Screening of The Hunting Ground
Tuesday, October 6
North Quad Space 2435
8:00 p.m. -- Free Admission
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"The Hunting Ground, a documentary shocker about rape on American college campuses, is a must-watch work of cine-activism."
Manohla Dargis
New York Times
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React to Film: University of Michigan presents a free screening of The Hunting Ground (2015), a chilling documentary from the makers of The Invisible War that presents a nationwide examination of sexual assault on American college campuses. The Sundance Institute comments on the film: "Scrutinizing the gamut of elite Ivies, state universities, and small colleges, filmmakers Kirby Dick and Amy Ziering reveal an endemic system of institutional cover-ups, rationalizations, victim-blaming, and denial that creates perfect storm conditions for predators to prey with impunity. Meanwhile, the film captures mavericks Andrea Pino and Annie Clark, survivors who are taking matters into their own hands—ingeniously employing Title IX legal strategy to fight back and sharing their knowledge among a growing, unstoppable network of young women who will no longer be silent."
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2015 UM Contemporary Chinese Film Series
Tuesdays in September and October
State Theater
7:00 p.m. -- Free Admission
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Still from Only You 命中注定 (2015), directed by Zhang Hao
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Sponsored by the Confucius Institute and Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies at UM, Electric Shadows: 2015 Contemporary Chinese Film Series will feature six exciting Chinese films released in 2014 and 2015. SAC Professor Markus Nornes helped curate the festival, which continues today, October 6, at the State Theater with the screening of Only You (2015). A romantic comedy directed by Zhang Hao and starring Tang Wei and Liao Fan, this film is a remake of 1994's Only You: a bride-to-be travels to Italy to find her fated lover and falls in love.
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Screening of Korla Followed by a Q & A with Director John Turner
Thursday, October 8
Forum Hall, Palmer Commons
5:30 p.m. -- Free Admission
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"Korla Pandit was a musician of dazzling inventiveness [...]. Long before synthesizers stalked the land, Korla figured out how to coax all manner of previously unheard percussion, brass, and string sounds out of the Hammond B-3 organ."
Dan Epstein, La Weekly
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Join us for a screening of Korla, a new documentary about Korla Pandit, a spiritual seeker, a television pioneer, and the godfather of exotica music. Known for his hypnotic gaze, Korla captured the hearts of countless Los Angeles housewives in the '50s with his live television program that featured a blend of popular tunes and East Indian compositions, theatrically performed on a Hammond B3 organ. In the '90s, he resurfaced as a cult figure with the tiki/lounge music aficionados, filling clubs, skating rinks, and bars with retro hipsters. Often pegged as a "man of mystery," Korla lived up to that billing when he took an amazing secret with him to his grave in 1998 -- one that is revealed in Korla. Read more about the film (with spoilers) here.
This event is generously sponsored by Asian/Pacific Islander Studies; the Department of American Culture; the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies; the Center for South Asian Studies; and Screen Arts & Cultures.
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Lusophone Film Festival
Festival Runs Through Early December
Films Screened at State Theater, Michigan Theater, and UMMA Helmut Stern Auditorium; See Schedule for Specific Times and Locations
Free Admission
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The Lusophone Film Festival showcases the contemporary cinema of the Portuguese-speaking world. It is the second event of its kind in Ann Arbor and at the University of Michigan. The primary objectives of this event are to provide high visibility to the Portuguese language and its cultures at the University of Michigan and throughout the region, while contributing to program-building efforts currently underway in Portuguese.
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This week, on Thursday, October 8th, at the State Theater at 7:00 p.m., see Njinga: Queen of Angola. One of the most ambitious recent film productions from sub-Saharan Africa and the grandest in the history of Angolan cinema, Njinga is an epic tale set in 17th-century Angola, at a time when the trans-Atlantic slave trade grew significantly. This visually stunning film follows the story of Njinga, leading her kingdom in a 40-year struggle involving the Portuguese, the Dutch, and rival as well as allied African kingdoms, for freedom and independence. Njinga stands today as a revered symbol of African resistance and is considered by UNESCO to be one of the 25 most important female figures in Africa.
