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Screening of The Earth is Blue As an Orange

Sponsored by:
Film & Media Culture
The Earth is Blue As an Orange depicts life in the frontline cities in Ukraine. This screening commemorates the year anniversary of the full scale war.

Sponsored by the Film and Media Culture Department and the Hirschfield Film Endowment.

Axinn Center 232

Open to the Public
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Urban Cadence Screening of System K

Sponsored by:
Film & Media Culture
In the urban environment of Kinshasa, amid social and political chaos, an eclectic and bubbling street art scene is emerging. (1 hour 34 minutes.)

Sponsored by the Hirschfield Film Endowment.

Dana Auditorium (Sunderland Language Center)

Open to the Public
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Catherine Grant: Videographic Criticism as Cryptographic Film and Moving Image Studies

Sponsored by:
Film & Media Culture
Making video essays can often feel as much of a mysterious process as a scholarly or critical one. Weird things can often happen in the process of editing together sequences from films, television and audiovisual media; curious coincidences, felicitous discoveries, and striking disclosures can often happen because of the technical affordances of the editing platforms we use, or because of the the formal or aesthetic devices, dispositifs or audiovisual interfaces we construct.

Axinn Center 232

Open to the Public

In the Wrong Body (En el cuerpo equivocado)

Filmmaker Marilyn Solaya will travel all the way from Havana, Cuba to present her documentary In the Wrong Body (2010, 55 mins, Spanish with English subtitles). The film tells the story of Mavi Susel, who underwent the first gender reassignment operation in Cuba in 1988. In the Wrong Body explores such timely issues as the meaning of femininity in the macho and patriarchal society in Cuba where many stereotypes and prejudices still exist. Q&A with the filmmaker to follow screening.

McCardell Bicentennial Hall 216

Free
Open to the Public

The Short Arm of the Law: The Post-Dictatorship Crime Film as a Barometer for Justice in Argentina

Jennifer Alpert (Lecturer, Committee on Degrees in History & Literature at Harvard University)  is a film scholar interested in portrayals of marginalized groups in the popular cinemas of the Americas as it pertains to race, gender identity, sexuality, class, and political ideology among others, and with a focus on human rights in Latin America.

Robert A. Jones '59 Conference Room

Open to the Public
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Dia de los Muertos Film Screening

Sponsored by:
Film & Media Culture and Theatre
Prepare yourself for the Dia de los Muertos celebration with an immersion into a classic b/w film of the Golden Age of Mexican cinema, “Macario” (1960) a supernatural drama set on the eve of el Día de los Muertos.

Dana Auditorium (Sunderland Language Center)