GISB Shreve Auditorium 0001
Shot in 2007 and 2012, this observational documentary with neither voiceover comment nor interviews plunges the audience into the atmosphere of a residential facility for children with developmental disabilities, and of an asylum for mentally disabled adult people in Russia. The film is in Russian with English subtitles. The film shows the daily routines of […]
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Nataliia Yefimkina’s Garagenvolk explores a different way of life in the Russian far North—garage settlements. Set in the Kola Peninsula, beyond the Arctic Circle, the film follows the lives of men in a mining community who utilize garages for either hobbies or businesses. Garagenvolk creates a lively and unorthodox representation of life in the Russian […]
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Renato Serrano’s Life of Ivanna shadows a young single mother with five children inhabiting a nomadic sleigh cabin in the Russian tundra. Although the audience sees the Nenets woman attending to all her children’s needs and confidently heading her reindeer sleigh through the barely distinguishable landscape, Ivanna cannot sustain this life. Life of Ivanna provides […]
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To mark the 50th anniversary of the Watergate scandal, a screening of the award-winning film based on the bestselling book by Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein. Followed by a Q&A with Washington journalist, editor, and author Martin Schram. Watergate looms large in both American political consciousness and in the mythos surrounding the practice of investigative […]
The Commons at The Media School, Franklin Hall
Comida Como Resistencia (2022) bridges archaeology and agroecology, exploring the lineage of land stewardship traditional cooking in Tlaxcala, Mexico. Join us for live mariachi music, food, planting activities, and post-film discussion with the filmmaker, Dr. Keitlyn Alcántara (IU Department of Anthropology). Set in Tlaxcala, Mexico, a tiny state with a legacy of resistance, this documentary short […]
IU Cinema, French Lick, Brown County Playhouse
Years with ALS have left Kathryn paralyzed and needing 24-hour care. With her mind intact and having opted for mechanical breathing, she could live like this indefinitely. But the situation has embittered and alienated her husband Said, and proved too much for many nurses and aides. Her grown son Noah, who lives with Kathryn and […]
GISB 1060
A lecture by Magdalena Zdrodowska, Assistant Professor at the Institute of Audiovisual Arts, Jagiellonian University, Poland. Professor Zdrodowska’s work engages intersections of deafness, technology, film, and media. As deafness is often seen as a disability, deaf communities tend to be considered passive consumers of cinematic culture rather than its creative force. This presentation will focus […]
IU Cinema and Dogwood Room, IMU
On Monday, 2/21/22, at 7:00 p.m., IU Cinema will show Speak Up (Ouvrir la voix). In Speak Up, Amandine Gay creates an intimate conversation with Black women located in Francophone Europe. They open up about their experiences of discrimination in interviews filmed in close-ups and take control over their own representation in staged onscreen performances. […]
IU Cinema-hosted Zoom Webinar/Online Viewing
Based on a book written by Simone de Beauvoir, this film recounts the story of Djamila Boupacha, an Algerian woman and National Liberation Front Activist, who was arrested by the French in 1960, accused of terrorism, and tortured. Attorney Gisèle Halimi agreed to defend her and organized a support committee, chaired by Simone de Beauvoir, […]
GISB Shreve Auditorium (GA0001)
The RSW Fall 2021 Film Series, Power, Poetics, and Play: Documenting Soviet Legacies, will screen State Funeral, a 2019 documentary directed by Sergei Loznitsa. State Funeral chronicles the four days leading up to the funeral of Joseph Stalin with footage of the millions of mourners who flocked to Moscow to pay their respects following the death of the leader of […]
Moving Image Archive Screening Room, Wells Library
The past decade has seen a massive interest in the history of film theory. Starting with major reassessments of classical film theory, more recent work has turned to the 1970s and 1980s to seek a more general account of the notions of media, spectatorship, and ideology. This talk explores the overlooked period between them. Drawing […]
GISB Shreve Auditorium (GA0001)
The RSW Fall 2021 Film Series will screen will screen Kolyma: Road of Bones, a documentary directed by Stanislaw Mucha. [Germany, 2017, 85 min.] Kolyma is one of the coldest regions in the world and is notoriously known as the location of one of the deadliest labor camps of the Stalin era. The film brings perspectives of Russian […]
GISB Shreve Auditorium (GA 0001)
