film screening – UCSC Center for Documentary Arts and Research (CDAR)

Event: HOW TO HAVE AN AMERICAN BABY (2023) with Leslie Tai

Still from How To Have An American Baby (Tai, 2024)

Public Screening and Discussion, Monday, February 10, 7:00 PM Communications 150 (Theater C) CDAR is pleased to co-sponsor this Visiting Artist’s Series screening of the feature-length creative documentary exploring Chinese birth tourism in Southern California. How to Have an American Baby is “a kaleidoscopic voyage into the shadow economy catering to Chinese tourists who…Continue Reading Event: HOW TO HAVE AN AMERICAN BABY (2023) with Leslie Tai

Event: A FEELING GREATER THAN LOVE (2017) with Mary Jirmanus Saba

Public Screening and Discussion, Tuesday, November 19, 7:00 PM Communications 150 (Theater C) In her directorial debut, Mary Jirmanus Saba deals with a forgotten revolution, saving from oblivion bloodily suppressed strikes at Lebanese tobacco and chocolate factories. These events from the 1970s, which held the promise of a popular revolution and, with it, of…Continue Reading Event: A FEELING GREATER THAN LOVE (2017) with Mary Jirmanus Saba

Event: RICHLAND with Irene Lusztig

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

EXTRACTION: screening of “Rare Earth” and artist talk by Elizabeth Knafo

Big Factory/Industrial area in the background with the title Extraction in the foreground

Tuesday evening, 5:30-7:30, in the Digital Arts Research Center (DARC) 108 at UC Santa Cruz March 6, 2017 An EXTRACTION Event Join us from 5:30 -7:30 pm for an evening of Elizabeth Knafo’s film “Rare Earth” + artist talk ______________ Elizabeth Knafo is a filmmaker whose work engages issues of extraction, materialisms, and social and…Continue Reading EXTRACTION: screening of “Rare Earth” and artist talk by Elizabeth Knafo

EXTRACTION: an evening of short films

Tuesday evening, 5:30-7:30, in the Digital Arts Research Center (DARC) 108 at UC Santa Cruz February 28, 2017 An EXTRACTION Event Join us from 5:30 -7:30 pm for an evening of (hard-to-find!) short films ______________ David Kelly / Patty Chang, Spiritual Myopia, 2015 (15 min) Spiritual Myopia portrays the invisible labor and desire of…Continue Reading EXTRACTION: an evening of short films

EXTRACTION: artist talk by Subhankar Banerjee, “Why should I care about the Arctic?…”

Tuesday evening, 5:30-7:30, in the Digital Arts Research Center (DARC) 108 at UC Santa Cruz February 21, 2017 An EXTRACTION Event Join us from 5:30 -7:30 pm for Subhankar Banerjee, “Why should I care about the Arctic?: Politics of Extraction & Justice in the Near North.” This artist talk is part of EXTRACTION, a research program exploring…Continue Reading EXTRACTION: artist talk by Subhankar Banerjee, “Why should I care about the Arctic?…”

EXTRACTION: screening of The Otolith Group’s The Radiant 2/14

House behind a playground with thunderclouds over head

Tuesday evening, 5:30-7:30, in the Digital Arts Research Center (DARC) 108 at UC Santa Cruz February 14, 2017 An EXTRACTION Event Join us from 5:30-7:30 pm for a screening of The Otolith Group’s The Radiant, 2012. This event is part of EXTRACTION, a research program exploring the industrial operations which abuse natural resources and thrive…Continue Reading EXTRACTION: screening of The Otolith Group’s The Radiant 2/14

EXTRACTION: DECOLONIAL VISUAL CULTURES IN THE AGE OF THE CAPITALOCENE

EXTRACTION: DECOLONIAL VISUAL CULTURES IN THE AGE OF THE CAPITALOCENE All events are on Tuesday evenings, 5:30-7:30, in the Digital Arts Research Center (DARC) 108 at UC Santa Cruz Extraction designates capitalism’s fundamental logic of withdrawal—of value, nutrients, energy, labor, time—from people, lands, culture, life-forms, the elements, without corresponding deposit (except as externalities of non-value…Continue Reading EXTRACTION: DECOLONIAL VISUAL CULTURES IN THE AGE OF THE CAPITALOCENE