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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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An Evening with Laura Waddington and Nicholas Mirzoeff

IMA Eyespeak presents:

An Evening with Laura Waddington and Nicholas Mirzoeff

This night will feature screenings of Laura Waddington’s videos CARGO, BORDER, and her most recent work, STILL, pieces of a larger collective film to protest police violence in France.

Date: Friday, December 6th, 7pm with a reception immediately to follow.
Location: Lang Theater, Hunter North 424, 695 Park Avenue

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IMA alumna Laurie Sumiye screening in DOCNYC

IMA alumna Laurie Sumiye’s short animated documentary, Of Memory & Los Sures , which she created during her collaborative residency at UnionDocs will be apart of the shorts program called Then & Now at DOCNYC on November 21st. Her short piece is an animated oral history of a traditionally Puerto Rican neighborhood in South Williamsburg that weaves fragments of childhood nostalgia and harsh realities of the past with unique glimpses into a collective memory of a place undergoing rapid changes.

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