Truba [Pipeline], a 2013 documentary directed by Vitaly Manskiy, will be the first screening this fall in the RSW Documentary Film Series: Power, Poetics, and Play: Documenting Soviet Legacies. “Pipeline” is a travelogue looking at the lives of the communities along the pipeline which transports gas from Siberia to Europe. Professor Margarita Balmaceda (Seton Hall University), author […]
Wells Library LI044B – The Phyllis Klotman Room
The Russian Studies Workshop Disability Studies Working Group has arranged for the screening of the short documentary film “Setting off with Malcolm” (22 min.), by the Russian film director and activist Jerry Mercury. The director, who will join via Zoom, will introduce the film and lead a Q&A with the audience after the screening. Dedicated to […]
Virtual Event
The RSW Spring 2021 Film Series, Power, Poetics, and Play: Documenting Soviet Legacies, will screen the 2019 documentary “VOY” (“БОЙ”), directed by Maxim Arbugaev. “VOY” tells the story of the Russian Paralympic Blind Football team, which is preparing for the most important event in their lives – the European Championship. The Team has only one goal […]
Virtual Event
The RSW Spring 2021 Film Series, Power, Poetics, and Play: Documenting Soviet Legacies, will screen the 2019 documentary “Будинок” (“Budynok”) that was directed by Matilda Mester and Tatjana Kononenko. The screening will be introduced by the directors and followed by a conversation and Q&A with the directors and IU Professor Gardner Bovingdon. “In the east […]
Online
The Pleasures of Uninhibited Excess Film Directed by Leslie Asako Gladsjo and Jonathan Reiss SRL founder Mark Pauline will be present to introduce the film. This is a filmed documentary of a performance by Survival Research Labs, a performance group that stages what the group calls ‘ritualized interactions’ between robotic creatures. Survival Research Laboratories was […]
Virtual Event
The RSW Spring 2021 Film Series, Power, Poetics, and Play: Documenting Soviet Legacies, will screen the 2016 documentary “Operation Wedding” that was directed by Anat Zalmonson Kuznetsov. The screening will be introduced by the filmmaker and followed by comments, conversation, and Q&A with the filmmaker and Professor Ben Nathans, Associate Professor of History at University of Pennsylvania. “Operation Wedding” […]
Via Zoom–Register to Participate
Filmmakers Ken and Florence Jacobs are scheduled to be present for a virtual conversation and interactive Q&A moderated by IU Media School Associate Professor Joan Hawkins. To participate in this virtual event: Be sure you have downloaded Zoom software to the device you want to use to watch this event. Register for the December 11 […]
Virtual Event
This year’s annual WTIU Conference on Aging took place on Saturday mornings from October 3rd to November 21. Because of travel restrictions, the conference was a virtual event, which allowed people around the country to participate. The conference sessions were recorded on Zoom and are posted on the WTIU website. The website includes the PowerPoint […]
Writer/Director Gabriela Barreto, Executive Producer Cassio Nobre, and Associate Professor of Anthropology, Universidade Federal do Recôncavo da Bahia Xavier Vatin are scheduled to be present for a virtual conversation and interactive Q&A moderated by Founding Director of IU Graduate Mentoring Center Maria Hamilton Abegunde and IU Professor of Folklore and Ethnomusicology and Editor of Journal […]
A Lecture by Salome Aguilera Skvirsky
This presentation revisits a masterwork of documentary cinema, The Battle of Chile (Patricio Guzmán, Chile, 1975-79). The film depicts a shifting political landscape in which different social forces (parties, unions, bosses’ organizations, neighborhood associations, student groups, etc.) vie for power in the six-month run-up to the 1973 coup that overthrew the democratic socialist president of […]
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Freddy is 30 and yearns to start a family, but for him this ordinary desire comes with unique challenges. He is a gay transgender man. Deciding to carry his own baby took years of soul searching, but nothing could prepare him for the reality of pregnancy, as both a physical experience and one that challenges […]
Franklin Hall 310
The talk will address some initial parameters for a historiographical approach of the sound in documentary film tradition as well as some perspectives to consider it from a theoretical point of view. Since the “silent” period, critics, producers, filmmakers and musicians have written (pre-) theories, criticisms, reviews and observations about sound in documentary and non-fiction […]
Media School Commons, Franklin Hall
Patricia Zimmermann will discuss her book, Documentary Across Platforms: Reverse Engineering Media, Place, and Politics, a collection of her essays and speculations about documentary, experimental, and new media published outside of traditional scholarly venues. She envisions documentary as a complex ecology composed of different technologies, sets of practices, and specific relationships to communities, engagement, politics, and […]
