August 28, 2006
Documentary Resources compiled by Roger Hallas
Documentary Resources compiled by Roger Hallas
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February 09, 2006
Teaching Writing With Film
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April 27, 2005
School of Education Diversity Film Series presents "And nobody said anything: Uncomfortable Conversations about Diversity"
As part of the School of Education's Diversity Film Series, the DVD,
"And nobody said anything: Uncomfortable Conversations about Diversity"
will be shown in the ERC (basement of Huntingon Hall) on Wednesday
April 27th from 1- 2:30.
The DVD, which was produced by Mara SApon-Shevin of the School of
Education and Prof. Richard Breyer of Newhouse, shows five vigenettes
related to critical teaching moments in our classroom and raises issues
of free speech/hate speech, classroom climate, pedagogy, confronting
oppressive behavior, and a host of other topics related to teaching for
social justice. Each vignette was drawn from focus groups conducted with
students at SU.
All are invited to attend. We will watch each vignette and then have
opportunities for lively discussion. Refreshments will be served.
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February 25, 2005
Film: _Maria Full of Grace_
Maria Full of Grace at 1:00PM
A bright, spirited 17-year old, Maria Alvarez, lives with three generations of her family in a cramped house in rural Colombia and works stripping thorns from flowers in a rose plantation. The offer of a lucrative job involving travel--in fact, becoming a drug "mule"--changes the course of her life. Far from the uneventful trip she is promised, Maria is transported into the risky and ruthless world of international drug trafficking. Her mission becomes one of determination and survival and she finally emerges with the grace that will carry her forward into a new life.
Summary from iMdb
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February 07, 2005
Teaching With Film: Film Series and Miniseminar, Spring 2005
Teaching With Film: Film Series and Miniseminar, Spring 2005
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(2/25, 3/4 and 3/11.) The Diversity Committee’s Teaching with Film
Miniseminar (Jen Wingard). The first meeting will be a showing of Maria Full
of Grace at 1:00PM on 2/25.
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The Teaching With Film Friday Film Series: All films will screen on Fridays
from 3 – 6 PM in Gifford Auditorium. The films should be available through the
library for teaching soon if not immediately. We will hold a discussion after
each film and, of course, snacks will be supplied.
(2/11) AND LIFE GOES ON . . .
(2/25) MADAM SATA
Also, the Diversity committee will co-sponsor A MOMENT OF INNOCENCE with the
Thursday Screeners on 4/21.
Hope you can join us!
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January 24, 2005
Film Screening: _The Gleaners and I_
The Diversity Committee will show The Gleaners and I this Friday (1/28)
at 3 pm in Gifford Auditorium, and Anne Fitzsimmons will lead a
discussion after the film, focused on pedagogical issues. As always,
snacks will be provided. Hope you can join us. Margaret
The Gleaners and I
Agnès Varda
Voted the best documentary of 2001 by the National Society of Film
Critics, Agnès Varda’s universally acclaimed “wandering-road
documentary” focuses her ever-seeking eye on gleaners: those who scour
already-reaped fields for the odd potato or turnip. Her investigation
leads us from forgotten corners of the French countryside to off-hours
at the green markets of Paris. The film challenges not only the
representations of those who scour the trash, but how those who have
been "thrown out" of society are not at all what is expected.
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December 03, 2004
Film: _A Great Wonder_
A Great Wonder: A new documentary about the "Lost Boys and Girls
of Sudan" (Kim Shelton)(3 pm in Gifford)
Orphans from the longest running civil war in Africa who have recently
resettled in America, and this film traces the extraordinary journey of
three young Sudanese orphans who have spent the majority of their lives
either in flight from war or in a refugee camp. Having navigated the
hazards of warfare, disease and starvation, and having survived a
children's exodus of Biblical proportions, their arrival and settlement
in America is not your average immigration story. The film follows two
boys and one girl for 18 months as they struggle to not only assimilate
into the American culture but cope with the memories of a life of war.
