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SUMMARY:Film Screening with Julie Wyman - The Tallest Dwarf
DESCRIPTION: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 will be in conversation after the screening with Pooja Rangan (Professor of English and Film and Media Studies at Amherst College and Visiting Scholar of Visualizing Abolition) and Cynthia Ling Lee (Associate Professor of Performance\, Play & Design\, UC Santa Cruz). \nCo-organized/co-sponsored by the Arts Division’s Film & Digital Media Department\, “Abolition Medicine and Disability Justice“— a collaborative initiative of five UC campuses\, including Riverside\, Irvine\, Los Angeles\, Santa Cruz\, and San Francisco\, to address health disparities in institutions and policy — and The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz. This event is open to UC Santa Cruz affiliates. \nPARKING\n– Parking via UCSC permit or ParkMobile\n– Core West is the lot closest to the event \nABOUT THE FILM\nAs Wyman unpacks the rumors of “partial dwarfism” in her family\, she finds that hers is the last of a body type she has inherited. She joins forces with a group of dwarf artists to confront the legacy of being fetishized and put on display. Together they create films that reclaim a complicated history and speak back to the echoes of eugenics in the newly emerging pharmaceutical interventions that make little people taller. Through its personal and expanding perspective\, the film invites audiences to a new way of seeing. \nABOUT THE FILMMAKER\nJulie Forrest Wyman’s 2012 documentary STRONG! premiered at AFI Silverdocs and was broadcast nationally on PBS’s Emmy award-winning series\, Independent Lens\, where it won the series’ Audience Award. Wyman’s work has been awarded support from Sundance\, Sandbox\, IDA\, SF Film Society\, Points North\, ITVS\, the Creative Capital Foundation\, The Princess Grace Foundation\, California Humanities\, and NEH. She has been a fellow at the UC Davis Feminist Research Institute and a resident of SF Film Society’s Filmhouse\, Siena Art Institute\, Logan Nonfiction and Points North. Her films\, including FatMob (2016)\, Buoyant (2005)\, and A Boy Named Sue (2000)\, have aired on Showtime\, MTV’s LOGO-TV\, and have been exhibited on five continents. She serves as Associate Professor of Cinema and Digital Media at UC Davis. \nPhotographer credit: Gabriella Garcia-Pardo; image description: A group of six LP (little people) performers regard their paper body cut outs on the wall.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/film-screening-with-julie-wyman-the-tallest-dwarf/
LOCATION:Communications 150\, Studio C
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SUMMARY:Traveling Film Southasia - Film Screening Festival Launch
DESCRIPTION: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 Nepal\, Bangladesh\, India\, Pakistan and Myanmar\, including CSAS Faculty Director Dolly Kikon’s recent film\, Abundance. \nFilm Southasia (FSA) is a biennial festival that began in 1997 with the goal of popularizing documentary films so that they entertain\, inform\, and change lives. In addition to the festival that takes place in Kathmandu every two years\, FSA organizes screenings\, discussions\, and workshops to promote Southasian non-fiction within the Subcontinent and around the world. Film Southasia believes that film is a powerful medium that not only helps better represent the region internationally\, but also contributes immensely to introspection and to initiatives that bring change at the local level. \nFor more information: Traveling FSA 2025. \nAfter the March 5 film festival launch event\, the festival films will be available for streaming until March 20. Link and instructions for viewing to follow. \nThis event is open to all students\, faculty\, staff\, and members of the public consistent with University policy and state and federal law. \n\nPresented by the Center for South Asian Studies and co-sponsored by the Department of Film and Digital Media and The Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/traveling-film-southasia-film-screening-festival-launch/
LOCATION:Communications 150\, Studio C
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260129T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260129T210000
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SUMMARY:Fanon in Documentary Film: Algerian Legacies