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Donbass (2018) Directed by Sergei Loznitsa Free, but ticketed Not rated – 121 min Part of the Ukrainian Homelands Film Series Sergei Loznitsa’s Donbass consists of a series of narrative fragments touching upon the nature of the current war between Russia and Ukraine. The film departs from a conventional depiction of war: a chronological and […]
Moving Image Archive Screening Room
Wells Library 048
In rural Nicaragua, Dulce Maria and her brother Francisco are deaf adults without any language–spoken, written, or signed–until Tomasa, a deaf sign-language teacher, arrives determined to teach them their first words. A Life Without Words (2011) was directed and shot by Adam Isenberg, who will be present for the screening. There will be a reception […]
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Part of the “Catching Up with Cuba” film series, Ghost Town (2015) introduces two extraordinary coaches who are committed to bringing out the best in their youth baseball players. They meet first on videotape, and Coach Roscoe vows to bring his players from their gang-ridden neighborhood in Oakland, Calif., to compete with Coach Nicolas’s team in […]
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Montgomery Clift was one of the most influential actors in the history of cinema, bucking traditions on and off screen, but countless biographies have reduced him to a tragic figure—a self-loathing, closeted alcoholic whose repressed sexuality lead him to “the slowest suicide in Hollywood history.” Now, Clift’s youngest nephew, Robert A. Clift, and Hillary Demmon […]
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Stand in the Stream is directed by Stanya Kahn. Due to unforeseen circumstances, Director Stanya Kahn will no longer be present for this screening. Fast-paced, personal, and urgent, Stand in the Stream weaves together the narrative of Kahn’s activist mother’s physical and mental deterioration and death, the birth of Kahn’s son, and Kahn’s own role as a […]
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Directed by Elena Volochine and James Keogh. Director Elena Volochine is scheduled to be present. Oleg’s Choice offers riveting embedded footage from the ongoing Russia-Ukraine conflict in the Donbas. This is a rare immersion into the private lives of two Russian combatants, Oleg and Max, who have chosen to fight on the separatists’ side in Ukraine. […]
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Directed by Gabe Polsky. Red Army documents the rise and domination of the great USSR hockey team of the 1980s and ’90s to probe the accomplishments and contradictions of the Soviet sports machine. Hockey was both an arena for Cold War rivalries and a source of friend- ship, perseverance, privilege, and discipline for elite players. Says […]
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This event screens two films directed by Shelly Silver, who will be present to discuss her work. A Strange New Beauty is an experimental documentary that offers a disturbing intrusion into luxurious homes in Silicon Valley. What I’m Looking For, rooted in the tradition of a film-essay, documents the adventure of a woman who sets out to photograph moments […]
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Directed by Aliona van der Horst. When in 2014 Dutch-Russian lmmaker Aliona van der Horst inherits one-sixth of the small village house in the Russian countryside where her mother grew up, she is launched on a journey into the past. As the house reveals its mysteries and secrets, Love is Potatoes unfolds a tale of six […]
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Luz Obscura is directed by Susana de Sousa Dias, who will be present to discuss the film. Utilizing material gathered in archives of the Portuguese political police, Luz Obscura mines the psychological aftermath of the António Salazar dictatorship. The film is composed of still images, often mug shots and other official photographs of identification–images produced by and […]
Franklin Hall 312
Drawing from archival research and contemporaneous film criticism and theory, philosophy, and anti-colonial critique, this talk traces how filmmakers in metropolitan France began to address these questions through the re-emergence of a cinema of exploration in the late 1940s and 1950s. These films were produced at the very moment when the question of the world […]
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The Russian/Soviet director Dziga Vertov is without question one of the most important documentary filmmakers in history. He was committed to artistic experimentation and the use of nonfiction images and yet was a rigid supporter of Soviet policies and a fierce proponent of montage editing. He was also a difficult, opinionated, occasionally irascible artist, who […]
Multiple venues.
