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SUMMARY:Launch of the new Shadow Indigenous Worlds (SIW) initiative
DESCRIPTION:Shadow Indigenous Worlds (SIW) is a global initiative that highlights Indigenous worldviews of inquiry. By focusing on researchers\, practitioners\, and artists at work (in the field\, studio\, and classroom)\, it invites the audience to participate and reflect on the meaning of knowledge\, theory\, pedagogy\, and social change. SIW is a student-focused program and highlights the contributions of Indigenous knowledge and scholars across disciplines and practices. \nThe launch of the SIW initiative will be a 90-minute hybrid (in-person+virtual) event on Monday\, May 4 starting at 6:00 PM PDT. The in-person component of the event will take place in Communications 150 (Studio C) on the University of California Santa Cruz campus. The virtual component of the event can be accessed via the Zoom link below: \nhttps://ucsc.zoom.us/j/96471117617?pwd=eRhS3NnRJDqfY8elmDiTx1rxvJFHO9.1 \nDolly Kikon (Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Center for South Asian Studies at UCSC)\, Raja GuhaThakurta (Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics)\, and the CREST team will host the launch. \nWe plan to record the Zoom call. \nThe SIW launch is being co-sponsored by the following UCSC organizations: \n– CREST\n– Indigenous Faculty Network (IFN)\n– American Indian Resource Center (AIRC)\n– Center for South Asian Studies (CSAS)\n– Film and Digital Media (FDM) Department
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/launch-of-the-new-shadow-indigenous-worlds-siw-initiative/
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SUMMARY:Launch of the new Shadow Indigenous Worlds (SIW) initiative
DESCRIPTION:Shadow Indigenous Worlds (SIW) is a global initiative that highlights Indigenous worldviews of inquiry. By focusing on researchers\, practitioners\, and artists at work (in the field\, studio\, and classroom)\, it invites the audience to participate and reflect on the meaning of knowledge\, theory\, pedagogy\, and social change. SIW is a student-focused program and highlights the contributions of Indigenous knowledge and scholars across disciplines and practices. \nThe launch of the SIW initiative will be a 90-minute hybrid (in-person+virtual) event on Monday\, May 4 starting at 6:00 PM PDT. The in-person component of the event will take place in Communications 150 (Studio C) on the University of California Santa Cruz campus. The virtual component of the event will be on Zoom. \nDolly Kikon (Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Center for South Asian Studies at UCSC)\, Raja GuhaThakurta (Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics)\, and the CREST team will host the launch. \nWe plan to record the Zoom call. \nThe SIW launch is being co-sponsored by the following UCSC organizations: \n\nCREST\nIndigenous Faculty Network (IFN)\nAmerican Indian Resource Center (AIRC)\nCenter for South Asian Studies (CSAS)\nFilm and Digital Media (FDM) Department
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/launch-shadow-indigenous-worlds-initiative/
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SUMMARY:A Sacred Place: Film Screening and Conversation with Dr. Dolly Kikon
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for the American premiere of A Sacred Place (2026)\, by Professor Dolly Kikon (Anthropology). The film tells the story of stones\, spirits\, and salt springs in Makhel. The film focuses on intergenerational storytellers and their relationship with the land. It integrates visual ethnography\, oral tradition\, and geological features of Makhel to center Indigenous pedagogy\, community history\, and ecology. After the screening\, Professor Clementine Bordeaux (HAVC) will provide comments and facilitate a conversation with Kikon and audience member participants. \nMakhel in Mao Naga language means a sacred place. Can sacredness exist amid ecocide in our times? Seeking an answer\, the film follows life as it unfolds in the mountains of Makhel\, a Naga village in northern Manipur. These mountains are composed of sandstones\, shales\, and siltstones. The sandstone monoliths across the landscape are symbols of ancient alliance and kinship between spirits and humans. The story of the land is also stored in the salt springs\, ancient seawater retained in shale soil\, a geological feature of these mountains. Geographically part of the Eastern Himalayas\, the salt springs of Makhel were formed through sedimentation under an ancient equatorial ocean around 50 million years ago. Naga ancestors regarded these geological features as abodes for spirit custodians and cared for them. A Sacred Place is the story of land narrated by Naga storytellers\, as humans prioritize relentless development forgetting their relationship with human and other beings. \nLearn more about A Sacred Place.  \n \nThis screening is a hybrid event. Remote participants will receive a link to the film before the event to watch on their own. They may join the conversation via Zoom. \nPlease RSVP to register for this event. Register here. Any questions can be directed to seacoast@ucsc.edu \nThis event is graciously co-sponsored by UCSC’s Center for Southeast Asian Coastal Interactions\, Center for South Asian Studies\, Indigenous Faculty Network\, The Humanities Institute and the Film and Digital Media Department.
