Welcome to VCUarts Cinema Program



		For information about the Cinema Program Film BA degree, please email cinema@vcu.edu or call 804.828.7919 or toll-free 1.866.534.3201 and ask for Program Director Rob Tregenza, PhD. 325 N. Harrison St., PO Box 842519 Richmond, VA 23284-2519 Prof. Pierre-William Glenn and Prof. Rob Tregenza during the La Femis and VCUarts Cinema 35mm co-productions in May 2008. This was part of the VCU French Film Festival. ROB TREGENZA, PhD, Professor Rob Tregenza has written, directed and photographed three award-winning independent feature films, films that have been screened at the Cannes Film Festival in the "Certain Regard" category and the Berlin Film Festival in the Panorama section. Over the years, his films have also appeared at the festivals of Toronto, Sundance, Rotterdam and Edinburgh. His work has been positively reviewed in The New York Times, The Chicago Tribune and The Los Angeles Times and by such prominent critics as Vincent Canby, Dave Kehr, Jonathan Rosenbaum and Roger Ebert. A retrospective of his feature films was shown at the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C. in 1999. But perhaps the highest recognition has been the attentions of one of the most important European Directors of the 20th Century, Jean-Luc Godard, who hand-selected Tregenza's Talking to Strangers to screen again at the 1996 Toronto International Film Festival. Godard describes passages in Tregenza's films as, "remarkable and at times astonishing, that is, softly imbued with the marvelous." He further explains that in Tregenza's cinematic world, "reality walks hand in hand with fiction." The essay, "Cinq Lettres a et et sur Rob Tregenza" (Five Letters to and about Rob Tregenza) appears in the book Jean-Luc Godard: Documents, published in 2006 by the modern and contemporary art institution of Paris, Le Centre Pompidou. Tregenza has also had an award-winning career as a television commercial director and cameraman for clients like IBM, DuPont, CSX, Blue Cross Blue Shield and numerous non-profits and has worked as a Director of Photography for other independent filmmakers such as Bela Tarr and Alex Cox. Rob has shot extensively in Africa, South America, Asia, Eastern Europe, Spain and the United Kingdom. He received his PhD from UCLA and is Founder and Director of the Tampa International Film Festival MARY BETH REED, MFA, Assistant Professor Mary Beth Reed’s films have screened in major national and international festivals including the Rotterdam International Film Festival, the Denver International Film Festival, MadCat Women’s Film Festival, and the San Francisco International Film Festival. Her films Moon Streams and Montessori Sword Fight both premiered at the New York Film Festival in Views from the Avant Garde . Recent shows include a Cineprobe at MoMA, a show with Colorado filmmaker Robert Schaller at the San Francisco Cinematheque, shows in Europe with filmmaker Courtney Hoskins, and shows in Japan during the Stan Brakhage Retrospective. Mary Beth studied independent and experimental cinema at the University of Colorado at Boulder where she received her B.F.A/B.A in film and art history. She received an M.F.A in film from Bard College in 2001. In 2007 Reed graduated from the California Institute of the Arts with another M. F. A. in animation. She has taught film production at the University of Colorado and for three years she worked closely with Stan Brakhage. Jodie Keeling of Austin Cinemaker Coop has said, “Reed’s Floating Under a Honey Tree stands as a testimony to filmmaking as an artistic process. Through close attention to detail in optical printing and hand processing, she creates films of exquisite color and imagery that dance across the screen with a mesmerizing rhythmical quality that is uniquely her own.” Reed continues to create narrative and experimental films combining hand-painting, animation, traveling mattes and hand processing. Her films are distributed by Canyon Cinema and Filmmaker’s Co-op and are in the permanent film collection at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
VCU Home Updated: 10/31/2006 Virginia Commonwealth University \| School of the Arts 325 North Harrison Street Richmond, VA 23284-2519 arts@vcu.edu (866) 534-3201 (toll free) (804) VCU-ARTS / (804) 828-2787