The McGillicuddy Humanities Center Symposium Film Series returns with narrative and documentary films that engage with this year’s symposium theme, “The Story of Climate Change.” The selected films present visions of our past and future and examine our relationships with the environment, energy, material culture, and the power structures that shape the many stories of climate change. All films begin at 6:30 p.m. EST virtually. Three additional films will air in the Spring as part of this series. Email mhc@maine.edu with questions. 

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October 12: Wall-E

Introduction by Brie Berry, PhD student (ANTH)

October 26: Harlan County, USA

Introduction by Karen Sieber, McGillicuddy Humanities Center

November 9: Mad Max: Fury Road

Introduction by Professor Lisa Neuman (ANTH)

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The McGillicuddy Humanities Center is holding a year-long film series examining “The Cinema of Colonization and Decolonization” as part of our annual symposium. The films selected engage with the theme in a variety of ways, from incorporating the legacies of colonization into the storyline to disrupting traditional Western systems and methods of production and distribution. Films are shown in Hill Auditorium in Barrows Hall (ESRB) on select Monday evenings at 6 p.m. All movies are free, open to the public, and include a meal and discussion.

March 9: Coffy

°ä´Ç´Ú´Ú²âÌýÌý(1973), directed by Jack Hill, is a classic of blaxploitation cinema starring Pam Grier as a vigilante nurse fighting drug dealers, criminals, and the system, in an effort to avenge her sister’s death. The film subverts the action/crime movie genre and places black characters at the center as the heroes. Noted visiting film scholar, Professor Ernest Mathijs from the Film and Media Studies Department at the University of British Columbia, will lead a discussion following the film.

March 23: Innocence Unprotected

Innocence Unprotected (1968), directed by Dusan Makavejev, is a Yugoslav film pieced together with footage from an earlier 1941 film of the same name made by gymnast Dragoljub Aleksić that was never released due to Nazi censors. Makavejev added additional news footage from the war and Nazi propaganda to turn it into something entirely new, part documentary, part bizarre acrobatic montage. Michael Grillo, Associate Professor of the History of Art at 91¸£Àû, will lead a discussion following the film.

April 6:Ìý°Õ¾±³¾²ú³Ü°ì³Ù³Ü

°Õ¾±³¾²ú³Ü°ì³Ù³ÜÌý(2014), directed by Abderrahmane Sissako, is a French-Mauritanian film that examines the brief occupation of Timbuktu, Mali by the militant Islamist group Ansar Dine. The film has won numerous awards, including the New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Foreign Language Film, and the National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Foreign Language Film. Alan Berry, PhD student in Communication, will lead a discussion following the film.

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The McGillicuddy Humanities Center Film Series will feature a collection of six films throughout the academic year related to “The Cinema of Colonization and Decolonization.” The global films in the series, from France, Africa, Canada, Argentina and the United States, feature a variety of filming styles, including documentary, ethnographic, and outsider films alongside studio productions. The film selections examine colonialism, racism and post-colonial identity, as well as decolonization of the film industry itself.

All films will be shown in the Hill Auditorium in Barrows Hall at 6PM on the following Mondays. Spring films and dates announced soon:

• October 21 – Zama (2017), dir. Lucrecia Martel, 115 minute runtime
• November 4 – Carol (2015), dir. Todd Haynes, 118 minute runtime
• November 18 – Before Tomorrow (2008), dir. Marie-Hélène Cousineau and Madeline Ivalu, 93 minute runtime

Roger Ebert’s review of Carol:

“In “Carol,” Haynes turns his eye on the “invisible” lesbian sub-culture of the 1950s closet. A lush emotional melodrama along the lines of the films of , Haynes’ patron saint, “Carol” is often about its surfaces, their beauty contrasting with the scary duality of people, relationships. The surfaces in “Carol” are so seductive that one understands the ache to belong in that world.”

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Greg Quill’s review of Before Tomorrow from The Star:

“A disturbing and powerful metaphor for the doom visited on the Inuit after their insulated world was penetrated by Europeans in the mid-1800s, Before Tomorrow, co-directed by native filmmakers and writers Marie-Hélène Cousineau and Madeline Ivalu, imagines a moment in which these once hardy people, ill-equipped to survive in the new order, face the awful inevitability of extinction.”

The McGillicuddy Humanities Center Film Series will feature a collection of six films throughout the academic year related to “The Cinema of Colonization and Decolonization.” The global films in the series, from France, Africa, Canada, Argentina and the United States, feature a variety of filming styles, including documentary, ethnographic, and outsider films alongside studio productions. The film selections examine colonialism, racism and post-colonial identity, as well as decolonization of the film industry itself.

All films will be shown in the Hill Auditorium in Barrows Hall at 6PM on the following Mondays. Spring films and dates announced soon:

• October 21 – Zama (2017), dir. Lucrecia Martel, 115 minute runtime
• November 4 – Carol (2015), dir. Todd Haynes, 118 minute runtime
• November 25 (rescheduled from November 18) – Before Tomorrow (2008), dir. Marie-Hélène Cousineau and Madeline Ivalu, 93 minute runtime:

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