Tuesday, January 23, 2024 Screening at 6:30 PM UCSC Communications 150 (Theater C) FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC USA / 2023 / 93 minutes Built by the US government to house the Hanford nuclear site workers who manufactured weapons-grade plutonium for the Manhattan Project, Richland, Washington is proud of its heritage as a nuclear…Continue Reading Event: RICHLAND with Irene Lusztig
Monday, October 23, 2023, 7:30 PM, UCSC Communications 150 (Theater C) FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC USA / 2022 / 83 minutes During his day job as a Spanish criminal interpreter in a small town in California, filmmaker Rodrigo Reyes met a young man named Sansón, an undocumented Mexican immigrant sentenced to life in…Continue Reading Event: Sansón and Me – Screening and Workshop with Rodrigo Reyes
Friday April 24, 11 AM – 1 PM Details will be provided to registered participants During the workshop, we will discuss the US colony of Puerto Rico as a fertile case study for unpacking a multitude of intersecting socio-political forces–disaster capitalism, colonialism, austerity, climate change, and popular protest–that are directly relevant to the current pandemic….Continue Reading SPECIAL VIRTUAL SCREENING and workshop with Cecilia Aldarondo and Lale Namerrow Pastor
Monday, February 24, 2020, 7 PM | Communications 150 (Studio C) A Moon for My Father (US Premiere) screening and discussion with MANIA AKBARI in person *** preceded by brief teach-in about the UCSC COLA STRIKE*** Mania Akbari collaborates with British sculptor Douglas White to coin a tender fusion of language, where a meeting of…Continue Reading A MOON FOR MY FATHER with filmmaker Mania Akbari + POST-REALISM SEMINAR #19
Wednesday, January 15, 2020, 7 PM |Communications 150 (Studio C) The American Sector PREVIEW SCREENING with COURTNEY STEPHENS The American Sector (2020, 67 min., co-directed with Pacho Velez) is a timely feature documentary that documents large panels of the Berlin Wall (30 years after its fall) around America, visiting sites where remnants have been installed as monuments —…Continue Reading THE AMERICAN SECTOR (preview screening) with filmmaker Courtney Stephens
Virtual Reality in Real Time: A Conversation TUESDAY MAY 2, 730pm / Communications Studio C Coming to Santa Cruz to discuss VR (Virtual Reality) with the UCSC community are Sundance curator Shari Frilot, who pioneered the exhibition of VR at the Sundance festival and has watched it evolve over the years, and Prof. Homay King (Bryn Mawr), who writes…Continue Reading VIRTUAL REALITY IN REAL TIME: an evening of discussion with Sundance curator Shari Frilot
SCREENING TUESDAY MAY 1, 7pm | Communications 150 (Studio C) Visiting Artist Jodie Mack screening her film-cycle “Let Your Light Shine” including featurette “Dusty Stacks of Mom” and “New Work” Jodie Mack (born 1983 London, UK): Let Your Light Shine, (75 min.) This collection of films investigates the formal principles of abstract cinema while maturing an…Continue Reading LET YOUR LIGHT SHINE: an evening of screening and discussion with filmmaker Jodie Mack
THE FOLK MEMORY PROJECT & INDEPENDENT CHINESE DOCUMENTARY Seminar with Wu Wenguang, Zhang Mengqi, Zhang Ping, and Liu Xiaolei Tuesday November 22,2016 7-9 PM, Communications 139 Please RSVP to Prof. Yiman Wang (yw3@ucsc.edu) to reserve a place in the seminar. co-sponsored by Porter College, Film + Digital Media, the Institute for Arts and Sciences, and Cowell College. Wu Wenguang…Continue Reading Filmmaker Wu Wenguang Seminar | Chinese Independent Documentary Film