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/a-sacred-place/
LOCATION:Communications Building\, 7487 Red Hill Road\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064
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SUMMARY:The Tallest Dwarf—film screening and talk with Julie Wyman
DESCRIPTION:UC Santa Cruz affiliates are invited to a screening and discussion with filmmaker Julie Forrest Wyman. The Tallest Dwarf charts the filmmaker’s quest to find her place within the little people (LP) community at a moment when dwarf identity is poised to radically change. Wyman’s work engages issues of embodiment\, body image\, and the possibilities and problematics of media spectatorship—all informed by her experience of living with hypochondroplasia dwarfism. Julie Wyman will be in conversation after the screening with Pooja Rangan (Professor of English and Film and Media Studies at Amherst College and Visiting Scholar of Visualizing Abolition) and Cynthia Ling Lee (Associate Professor of Performance\, Play & Design\, UC Santa Cruz). \nCo-organized/co-sponsored by the Arts Division’s Film & Digital Media Department\,  “Abolition Medicine and Disability Justice“—a collaborative initiative of five UC campuses\, including Riverside\, Irvine\, Los Angeles\, Santa Cruz\, and San Francisco\, to addresses health disparities in institutions and policy—and The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz.\n—\nADMISSION\n– Free and open to UC Santa Cruz affiliates only\n– Attend in person at Communications Studio C\n—\nPARKING\n– Parking via UCSC permit or ParkMobile\n– Core West is the lot closest to the event\n—\nABOUT THE FILM\nAs Wyman unpacks the rumors of “partial dwarfism” in her family\, she finds that hers is the last of a body type she has inherited. She joins forces with a group of dwarf artists to confront the legacy of being fetishized and put on display. Together they create films that reclaim a complicated history and speak back to the echoes of eugenics in the newly emerging pharmaceutical interventions that make little people taller. Through its personal and expanding perspective\, the film invites audiences to a new way of seeing.\n—\nABOUT THE FILMMAKER\nJulie Forrest Wyman’s 2012 documentary STRONG! premiered at AFI Silverdocs and was broadcast nationally on PBS’s Emmy award-winning series\, Independent Lens\, where it won the series’ Audience Award. Wyman’s work has been awarded support from Sundance\, Sandbox\, IDA\, SF Film Society\, Points North\, ITVS\, the Creative Capital Foundation\, The Princess Grace Foundation\, California Humanities\, and NEH. She has been a fellow at the UC Davis Feminist Research Institute and a resident of SF Film Society’s Filmhouse\, Siena Art Institute\, Logan Nonfiction and Points North. Her films\, including FatMob (2016)\, Buoyant (2005)\, and A Boy Named Sue (2000)\, have aired on Showtime\, MTV’s LOGO-TV\, and have been exhibited on five continents. She serves as Associate Professor of Cinema and Digital Media at UC Davis.\n—\nDownload and share the event flyer here.\n—\nphotographer credit: Gabriella Garcia-Pardo; image description: A group of six LP (little people) performers regard their paper body cut outs on the wall. \n 
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/film-wyman/
LOCATION:Communications Building\, 7487 Red Hill Road\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064
CATEGORIES:Film Screening,Lectures & Presentations,Screening
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SUMMARY:Traveling Film Southasia - Film Screening Festival Launch
DESCRIPTION:Located in Communications 150\, Studio C \nJoin the Center for South Asian Studies (CSAS) for a celebratory film screening event to launch Travelling Film Southasia\, a mobile film festival highlighting 19 exceptional nonfiction productions of the last two years\, originally screened at Film Southasia 2024 in Kathmandu. This year’s festival encapsulates a range of experiences on the Subcontinent with films from Nepal\, Bangladesh\, India\, Pakistan and Myanmar\, including CSAS Faculty Director Dolly Kikon’s recent film\, Abundance. \nFilm Southasia (FSA) is a biennial festival that began in 1997 with the goal of popularizing documentary films so that they