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Njinga: Queen of Angola with an introduction by Professor Anne Pitcher: Thursday, Oct. 8th, 7:00 p.m., State Theater
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The Lusophone Film Festival is sponsored by the Brazil Initiative/Center for Latin American & Caribbean Studies, LSA, International Institute African Studies Center, Department of Afroamerican and African Studies, Institute for the Humanities, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, Sheldon Cohn Fund/Department of Screen Arts & Cultures, Center for European Studies, and Rackham Graduate School.
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Caryl Flinn and Mark Clague to Give Pre-Concert Talk Entitled "Music in Character and as Character: Bernstein's Musical Score to On the Waterfront"
Sunday, October 11
Hill Auditorium -- Talk will be given on the Mezzanine Lobby; Tickets to the performance are required to attend
2:00 p.m. (talk); 3:00 p.m. (screening and performance)
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Join Mark Clague (Associate Professor of Musicology and Director of Research), Caryl Flinn (Chair and Professor of Screen Arts and Cultures), and Conductor David Newman as they explore the role of music as a storytelling device in Leonard Bernstein’s one and only score for a motion picture, On the Waterfront.
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Karl Madden (left) and Marlon Brando in On the Waterfront, screened as the New York Philharmonic played the film's score at Avery Fischer Hall.
Photo credit - Hiroyuki Ito, New York Times
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After the talk, the University Musical Society will be screening the film, accompanied by the New York Philharmonic's live performance of the score. The magnificent soundtrack for On the Waterfront churns with dramatic intensity, underscoring the brutality of the docks, the tough combativeness of the longshoremen, and the dark, looming presence of the mob bosses who dominate their territory. Directed by Elia Kazan, the story is based on true events about crime and corruption on the waterfronts of Manhattan and Brooklyn, with Bernstein’s music accentuating the somber, yet triumphant, conclusion. Academy Award-nominated film composer and conductor David Newman leads the New York Philharmonic in this final concert of their 2015 residency.
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2015 Vivian Shaw Lecture: Piper Kerman (Author of Orange is the New Black: My Year in a Women's Prison)
Tuesday, October 13
Rackham Auditorium
5:10 p.m. (doors open at 4:30 p.m.)
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"Female incarceration has risen by 800 percent in this country," says Kerman. "I believe we have reached a point [...] where most people are questioning whether we have made the best choices."
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Based on the 13 months she spent in the Federal Correctional Institution in Danbury, Connecticut on money laundering charges, Kerman’s memoir, Orange is the New Black, explores the experience of incarceration and the intersection of her life with the lives of the women she met while in prison: their friendships and families, mental illnesses and substance abuse issues, cliques and codes of behavior. The book also raises provocative questions about the state of criminal justice in America, and how incarceration affects the individual and communities throughout the nation.
Since her release, Kerman has worked to promote the cause of prison and criminal justice reform. She serves on the board of the Women's Prison Association, which provides preventative services for at-risk women, works to create alternatives to incarceration, advocates against practices like shackling during childbirth and offers programs to aid reentry into society.
This event is co-sponsored Department of Women's Studies, U-M Law School, Department of Sociology, Screen Arts & Cultures, the School of Social Work, and the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy.
The Vivian R. Shaw Lecture is presented biennially by the Women's Studies Department and the Institute for Research on Women and Gender. Established in 1997 by Ellen S. Agress (U-M, 1968), to honor the memory of her mother, this lecture addresses "real world issues" affecting women.
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THIS WEEK'S FEATURED PHOTO
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On Friday, October 2, Funny or Die's Director/Writer Alex Richanbach and Supervising Producer Ben Sheehan came to campus for a workshop in Terri Sarris' SAC 403, Sketch Comedy class. Following a discussion about their careers and about comedy writing and production, students pitched sketch ideas and then formed into teams to write sketches based on the three ideas Richanbach and Sheehan picked as the most promising. In a short time frame, students produced three very funny sketch script drafts. At left, Richanbach and Sheehan talk with SAC 403 student Abby Buchmeyer.
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