program director for the Flickering Landscapes Conference Series (with Bruce Janz, Phillip Peters, and Barry Mauer), an initiative that seeks to explore place, space, and identity by examining regional film cultures and histories.
Previous Guest Speakers
David Swoyer
Art Curator for the Brown Collection
Art & Craft, April 8, 6-8 p.m.
Image Credit: Daytona Beach News Journal
David Swoyer has worked as art historian, chief curator, senior curator, curator of art, assistant director, and design consultant for art museums and general museums. Working for museums in London, Paris, Vienna, Beijing and New Zealand, he gained valuable training in the mechanics of international art exhibition formation and object transfer. His expertise includes curatorial and registrar methods; museum and exhibition design including lighting; and coordination and design for books and graphics.
Over the last 5 decades, his professional abilities have contributed to projects ‑ including over 800 museum exhibitions ‑ at the Clinton Presidential Library; News Orleans Museum of Art including international exhibitions such as The Treasures of Tutankhamun; The Vatican Pavilion for the New Orleans World’s Fair; The Contemporary Art Center, New Orleans; The Museum of Holography, New York; The Auckland Institute, Auckland, New Zealand; The National Museum, Wellington, New Zealand; Museum of Arts and Sciences, Daytona Beach; Southeast Museum of Photography, Daytona Beach; Brevard Art Center and Museum, Melbourne; ArtReach International Traveling Exhibitions several significant private collections and for antique dealers Jafar Falasiri Oriental Rugs, Fletcher/Copenhaver Fine Art and as antique show organizer for International Fine Art Expositions.
He is a published author of several books and a published poet. As a frequent lecturer on fine art, archeology, historical gardens, and orchids, he has presented various topics in venues throughout the USA, Europe and New Zealand. With his experience with contemporary artists, he is often asked to be a judge competitive shows. In the past 30 years, his paintings and photographs have been included in numerous exhibitions and added to several public and private collections.
Justin Nolan
Photography Professor at UCF
Finding Vivian Maier, April 1, 6-8 p.m.
© Justin Nolan
Working in both still and motion, Justin Nolan investigates social spaces and the built landscape. Much of his recent work focuses on commercial interiors in an effort to illustrate how public spaces can provoke desire, nostalgia, and confusion. He received an MFA in Photography from the University of New Mexico in 2014.