Film: The Social Network + Basic Computer Terms

Sat Feb 1 , 7 – 9:30 pm

Hosted by Yale Film Archive
Details THE SOCIAL NETWORK (David Fincher, 2010, 35mm, 120 mins)
BASIC COMPUTER TERMS (Sheldon Renan, 1976, DCP, 15 mins)
For its 15th anniversary, we look back at this three-time Oscar-winner about the origins of Facebook, starring Jesse Eisenberg as Mark Zuckerberg. A rich, understated character drama that gleefully exposes the petty playground politics at the centre of one of the internet-era’s most bitter court cases” (Damon Wise). Preceded by an early educational short about computers in everyday life. Print and DCP from the Yale Film Archive. Co-presented with the Software Preservation and Emulation unit at Yale Library with support from the Alfred P. Sloan and Andrew W. Mellon Foundations.

Screened in conjunction with the Hanke Gallery exhibit Remembering Amnesia: Rebooting the First Computerized Novel”, on view in Yale’s Sterling Memorial Library through March 2.

The Cinemix” series features stand-alone screenings of standout films, presented by the Yale Film Archive and our colleagues from across campus and beyond.
Admission FREE
Location 53 Wall Street Auditorium
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