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Global Islam: A Weekend of Film and Video
May 29, 2015 | Communications 150, Studio C
FreeFriday, May 29th
4:00-5:30pm
Videos by Mounir Fatmi: Mixology (2010), Technologia (2010), and Rain Making (2004)
Discussion with:
Tarek El Haik, Assistant Professor, Cinema, San Francisco State University
Peter Limbrick, Associate Professor, Film and Digital Media, UC Santa Cruz.
7:00-9:00pm
Feature film: Dernier Maquis/Aden, dir. Rabah Ameur-Zaïmeche (France, 2008)
Discussion with:
Mayanthi Fernando, Associate Professor, Anthropology, UC Santa Cruz
Peter Limbrick, Associate Professor, Film and Digital Media, UC Santa Cruz.
Saturday, May 30th
10:00am-12:30pm
Film screening: New Muslim Cool, dir. Jennifer Maytorena-Taylor (USA, 2009)
Screening and discussion with director Jennifer Maytorena-Taylor, Assistant Professor, Social Documentation, UC Santa Cruz
1:30-3:30pm
Videos by Monira Al-Qadiri featuring Abu Athiyya (Father of Pain) (2013), Behind the Sun (2013), Prism (2007-ongoing).
Discussion with Monira Al-Qadiri
4:00-6:00pm
Film screening: Descending with Angels, dir. Christian Suhr (Denmark, 2013)
Discussion with Christian Suhr and Mayanthi Fernando
Co-Sponsored by the Department of Film and Digital Media, the Office of Student Affairs, College 8, and Colleges 9 & 10, and the Institute for Humanities Research