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—————————————————————————————– December 14th, 2014 Screening of R. Lane Clark's Akosombo Stories???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? Camra members are invited for a special lunch and screening with R. Lane Clark! Segments of Clark’s Akosombo Stories???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? will be shown for feedback/notes from attending students. Ghana’s Akosombo Dam was built just after Ghana’s independence, and commissioned in 1964. President Kwame Nkrumah envisioned this hydroelectric dam to bring rapid industrialization to the country and to bring electricity and improved living standards to all. The dam formed the worlds largest Man-made lake, displaced 80 thousand people, and created many more expectations than it could fulfill. This film features the stories of ordinary Ghanaians, and recollections of the planners, as they take us through the living consequences, both intended and unintended, of this momentous project. As a speaker, Lane can be especially helpful to students contemplating field work in any part of the world, and for students in international fields of study, for he can address issues regarding the interface of cultures. This program is of special interest to academic filmmakers, with trajectories of conversation ranging from the insider and outsider in documentary filmmaking, whose story is actually being told, fieldwork considerations, the collaboration with researchers as a filmmaker, visual forms and presentations of research, and other topics. Website: http://rlaneclark.com Sponsored by camra and the Provost’s Interdisciplinary Arts Fund —————————————————————————————– November 2014 camra | labs Workshop with Sandra and Deb – Documentary in progress???? Monday, Nov 24, 5pm Location: Annenberg School for Communication, Room 223 Screening of in-progress documentary work. We will be showing some of our footage and discuss some last-minute changes and ethical dilemmas we’ve encountered within the last few months regarding the scope of our collaborative documentary. Topic to be discussed then. —————————————————————————————– October 2014 camra | labs Cry Out Loud: Screening with Gabriel Dattatreyan 5-7pm on Wednesday, October 29, 2014a collaboratively produced feature length film that explores the lives of several men and women from the pan-African community who make their lives in Khirki Extension, Delhi, India. The film, a project conceived by Ethiraj Gabriel Dattatreyan, puts cameras in the hands of a crew of young men from Somalia who, over the course of a year, worked on all aspects of production and post-production. Together, Dattatreyan and the crew narrate through film the stories of everyday life of Cameroonian, Nigerian, Ugandan, Ivorian and Somali students, entrepreneurs, and refugees that put into perspective the violent eruptions that occur during filming that targets them as undesirable outsiders and that have since catapulted Khirki into the media spotlight. (72 minutes, English subtitles) —————————————————————————————– September 2014 camra | labs When Bad Friday went to South Africa September 29, 2014 at 530-7pm ASC 225 Annenberg School of Communication, University of Pennsylvania Come join Penn’s interdisciplinary multi-media workshop series, camra | labs, for the Fall Screening Series Kickoff event. In July 2013, Arjun Shankar and Mariam Durrani accompanied Dr. John Jackson and Dr. Deborah Thomas from the University of Pennsylvania, Cape Town filmmaker Kurt Orderson of Azania Rising Productions, the Rasta band Ancient Vibrations and Rasta elders to screen the film Bad Friday to the Rasta diaspora in three cities: London, Cape Town, and Johannesburg.” Mariam and Arjun collaborated on documenting the journey including the films Beating as One: The Music of Ancient Vibrations and Rasta Rights and Reparations: Bad Friday Tour.” The film will be followed by conversations about filmmaking techniques and ethnographic film. —————————————————————————————– February 2013 camra | labs Screening of Leviathan February 26, 2013 at 6-8pm ASC 224 Annenberg School of Communication, University of Pennsylvania Come join Penn’s interdisciplinary multi-media workshop series, camra | labs, for a screening of the film Leviathan, directed by renowned visual anthropologists Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Verena Paravel of Harvard University. This experimental ethnographic documentary film uses portable, waterproof cameras to create an immersive sensory experience of the North American fishing industry that has been described as “brutal,” “hallucinatory,” “overwhelming,” and “liberating.” The film will be followed by conversations about the innovative filmmaking techniques employed and the effects achieved by them. |