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The Women’s Studies Program will launch a four day film showing for the "Women Take Aim Film Series" on Monday, Oct. 11. The film series was started by Dr. Adrienne McCormick in 2000 out of an interest in women and their roles in film.
The film screenings are free and all students, faculty and staff, as well as members of the community are invited to attend.
Films will include:
- Monday, Oct. 11, showing from 6:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. in Jewett 101- The Examined Life, a philosophical piece by filmmaker Astra Taylor accompanies some of today’s most influential thinkers on a series of unique excursions through places and spaces that hold particular resonance for them and their ideas. The film features eight influential contemporary philosophers walking around New York and other metropolises and discussing the practical application of their ideas in modern culture.
The philosophers featured are Cornel West, Avital Ronell, Peter Singer, Kwame Anthony Appiah, Martha Nussbaum, Michael Hardt, Slavoj Žižek, and Judith Butler, who is accompanied by Taylor's sister Sunny, a disability activist.
- Tuesday, Oct. 12, showing at 6:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. in Jewett 101- Orgasm Inc. gives an interesting look into the medical industry and marketing campaigns that reshape lives around health, illness, desire, and orgasm. This is the first feature documentary by award-winning director Liz Canner. The film uncovers the race to develop a drug to treat Female Sexual Dysfunction in women. The film also offers a behind-the-scenes look at sex devices, porn, genital grooming and vaginal surgery, as well as personal accounts from women on the subject of sexual pleasure.
There will be a question and answer session with the director, Liz Canner, via "Skype" after the film.
- Wednesday, Oct. 13, showing at 6:50 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. in McEwen G24- Manufactured Landscapes, an award-winning film by Jennifer Baichwal that documents the world and work of renowned artist Edward Burtynsky who is internationally acclaimed for his large-scale photographs of industrial work and manufacturing. Burtynsky's most famous photographs are sweeping views of landscapes altered by industry: mine tailings, quarries, scrap piles. The grand, awe-inspiring beauty of his images is often in tension with the compromised environments they depict. He has made several excursions to China to photograph that country's industrial emergence, and construction of one of the world's largest engineering projects, the Three Gorges Dam.
- Thursday, Oct. 14, showing from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. in McEwen 209 –The Oath, directed by Laura Poitras, is a film about post 9/11 perspectives. It is about two men whose fateful meeting propelled them on divergent courses with Al-Qaeda, Osama bin Laden, 9/11, Guantanamo Bay Prison and the U.S. Supreme Court. The film premiered at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival, where it won the "Excellence in Cinematography Award for U.S. Documentary". It was also featured at the Berlin Film Festival in February 2010 and the South by Southwest film festival in March 2010. The director Laura Poitras won the "True Vision Award" at the True/False Film Festival for the creation of the documentary. The film premiered on television as part of PBS's show P.O.V.