Wounded Galaxies: 1968 – Beneath the Paving Stones, the Beach is a festival and symposium produced by The Burroughs Century Ltd., welcoming scholars, writers, artists, archivists, filmmakers, performers, and others interested in exploring the intellectual and aesthetic legacy of 1968, during its 50th Anniversary year. Programs focus on the events that occurred in Paris, Chicago, and […]
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In the 1970s, 1500 organized workers of Puerto el Triunfo–mostly women–thanks to their struggles were among the more privileged laborers in El Salvador. Then state repression eliminated union leaders or drove them into exile. By 1990, the fishing industry collapsed. The film provides a window into the effects of neoliberalism. Jeffrey Gould, the director of […]
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In presenting his first Avant-Noir program in 2014, independent moving image curator Greg de Cuir Jr. conceived of it as “an intervention into the status quo of alternative film and video curating.” This second volume continues his project with a collection of short films and videos from young and established artists both of African and non-African descent, […]
Fine Arts, Room 102
People relate to the archive as if it is a distinct object with its own history. However, it is through “its” histories that the archive is invented and conceived as a self-same institution that persists with little change from antiquity to the present. Most histories of the archive share the presupposition that the archive is the walled place where documents of the past, produced elsewhere, are stored and preserved. This tripartite conglomerate of documents, bygone time and a walled space dissociates the archive from the imperial regime of which it is part and limits its existence to one of being a depository of documents. And if documents were not the archive’s raison d’être?
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How do societies make sense of their authoritarian pasts through contemporary documentary film? South Africa, Taiwan, and South Korea—all vibrant democracies today—feature rich documentary film traditions that investigate how histories of state violence, economic dispossession, environmental degradation, and political disempowerment continue to produce effects long after the end to authoritarian rule. Contemporary struggles for rights, […]
GSIB Auditorium
There is beauty and danger in any ethnographic journey. Ethnographers entrust themselves to the unpredictable. Our writing is in perpetual motion between the desire to depart somewhere and the desire to return from somewhere. In my lecture I will examine this continuum, discussing real and imaginative journeys and how they have come together in my exploration of vulnerability and the search for empathy.
Woodburn Hall 101
The Center for Documentary Research and Practice invites you to a screening and panel discussion of the documentary film, “I Learn America,” on Monday, October 16th, at 6:30 pm in Woodburn Hall 101. Our guest speaker, documentary filmmaker Jean-Michel Dissard, will introduce the film. IU faculty members Bernard Fraga (Political Science, CRRES, Latino Studies) and Ellen Wu (History, American Studies, Asian American Studies, CRRES) will be respondents to the film, followed by questions and comments from the audience.
Wylie Hall 005
A signature achievement of the Institut für den Wissenschaftlichen Film (IWF) was its Encyclopaedia Cinematographica (EC) project, which was active from 1952 until the early 1990s. Divided into three sections dedicated to biology, ethnology, and the technical sciences, the EC was conceived as a comprehensive archive of movement whose core principle was to reduce complex […]
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In this videotaped lecture, part of the inaugural lecture series, Scott Curtis discussed the relationship between animation and live action in scientific, documentary, and educational films. He acknowledged that animation, like an illustration in a textbook, is necessary to depict what cannot be photographed. But he argued that abstract animations function rhetorically when paired with […]
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This film series, part of the inaugural lecture series, focused on three award-winning films produced by Harvard’s innovative Sensory Ethnography Lab. SEL is a filmmaking laboratory that works to explore the aesthetics and ontology of the natural and unnatural world through experimental video forms. Though distinct in style and topic, the three films reflect Center […]
Maurer School of Law
As part of our inaugural lecture series, Rebecca Wexler, a founding director and instructor for the Yale Visual Law Project, discussed the relationship between documentary photography and the law. In doing so, she challenged the seemingly evidentiary nature of digital images in the courtroom and questioned the ethics of using proprietary software as an investigative tool.
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In this videotaped lecture, part of the center’s inaugural lecture series, Roger Hallas, an associate professor of English at Syracuse University, talked about how photography may be better used in documentaries at 3 p.m. Oct. 30 at the IU Cinema. In his lecture, “A Medium Seen Otherwise: Photography and Documentary Film,” Hallas explained how cinematographic […]
School of Education 1120
Part of the center’s inaugural lecture series, photographers Cedric Nunn and Andrew Lichtenstein presented a joint lecture. Nunn’s latest work, Unsettled, documents the terrain of the eastern cape in South Africa, where colonial settlers and the Xhosa people fought wars lasting a century. Lichtenstein has pursued a similar project, “American Memory,” documenting neglected historical sites […]
