MEMORY, MEDIA AND CULTURAL CREATIVITY
FALL 2009
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SOME EVENTS IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE ART EXHIBITION: ICONS OF THE DESERT: Early Aboriginal Painting from Papunya

NYU’s Grey Art Gallery
100 Washington Square East
September 1st- December 5th, 2009

Co-sponsored by NYU’s Humanities Initiative, the departments of Anthropology and Art History, Morse Academic Plan, Native Peoples Forum, Fine Arts Society, ITVS and the Grey Art Gallery.




SCREENING / DISCUSSION


IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE ART EXHIBITION: ICONS OF THE DESERT: Early Aboriginal Painting from Papunya

Saturday, September 12, 2:00–5:00 pm
The National Museum of the American Indian
The George Gustav Heye Center / Alexander Hamilton U.S. Custom House
One Bowling Green, New York, NY

PUBLIC SCREENING/DISCUSSION
NEW INDIGENOUS CINEMA FROM AUSTRALIA
BECK COLE (Luritja/ Warramunga)

Filmmaker Beck Cole will premiere and discuss her recent documentaries addressing the Indigenous cultural rights and creativity.

A Fair Go for a Dark Race (2008, 55 min.),
On Australia’s Indigenous civil rights movement.

Excerpts from: Making Samson and Delilah: The Documentary (2009, 55 min.)
Behind the scenes of the Cannes Film Festival award winning feature film.

Lore of Love (2005, 25 min.)
A young aboriginal woman is taught tradition by her feisty grandmothers.




SCREENING / DISCUSSION


Friday, September 25, 6:00–8:00 pm
PLEASE NOTE NEW ADDRESS: Cinema Studies Screening Room, 721 Broadway, Room 648

Reel Bad Arabs
Dr. Jack Shaheen discusses his book Reel Bad Arabs: How Hollywood Vilifies People and screens his film.

In conversation with Jack Tchen.

Post screening discussion with the filmmaker.

Presented by the Asian Pacific American Institute and The Center for Religion and Media




SCREENING / DISCUSSION


Friday, October 2, 4:00–6:00 pm
The Kevorkian Center, 50 Washington Square South at Sullivan Street

Project Kashmir (2008, 89 minutes)
Director/Producers: Senain Kheshgi & Geeta V. Patel

Two American friends from opposite sides of the divide investigate the war in Kashmir and find their friendship tested over deeply rooted political, cultural and religious biases they never had to face in the U.S.

Post-screening discussion with filmmakers.

Click here for the event flyer.

Co-sponsored Co-sponsored by the NYU Center for Dialogues: Islamic World- U.S.- The West and the Hagop Kevorkian Center




SCREENING / DISCUSSION


Tuesday, October 9, 6:30–9:00 pm
Kimmel Center, Room 802, 60 Washington Square South

Flow (84 min, 2008)
Director: Irena Salina

Flow is an awarding winning documentary about the World Water Crisis.

Post screening discussion with the filmmaker.

Presented by The McGee School




SCREENING / DISCUSSION


Friday, October 9, 7:30–9:00 pm
251 Mercer Street, Warren Weaver Hall, Room 109

Memefactory

This performance is a fast paced tour of how memes—units of cultural meaning—travel through the internet.

In collaboration with Free Culture NYC




SCREENING / DISCUSSION


Wednesday, October 14, 6:30–8:30 pm
Cantor Film Center, Theater 101, 36 East 8th Street

Citizen Tanouye (58 minutes, 2005)
Co-directors: Robert Horsting and Craig Yahata
CITIZEN TANOUYE uniquely brings history to life for eight ethnically diverse Torrance, CA high school students through their research of THS alumnus Tech Sgt Ted Tanouye and the impact the war had on their city, while drawing attention to the civil rights abuses of WWII era America.

Post screening discussion with the filmmaker.

Presented by the Asian Pacific American Institute. Co-sponsored by The Japanese American Association and The Center for Media, Culture & History




SCREENING / DISCUSSION


Friday, October 16, 4:00–6:00 pm
King Juan Carlos Center Screening Room, 53 Washington Square South

Our Disappeared (99 minutes, 2008)
Directed by Juan Mandelbaum
A filmmaker returns to Argentina to trace the fate of friends and family who were kidnapped, tortured and “disappeared” by the military during the 1976-1983 dictatorship.

Post-screening discussion with the filmmaker.

Co-sponsored by The King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center and The Center for Latin American Studies




FILM FESTIVAL


Wednesday–Sunday, October 21–25
Cantor Film Center, 36 East 8th Street

A Cinema Across Borders: The First New York Kurdish Film Festival

For a complete schedule of screenings and events, see http://www.arteeast.org.

Kurdish cinema speaks strongly to our times because it confronts the pain and promise of crossing borders: not only the borders that separate nations, but the lines that define gender, community, and culture, that demarcate the past and the future, and adjudicate between those with and those without hope. Yet despite being one of the great film cultures of the world, Kurdish cinema still remains largely unknown in the U.S. The First New York Kurdish Film Festival: A Cinema Across Borders will showcase an exciting range of recent feature films, shorts, and documentaries by male and female directors from across the Kurdish region—including films from Turkey, Iraq, Iran, Armenia—and the Kurdish diaspora. What unites these diverse films is a powerful commitment to innovative storytelling and a concern to rethink imposed borders of whatever kind. The festival will bring a number of Kurdish film directors to the U.S. to connect directly with New York audiences, and will provide a unique educational opportunity for learning about Kurdish history and culture. The festival aims to enrich the diversity and cultural life of the city by opening up new routes for understanding and dialogue between different cultures and visions of the world.

Presented by the Kevorkian Center and ArteEast. Co-sponsored by the Center for Religion and Media




SCREENING / DISCUSSION


Wednesday, November 4, 6:30–8:30 pm
Cantor Film Center, Theater 101 36 East 8th Street

Objects and Memory (62 minutes, 2008)
Directors: Jonathan Fein & Brian Danitz

Filmmaker Jon Fein in conversation with Jack Tchen talking about objects, archives, authenticity, memorialization and collecting living histories.

Presented by the Asian Pacific American Institute. Co-sponsored by The Center for Media, Culture & History




FILM FESTIVAL


Thursday–Sunday, November 12–15
The American Museum of Natural History, Central Park West and 79th Street

The Margaret Mead Film and Video Festival

Information: http://www.amnh.org/programs/mead/




PROGRAM SUBJECT TO CHANGE

All events are free and open to the public, but seating is limited.
Seating is first come, first served.
Persons with a disability are requested to call the Center for Media, Culture, and History in advance at 212.998.3759.
Funding has been provided by The Pew Charitable Trusts.