Tuesday November 15, 2022, 7:30 PM FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC [captioned accessible screening] *** VENUE CHANGE: SCREENING WILL BE HELD OFF-CAMPUS AT INDEXICAL*** Tannery Arts Center 1050 River St. #119 Santa Cruz, CA 95060 After the inconclusive death of his young niece, filmmaker Angelo Madsen Minax returns to his rural Michigan hometown, preparing…Continue Reading NORTH BY CURRENT with Angelo Madsen Minax
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
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
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