entertain\, inform\, and change lives. In addition to the festival that takes place in Kathmandu every two years\, FSA organizes screenings\, discussions\, and workshops to promote Southasian non-fiction within the Subcontinent and around the world. Film Southasia believes that film is a powerful medium that not only helps better represent the region internationally\, but also contributes immensely to introspection and to initiatives that bring change at the local level. \nFor more information: Traveling FSA 2025. \nAfter the March 5 film festival launch event\, the festival films will be available for streaming until March 20. Link and instructions for viewing to follow. \nThis event is open to all students\, faculty\, staff\, and members of the public consistent with University policy and state and federal law. \nPresented by the Center for South Asian Studies and co-sponsored by the Department of Film and Digital Media and The Humanities Institute.
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/traveling-film-southasia-film-screening-festival-launch/
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SUMMARY:Fanon in Documentary Film: Algerian Legacies
DESCRIPTION:Film Screening and Panel Discussion:  5:30-7pm\, Communications 150\, Studio C\nReception:  Communications 139\, 7-8pm \nMarking the centenary of Frantz Fanon’s birth\, the Center for Middle East and North Africa is hosting a film screening of True Chronicles of the Blida Joinville Psychiatric Hospital\, the recent film by Algerian director Abdenour Zahzah that focuses on his time in the psychiatric hospital in Blida\, Algeria. The screening will be followed by a panel discussion with Meryem Belkaïd (Bowdoin College)\, Isaac Julien (UCSC)\, and Mark Nash (UCSC) on the representation of Fanon’s work and life in film\, from Julien and Nash’s classic 1998 documentary\, Black Skin White Masks\, to more recent films that focus on how Fanon’s time in Algeria shaped his intellectual and political commitments. \nMeryem Belkaïd is the Harriet Sara Walker and Mary Sophia Walker Associate Professor of Humanities at Bowdoin College. Trained in both literature (PhD from La Sorbonne) and political science (Master degree from Science Po\, Paris)\, her research focuses on a decolonial approach of North African cinema and literature. She is the author of From Outlaw to Rebel: Contemporary documentary in Contemporary Algeria (Palgrave 2023). Her works have appeared in peer-reviewed journals such as Journal of North African Studies\, Fixxion and Expressions maghrébines. She is a regular contributor of the online magazine Orient XXI. \nMark Nash is a distinguished independent curator\, film historian\, and filmmaker with a specialization in contemporary fine art moving image practices\, avant-garde\, and world cinema. He holds a PhD from Middlesex University and an MA from Cambridge University. He is a professor in History of Consciousness at UC Santa Cruz\, where he founded the Isaac Julien Lab with his partner and long-time collaborator\, Isaac Julien. His most recent publication\, Curating the Moving Image (Duke UP\, 2023)\, outlines several key concepts that range from exhibition architecture and curating as an affective and artistic practice to post-cold war aesthetics and contemporary Chinese art. \nIsaac Julien is a filmmaker and installation artist who has been making films and producing film installations for over forty years. Recent works include All that Changes You. Metamorphosis (2025)\, Once Again… (Statues Never Die) (2022)\, Lina Bo Bardi – A Marvellous Entanglement (2019)\, and Lessons of the Hour – Frederick Douglass (2019). A retrospective of his work\, Isaac Julien: I Dream a World\, was exhibited at the De Young Museum in 2025. In 2018\, Julien joined the faculty at the UC Santa Cruz where he is a Distinguished Professor of the Arts and Humanities and leads the Moving Image Lab together with Mark Nash. Julien is the recipient of The Royal Academy of Arts Charles Wollaston Award in 2017. In 2022\, he was awarded a Kaiserring Goslar Award in 2022\, and he was granted a knighthood as part of the Queen’s Honours List. \n\nPresented by the Center for the Middle East and North Africa and co-sponsored by the Film and Digital Media Department.
