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, 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
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