Category: Fall 2021

In the award-winning film “Yaõkwá, Image and Memory”, the Enawenê encounter mages recorded 25 years ago. Post-screening discussion with Video in the Villages founder, filmmaker VINCENT CARELLI with ROBERT STAM (NYU Cinema Studies) and AMALIA CÓRDOVA (Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage, Smithsonian Institution).

Screening of “FRUITS OF LABOR” (78 Mins, 2021, Directed by Emily Cohen Ibañez). Post-screening discussion: filmmaker EMILY COHEN IBAÑEZ with DIANA TAYLOR (Depts. of Spanish and Portuguese & Performance Studies.) and JOSEFINA SALDAÑA-PORTILLO (Dept. of Social & Cultural Analysis).

“ANOTHER SKIN: Belonging and Climate Adaptation in Guyana” lecture by Sarah E. Vaughn (Anthropology, UC Berkeley)

Screening: “BLACK ART: In The Absence Of Light” (2021, 85 MINS, DIR: SAM POLLARD). Post-screening discussion: Director SAM POLLARD (NYU, Film & TV) and artist, author, and curator DEBORAH WILLIS (NYU Dept. of Photography & Imaging and Center for Black Visual Culture).

Kin Theory, a project of Nia Tero, serves and connects a growing, global community of Indigenous storytellers. A screening of intersectional shorts by Nia Tero’s Indigenous fellows, IVY MACDONALD (she/her; Blackfeet), RAVEN TWO FEATHERS (he/they); Two-Spirit; Cherokee, Seneca, Cayuga, and Comanche), and ALEX SALLEE (she/her; Iñupiaq and Mexican) will be followed by a discussion with the filmmakers. Moderator: TRACY RECTOR (Black, Choctaw, Jewish), Managing Director of Storytelling, Nia Tero.

“Queer Intimacy and Violence in a Mexican Border City Prostitution Zone” lecture by Sarah Luna (Anthropology, Tufts University)

“MULTISPECIES MOURNING: Grieving as Resistance on the West Papuan Oil Palm Frontier” lecture by Sophie Chao (Anthropology, University of Sydney)