This semester's lineup for the Frameworks Documentary Series begins Thursday, February 7. As before, all screenings start at 5:00 p.m. in the Leavey Library auditorium. Here's the schedule:
February 7, 5:00 p.m.- American Movie (1999, Chris Smith and Sarah Price, 104 mins)
This film follows Mark Borchardt of Milwaukee as he battles his personal demons and enlists everyone he knows to pursue his American Dream: to make his no-budget horror film, “Coven.”
February 21, 5:00 p.m.-No End in Sight (2007, Charles Ferguson, Jennie Amias, et al., 102 mins)Analytical and investigative, this chronicle presents an insider's look at the decisions that led to the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq and the handling of the occupation.
March 6, 5:00 p.m.-Bright Leaves (2003, Ross McElwee, 105 mins)Ross McElwee (Sherman’s March) explores his family’s roots as tobacco farmers in North Carolina in this wryly observant exploration of history, economics, psychology, and filmmaking.
March 27, 5:00 p.m.-The Future of Food (2004, Deborah Koons Garcia and Catherine Lynn Butler, 88 mins)In her investigation of modern industrial agriculture, Koons Garcia unravels the complex web of market and political forces that are changing the nature of what we eat.
April 10, 5:00 p.m. – Double Feature! Sa-i-gu (1993, Christine Choy, Elaine H. Kim, and Dai Sil Kim-Gibson, 41 mins)This film explores the effect of the Rodney King verdict and subsequent April 29, 1992 upheavals on Korean American women shopkeepers, who suffered more than half of the material losses in the conflict.
Wet Sand: Voices from L.A. Ten Years Later (2003, Dai Sil Kim-Gibson, 60 mins)Kim-Gibson's follow-up to "Sa-i-gu" looks into the past and present to question how much has changed in the last ten years following the 1992 L.A. unrest.
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