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
