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Media and the Moving Image

The Media and the Moving Image Initiative
aims to coordinate and enhance the University of Houston’s rich creative and critical programs in visual, literary, and media arts.

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With resources ranging from production and research at the Jack J. Valenti School of Communications; a graduate certificate in Cinema Studies from World and Classical Languages; Art, Music, Theatre and Dance in the Kathrine G. McGovern College of the Arts; digital media in the College of Technology; the Program in Creative Writing and numerous faculty throughout the humanities and social sciences, UH helps train new generations of the creative class whose vision and skills will shape the local and global culture.

In the news

2022 MMI Award Ceremony

View all of the winners from the 2022 MMI Award Ceremony.

Third-Annual Showcase Highlights Importance of Houston Film Industry and the Talent on UH’s Campus

The Media and the Moving Image initiative hosted its third-annual showcase this semester, spotlighting nearly 30 student projects and awarding five University of Houston faculty members. 

Current Events

PAST EVENTS

  • April 1 11:30 a.m.
    Fork in the Road

    A Fork in the Road: Cosmopolitanism, Cookbooks, and Vietnamese Street Food

    Date: April 1st, 2022Time: 11:30 - 1:30 p.m. CST
    Location: South Space City, Student Center South

    This luncheon talk will be led by guest speaker Dr. Tim August (Stony Brook University) who will speak about Vietnamese street food! We will also serve Banh Mi and egg rolls! This event is supported and sponsored by UH MMI, MCL and Institute for Global Engagement.
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  • March 24 5:30 p.m.
    Green Knight

    Film Screening and Panel Discussion of The Green Knight

    Screening: March 24th, 2022 Time: 5:30 - 8:30 p.m. CST
    Location: Agnes Arnold Aud 1

    Discussion: March 25th, 2022 Time: 12:00 - 1:30 p.m. CST
    Location: Roy G. Cullen 202C

    The panel discussion will include lunch with Carly Boxer (Rice U), Esther Liberman Cuenca (UH Victoria), and Lorraine Stock (UH Main).
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  • March 4 2 p.m.
    Colonial Taiwan

    Early Cinema in Colonial Taiwan

    Date: Friday, March 4th, 2022 Time: 2-4 p.m. CST
    Location: Multipurpose Room, the Quad

    Conversation with Dr. Laura Wen, catering food, and games! - Sponsored by UH MMI, MCL and Institute for Global Engagement, this event will feature a talk by guest speaker Laura Wen, Ph.D., food and games!
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  • Jan 29 4 p.m.
    Farthest Out to Sea

    Farthest Out to Sea

    Date: Saturday, January 29, 2022 At a cèilidh for the closing reception for Farthest Out to Sea: Homer and Ireland, a two-day symposium sponsored by Classics and Irish Studies, members of Beyond the Pale perform their distinctive blend of Celtic and Americana music.

  • Nov 5
    Ecopoetics of the Gulf class

    Ecopoetics of the Gulf Class

    Date: Friday, November 5th, 2021

    Documentarian Elizabeth Coffman captures footage of students in Martha Serpas's Ecopoetics of the Gulf class, during a Galveston birding tour led by Audobon Society naturalist Alice Anne O’Donell

Affiliate Faculty

More than two dozen faculty from a variety of UH colleges and programs work and teach in fields related to media and the moving image. Our faculty include filmmakers and photographers, animators and performers, screenwriters and journalists, and film critics, scholars, and journalists.

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