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Prof. Kelly Anderson’s documentary premiering at the Brooklyn Film Festival

My Brooklyn, Prof. Kelly Anderson’s documentary about the development of Downtown Brooklyn and the ways policy is reshaping the city along lines of race and class, is premiering Saturday, June 2 at 7:30 at the Brooklyn Film Festival (Brooklyn Heights Cinema). There will be a second screening Sunday, June 10 at 8pm.

http://www.brooklynfilmfestival.org/films/pop.asp?fid=1226

Film features Hunter Professor Tom Angotti, former Jack Newfield Professor Alyssa Katz, was Associate Produced by IMA Grad Fivel Rothberg, graphics and animation by IMA grad Laurie Sumiye, filming by IMA grad Chris Dapkins, Marty Lucas and Tami Gold.

Seeing Power Seeing: Two Films by Martin Lucas

The IMA/MFA Program, The IMA Development Fund and The Department of Film & Media Studies
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Seeing Power Seeing: Two Films by Martin Lucas

Monday, May 7th @ 7PM
HN 502 Screening Room
North Building, Hunter College
695 Park Avenue, NYC
(Entrance on East 69th St. between Park and Lexington)

About:
These two very different films (Cold Shutdown: Fukushima One Year After and Beyond Recognition), both look at the current state of the encounter between people and technology and ask how our lives are dictated (even dominated) by complex technologies, technologies that prioritize our lives while masking the games of profit and desire that they involve us while hiding the way that they force us to employ our own humanity in the service of dubious and ultimately sterile goals.

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