GLOBAL INTERWEAVINGS: an evening of screenings and discussion with filmmakers Laura Kissel and Patricia Alvarez

Monday May 9th, 7 PM | Communications 150 (Studio C) An evening exploring globalized production chains, textiles, and tactility, featuring work by visiting filmmaker Laura Kissel and Film + Digital Media Lecturer Patricia Alvarez. Screening followed by discussion with the filmmakers. co-sponsored by the Center for Emerging Worlds ENTRETEJDIO (Patricia Alvarez, 2015, 33 min.)  Peruvian alpaca wool…Continue Reading GLOBAL INTERWEAVINGS: an evening of screenings and discussion with filmmakers Laura Kissel and Patricia Alvarez

Filmmaker J.P. Sniadecki: Screening of THE IRON MINISTRY 铁道 and Post Realism Seminar #12

THE IRON MINISTRY 铁道 Public Screening and Discussion with filmmaker J.P. SNIADECKI Monday April 11,2016  7 PM, Communications 150 / Studio C co-sponsored by Porter College, Film + Digital Media, the Arts Dean’s Fund for Excellence, Anthropology, and the Center for Emerging Worlds Filmed over three years on China’s railways, THE IRON MINISTRY (2014, 83 min.) traces…Continue Reading Filmmaker J.P. Sniadecki: Screening of THE IRON MINISTRY 铁道 and Post Realism Seminar #12

ABOLISH LANGUAGE – a talk by the Society of False Witnesses (with JESSIKA LEOBAULDINE KHAZRIK)

Wednesday March 9th 2016 at 11:30 | DARC 206 co-sponsored by CDAR, DANM and Film + Digital Media At the turn of the 11th Century, polymath Ibn El Haitham believed that he could stop the chronic flood of the Nile River through mathematics and the sun. Commissioned by the king of Egypt to travel therein and apply…Continue Reading ABOLISH LANGUAGE – a talk by the Society of False Witnesses (with JESSIKA LEOBAULDINE KHAZRIK)

CDAR co-presents An Evening on Housing: Screening of “Estate, a Reverie” with filmmaker Andrea Luka Zimmerman

Estate, a Reverie by Andrea Luka Zimmerman (83 min., 2015) co-presented by CDAR, Film + Digital Media Wednesday Night Cinema Society, and Sociology Wednesday March 2, 2016 7 PM Communications 150 (Studio C) Screening followed by conversation with Andrea Luka Zimmerman and UCSC Associate Professor of Sociology Miriam Greenberg Filmed over seven years, Estate, a Reverie…Continue Reading CDAR co-presents An Evening on Housing: Screening of “Estate, a Reverie” with filmmaker Andrea Luka Zimmerman

CDAR and the Socialism/Post-Socialism Research Cluster co-present a screening and discussion of “Pilots in Pajamas” (1968)

Friday February 19th, 2 PM, Communications 130  (Studio A) In the spring of 1968, Pilots in Pajamas, a four-part five-hour documentary mini-series about the war in Vietnam premiered on East German television. Directed by the state filmmakers and long-time collaborators Walter Heynowski and Gerhard Scheumann, the film is organized around a series of interviews with…Continue Reading CDAR and the Socialism/Post-Socialism Research Cluster co-present a screening and discussion of “Pilots in Pajamas” (1968)

Imperfect Machines: Screening Bodies, Illness, and Disability

Friday February 12th, 2016 2:30 PM | Communications 130  (Studio A) CDAR and the Science and Justice Research Center co-present an afternoon-long screening and discussion event exploring themes of critical disability and representations of illness onscreen as well as intersections between physical and national bodies.  Screening followed by discussion with filmmakers Emily Cohen Ibañez (Assistant Director, UCSC…Continue Reading Imperfect Machines: Screening Bodies, Illness, and Disability

Katerina Cizek, “By Any Media Necessary” – Public Lecture and Post-Realism Seminar #11

CDAR and Film + Digital Media Visiting Artist Series presents Katerina Cizek Public Talk Monday January 25, 2016 7 PM Communications 150 (Studio C) co-sponsored by Porter College and the Arts Dean’s Fund for Excellence BY ANY MEDIA NECESSARY Two-time Emmy winning Documentary maker Katerina Cizek retraces her tracks in co-creative media-making through the digital…Continue Reading Katerina Cizek, “By Any Media Necessary” – Public Lecture and Post-Realism Seminar #11

Ear as Other: The Sound-Films of Kevin T. Allen

Thursday January 14, 7 PM, Communications 130 (Studio A) This collection of Allen’s super-8mm films highlights his use of expanded sound recording techniques for film. As a means to explore the periphery of sound and representation, of sound and knowledge, Allen often employs wearable binaural devices, hand-built hydrophones and contact microphones in his nonfiction work. In this…Continue Reading Ear as Other: The Sound-Films of Kevin T. Allen

CDAR co-sponsors screening of “Okinawa: The Afterburn” with Director John Junkerman

Okinawa: The Afterburn (Okinawa Urizun no ame, 沖縄:うりずんの雨) Thursday December 3, 4:30PM. 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…Continue Reading CDAR co-sponsors screening of “Okinawa: The Afterburn” with Director John Junkerman

CDAR Works-in-Progress Series: Arturo “Chico” Pereira with “Donkeyote”

Thursday November 19, 7 PM Work in Progress Screening in Studio A (Communications 130) Followed by discussion and potluck in Communications 139 * Please bring something to eat or drink Manolo leads a simple life in Southern Spain and has two loves in life: his donkey “Gorrion” (“Sparrow”) and the freedom of wandering through Nature….Continue Reading CDAR Works-in-Progress Series: Arturo “Chico” Pereira with “Donkeyote”