Short Films
A VERY FRAGILE THINGAfrican Studies Peace & Conflict Political Science World History Short Films 2024 What happens when we choose to define ourselves according to our differences? "A Very Fragile Thing" offers a cautionary tale for any society wracked with distrust and division via a first-person journey into the origins of a civil war that has claimed the lives of half a million Ethiopians since 2020. |
MISS ALMA THOMAS: a life in color2022 American Studies American History Art History African-American Studies Education Short Films Directed by Women Women's Studies Alma W. Thomas, a Black woman painter, broke color barriers on and off the canvas, yet did not receive national attention until she was 80 years old. “Miss Alma Thomas” is the first documentary film that explores Thomas’ incredible life through the lens of curators, art specialists, scholars, and her family. |
SO DEAR, SO LOVELY2021 Directed by Women Middle Eastern Studies Sociology Short Films Sensory Ethnography Lab Peace & Conflict Cinema Studies 2022
In this two-part tour through the streets of Lebanon, a colorful Palestinian cab driver offers offhand insight into the regions fraught political and social climate through boisterous serenades and excitable outbursts.
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LIMBO2021 Latin-American Studies Spanish Language Indigenous Studies Short Films Sensory Ethnography Lab
An oneiric journey through Alex's life as a former guerrilla leads to a reckoning with the devil inside of him. His only cure is ayahuasca, sacred plant used by the indigenous community where he comes from. As both a perpetrator and victim, Alex exemplifies the complexity of the Colombian conflict and the difficulties of simply moving on.
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THE EARLY WORKS OF ANA VAZ: 2007-2016Anthropology Environmental Studies Directed by Women Latin-American Studies Short Films 2020
This collection of eight early films by Brazilian artist and filmmaker Ana Vaz proposes a critical reflection on the relationship between colonialism, modernity and the impending ecological disaster. At the core of the collection is a cycle of works that explore the colonial and post-colonial exchange between Europe and the Americas.
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MEMORIES OF DESIRE2019 Cinema Studies Directed by Women Human Sexuality Photography Short Films Women's Studies
Feminist filmmaker Victoria Schultz captures the memory of her own past, trying to become a writer while becoming entangled in erotic and frightening encounters with an older man. A #MeToo film that stretches back to one woman's memory growing up in the 1950s.
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OCCUPATION 19682019 Anthropology Cinema Studies Directed by Women Eastern Europe Europe Peace & Conflict Russia Short Films World History An anthology documentary consisting of five short films on the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia, each by a different director from the five countries that participated in the occupation. |
I'VE GOT A LITTLE PROBLEM2018 Art History Cultural Studies LGBTQ Asian Studies Cinema Studies Short Films Human Sexuality
I’ve Got a Little Problem chronicles internationally renowned photographer and poet Ren Hang’s struggle with Chinese censorship, painful public scrutiny, and manic depression, that eventually sent his life spiraling out of control.
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WHIPPING ZOMBIE2018 African Studies Anthropology Dance Music Short Films Cinema Studies In a remote Haitian village there is a dance with slaves and masters: the whipping zombie ritual. To trance-inducing music played by rara bands, men whip and fight until they die and are reborn in the infinite cycle. |
BASHIR'S VISIONCultural Studies African Studies Disabilities Loud Roar Productions 2017 Short Films
Bashir Ramathan worked as a laborer until losing his sight. Destitute and depressed, boxing saved Bashir, now an advocate for the rights of people living with disabilities around Uganda. This uplifting short documentary will remind audiences that if theres something you want to achieve in life, nothing should stop you.
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RESOLUTE2017 Cultural Studies Environmental Studies Family Relations Indigenous Studies Loud Roar Productions Political Science World History Short Films
Zipporah was a girl when her family was among the eighty Inuit to be sent to the high arctic by the Canadian government.
Through haunting interviews, archival footage and experimental animation, Resolute tells a story familiar to thousands of indigenous families in Canada and beyond.
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KIDS OF THE ROCKET SIREN2017 Children & Young Adult Jewish Studies Loud Roar Productions Middle Eastern Studies Peace & Conflict Short Films
Reality for the kids who live in Sderot, an Israeli town that neighbors the Gaza strip, is a constant reminder that they are in the midst of a deadly conflict. Kids of the Rocket Siren melds verite, interviews and archival to document the kids who have grown up with rocket shelters, sirens and deadly blasts.
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