On Friday, Feb. 26, 2016, Carleton University’s Institute for Interdisciplinary Studies, the School for the Study in Art and Culture and the Institute for Comparative Studies in Literature, Art and Culture present Sexuality, Aesthetics and Embodied Resistance: A Screening of Four Short Films.
This event is free and open to the public, and media are invited to attend.
When: Friday, Feb. 26, 2016 from 5 p.m. until 8 p.m.
Where: River Building Theatre, Carleton University, 1125 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa
The event will feature four filmmakers:
- Chase Joynt’s short experimental documentary Akin features the writer and moving-image artist as he explores his shifting gender presentation and his mother’s transition into Orthodox Judaism, and their shared secret history of sexual violence.
- My Father, Francis from musician, artist and community organizer Casey Mejica, best known known for fronting the orchestral pop band Ohbijou, comments on kinship, diaspora, devotion and the factory as a place of creativity.
- Vivek Shraya’s Holy Mother My Mother is a portrait of motherhood shot by the artist/author during the Navaratri festival in India.
- I.M.P. Boot Camp from academic, artist and athlete Danielle Peers, a wheelchair basketball world champion turned communications studies scholar, uses satire to navigate between the social expectations of able-bodiedness and disability.
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Tuesday, February 23, 2016 in Media Advisories
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