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It Will Be Chaos (2018): A screening and discussion with the filmmakers

Olin 102

Film by Lorena Luciano and Filippo Piscopo. Set against the backdrop of the worst European migrant crisis since WWII, It Will Be Chaos unfolds between Italy and the Balkan corridor. Five years in the making, the film features two refugee stories of human strength while capturing in real time the escalating tension between newcomers and locals. The cinema vérité […]

Film Screening: Unlearning Imperial Plunder (I & II) Ariella Aïsha Azoulay

Preston Theater

Unlearning Imperial Plunder I Un-Documented is a film essay on the strong connection between the plundered objects in European museums and the calls of asylum seekers trying to enter the countries of their former European colonizers. The film treats these two subjects as ones of twinned migrations. The rights of the “undocumented” are inscribed in […]

Sabine El Chamaa: “As if her song could have no ending”

Upstate Films: Starr Theatre, Rhinebeck, NY 6415 Montgomery St, Rhinebeck

A film script is an unfinished work, a ghost that seeks to inhabit a form. Where do the characters that are conceived for years, but that fail to find their bodies in an image, reside? In December 1999, a recent film school graduate moves from Los Angeles to New York City. With a fiction film […]