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INTERNATIONAL LENS<\/strong>, a film series with a global perspective, provides a forum to promote conversation among Vanderbilt\u2019s diverse community of students, faculty, and staff. International Lens endeavors to transcend geographic, ethnic, religious, linguistic, and political boundaries by encouraging conversation and greater cross- cultural understanding through cinema. The series is a collaboration among Cinema & Media Arts, Dean of Students offices, and other departments, centers, and programs across the University.<\/p>\n

There is no charge for admission.<\/p>\n

Films are screened in Sarratt Cinema at 7:30 p.m. unless otherwise noted.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Fall 2017 Schedule of Films<\/h1>\n

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\"\"Sleep Dealer \u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Thursday, September 14<\/p>\n

Presented by Haerin Shin, Assistant Professor of English\/ Cinema & Media Arts; and Marzia Milazzo, Assistant Professor of English\/Latino and Latina Studies. Co- Sponsored by Latino and Latina Studies Program.<\/p>\n

Mexico\/USA (2008) Dir: Alex Rivera.<\/p>\n

Set \u2028in a dystopian near-future where the US-\u2028Mexico border is walled off by a militarized\u2028 government, with corporate bodies sourcing\u2028 their labor from a virtual plug-in network of\u2028 undocumented workers. Sleep Dealer <\/em>follows\u2028 the story of Memo Cruz as he struggles to\u2028 reclaim his humanity in a system that subsists \u2028on technologically-induced alienation and\u2028 disenfranchisement. Spanish with English subtitles. 90 min. DVD. Presented in collaboration with the Department of English, Cinema & Media Arts, and Latina\/o Studies<\/p>\n

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Paradise Now<\/em><\/strong><\/h2>\n

Thursday, September 21<\/p>\n

Presented by Ken MacLeish, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Health, and Society, & Anthropology.<\/p>\n

Palestine\/France (2005) Dir: Hany Abu-\u2028Assad.<\/p>\n

Paradise Now <\/em>is the story of two \u2028young Palestinian men, best friends and\u2028disaffected slackers who have been \u2028recruited to be suicide bombers. When their\u2028 mission doesn\u2019t go as planned, they begin \u2028to question what they\u2019ve been asked to do \u2028in different ways. The film offers a verit\u00e9-\u2028style depiction of life in the occupied West\u2028Bank and explores compelling questions of\u2028 violence, morality, and justice. Arabic\/English, 90 min. Blu-Ray. Presented in collaboration with the Department of Anthropology and the Center for Medicine, Health, and Society.<\/p>\n

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An evening with award-winning<\/strong> filmmaker SASHA WATERS FREYER<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Thursday, September 28<\/p>\n

Presented by Jonathan Rattner, Assistant Professor Cinema & Media Arts and Art.<\/p>\n

Sasha Waters Freyer is a moving image artist \u2028trained in photography and the documentary \u2028tradition who fuses original and found footage in\u202816mm film and digital media. Her past projects \u2028have screened at a variety of prestigious\u2028 international film festivals and museums, including \u2028Rotterdam, Telluride, Tribeca, the Pacific Film\u2028 Archives, the Museum of the Moving Image in New York, and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Detroit. Sasha has also served as Chair of the Department of Photography & Film at Virginia Commonwealth University, the number one public arts school in the U.S. for the past five years.<\/p>\n

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Lumumba<\/em><\/strong><\/h2>\n

Wednesday, October 4<\/p>\n

Presented by Moses Ochonu, Cornelius Vanderbilt Professor of History.<\/p>\n

France\/Belgium\/Germany\/Haiti (2000) Dir:\u2028 Raoul Peck.<\/p>\n

Raoul Peck fictionalizes the life\u2028 and brutal execution of Patrice Lumumba, the\u2028leader of the Congolese National Movement. \u2028The film charts Lumumba\u2019s political career\u2028 and radicalization in the fight for Congo\u2019s \u2028independence and the Cold War-era \u2028international forces that undercut the country\u2019s \u2028democracy. Critic Elvis Mitchell writes: \u201cThis is \u2028a movie about chaos and regret, focusing on \u2028the unleashing of forces greater than any one\u2028 person could hope to handle and the carnage, \u2028however necessary, left in their wake.\u201d \u00a0French\/Lingala\/English. 120 min. DVD. Presented in collaboration with the Department of History, Cinema & Media Arts, and the Robert Penn Warren Center for Humanities.<\/p>\n

