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.