DESCRIPTION:Film Screening:  5:30-7pm\, Communications 150\, Studio C\nPanel Discussion and Audience Q&A:  7-8pm\, Communications 150\, Studio C\nReception:  8-9pm\, Communications 139 \nMarking 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 director Abdenour Zahzah that focuses on his time in the psychiatric hospital in Blida\, Algeria. The screening will be followed by a panel discussion with Meryem Belkaïd (Bowdoin College)\, Isaac Julien (UCSC)\, and Mark Nash (UCSC) on the representation of Fanon’s work and life in film\, from Julien and Nash’s classic 1998 documentary\, Black Skin White Masks\, to more recent films that focus on how Fanon’s time in Algeria shaped his intellectual and political commitments. \nMeryem Belkaïd is the Harriet Sara Walker and Mary Sophia Walker Associate Professor of Humanities at Bowdoin College. Trained in both literature (PhD from La Sorbonne) and political science (Master degree from Science Po\, Paris)\, her research focuses on a decolonial approach of North African cinema and literature. She is the author of From Outlaw to Rebel: Contemporary documentary in Contemporary Algeria (Palgrave 2023). Her works have appeared in peer-reviewed journals such as Journal of North African Studies\, Fixxion and Expressions maghrébines. She is a regular contributor of the online magazine Orient XXI. \nMark Nash is a distinguished independent curator\, film historian\, and filmmaker with a specialization in contemporary fine art moving image practices\, avant-garde\, and world cinema. He holds a PhD from Middlesex University and an MA from Cambridge University. He is a professor in History of Consciousness at UC Santa Cruz\, where he founded the Isaac Julien Lab with his partner and long-time collaborator\, Isaac Julien. His most recent publication\, Curating the Moving Image (Duke UP\, 2023)\, outlines several key concepts that range from exhibition architecture and curating as an affective and artistic practice to post-cold war aesthetics and contemporary Chinese art. \n \nIsaac Julien is a filmmaker and installation artist who has been making films and producing film installations for over forty years. Recent works include All that Changes You. Metamorphosis (2025)\, Once Again… (Statues Never Die) (2022)\, Lina Bo Bardi – A Marvellous Entanglement (2019)\, and Lessons of the Hour – Frederick Douglass (2019). A retrospective of his work\, Isaac Julien: I Dream a World\, was exhibited at the De Young Museum in 2025. In 2018\, Julien joined the faculty at the UC Santa Cruz where he is a Distinguished Professor of the Arts and Humanities and leads the Moving Image Lab together with Mark Nash. Julien is the recipient of The Royal Academy of Arts Charles Wollaston Award in 2017. In 2022\, he was awarded a Kaiserring Goslar Award in 2022\, and he was granted a knighthood as part of the Queen’s Honours List. \nParking Info: \nThis is the Communications Building on Google maps\, and this is a map with parking information: https://transportation.ucsc.edu/parking/campus-parking-map/#interactive-map. Park Mobile parking spots can be located in lot 139A. Alternative parking options include the Core West parking structure\, which is located down the hill from the Communications Building. \n\nPresented by the Center for the Middle East and North Africa and co-sponsored by the Film and Digital Media Department.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/fanon-in-documentary-film-algerian-legacies/
LOCATION:Communications 150\, Studio C
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251113T173000
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SUMMARY:Decolonizing Surfing: A View from Morocco
DESCRIPTION:Film Screening and Panel Discussion:  5:30-7pm\, Studio C\nReception:  Communications 139\, 7-8pm  \nSurfing 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[ing] pulses of energy moving through the ocean\,” the sport is also embedded in a global history of colonization and displacement. The origins of surfing have been traced back to Peru and West Africa\, though a more familiar variant is that surfing “discovered” by Captain James Cook in Hawaii in the nineteenth century\, leading to a tourism craze that was disastrous for local populations. \nPresented by the Center for the Middle East and North Africa\, this film screening and panel discussion will explore the history of surfing and the ramifications of surf tourism for Morocco. Surfing was imported to Morocco by North American soldiers based near Rabat in the 1940s. By the 1970s the sport became more common\, in large part thanks to the presence of European tourists. Americans also started flocking to Aghazout – an Amazigh fishing village as part of the so-called “hippie trail.” By the early 2000s\, the government started actively promoting surf tourism\, establishing official sporting organizations and dedicating resources to infrastructure and surf camps. This had a transformative effect on Moroccan youth culture as well\, as surfing has generally been associated with economically and socially marginal individuals in Morocco\, and female surfers have sought to challenge gender norms. In recent years\, activists and artists have been organizing against the destruction of cultural heritage (notably troglodyte houses) in the cities of Tifnit and Imsouane and the displacement of their inhabitants. There are also environmental concerns\, as waste and wastewater management are priorities for those who seek to protect the coast. \nThe film screening will feature a short documentary by Arté on gentrification and surfing in Morocco\, followed by two short films by the Moroccan director Ilias El Faris (Azayz and Sukar). The discussion will explore the history of surfing in Morocco and the ways that global capitalism has changed traditional sporting practices. How have