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Communications 150, Studio C

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  • A group of six LP (little people) performers regard their paper body cut outs on the wall.

    Film Screening with Julie Wyman – The Tallest Dwarf

    Communications 150, Studio C

    The Tallest Dwarf charts Julie Wyman’s quest to find her place within the little people (LP) community at a moment when dwarf identity is poised to radically change. Wyman’s work engages issues of embodiment, body image, and the possibilities and problematics of media spectatorship—all informed by her experience of living with hypochondroplasia dwarfism. Julie Wyman […]

  • Traveling Film Southasia – Film Screening Festival Launch

    Communications 150, Studio C

    Join the Center for South Asian Studies (CSAS) for a celebratory film screening event to launch Travelling Film Southasia, a mobile film festival highlighting 19 exceptional nonfiction productions of the last two years, originally screened at Film Southasia 2024 in Kathmandu. This year’s festival encapsulates a range of experiences on the Subcontinent with films from […]

  • Fanon in Documentary Film: Algerian Legacies

    Communications 150, Studio C

    Film Screening:  5:30-7pm, Communications 150, Studio C Panel Discussion and Audience Q&A:  7-8pm, Communications 150, Studio C Reception:  8-9pm, Communications 139 Marking the centenary of Frantz Fanon’s birth, the Center for Middle East and North Africa is hosting a film screening of True Chronicles of the Blida Joinville Psychiatric Hospital, the recent film by Algerian […]

  • Decolonizing Surfing: A View from Morocco

    Communications 150, Studio C

    Film Screening and Panel Discussion:  5:30-7pm, Studio C Reception:  Communications 139, 7-8pm  Surfing is a sport dear to Santa Cruzians, as the city has branded itself the “Original Surf City USA” for over two decades. Despite the awe-inspiring image of individuals “rid pulses of energy moving through the ocean,” the sport is also embedded in […]

  • The Dawn is Too Far: Stories of Iranian-American Life – Film Screening and Discussion with Co-Director/Executive Producer, Dr. Persis Karim

    Communications 150, Studio C

    Join us for a screening of the film, The Dawn is Too Far: Stories of Iranian-American Life, and a discussion with the film’s Co-Director and Executive Producer, Persis Karim, who will be in conversation with UCSC PhD candidate, Shirin Towfiq. The film shares a multi-generational perspective of those who came to the U.S. as students, […]

  • Public Film Screening and Filmmaker Q&A: A Feeling Greater than Love with Mary Jirmanus Saba

    Communications 150, Studio C

    In her directorial debut, Mary Jirmanus Saba deals with a forgotten revolution, saving from oblivion bloodily suppressed strikes at Lebanese tobacco and chocolate factories. These events from the 1970s, which held the promise of a popular revolution and, with it, of women's emancipation were erased from collective memory by the country’s civil wars. Rich in […]

  • Mania Akbari: A Moon For My Father

    Communications 150, Studio C

    Mania Akbari collaborates with British sculptor Douglas White to coin a tender fusion of language, where a meeting of cinema and sculpture investigates the processes of physical and psychological destruction and renewal. Begun a matter of weeks after first meeting, the film charts a deepening artistic and personal relationship exploring the nature of skin, family, […]

  • Screening of “Okinawa: The Afterburn” with Director John Junkerman

    Communications 150, Studio C

     Q&A with Director John Junkerman to follow the film Introduction by Professor Alan Christy, Department of History Directed by John Junkerman, long-term resident of Japan and Oscar-nominated documentary filmmaker, the brand-new “Okinawa: The Afterburn” is a sweeping, in-depth look at the wartime and postwar history of Okinawa and the massive American military presence on the island. Consisting […]

    Free

  • Global Islam: A Weekend of Film and Video

    Communications 150, Studio C

    Friday, 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, […]

    Free

  • Public Screening of One Summer

    Communications 150, Studio C

    You're cordially invited to a free public screening of One Summer (2014, 93min.), with Director Yang Yishu (Nanjing University, China) in person. ABOUT THE FILM: One Summer is Director Yang Yishu’s first fiction feature. In tracing a woman’s efforts to find her husband and to understand why the police took him away without explanation, the […]

    Free
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