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Ilens film: Tough Cookies

Presented by Laura Carpenter, Associate Professor of Sociology and Dr. Christy Halbert, U.S. Olympic Boxing Coach. Austria/USA (2014) Dir: Ruth Kaaserer. Boxingis a brutal sport. A man’s world. Is there a difference when women box? This documentary shows three women who live on the edge of society, making a living from odd jobs. As boxers,…

Posted by on January 23, 2015 in Activities Everyone

Ilens film: Tough Cookies

Presented by Laura Carpenter, Associate Professor of Sociology and Dr. Christy Halbert, U.S. Olympic Boxing Coach. Austria/USA (2014) Dir: Ruth Kaaserer. Boxingis a brutal sport. A man’s world. Is there a difference when women box? This documentary shows three women who live on the edge of society, making a living from odd jobs. As boxers,…

Posted by on January 23, 2015 in Activities Everyone

Ilens film: Snowpiercer

Presented by: Haerin Shin, Assistant Professor of English. South Korea, Czech Republic, USA, France (2013) Dir: Joon-ho Bong. In this sci-fi epic from director of The Host and Mother, a failed global-warming experiment kills off most life on the planet. The final survivors board the SNOWPIERCER, a train that travels around the globe via a…

Posted by on January 23, 2015 in Activities Everyone

Ilens film: Snowpiercer

Presented by: Haerin Shin, Assistant Professor of English. South Korea, Czech Republic, USA, France (2013) Dir: Joon-ho Bong. In this sci-fi epic from director of The Host and Mother, a failed global-warming experiment kills off most life on the planet. The final survivors board the SNOWPIERCER, a train that travels around the globe via a…

Posted by on January 23, 2015 in Activities Everyone

Ilens film: deepsouth

Presented by: Petey Peterson, Program Coordinator of LGBTQI Life and Frank Dobson, Director of The Bishop Joseph Johnson Black Cultural Center. USA (2012) Dir: Lisa Biagiotti. Beneath layers of history, poverty and soaring HIV infections, four Americans redefine traditional Southern values in this documentary about the new American South and the people who inhabit its…

Posted by on January 15, 2015 in Activities Everyone

Ilens film: Mauvais Sang

Presented by: Lynn Ramey, Associate Professor of French and Nicolas Kline, Class of 2016. France, Switzerland (1986) Dir: Leos Carax. A mysterious new disease is killing young people who make love without emotional involvement. While a serum has been formulated, it’s locked away and most of those suffering can’t get it. An electric mixture of…

Posted by on January 14, 2015 in Activities Everyone

Ilens film:Contagion

Presented by: Emily Nacol, Assistant Professor of Political Science. USA, UAE (2011) Dir: Steven Soderbergh. Follows the rapid progress of an airborne virus that kills within days. As the epidemic grows, the worldwide medical community races to find a cure and control the panic that spreads faster than the virus itself. At the same time,…

Posted by on January 14, 2015 in Activities Everyone

Ilens film: Death of a Japanese Salesman

Presented by: Bryan Lowe, Assistant Professor of Religious Studies and Asian Studies. Japan (2011) Dir: Mami Sunada. A look at the last months in the life of the filmmaker’s father Tomoaki Sunada who worked for over 40 years for the same company. This documentary is based on the diary his father wrote after being diagnosed…

Posted by on December 31, 2014 in Activities Everyone

Ilens film: Shun Li and the Poet

Presented by: Letizia Modena, Associate Professor of Italian Italy, France (2011) Dir: Andrea Segre. A single mother from China who works as a barmaid in a waterfront tavern meets an exile from Eastern Europe who has a fondness for poetry and also pens doggerel verse. Their meeting is a poetic escape from loneliness, a silent…

Posted by on December 31, 2014 in Activities Everyone

Ilens film: Motherland Afghanistan

Presented by: Margaret Cuninggim Women’s Center. USA, Afghanistan (2007) Dir: Sedika Mojadidi. When the US invaded Afghanistan in 2001, hopes were high that democracy would bring progress in health and education for its women. But as of 2006, adequate health care has not been met. Set against the backdrop of a land in turmoil and…

Posted by on December 31, 2014 in Activities Everyone

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