gender\, class\, and race shaped ideas of surfing in Morocco? How does surfing help elucidate the contrasts and contradictions of Moroccan society\, and how have these norms shifted with the arrival of mass tourism? \nThe panel discussion will feature  Yasmine Benabdallah\, a PhD candidate in the Department of Film and Visual Media at UCSC\, whose work highlights questions of decolonization\, memory\, and history in Morocco; Michael Vann\, Professor of History at California State University\, Sacramento\, who is a specialist of French Indonesia as well as avid surfer who has written on the history of the sport for Jacobin; and Soufiane Belmkaddem\, a Moroccan surfer and activist who is a member of Black Surf Santa Cruz. \n \nParking Info: \nThis is the communications building on Google maps. \nThis is a map with parking information: https://transportation.ucsc.edu/parking/campus-parking-map/#interactive-map \nPark Mobile parking spots can be located in lot 139A. Alternative parking options include the Core West parking structure\, which is located down the hill from the communications building. \n\nPresented by the Center for the Middle East and North Africa (CMENA) and and co-sponsored by the Film and Digital Media Department. \nPhoto Credit: Heatheronhertravels.com\, www.heatheronhertravels.com/ \n  \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/decolonizing-surfing-a-view-from-morocco/
LOCATION:Communications 150\, Studio C
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SUMMARY:The Dawn is Too Far: Stories of Iranian-American Life – Film Screening and Discussion with Co-Director/Executive Producer\, Dr. Persis Karim
DESCRIPTION: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\, refugees\, and exiles in the context of the 1979 Iranian Revolution. The film charts the longer history of Iranian Americans in the San Francisco Bay area and the ways they have been impacted by and contributed to the region. The event is presented by the Center for Middle East and North Africa and the Department of Film and Digital Media. \nPersis Karim is the director of the Center for Iranian Diaspora Studies at San Francisco State University where she also teaches in the Department of Humanities and Comparative and World Literature. She is the editor of three anthologies of Iranian diasporic literature\, and she has published numerous articles about Iranian diasporic literature and culture for academic journals as well as poetry and essays in non-academic publications. The Dawn is Too Far: Stories of Iranian-American Life is her first film and reflects her interest in documenting and sharing the larger history and personal stories of those who are part of the global Iranian diaspora. She co-directed and co-produced the film with Soumyaa Behrens. Karim received her Master’s degree in Middle East Studies and her PhD in Comparative Literature from UT Austin. She is also a poet.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/the-dawn-is-too-far/
LOCATION:Communications 150\, Studio C
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241119T190000
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SUMMARY:Public Film Screening and Filmmaker Q&A: A Feeling Greater than Love with Mary Jirmanus Saba
DESCRIPTION: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 archival footage from Lebanon’s militant cinema tradition\, the film reconstructs the spirit of that revolt\, asking of the past how we might transform the present. FIPRESCI International Critics Prize Winner at the 2017 Berlinale Forum.\n– Malgorzata Sadowska \nMary Jirmanus Saba is a geographer who uses film and other media to explore labor movement histories\, connections among unstable landscapes and legacies of colonialism in the Arab World\, Latin America and Turtle Island and the ever-present resilience of everyday life. Her debut feature film A Feeling Greater Than Love (2017) premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival Forum where it received the FIPRESCI International Critics Prize\, making several “Best of 2017” lists. From 2006-2008\, she produced the community broadcast television program\, Via Comunidad with art collective Vientos del Sur in Ibarra\, Ecuador. A avid producer of anonymous and collective agitprop\, her latest film Mahdi Amel in Gaza (2024) is screening in community spaces\, protest sites\, and sometimes festivals. Saba is a member of UAW Labor for Palestine\, the People’s CDC and a UC Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow at UC Santa Cruz in Film and Digital Media. \nPreceded by a workshop: Mon. November 18\, 4 – 7 PM\, Comm. 139 \nIn this workshop filmmaker and scholar Mary Jirmanus Saba will discuss her recent work on films made in the aftermath of the Arab Spring\, exploring the emergence of the “character driven resilience documentary.” Using her own work as an example\, Saba will facilitate a discussion about the political economy of arts funding and social movements. \nTo join the workshop\, RSVP to ilusztig@ucsc.edu. \n\nPresented by Film and Digital Media and co-sponsored by the Center for the Middle East and North Africa (CMENA).
