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Global Islam: A Weekend of Film and Video

Fri, May 29, 2015, 4:00 pm to Sat, May 30, 2015, 6:00 pm
Location: 
Communications 150 (Studio C)

Presented by the Center for Emerging Worlds
Co-Sponsored by Film & Digital Media

Schedule of events:

Friday, May 29th
4:00-5:30pm:
Videos by Mounir Fatmi: Mixology (2010), Technologia (2010), and Rain Making (2004)
Discussants:Tarek El Haik, Assistant Professor, Cinema, San Francisco State University
Peter Limbrick, Associate Professor, Film and Digital Media, UC Santa Cruz.

7:00-9:00pm: 
Feature film: Dernier Maquis/Aden, dir. Rabah Ameur-Zaïmeche (France, 2008)
Discussants:Mayanthi Fernando, Associate Professor, Anthropology, UC Santa Cruz
Peter Limbrick, Associate Professor, Film and Digital Media, UC Santa Cruz.

Saturday, May 30th
10:00am-12:30pm: 
Film screening: New Muslim Cool, dir. Jennifer Maytorena-Taylor (USA, 2009)
Discussion with director Jennifer Maytorena-Taylor, Assistant Professor, Film and Digital Media, UC Santa Cruz

1:30-3:30pm:
Videos by Monira Al-Qadiri featuring Abu Athiyya (Father of Pain) (2013), Behind the Sun (2013), Prism (2007-ongoing).
Discussion with Monir Al-Qadiri

4:00-6:00pm: 
Film screening: Descending with Angels, dir. Christian Suhr (Denmark, 2013) 
Discussion with Christian Suhr and Mayanthi Fernando