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/fanon-in-documentary-film-algerian-legacies/
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SUMMARY:Film Screening: Shimmering with Matte Hewitt\, MFA
DESCRIPTION:The Center for Documentary Arts and Research (CDAR) and the UCSC American Indian Resource Center (AIRC) are honored to invite you to the Shimmering Film Screening and Q&A Discussion with invited Guest Panelists\, on Friday\, November 14th\, 2025 in Studio C of the Communications Building at UC Santa Cruz. \nSHIMMERING (2025\, 20 min) is an essay film poetically investigating creation\, extraction\, and second lives. Guided by the luminous figure of Hummingbird\, SHIMMERING moves through place-based ways of knowing\, tracing the entanglement between biological studies of hummingbirds and the rise of military drone technology. The film also features storytelling and insights from Mutsun Ohlone and Tribal Chair of Indian Canyon\, Kanyon “Coyote Woman” Sayers-Roods. Through interwoven narratives of land\, militarization\, taxidermy\, Native regalia\, the filmmaker’s relationship with their trans identity—and with a hummingbird they name Anna–the filmmaker learns about Central California Native Land and culture. Blurring the lines between documentary\, personal letter\, and ecological study\, the film invites viewers to consider new forms of kinship across species\, systems\, and histories.Gentle yet provocative\, SHIMMERING offers a multispecies meditation on knowledge\, power\, and connection. \nFollowing the film screening will be a Q&A Discussion facilitated by Associate Professor Selmin Kara who will be joined by the filmmaker\, Matte Hewitt\, a film participant\, Gizelle Hurtado\, and a film interlocutor Angel Riotutar\, Director of the UCSC American Indian Resource Center. With respect to Native American Heritage Month\, Angel will speak with us about learning as a non-Native person. How do we do so respectfully and with reciprocity?
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/film-screening-shimmering-with-matte-hewitt-mfa/
LOCATION:Communications Building\, 7487 Red Hill Road\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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SUMMARY:Familiar Touch Screening
DESCRIPTION:This is a public screening and discussion of FAMILIAR TOUCH. Ruth (Kathleen Chalfant)\, a retired cook\, prepares breakfast in her sunny and cozy kitchen — a dish she seems to have made many times before\, although small and puzzling errors now punctuate her comfortable routine. When her son (H. Jon Benjamin) arrives to dine with her\, she mistakes him for a suitor. Their “date” takes them to an assisted living facility\, which Ruth does not remember that she had previously selected for herself. Among her fellow memory care residents\, Ruth feels lost and adrift\, certain she has found herself somewhere she does not belong. As she slowly begins to accept the warmth and support of care workers Vanessa (Carolyn Michelle) and Brian (Andy McQueen)\, she finds new ways to ground herself in her body\, even as her mind embarks on a journey all its own. Writer-director Sarah Friedland’s coming-of-old-age feature compassionately follows the winding path of octogenarian Ruth’s shifting memories and desires while remaining rooted in her sage perspective. Sarah Friedland is a filmmaker and choreographer working at the intersection of moving images and moving bodies. Her work has been presented in festivals and art spaces including the New York Film Festival\, New Directors/New Films\, Mubi\, MoMA and the Performa19 Biennial. From 2021 – 2022\, she was both a Pina Bausch Fellow for Choreography and a NYSCA/NYFA Fellow in Film/Video\, and was named to Filmmaker Magazine’s 25 New Faces of Independent Film in 2023. Her short film trilogy\, MOVEMENT EXERCISES\, is distributed by Video Data Bank. Sarah has been working in creative aging for the last eight years\, as a caregiver to artists with dementia\, and as a teaching artist facilitating intergenerational films and workshops for older adults. FAMILIAR TOUCH is her debut feature film.