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/public-film-screening-and-filmmaker-qa-a-feeling-greater-than-love-with-mary-jirmanus-saba/
LOCATION:Communications 150\, Studio C
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200224T190000
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SUMMARY:Mania Akbari: A Moon For My Father
DESCRIPTION: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\, death\, water\, desire and\, throughout\, a powerful will to form. Akbari looks into the connection between her body and the political history of Iran\, investigating the relationship between her own physical traumas and the collective political memory of her birthplace. As she undergoes surgeries on a body decimated by cancer\, remembrance and reconstruction provide a framework for investigating how bodies are traumatized\, censored and politicized\, and yet ultimately remain a site of possibility. We are lucky to be the first US venue to host Mania Akbari and to present her new film. \n“A Moon for my Father is a deeply intimate\, personal and moving work from Mania Akbari (whose movies have often been meditations on beauty and body image)\, a form of digressive-poetic cinema\, connecting images and ideas in a dream-associative logic. Calmly\, almost miraculously\, it avoids the tones of tension or trauma or ostentatiously courageous humor.” – The Guardian \nMania Akbari (b. Tehran\, 1974) is an internationally acclaimed artist and filmmaker. Her provocative\, revolutionary and radical films were recently the subject of retrospectives at the BFI\, London (2013)\, the DFI\, Denmark (2014)\, Oldenburg International Film Festival\, Germany (2014)\, Cyprus Film Festival (2014) and Nottingham Contemporary UK (2018). Her films have screened at festivals around the world and have received numerous awards including German Independence Honorary Award\, Oldenberg (2014)\, Best Film\, Digital Section\, Venice Film Festival (2004)\, Nantes Special Public Award Best Film (2007) and Best Director and Best film at Kerala Film Festival (2007)\, Best Film and Best Actress\, Barcelona Film Festival (2007). Akbari was exiled from Iran and currently lives and works in London\, a theme addressed in ‘Life May Be’ (2014)\, co-directed with Mark Cousins. This film was released at Karlovy Vary Film Festival and was nominated for Best Documentary at Edinburgh International Film Festival (2014) and Asia Pacific Film Festival (2014). Akbari’s latest film ‘A Moon For My Father’\, made in collaboration with British artist Douglas White\, premiered at CPH:DOX where it won the NEW:VISION Award 2019. The film also received a FIPRESCI International Critics Award at the Flying Broom Festival\, Ankara. She is currently working on a new project ‘Libido’ with her son Amin Maher. \nCo-sponsored by Porter College\, Film + Digital Media\, The Humanities Institute’s Body\, (Anti)Narrative\, and Corporeal Creative Practices Research Cluster\, and The UCSC Center for the Middle East and North Africa \nScreening is free and open to the public.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/mania-akbari-a-moon-for-my-father/
LOCATION:Communications 150\, Studio C
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20151203T163000
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SUMMARY:Screening of “Okinawa: The Afterburn” with Director John Junkerman
DESCRIPTION: Q&A with Director John Junkerman to follow the film\n\nIntroduction by Professor Alan Christy\, Department of History\n\nDirected 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 of interviews and rare archival footage on the 1945 Battle of Okinawa\, the 27-year American occupation and the ongoing struggles of the local people up until the present\, the film is a powerful statement on the historical background and complex reality of US bases on Okinawa\, an issue that remains highly controversial on both the island itself and in mainland Japan.\n\nCo-sponsors:\n\nCenter for Documentary Arts and Research\nDepartment of History\nInstitute for East Asian Studies\nFilm and Digital Media\nThe Gail Project
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/screening-of-okinawa-the-afterburn-with-director-john-junkerman-3/
LOCATION:Communications 150\, Studio C
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20150529
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20150530
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SUMMARY:Global Islam: A Weekend of Film and Video
