Film Studies Phase II

Project Manager: Alan Rubacha
Architect: Jeter, Cook & Jepson / Contractor:  FIP Construction
Project Description: New Construction, Archive Space
Construction Start Date:  March, 2007
Current Status: In Construction

phase 1

Film Phase I and Phase II is shown in this rendering

Project Goals:

  • Provide flexible, state-of-the-art teaching spaces for film theory and history in a new projection classroom
  • Preserve and protect the growing collections of the Cinema Archives
  • Provide appropriate space to allow scholarly research of the collections, by providing a space with the proper environment to store and preserve the expanding film archives
  • 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

Project Update as of September 11, 2007:

  • Exterior masonry is complete
  • Interior framing is complete
  • Mechanical, electrical and plumbing rough-in is ongoing

Film Phase II Ground-Breaking: