Brett Story Screening of THE PRISON IN TWELVE LANDSCAPES and Post-Realism Seminar #14

Grassy field with a couple of trees

THE PRISON IN TWELVE LANDSCAPES (Public Screening) Director Brett Story in discussion with Film and Digital Media Professor Sharon Daniel co-sponsored by Film+Digital Media / Porter College Visiting Artist Series Monday November 6, 2017 7 PM Communications 150 (Studio C) More people are imprisoned in the United States at this moment than in any other…Continue Reading Brett Story Screening of THE PRISON IN TWELVE LANDSCAPES and Post-Realism Seminar #14

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

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 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: DECOLONIAL VISUAL CULTURES IN THE AGE OF THE CAPITALOCENE

Tower shooting flames

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

Filmmaker Wu Wenguang Seminar | Chinese Independent Documentary Film

Man in black and white imaging in the background with the text "he forgot about the cows, forgot about his son. at the bottom.

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

Filmmaker J.P. Sniadecki: Screening of THE IRON MINISTRY 铁道 and Post Realism Seminar #12

THE IRON MINISTRY 铁道 Public Screening and Discussion with filmmaker J.P. SNIADECKI Monday April 11,2016  7 PM, Communications 150 / Studio C co-sponsored by Porter College, Film + Digital Media, the Arts Dean’s Fund for Excellence, Anthropology, and the Center for Emerging Worlds Filmed over three years on China’s railways, THE IRON MINISTRY (2014, 83 min.) traces…Continue Reading Filmmaker J.P. Sniadecki: Screening of THE IRON MINISTRY 铁道 and Post Realism Seminar #12

Katerina Cizek, “By Any Media Necessary” – Public Lecture and Post-Realism Seminar #11

CDAR and Film + Digital Media Visiting Artist Series presents Katerina Cizek Public Talk Monday January 25, 2016 7 PM Communications 150 (Studio C) co-sponsored by Porter College and the Arts Dean’s Fund for Excellence BY ANY MEDIA NECESSARY Two-time Emmy winning Documentary maker Katerina Cizek retraces her tracks in co-creative media-making through the digital…Continue Reading Katerina Cizek, “By Any Media Necessary” – Public Lecture and Post-Realism Seminar #11

Cauleen Smith Screening of “The Way Out is The Way Two” and Post-Realism Seminar #10

THE WAY OUT IS THE WAY TWO Public Screening and Discussion with filmmaker CAULEEN SMITH Monday November 2,2015  7 PM, Communications 150 / Studio C Introduction by F+DM Professor B. Ruby Rich co-sponsored by Porter College, Film + Digital Media, and the Arts Dean’s Fund for Excellence CDAR and the Film + Digital Media /…Continue Reading Cauleen Smith Screening of “The Way Out is The Way Two” and Post-Realism Seminar #10