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YOU ARE NOT A LOAN: In conversation with filmmakers Astra Taylor and Erick Stoll

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Friday May 7, 2021, 12 PM – 1:30 PM PDT, virtual event REGISTER FOR THIS EVENT On February 7, 2020, weeks before Covid-19 disrupted our lives, a group of activists and academics gathered to discuss the growing movement to cancel student debt and transform higher education. You Are Not a Loan documents a unique gathering…Continue Reading YOU ARE NOT A LOAN: In conversation with filmmakers Astra Taylor and Erick Stoll

SPECIAL VIRTUAL SCREENING and workshop with Cecilia Aldarondo and Lale Namerrow Pastor

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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

A MOON FOR MY FATHER with filmmaker Mania Akbari + POST-REALISM SEMINAR #19

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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

THE AMERICAN SECTOR (preview screening) with filmmaker Courtney Stephens

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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

CAMERAPERSON screening and POST REALISM SEMINAR #17 with filmmaker Kirsten Johnson

Monday May 20, 2019 7 PM Communications 150 (Studio C) CAMERAPERSON with filmmaker KIRSTEN JOHNSON co-sponsored by Porter College and Film + Digital Media Documentary cinematographer Kirsten Johnson (Citizenfour, Fahrenheit 9/11) has spent decades traveling the world, amassing a treasure trove of footage that she has assembled into an insightful, visually bold memoir about the…Continue Reading CAMERAPERSON screening and POST REALISM SEMINAR #17 with filmmaker Kirsten Johnson

SCREENING PROGRAM and POST REALISM SEMINAR #18 with filmmaker Kelly Sears

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Monday, November 18, 2019, 7 PM |Communications 150 (Studio C) we didn’t know anything of the real fever down here an evening with KELLY SEARS co-sponsored by Porter College and Film + Digital Media This hour-long program contains films that address the tensions between the failed and the fantastic.  Animated photographic and cinematic documents are…Continue Reading SCREENING PROGRAM and POST REALISM SEMINAR #18 with filmmaker Kelly Sears

Poetics and Politics of Documentary 4: Against Story

black and white background, at the top a link read www.poeticsandpolitics4.ucsc.edu, in the middle in big red text read the title Poetics + Polotics, below that reads the time and place, Documentary research symposium UC Santa Cruz, May 16-19th, 2019

Poetics and Politics of Documentary is a practice-led research symposium exploring the interconnections between art and knowledge as they are expressed in documentary practices, broadly conceived. It will be held at the University of California Santa Cruz May 16-19th, 2019. The symposium represents an opportunity for media makers working within the broad sweep of documentary…Continue Reading Poetics and Politics of Documentary 4: Against Story

TRIPLE CONSCIOUSNESS an evening with filmmaker Akosua Adoma Owusu

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Monday October 8, 2018 7 PM Communications 150 (Studio C) An evening of short films by Akosua Adoma Owusu co-sponsored by Porter College and Film + Digital Media The politics of representation depends on dismantling monolithic, reductive, and “Western”-centric renderings of exoticism and otherness in identities. This presentation looks at work by filmmaker Akosua Adoma…Continue Reading TRIPLE CONSCIOUSNESS an evening with filmmaker Akosua Adoma Owusu