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A Documentary Showcase from the 2016-2017 Video Production Seminar, Program in Culture & Media

Screening of THE LAND BENEATH OUR FEET, a documentary that chronicles a young Liberian man, uprooted by war who returns home with rare 1926 footage of an historic land grab, an explosive reminder of the enduring struggle over land rights.

GREEN SCREENS Film Festival NY Premiere of ATLANTIC (80 min.). Post-screening discussion with Atlantic Director Risteard Ó Domhnaill with Jennifer Jacquet (Environmental Studies, NYU). Moderator: Niall McKay (Irish Screen America)

Screenings and discussions on environmental crises facing communities worldwide featuring the documentaries SHERPA, ATLANTIC, ANGRY INUK, and VICE’s SACRED WATER with presenting filmmakers

GREEN SCREENS film festival opening night screening of SHERPA (90 min.). Post-screening discussion with Sherpa director Jennifer Peedom and Pasang Yangjee Sherpa (Post-Doctoral Fellow for Sacred Landscapes & Sustainable Futures, The New School)

THE RUSE OF CONSENT AND THE ANATOMY OF “REFUSAL”:
Cases from Indigenous North America and Australia, lecture by Audra Simpson (Anthropology, Columbia University)

INDIGENOUS ACTIVISM IN THE AMERICAS Screenings and discussions as part of GREEN SCREENS: Environmental Ethics on and Off Screen, including ANGRY INUK (Dir: Alethea Arnaquq-Baril), VICE RISE SERIES’ SACRED WATER (Dir: Michelle Latimer)

FRIDAY / FEBRUARY 3 / 4-6 PM Cinema Studies, Michelson Theater 721 Broadway, 6th Floor ONE MIND (78 min., 2014, Dir: Edward A. Burger) An experiment in Buddhist filmmaking that takes us into the ancient Zhenru Chan monastery in southern…