IMA student Martyna Starosta recently co-founded the video journalism collective New York Video League. This week, the group aired it’s first short web documentary on the online platform Waging Nonviolence. The video “Police on Playback” provides insights into the history and tactics of cowatch activism:
Month: October 2012
Prof. Marty Lucas’ film screening
Cold Shutdown: Fukushima One Year After, Prof. Marty Lucas’ recently completed doc is a visit with Fukushima citizens as they come together in the face of government indifference and ineffectuality to deal with the legacy of nuclear fallout from the Dai Ichi Disaster that still covers thousands of square miles of Japan. The half-hour film is playing at:
The Park Slope Food Coop
782 Union Street, Brooklyn, between 6th and 5th Aves.
Friday, November 2, at 7:00PM
Free screening, open to the public.
Prof. Lucas will be presenting the film.
Revised date & time – Film Screening
FILM SCREENING: THE LAST HOUSE ON THE LEFT (1972)
Revised date and time: Weds, Nov. 28th 8PM
Lang Recital Hall Room 424 Hunter North
This screening of the landmark New York-centered horror film will be introduced by Adam Lowenstein, professor of film studies at the University of Pittsburgh and author of Shocking Representation: Historical Trauma, National Cinema, and the Modern Horror Film (Columbia University Press, 2005). Lowenstein will also lead the audience in a discussion after the screening. Refreshments provided.
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