DESCRIPTION:Friday\, May 29th\n4:00-5:30pm\nVideos by Mounir Fatmi: Mixology (2010)\, Technologia (2010)\, and Rain Making (2004) \nDiscussion with:\nTarek El Haik\, Assistant Professor\, Cinema\, San Francisco State University\nPeter Limbrick\, Associate Professor\, Film and Digital Media\, UC Santa Cruz.\n7:00-9:00pm\nFeature film: Dernier Maquis/Aden\, dir. Rabah Ameur-Zaïmeche (France\, 2008) \nDiscussion with:\nMayanthi Fernando\, Associate Professor\, Anthropology\, UC Santa Cruz\nPeter Limbrick\, Associate Professor\, Film and Digital Media\, UC Santa Cruz. \nSaturday\, May 30th\n10:00am-12:30pm\nFilm screening: New Muslim Cool\, dir. Jennifer Maytorena-Taylor (USA\, 2009) \nScreening and discussion with director Jennifer Maytorena-Taylor\, Assistant Professor\, Social Documentation\, UC Santa Cruz\n1:30-3:30pm\nVideos by Monira Al-Qadiri featuring Abu Athiyya (Father of Pain) (2013)\, Behind the Sun (2013)\, Prism (2007-ongoing). \nDiscussion with Monira Al-Qadiri\n4:00-6:00pm\nFilm screening: Descending with Angels\, dir. Christian Suhr (Denmark\, 2013) \nDiscussion with Christian Suhr and Mayanthi Fernando\nCo-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
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/global-islam-a-weekend-of-film-and-video-2/2015-05-29/
LOCATION:Communications 150\, Studio C
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150511T190000
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SUMMARY:Public Screening of One Summer
DESCRIPTION:You’re cordially invited to a free public screening of One Summer (2014\, 93min.)\, with Director Yang Yishu (Nanjing University\, China) in person. \nABOUT THE FILM:\nOne 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 film portrays the sentiment of perpetual anxiety\, uncertainty and vulnerability that prevails contemporary China.\nThe film was selected for the 19th Busan International Film Festival (Korea\, October 2014 ) and the 21th Vesoul International Film Festival (France\, February 2015)\, and was awarded the Jury’s Prize. \nOne Summer follows Director Yang’s two documentaries\, Who is Haoran? (2006)\, and On the Road (2010). Who is Haoran? was selected for the 59th Locarno International Film Festival\, and the 31th Hong Kong International Film Festival. It has been collected by Songzhuang Art Center (a major base of Chinese independent cinema) and released by Lixianting Film fund.\nOn the Road was selected for the 7th China Documentary Film festival\, the 7th China Independent Film Festival\, and 2011 Seoul Independent Documentary Film & Video Festival. \nABOUT THE DIRECTOR:\nDirector Yang Yishu represents an important voice in contemporary independent Chinese cinema. In addition to making films\, she also teaches as Associate Professor and serves as Associate Director of Film and Video Production Center in the Department of Drama\, Film & TV\, in the School of Liberal Arts at Nanjing University\, China. She has published a monograph\, Film Within Film: A Study of Meta-cinema (2012)\, as well as numerous articles on a wide range of topics\, including gender issues\, independent Chinese cinema\, Jane Campion\, and François Truffaut. \nThe screening will be followed by Q & A with Director Yang Yishu and her daughter who played the daughter in the film. \nThis event is co-sponsored by Departments of Film & Digital Media\, Politics\, and Anthropology. \nPlease direct questions to Yiman Wang (yw3@ucsc.edu)
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/public-screening-of-one-summer-2/
LOCATION:Communications 150\, Studio C
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140225T193000
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SUMMARY:Screening and Panel Discussion - The Stuart Hall Project: Revolution\, Politics\, Culture\, and the New Left Experience
DESCRIPTION:A major success in Britain last Fall\, “The Stuart Hall Project” is now being distributed in the USA. It will be screened at UCSC on Tuesday evening\, February 25th. 7:30 PM\, Studio C. (Communications 150) \nThe film\, 102 minutes\, will be followed by an informal panel and general discussion animated by James Clifford (History of Consciousness)\, Jennifer Gonzalez (HAVC)\, and Herman Gray (Sociology). \nRead reviews of and interviews about the film here and here. \nGenerously funded by the Arts Dean’s Fund for Excellence. Co-sponsored by The Center for Cultural Studies and the Department of Film and Digital Media.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/screening-and-panel-discussion-the-stuart-hall-project-revolution-politics-culture-and-the-new-left-experience-2/
LOCATION:Communications 150\, Studio C
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20131008T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20131008T203000
DTSTAMP:20260421T201702
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SUMMARY:"The Motherhood Archives" film screening and discussion