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November 12, 2004
Film: _The Corporation_
The Corporation (Mark Achbar and Jennifer Abbott, Canada, 2003)(3
pm in Gifford)
Pass through our golden arches and feel the familiar Nike-swoosh of
globalization! (But please, mind the GAP.) 150 years ago, a legal
entity, the "corporation," was invented. It is an artificial person, a
way for business holdings to be consolidated and to attain the legal
rights of a person. Strangely enough, this "person" bears few of the
responsibilities you or I do. Based on Joel Bakan's book of the same
name, The Corporation mounts a case against the pervasive impact that
corporations have on our lives, and on the globe. Ironically adopting
the tone of a board-meeting Powerpoint display, the film gently alerts
us to the psychopath in our midst. Included are interviews with Michael
Moore, agriculture activist Vandana Shiva, historian Howard Zinn, and No
Logo author Naomi Klein.
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Film Screening: _The Corporation_
Nov. 12: The Corporation (Mark Achbar and Jennifer Abbott, Canada, 2003)(3
pm in Gifford)
Pass through our golden arches and feel the familiar Nike-swoosh of
globalization! (But please, mind the GAP.) 150 years ago, a legal
entity, the "corporation," was invented. It is an artificial person, a
way for business holdings to be consolidated and to attain the legal
rights of a person. Strangely enough, this "person" bears few of the
responsibilities you or I do. Based on Joel Bakan's book of the same
name, The Corporation mounts a case against the pervasive impact that
corporations have on our lives, and on the globe. Ironically adopting
the tone of a board-meeting Powerpoint display, the film gently alerts
us to the psychopath in our midst. Included are interviews with Michael
Moore, agriculture activist Vandana Shiva, historian Howard Zinn, and No
Logo author Naomi Klein.
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October 14, 2004
Film: _The Emperor's Naked Army Marches On_
The Emperor's Naked Army Marches On (Yuki Yikite Shingun, Hara Kazuo, Japan 1987)
(with the Thursday Screeners)(8 pm in Gifford)
Hara Kazuo is one of Japan's leading nonfiction filmmakers, a major artist whose work should be better known
in the West. This film is his profile of Okuzaki Kenzo, a veteran and radical activist who has spent the better part
of his life attempting to expose the evils of the late Emperor Hirohito. (He shot lead pellets at the emperor and
distributed pornographic images of him.) Several members of his WW2 platoon died under mysterious circumstances
at the hands of the Emperor's elite officers, and "Naked Army" is Hara's documentation of Okuzaki's quest for the truth.
The old man is given to fits of violence, irrational ranting, and (at least to viewers not steeped in Japanese history)
a rather bizarre political ideology. The truth, when Hara and Okuzaki discover it, is truly unbelievable.
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April 23, 2004
Film Screening: _Suture_
April 23—Suture (Scott McGehee and David Siegal, U.S., 1993)
This black-and-white film neo-noir (from the directors of "The Deep End") concerns a double-cross and an identity switch. Two brothers, who look so alike . . . but is there a blind spot in this fictional world, something the people around them simply refuse to see?
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April 02, 2004
Film Screening: _Ten_
April 2—Ten (Abbas Kiarostami, Iran, 2002)
Ten segments, ten car rides with a very unconventional woman in Tehran. Not a road movie, exactly, "Ten" is a feminist-oriented "Taxicab Confessions," and a cross-section of Iranian womanhood today. This is the Syracuse premiere of the latest from Iran's master filmmaker ("Taste of Cherry," "The Wind Will Carry Us").
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February 20, 2004
Film Screening: _MURDER and Murder_
February 20—MURDER and murder (Yvonne Rainer, U.S., 1996)
This hybrid film enfolds documentary data into a fictional framework, resulting in a work of emotional power and intellectual rigor. This story of two middle-aged lesbians facing the effects of breast cancer also manages to interrogate the neglect of lesbians by the health care profession, the split between gay identity and "queer theory," and the conditions of filmic representation.
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February 06, 2004
Film Screening: _Bamboozled_
February 6—Bamboozled (Spike Lee, U.S., 2000)
At the time of its release, Spike Lee's media satire was widely rejected as too outlandish, too out of touch with reality. How could America be swept by a blackface minstrelsy craze? Today, the film looks less like a paranoid fantasy and more like a prescient, speculative fiction.
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January 07, 2004
2004 Film Series Promotional Poster
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