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I Am Not Your Negro<\/em><\/strong><\/h2>\n

Monday, October 16<\/p>\n

Presented by Jennifer Fay, Associate Professor of Cinema & Media Arts and English; and Hortense Spillers, Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Prof of English.<\/p>\n

Switzerland\/France\/Belgium\/USA (2016) \u2028Dir: Raoul Peck.<\/p>\n

Based on James Baldwin\u2019s \u2028unfinished book on the lives and assassination \u2028of Medgar Evers, Malcolm X, and Martin Luther \u2028King, Jr. Peck\u2019s Oscar-nominated documentary \u2028uses archival footage and Baldwin\u2019s own\u2028 words to bring these stories to the screen.\u2028 Peck unfolds the history of the Civil Rights\u2028 movement suggesting the deep connections \u2028to the present of #BlackLivesMatter.\u00a0I Am Not \u2028Your Negro <\/em>is also a meditation on Hollywood\u2019s\u2028 role in America\u2019s racist imagery. English\/French.\u202893 min. Blu-Ray. Presented in Collaboration with the Department of English, Cinema & Media Arts, and the Robert Penn Warren Center for Humanities.
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RAOUL PECK\u2028 – Visiting Filmmaker <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2028Wednesday, October 18,\u00a0\u20284:10 p.m. \u2022 Sarratt Cinema<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Haitian filmmaker Raoul Peck discusses\u2028 his latest film I Am Not Your Negro<\/em>, based \u2028on James Baldwin\u2019s unfinished manuscript \u201cRemember This House\u201d (see above). He received international attention for Lumumba<\/em>, his 2000 fiction feature film about Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\"\"Angels of the Revolution<\/em><\/strong><\/h2>\n

Thursday, October 19<\/p>\n

Presented by Polina Dimova, Lecturer in the Department of German, Russian, and East European Studies.<\/p>\n

Russia (2014) Dir: Aleksey Fedorchenko.<\/p>\n

This colorful film imaginatively explores the\u2028 cultural basis of the Russian Revolution. When\u2028 Stalin built a town in northern USSR on the \u2028land of indigenous shamans in the 1930s, he \u2028mistakenly generated a landmark collision of\u2028 cultures now known as the Great Samoyedic\u2028 War. Russian avant-gardists from the South,\u2028 led by the legendary Communist fighter, \u201cPolina \u2028the Revolutionary,\u201d trek up to the banks of the\u2028 Amnya River eager to reconcile a Soviet utopia\u2028with the ideals of Ancient Paganism of the native peoples. Russian\/Khanty, English subtitles. 113 min. This event will be followed by panel discussion on Friday, October 20, to reflect upon the repercussions of \u2028the Russian Revolution from its immediate aftermath to contemporary Russia.<\/strong> Presented in collaboration with the Department of German, Russian and East European Studies, and the Cinema & Media Arts Program.<\/p>\n

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\"\"Voices Beyond the Wall:<\/em><\/strong> Twelve Love Poems from the<\/em><\/strong> Murder Capital of the World<\/em><\/strong><\/h2>\n

Thursday, October 26<\/p>\n

Presented by Paula Covington, Latin American Bibliographer, Senior Lecturer in Latin American Studies.<\/p>\n

