Dates: Ongoing, 2013-2015
Description: This documentary film series featured one documentary film per month. The films selected for Fall 2014 aligned with the LSA Theme Semester “Sports in the University.” The films selected for Winter 2015 related to the theme “Technology.” Free popcorn was served, and many of the screenings were followed by informal post-screening discussions. Please see full listing of films screened below.
Collaborators: AskWith Media Library, various stakeholders and campus collaborators.
2014-2015:
Fri. Sept. 26, 6-8pm: “Afghan Muscles” by Andreas Dalsgaard
Fri., Oct. 24, 6-8pm: “Playing Unfair: The Media Image of the Female Athlete”
Fri., Nov. 21, 6-8pm: “The Boxing Girls of Kabul” by Ariel Nasr
Fri., Dec. 12, 6-8pm: “100 Percent Woman” by Karen Duthie
Fri., Jan. 30, 6-8pm: “Terra Blight” by Isaac Brown
Fri., Feb. 20, 6-8pm: “Moog” by Hans Fjellestad
Fri., March 13, 6-8pm: “FIXED: The Science/Fiction of Human Enhancement” by Regan Brashear
Fri., April 17, 6-8pm: “Extreme by Design”
2013-2014:
Mon., Sept. 9, 6-8pm: “Burden of Dreams” by Les Blank
Mon. Oct. 28, 6-8pm: “Nalini by Day, Nancy by Night” by Sonali Gulati (with post-screening discussion led by Prasanna Vengadam of South Asian American Voices for Impact / SAAVI)
Mon. Nov. 11, 6-8pm: “The Dialogue” by Arnd Wachter (part of International Education Week, with a post-screening discussion led by the Global Scholars Program)
Mon. Dec. 9, 6-8pm: “Say My Name” by Nirit Peled
Thurs. Jan. 23, 7-9pm: “Nostalgia for the Light” by Petricio Guzman
Thurs. Feb. 13, 7-9pm: “All in this Tea” by Les Blank & Gina Leibrecht (with a tea-tasting hosted by Ann Arbor Teas)
Thurs., March 13, 7-9pm: “Koryo Saram, The Unreliable People” by David Chung and Meredit June-En Woo (with a post-screening presentation led by David Chung, who is a Professor in the UM Stamps School of Art & Design)
Thurs., April 10, 7-9pm: “Can’t Do It In Europe” by Charlotta Copcutt, Anna Weitz & Anna Klara Ahrén
A free, monthly documentary film screening presented by North Quad Programming & AskWith Media Library. The Winter 2015 semester’s series features films that explore the theme of technology. Free popcorn will be served!
Terra Blight
Friday • January 30 • 6pm
Directed by Isaac Brown
Terra Blight is a 55-minute documentary exploring America’s consumption of computers and the hazardous waste we create in pursuit of the latest technology.It traces the life cycle of computers from creation to disposal and juxtaposes the disparate worlds that have computers as their center. From a 13-year-old Ghanaian who smashes obsolete monitors to salvage copper to a 3,000-person video game party in Texas,Terra Blight examines the unseen realities of one of the most ubiquitous toxic wastes on our planet. By the film’s end, the audience will never look at their computer the same way again.
Moog
Friday • February 20 • 6pm
Directed by Hans Fjellestad
Robert Moog has been inventing and building electronic musical instruments for nearly half a century. Moog, the film, takes us inside the mind of this legendary figure as he shares his ideas about creativity, design, interactivity and spirituality. To this day, Moog continues to shape musical culture with some of the most inspiring instruments ever created.
FIXED: The Science/Fiction of Human Enhancement
Friday • March 13 • 6pm
Directed by Regan Brashear
A haunting, subtle, urgent documentary, FIXED questions commonly held beliefs about disability and normalcy by exploring technologies that promise to change our bodies and mind forever. Told primarily through the perspectives of five people with disabilities: a scientist, journalist, disability justice educator, bionics engineer and exoskeleton test pilot, FIXED takes a close look at the implications of emerging human enhancement technologies for the future of humanity.
Extreme by Design
Friday • April 17 • 6pm
At a time of unprecedented global challenges, the under-30 “millennial” generation has every reason to be disengaged. Yet plenty of millennials are engaged. Call it the empathy revolution. Extreme By Design, an hour-long documentary film, brings this revolution to life by following three university students as they design and build products to meet basic needs of the world’s poor.