Public Screening of "The Iron Ministry"
Co-sponsored by Porter College, Film and Digital Media, the Arts Dean's Fund for Excellence, the Center for Documentary Arts and Research, Anthropology Department, and the Center for Emerging Worlds.
Filmed over three years on China's railways, THE IRON MINISTRY (2014, 83 min.) traces the vast interiors of a country on the move: flesh and metal, clans and squeals, light and dark, language and gesture. Scores of rail journeys come together into one, capturing the thrills and anxieties of social and technological transformation. THE IRON MINISTRY immerses audiences in fleeting relationships and uneasy encounters between humans and machines on what will soon be the world's largest railway network.
Screening follwed by discussion with J.P. Sniadecki.
Free and Open to the Public.
Parking available at Core West Parking Stucture (Parking $3.00)
MORE INFORMATION:
http://www.theironministry.com
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CDAR POST-REALISM SEMINAR #12: Embodied Camera/Embodied Image
Thursday, April 14, 2016, 4pm-7pm, Communications 139
Seminar participants will explore practical dimensions of embodied camerawork, questions of embodiment in film, phenomenology, the cinema of encounter, art, and ethnography.
Advanced registration required: contact Irene Lusztig (ilusztig@ucsc.edu) to reserve a place in the seminar; organized by the UCSC Center for Documentary Arts and Research.
J.P. Sniadecki is a filmmaker and anthropologist active in the United States and China. An affiliate of the Sensory Ethnography Lab, he holds a PhD in Social Anthropology with Media from Harvard. His films have screened at festivals such as the Berlinale, Locarno, New York, AFI, Edinburgh, Rotterdam, San Francisco, Viennale, Vancouver, BAFICI, RIDM, Cinema du Reel, Riviera Maya, FICUNAM, and DOChina as well as venues such as New York's MoMA and Guggenheim, Vienna's MAC, Beijing's UCCA, the 2014 Shanghai Biennale, and the 2014 Whitney Biennal. His films include Foreign Parts (2010), winner of two Leopards at Locarno and named Best Film at the Punto de Vista Film Festival and DocsBarcelona; People's Park (2012), named Best Anthropological Film at Festival dei Popoli; and Yumen (2013), named Best Experimental Film and Best Chinese Film at the Taiwan International Doucmentary Film Festival. He is Assistant Professor of Radio/Television/Film in the School of Communication at Northwestern University.