Honduras\/USA (2017) Dir: Brad Coley.<\/p>\n

Rescued from the streets of San Pedro Sula, Honduras, orphaned girls find their voices in poetry as \u2028they heal traumas of their past and prepare\u00a0to transition into an uncertain future. Coley\u2019s \u2028eloquent documentary leads us into the lives of\u2028 teen-aged girls who live in Nuestra Peque\u00f1as\u2028 Rosas, a girls\u2019 home in the crime-ridden city.\u2028 The film highlights the young women\u2019s poems\u2028 and we learn of their thoughts about the future, each bearing emotional scars, but also a striking sense of how ready they are to try to understand and to forgive. Spanish with English subtitles.\u00a0This film will also be introduced by the founder of the home, Dr. Diana Frade.<\/strong> Spanish with English subtitles. 89 min. Blu-Ray. Presented in collaboration with the Center for Latin American Studies.\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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\"\"Kalushi: The Story of Solomon Mahlangu <\/em><\/strong><\/h2>\n

Thursday, November 2<\/p>\n

Presented by Keith Weghorst, Assistant Professor of Political Science.<\/p>\n

South Africa (2017) Dir: Mandla \u2028Dube.<\/p>\n

Kalushi <\/em>is the true story of \u2028a young street salesman from a \u2028small township outside of Pretoria\u2028in South Africa. After being brutally \u2028beaten by apartheid police, Kalushi \u2028joins the South African liberation movement. His fellow soldier and friend ends up shooting two innocent people on the streets of downtown Johannesburg. While his friend is severely beaten and tortured, Kalushi faces a daunting trial in which the State seeks death by hanging. With\u00a0a crew and cast consisting solely of South African citizens \u2013 a rare occurrence in movies about apartheid \u2013 Kalushi <\/em>is an examination of grief as well as a historical illustration of political persecution. English. 107 min. Blu-Ray. Presented in collaboration with the Department of Political Science and the \u201cAfrica at a Crossroads\u201d TIPS Project.<\/p>\n

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\"\"Inxeba (the Wound)<\/em><\/strong><\/h2>\n

Thursday, November 9<\/p>\n

Presented by Tara McKay, Assistant Professor \u2013 Center for Medicine, Health & Society, Department of Sociology, and the Department of Health Policy.<\/p>\n

South Africa\/Germany\/Netherlands\/France\u00a0(2017) Dir: John Trengove.<\/p>\n

Inxeba <\/em>follows\u2028 a young factory worker living in the Eastern \u2028Cape of South Africa. When he and other men \u2028from his community gather in the mountains to\u2028 observe an initiation ritual transitioning a group\u2028 of teenage boys to manhood, a defiant initiate \u2028from the city discovers his secret, a forbidden relationship with another man in the community, and his entire existence begins to unravel. Xhosa\/Afrikaans\/English. 88 min. Blu-Ray. Presented in collaboration with the Center for Medicine, Health and Society, and the Africa TIPS Project.<\/p>\n

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\"\"Memories of Murder\u2028 (Sarin eui chueok)\u2028<\/em><\/strong><\/h2>\n

Thursday, November 30<\/p>\n

Presented by Haerin Shin, Assistant Professor of English, Cinema & Media Arts, and Asian Studies; and Se Young Kim, Mellon Assistant Professor of Cinema & Media Arts and Asian Studies.<\/p>\n

South Korea (2003) Dir: Bong Joon-Ho.<\/p>\n

Based on the true story of Korea\u2019s first serial \u2028murders in history, which took place between\u2028 1986 and 1991 in Gyeonggi Province. Moving \u2028from atmospheric mystery to political allegory,\u2028 with pit stops into slapstick comedy along the\u2028 way, Bong Joon-ho\u2019s second film, remains \u2028impossible to categorize. Newly restored and re-released, the director\u2019s breakthrough feature has lost none of its power to unsettle, and today it feels even stranger than ever. This masterfully crafted thriller resonated with Korean audiences not only because it revisited a moment of \u2028national tragedy, but also because it considered it within the tumultuous recent history of South Korea and the traumatic effects of compressed modernity. Korean\/English. 131 min. \u00a0Post-screening discussion led by Joseph Jonghyun Jeon, Associate Professor of English, Pomona College.<\/strong> Presented in collaboration with the Department of English, Cinema & Media Arts, and Asian Studies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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