Month: November 2013

FM alum Jayan Cherian screening at ADIFF in NYC

Film and Media alum Jayan K Cherian will be screening his film, Papilio Buddha at the 21st African Diaspora International Film Festival in New York City. Papilio Buddha features a group of displaced untouchables in Western Ghats of India whom embrace Buddhism in order to escape from caste oppression. The film explores the new identity-political uprising based on Ambedkarism, in the milieu of an on going land struggle. The film was originally banned in India, but it will be playing at the film festival on Friday December 6 at 7:30 PM.

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IMA alum Benj Gerdes moderates Flaherty Film Seminar

This Tuesday, November 12th at 7 PM, IMA alum Benj Gerdes will be moderating a screening and discussion at the Anthology Film Archives showing States of Exception, Exceptional States: The Iron Grip of Nationalism. The screenings will feature films on the unending crisis in the middle east in countries such as Israel, Palestine and Syria. After the show a wine reception will be held in the lobby where the discussion will take place.

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IMA alumnae Sarah Wright and Laura Chipley’s Remote Voyages opening

From November 7th to the 23rd, The Newtown Creek Armada will present Remote Voyages, a gallery installation at the 111 Front Street Galleries in Dumbo, Brooklyn. The gallery will feature a video and sculpture installation by the project’s creators, IMA alumnae Sarah Wright, Laura Chipley and collaborator Nathan Kensinger.
Remote Voyages will transport viewers to a toxic landscape where industry, sewage and pollution collide with nature, as a fleet of remotely operated miniature boats project their explorations of the Newtown Creek, the site of the largest urban oil spill in the United States.

event information for Remote Voyage

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