FILM@UC
archive | spring 2021
All showings Thursday night at 7:00 p.m. in Macfarlane Auditorium. Admission is free.
FEBRUARY 4
Between the World and Me
(2020, USA, dir. Kamilah Forbes, 85 mins.) This powerful film brings to life Ta-Nehisi Coates' unflinching truth about being Black in America through a mixture of moving readings from the companion text, documentary video from the performers’ lives, archival footage, and animation.
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FEBRUARY 11
America Street
(2020, USA, dir. Idrissou Mora-Kpai, 74 mins.)Against the backdrop of racist violence in Charleston, South Carolina, the experiences, memories, and dreams of a black corner store owner paint a poignant picture of the marginalization of African Americans in the once predominantly black city and the pervasiveness of white supremacy throughout the United States.
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FEBRUARY 18
Tanna
(2015, Vanuatu/Australia, dirs. Mark Butler & Bentley Dean, 104 mins.)A film of elemental beauty created entirely in cooperation with the indigenous Yakel people of the South Pacific island of Tanna retelling the true story of two villagers whose romance sparks a war between communities.
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FEBRUARY 25 - NOTE DATE CHANGE
Generation Wealth
(2018, USA, dir. Lauren Greenfield, 105 mins.)This compelling autobiographical retrospective of Greenfield's career, spent photographing the affluent in all of their excess and overindulgence, offers an unsparing critique of the unchecked accumulation of wealth in late consumer capitalism.
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MARCH 11 - NOTE DATE CHANGE
Kajillionaire
(2020, USA, dir. Miranda July, 104 mins.)Two con artists hastily recruit a stranger for a heist only to have her build a rapport with their daughter whom they have raised to be their partner in crime, unexpectedly turning their family upside down.
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MARCH 18
Sing Me a Song
(2019, Bhutan/France, dir. Thomas Balmès, 100 mins.)A young monk living in a rural monastery in Bhutan acquires a smartphone and it impacts his life in unexpected and profound ways in this touching documentary about how technological progress affects our sense of connectedness.
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MARCH 25
Being There
(1979, USA, dir. Hal Ashby, 130 mins.)A melancholy and sophisticated satire in which a sheltered, simpleminded gardener, who knows little of the world apart from what he’s seen on television, innocently stumbles his way into the highest reaches of the American ruling class.
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