[arthistorymajors] Reminder: TONIGHT, 'Autoethnography as Documentary' screening

Art History Majors arthistorymajors at uci.edu
Thu Apr 22 11:57:55 PDT 2010


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 
<ttp://tinyurl.com/uci-fvc%22>

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.
 
Free and open to the public.
 
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 
<ailto:sterna at uci.edu%22> or follow the 
link: http://www.humanities.uci.edu/fvc/schedule.html 
<ttp://www.humanities.uci.edu/fvc/schedule.html%22>

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