Kelly Reichardt

Humanitas Visiting Professorship in Film And Television (2013-2014)

The Humanitas Visiting Professorship in Film and Television is a unique initiative at the University of Oxford at the forefront of the serious study of contemporary film.

The Visiting Professorship in Film and Television has been made possible by the generous support of the Woodward Charitable Trust and is hosted by St Anne’s College, Oxford.

Kelly Reichardt is an American filmmaker and director of Night Moves (2013), Meek’s Cutoff (2010) and Wendy and Lucy (2008).

Kelly Reichardt’s Humanitas Visiting Professorship explored the creative and aesthetic opportunities and limitations of contemporary independent filmmaking.

Her series began with two large public screenings of her award-winning films Meek’s Cutoff (2010) and Wendy and Lucy (2008). Reichardt then sat In Conversation with Andrew Klevan (University of Oxford). Using clips from her films as starting points, they discussed the films and filmmakers who have influenced Reichardt and the themes she returns to in her own films.

Her Humanitas series concluded the following day with a public masterclass on The Cinema of Kelly Reichardt in which she engaged in an extended discussion with the audience about how she plays with and avoids certain genres, about how her films approach issues of gender, and about the difficulties and surprises that making an independent film bring with it.