FRIDAY | FEBRUARY 3 | 5PM | VIRTUAL | SCREENING+DISCUSSION
THE JANES (2022, 101 min, Dirs: Tia Lessin, Emma Pildes)
This award-winning documentary chronicles the pre-Roe v. Wade era when young female activists who called themselves ‘Jane’ built an underground network for women with unwanted pregnancies, providing safe, low-cost illegal abortions to an estimated 11,000 women. Post-screening discussion: filmmakers Tia Lessin and Emma Pildes with Dr. Wendy Chavkin, Columbia/Mailman School of Public Health; co-founder, Global Doctors for Choice. Moderator: Katie Chambers (New York Women in Film & TV).
CO-SPONSORS: ANTHROPOLOGY, CENTER FOR RELIGION AND MEDIA, CINEMA STUDIES, CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF GENDER AND SEXUALITY
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MONDAY | FEB 13 | 6 PM | SCREENING + DISCUSSION
ARTHUR L. CARTER JOURNALISM INSTITUTE 20 COOPER SQUARE, 7TH FLOOR COMMONS
SUBJECT (2022, 97 MIN, DIRS: JENNIFER TIEXIERA, CAMILLA HALL)
Subject chronicles the life-altering experience of sharing one’s life on screen through the participants of five acclaimed documentaries. Post-screening discussion with directors JENNIFER TIEXIERA and CAMILLLA HALL, moderated by ALYSE SHORLAND (News & Documentary, Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute).
CO-SPONSORS: NYU NEWS & DOCUMENTARY, ARTHUR L. CARTER JOURNALISM INSTITUTE
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Mara Mills (New York University)
Pooja Rangan (Amherst College)
Reid Davenport (I Didn’t See You There)
Jordan Lord (Shared Resources)
Arseli Dokumaci (Concordia University)
Slava Greenberg (University of Southern California)
Salome Chasnoff (Code of the Freaks)
Carrie Sandahl (Code of the Freaks)
Rodney Evans (Vision Portraits)
CART and ASL will be provided.
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Film Quarterly’s webinars are supported by the Ford Foundation’s JustFilms initiative.
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TUES | FEB 28 | 7 PM | SCREENING + DISCUSSION | e-flux @ 172 CLASSON AVENUE, BROOKLYN 11205
Technological Ecologies: Screening and discussion with World Records, Onyeka Igwe, and Laura Huertas Millán
This screening and discussion accompanies the publication of World RecordsVolume 7: Technological Ecologies, edited by Counter Encounters Collective (Laura Huertas Millán, Onyeka Igwe, Rachael Rakes). Inspired by sites where nature and culture, the organic and the scientific, the human and the more-than-human merge in ways that threaten to dislodge these binaries altogether, this issue thinks through the frame of technological ecologies, which analyzes and contests the division between the ecological and the technological in an array of audiovisual practices. Screening of Jeannette Muñoz, Strata of Natural History (2012), Mileidy Orozco Domicó, Mu Drua (2011), and Syma Tariq, Partitioned Listening: I hear (colonial) voices (2022); and a discussion with issue guest editors and Counter Encounters members Onyeka Igwe and Laura Huertas Millán, moderated by World Records editor Jason Fox.
CO-SPONSOR: NYU Center for Media, Culture and History.
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WED | MAR 8 | 7-8PM | VIRTUAL | BOOK DISCUSSION
CENTER FOR RELIGION AND MEDIA PRESENTS
JEWS AND COMEDY
A discussion marking the release of JENNIFER CAPLAN’s new book, Funny, You Don’t Look Funny: Judaism and Humor from The Silent Generation to Millennials. In conversation with SARAH EMANUEL (Loyola Marymount University), followed by an audience Q&A.
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THURSDAY | MAR 30 | 5–6:30 PM | VIRTUAL | BOOK LAUNCH + CONVERSATION
FERRYMAN OF MEMORIES: The Films of Rithy Panh (MARCH 2023, RUTGERS UNIVERSITY PRESS)
Conversation with author DEIRDRE BOYLE and writer VICENTE SÁNCHEZ BIOSCA (University of Valéncia). Moderated by filmmaker PRATAP RUGHANI (University of the Arts, London). The book, Ferryman of Memories: The Films of Rithy Panh features the story of award-winning filmmaker Panh, a survivor of the Cambodian genocide who moved to France, and discovered a film language to tell what happened to the over two million souls who suffered at the hands of the Khmer Rouge.
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THURSDAY-FRIDAY | APRIL 27-28 | FILM FESTIVAL | KJCC AUDITORIUM-52 WASHINGTON SQ. SOUTH
MIRADAS DESDE EL ORIGEN DE LA MADRE TIERRA – CINE PARA LA RESISTENCIA
The Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies is pleased to host a program presented by the Coordinadora Latinoaméricana de Cine y Comunicación de los Pueblos Indígenas. (CLACPI) at the KJCC at NYU on April 27-28, 2023. This Program is a Side Event of the 2023 UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues.
Highlights of the program include an Indigenous film showcase curated by Nelly Kuiru Castro (Murui from the Maconian Amazon in Colombia; Coordinadora, CLACPI), Mariano Estrada (Tseltal, Mexico; President of CLACPI-Mexico), David Hernández Palmar (Wayuu/lipuana Clan, Venezuela; Political Advisor CLACPI), and Norma Rocío Gómez Semanate.
The full agenda for the showcase and program is forthcoming: https://as.nyu.edu/research-centers/clacs/events/spring-2023/miradas-desde-el-origen-de-la-madre-tierra—cine-para-la-resist.html
About CLACPI
CLACPI was founded in 1985 and is the largest collective of Indigenous filmmakers in Latin America. They promote the use of media as a tool of cultural affirmation and social transformation for Indigenous communities. CLACPI produces and disseminates audiovisual materials about Indigenous cultures and other issues of interest for their collective organizations. They also focus on grassroots media training and workshops to promote agency and self-representation among Indigenous communities.
Supporters
This program is made possible in collaboration with various units at New York University including the Center for Media, Culture and History; Runasimi Outreach Collective; Native Studies Forum; Native American and Indigenous Student Group; Tisch Moving Image Archiving and Preservation and KJCC. Additional collaborators include the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage; and Queens University Vulnerable Media Lab.
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WEDNESDAY | MAY 3 | “(RE) EXIST IN THE PRESENT, IMAGINE THE FUTURE” SCREENING SHOWCASE | BROOKLYN COLLEGE