\n—\nADMISSION\n– FREE and open to UCSC affiliates\n– Doors are scheduled to open 30 minutes prior to event start time\n—\nPARKING\n– Parking by UCSC permit or ParkMobile.\n– Baskin Engineering Lot #139A and Core West are the closest parking lots to the Communications Building.\n– Visitors with DMV placards or plates may park for free in DMV spaces\, Medical spaces\, or ParkMobile spaces without additional payment\, or in timed zones for longer than the posted time.\n– More information provided by UCSC Transportation & Parking Services (TAPS) \n—\nThis program is open to all UC Santa Cruz affiliates consistent with state and federal law.
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/familiar-touch-screening/
LOCATION:Communications Building\, 7487 Red Hill Road\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064
CATEGORIES:Lectures & Presentations
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SUMMARY:Familiar Touch Screening
DESCRIPTION:This is a public screening and discussion of FAMILIAR TOUCH. Ruth (Kathleen Chalfant)\, a retired cook\, prepares breakfast in her sunny and cozy kitchen — a dish she seems to have made many times before\, although small and puzzling errors now punctuate her comfortable routine. When her son (H. Jon Benjamin) arrives to dine with her\, she mistakes him for a suitor. Their “date” takes them to an assisted living facility\, which Ruth does not remember that she had previously selected for herself. Among her fellow memory care residents\, Ruth feels lost and adrift\, certain she has found herself somewhere she does not belong. As she slowly begins to accept the warmth and support of care workers Vanessa (Carolyn Michelle) and Brian (Andy McQueen)\, she finds new ways to ground herself in her body\, even as her mind embarks on a journey all its own. Writer-director Sarah Friedland’s coming-of-old-age feature compassionately follows the winding path of octogenarian Ruth’s shifting memories and desires while remaining rooted in her sage perspective.  Sarah Friedland is a filmmaker and choreographer working at the intersection of moving images and moving bodies. Her work has been presented in festivals and art spaces including the New York Film Festival\, New Directors/New Films\, Mubi\, MoMA and the Performa19 Biennial. From 2021 – 2022\, she was both a Pina Bausch Fellow for Choreography and a NYSCA/NYFA Fellow in Film/Video\, and was named to Filmmaker Magazine’s 25 New Faces of Independent Film in 2023. Her short film trilogy\, MOVEMENT EXERCISES\, is distributed by Video Data Bank. Sarah has been working in creative aging for the last eight years\, as a caregiver to artists with dementia\, and as a teaching artist facilitating intergenerational films and workshops for older adults. FAMILIAR TOUCH is her debut feature film.\n—\nADMISSION\n– FREE and open to UCSC affiliates\n– Doors are scheduled to open 30 minutes prior to event start time\n—\nPARKING\n– Parking by UCSC permit or ParkMobile.\n– Baskin Engineering Lot #139A and Core West are the closest parking lots to the Communications Building.\n– Visitors with DMV placards or plates may park for free in DMV spaces\, Medical spaces\, or ParkMobile spaces without additional payment\, or in timed zones for longer than the posted time.\n– More information provided by UCSC Transportation & Parking Services (TAPS) \n—\nThis program is open to all UC Santa Cruz affiliates consistent with state and federal law.
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