Posts under ‘Film Series’

Jiwon Ahn, Keene State College
Tina Mai Chen, University of Manitoba
Anne Ciecko, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Martin Roberts, The New School
Ana Estrella, Catholic University of Ecuador and visiting lecturer at KSC
Friday, November. 6, at 4 p.m., Harry Davis Room, Redfern Arts Center
This discussion takes place in conjunction with the screenings of five international films distributed by the [...]

Jiwon Ahn, Keene State College
Sumita Chakravarty, The New School
Mark Williams, Dartmouth College
Friday, Nov. 6, at 2 p.m. Harry Davis Room, Redfern Arts Center
To live in the modern world, as Georg Simmel famously observed, is to live among strangers. Today, the stranger may be economic migrant, asylum seeker, trader, tourist, or terrorist. This panel focuses on [...]

Film as Friendship: China’s Cultural Diplomacy in the Cold War
Thursday, November. 5, at 7 p.m., Mabel Brown Room
In the 1950s, China (PRC) produced and exported films throughout Asia in hopes of promoting friendship, solidarity, and anti-colonial sentiment among neighboring nations. Using footage from some of these films, Tina Mai Chen, professor of history and co-coordinator [...]

(Sandra Gugliotta, Argentina, 2006)
Thursday, Nov. 5, at 10 a.m., Drenan Auditorium, third floor, Parker Hall, and Friday., Nov. 6, at 8 a.m., Putnam Theatre, Redfern Arts Center.
After her husband mysteriously disappears during a business trip to Patagonia, Clara embarks on a desperate mission to find him. During her search, she makes a startling discovery: [...]

(Teresa Prata, Mozambique, 2007)
Thursday, November. 5, at 8 a.m., Drenan Auditorium, third floor, Parker Hall, and Friday, Nov. 6, at 12 p.m., Putnam Theatre, Redfern Arts Center.
Muidinga is a dreamer. The boy’s greatest desire is to find the family he lost while his country, Mozambique, was in civil war. In a diary he finds [...]

(Marat Sarulu, Kazakhstan, 2008)
Wednesday, November. 4, at 6 p.m., Drenan Auditorium, third floor, Parker Hall, and Friday, Nov. 6, at 10 a.m., Putnam Theatre, Redfern Arts Center.
Two couples, one Russian and one Kazakh, live side by side in relative harmony in a beautiful yet semi-desolate region of the Great Steppe. But when the fair-skinned Russians [...]

(Teona Strugar Mitevska, Macedonia, 2007)
Wednesday, November. 4, at 4 p.m., and Thursday, November. 5, at 12 p.m., Drenan Auditorium, third floor, Parker Hall.
Sapho is the youngest; she plays handball and goes out with men – many men. She has the disease of modern living, hopping from dick to dick, all in hope not to stay [...]

(Zhang Yang, China, 2007)
Wednesday, November 4, at 2 p.m., and Thursday, November. 5, 7 p.m, Drenan Auditorium, third floor, Parker Hall
Old Zhao, in his 50s, is a poor migrant worker slaving away in Shenzhen. When his friend and co-worker Old Liu dies unexpectedly, Old Zhao decides to bring the dead man home. He pretends his [...]

These films will be presented on Wednesday, November 3 and again on Thursday, Nov. 5, at 2 p.m. with a panel discussion in the Putnam Theatre
I Covered My Eyes (Paul Turano, USA, 2008)
This film explores the reconciliation of my early memories of witnessing tragic televised events in the 1970s and early ’80s with my current [...]