Film Studies Phase 1

Project Manager: Alan Rubacha
Architect: Jeter, Cook & Jepson / Contractor:  FIP Construction
Project Description: New Construction, Classrooms, Computer Labs, Screening Space
Construction Completion:  May 17, 2004
Current Status: Operational

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Film Phase I and Phase II shown in this rendering

Project Goals:

  • Provide flexible, state-of-the-art teaching spaces for film theory and history as well as for 16mm film, digital video, and virtual film production.
  • Preserve and protect the growing collections of the Cinema Archives.
  • Provide appropriate space to allow scholarly research of the collections. 
  • Acknowledge boundaries of the established site - be a good neighbor and create a strong icon for the University.
  • Reinforce the spirit of the campus architecture at Wesleyan.
  • Meet the challenge of the future as other universities join the field.

Update as of April 27, 2005:

The new Center for Film Studies building has been open for several months and all is well.  Fine tuning of the screening space equipment continues.  We are excited to announce that there is contemplation of phase II!