[arthistorymajors] VSGSA/FVC Screening Event: Autoethnography as Documentary (April 22, 5:30-9:00)

[Art History Majors]

The Visual Studies Graduate Student Association and the Film & Video
Center present:

Autoethnography as Documentary
Film screenings followed by Q & A with the directors

Thursday, April 22, 2010, 5:30-9:00
McCormick Screening Room (1070 Humanities Gateway)
University of California, Irvine
For campus map and location information: http://tinyurl.com/uci-fvc

5:30pm: PLASTIC FLOWERS NEVER DIE, directed by Roxanne Varzi (U.S./
Iran, 2008, 34 min)
Anthropologist, writer and filmmaker Roxanne Varzi spent a year in
Iran without a film permit speaking to ideologically driven mural
painters, museum curators, war vets and other cultural producers
alongside the secular youth who were meant to consume the culture
created by the government. The result is an experimental documentary
and meditation on the aftermath of the war, and especially the
mourning after.

6:30pm: Reception, Humanities Gateway Courtyard

7:30pm screening: SHUNGU: THE RESILIENCE OF A PEOPLE, directed by Saki
Mafundikwa (U.S./Zimbabwe, 2009, 54 min)
Zimbabwean filmmaker and graphic designer Saki Mafundikwa explores his
country's current political and economic crises by closely examining
the lives of fellow Zimbabweans: a widow toils away in vain on her
failing farm, a metalsmith cannot work without his tools and does not
know if he will be able to support his third child, a doctor looks on
despondently as health care goes from bad to worse. In addition to
detailing this painful existence, Mafundikwa uses archive footage to
throw light on British colonialism in his country, wars, the politics
of Mugabe, and the opponents of the dictator, who hope to offer their
country a better future.

Sponsored by the UC Irvine Humanities Collective, Film & Video Center,
The Design Alliance, International Studies, Associated Graduate
Students, and the Center for Ethnography.

For more information, please contact sterna at uci.edu or follow the
link: http://www.humanities.uci.edu/fvc/schedule.html








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