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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/
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SUMMARY:Environmental Crisis in Gabes: Agriculture and Revolt in Tunisia
DESCRIPTION:Film Screening and Discussion:  5:30-7pm\, Communications (Studio C) \nReception:  7-8:30pm\, Communications 139 \nGabes Labess (All is well in Gabes) questions current development models by focusing on the Oasis of Gabes\, the only coastal oasis in the world. What was once considered “The Paradise of the World” has been transformed into an economic\, social\, and ecological catastrophe by the construction\, in the 1970s\, of an industrial chemical complex that has deprived local farmers of their water\, arable land\, economic well-being\, and personal dignity. \nJoin us for a screening of this film by Habib Ayeb\, followed by a discussion with Jennifer Derr (UCSC) and Hossein Ayazi (UCB) on how models of development influence the lived environment\, public health\, and political contestation from California to North Africa. As climate change and rising temperatures dramatically alter landscapes around the world\, professors Derr and Ayazi will discuss how local populations adapt to these challenges and organize to demand accountability from the state. Reception to follow. \nHossein Ayazi\, PhD\, is a Senior Policy Analyst at the Othering & Belonging Institute at the University of California\, Berkeley. His research\, teaching\, and policy work examine the U.S. and global political economy of agri-food systems and environmental change and their relationship to antiracist\, anticolonial\, and revolutionary-socialist movements from the twentieth century to the present. He has authored reports and peer-reviewed articles on U.S. and global agri-food and environmental policy\, state and corporate power\, trade and development\, labor and migration\, climate impacts and resilience strategies\, and food sovereignty and climate reparations. He is currently coordinating lead author on the California Fifth Climate Assessment topical report on Climate-Induced Human Displacement & Migration and has recently advised the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) on “Global Recommendations to Prevent Loss of Nationality and Statelessness in the Context of Climate Change.” He holds a PhD in Environmental Science\, Policy\, and Management from the University of California\, Berkeley\, and has held resident fellowships and visiting professorships at Tufts University\, Williams College\, and Santa Clara University. \nJennifer L. Derr is Associate Professor of History at UC Santa Cruz\, where she also served as the founding director of the Center for the Middle East and North Africa. Her research explores the intersections among medicine\, science\, the environment\, and capitalism\, particularly in the modern Middle East and North Africa. Prof. Derr’s book\, The Lived Nile: Environment\, Disease\, and Material Colonial Economy in Egypt (Stanford University Press\, 2019)\, was awarded the 2020 Middle East Political Economy Book Prize. \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/environmental-crisis-in-gabes-agriculture-and-revolt-in-tunisia/
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SUMMARY:Film Screening with Raed Rafei - "Tripoli: A Tale of Three Cities"
DESCRIPTION:Pre-Screening Reception: 5:30-7pm\, Communications 139 \nFilm Screening:  7-8:30\, Communications\, Studio C \nWhile living abroad\, a filmmaker returns to Tripoli\, Lebanon\, to confront a hometown that once rejected him as a queer child. With a microphone in hand\, he walks around coffee shops\, public squares\, and a park to ask the city’s inhabitants about their cultural and social beliefs and their embrace of new ideas. Gradually\, he meets a group of marginalized individuals whose eccentric life choices contradict the general lifestyle in this religiously and socially conservative city. Through intimate conversations with a communist activist\, a queer music producer\, and other unconventional characters\, Tripoli: A Tale of Three Cities explores the complicated relations one forms with a hometown in crisis. This contemplative urban symphony paints a picture of a city trapped in a self-spun web\, paralyzed by a deep economic crisis\, a faltering revolution\, and a looming doomsday. \nJoin us for a screening of the film followed by a discussion between UC Santa Cruz alum\, Raed Rafei\, and Professor of Film and Digital Media\, Peter Limbrick. \nRaed (El) Rafei is a filmmaker\, scholar\, and multimedia journalist who has directed award-winning documentaries and experimental films. As a journalist\, he has worked for international publications like the Los Angeles Times and news outlets like CNN and Al-Jazeera Documentary Channel. Rafei holds a PhD in Film and Digital Media from the University of California\, Santa Cruz\, and an MA in Journalism from the City University of New York Graduate School of Journalism. He is an Assistant Professor of Film and Media Studies at the University of Pittsburgh and his research focuses on queer cinema in the Arab region and its diasporas. His films\, which include Tripoli: A Tale of Three Cities\, 74 (The Reconstitution of a Struggle) and Al-Atlal (The Ruins)\, have screened at international film festivals and venues like IDFA\, the Centre Pompidou in Paris\, Doc Lisboa\, Visions du Réel\, and the Pacific Film Archives in Berkeley. \n\nPresented by the Center for the Middle East and North Africa and co-sponsored by Film and Digital Media \n 
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