DESCRIPTION:Archival montage\, science fiction\, and an homage to 70s feminist filmmaking are woven together to form this haunting and lyrical essay film excavating hidden histories of childbirth in the twentieth century. Assembling an extraordinary archive of over 100 educational\, industrial\, and medical training films (including newly rediscovered Soviet and French childbirth films)\, The Motherhood Archives inventively untangles the complex\, sometimes surprising genealogies of maternal education. Revealing a world of intensive training\, rehearsal\, and performative preparation for the unknown that is ultimately incommensurate with experience\, The Motherhood Archives is a meditation on the maternal body as a site of institutional control\, ideological surveillance\, medical knowledge\, and nationalist state intervention.\n  \nIntroduction by Neda Atanasoski (Feminist Studies) \nPost-screening discussion with the filmmaker\, Irene Lusztig\, and:\nNancy Chen (Anthropology)\nJenny Horne (Film & Digital Media)\nFelicity Schaeffer (Feminist Studies) \nReception to follow in Communications 139\n  \nPresented by the Center for Documentary Arts and Research and the Departments of Anthropology\, Feminist Studies\, and Film & Digital Media.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/the-motherhood-archives-2/
LOCATION:Communications 150\, Studio C
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20101122T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20101122T183000
DTSTAMP:20260421T201702
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SUMMARY:Deann Borshay Liem: Film: "IN THE MATTER OF CHA JUNG HEE"
DESCRIPTION:The Asian Diasporas Research Cluster at the Institute of Humanities Research is pleased to present the following film screening: \nIN THE MATTER OF CHA JUNG HEE (2010) \npreceded by a documentary short-in-progress on the Korean War\, MEMORY OF THE FORGOTTEN WAR\, \nand followed by Q & A with filmmaker\, Deann Borshay Liem \nPoster available here. \nMONDAY\, NOVEMBER 22\, 2010\, 5 p.m. \nCOMMUNICATIONS 150/STUDIO C \n(building located between Baskin Engineering and College 9/10) \nAbout the film: Her passport said she was Cha Jung Hee. She knew she was not. So began a 40-year deception for a Korean adoptee who came to the US in 1966. Told to keep her true identity a secret from her new American family\, this eight-year-old girl quickly forgot she was ever anyone else. But why had her identity been switched? And who was the real Cha Jung Hee? In the Matter of Cha Jung Hee documents the search to find answers. Part mystery\, part personal odyssey\, the film follows acclaimed filmmaker\, Deann Borshay Liem\, as she returns to her native Korea to find her “double\,” the mysterious girl whose place she took in America. Traversing landscapes of memory\, amnesia\, and identity\, while also uncovering layers of deception in her adoption\, Borshay Liem’s moving and provocative film probes the ethics of international adoption and reveals the costs of living a lie. \nAbout the filmmaker: Deann Borshay Liem has over twenty years experience working in development\, production\, and distribution of independent documentaries. She is producer\, director\, and writer for the Emmy Award-nominated documentary\, First Person Plural (Sundance\, 2000)\, and executive producer for Spencer Nakasako’s Kelly Loves Tony (PBS\, 1998) and AKA Don Bonus (PBS\, 1996\, Emmy Award). She served as co-producer for Special Circumstances (PBS\, 2009)\, which follows Chilean exile\, Hector Salgado\, as he attempts to reconcile with former interrogators and torturers in Chile. She was the former director of the Center for Asian American Media (CAAM) where she supervised the development\, distribution\, and broadcast of new films for public television and worked with Congress to support minority representation in public media. A Sundance Institute Fellow and a recipient of a Rockefeller Film/Video Fellowship\, Borshay Liem is the director\, producer\, and writer of the new feature-length documentary\, In the Matter of Cha Jung Hee. \nCo-sponsored by Oakes College\, the Asian American/Pacific Islander Resource Center\, the Department of Film and Digital Media\, the Social Documentation Program\, the Department of History\, and Stevenson College\, this event is free and open to the public. For more information\, please contact Christine Hong at cjhong@ucsc.edu. For disability-related needs\, please contact AA/PIRC at 459-5349 or aapirc@ucsc.edu.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/deann-borshay-liem-film-in-the-matter-of-cha-jung-hee-2/
LOCATION:Communications 150\, Studio C
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