Join the Department of Performing and Media Arts for Sub-Basement Docs: Rock, Flight, Light on Wednesday, May 6, from 5:15 pm to 6:30 pm, in the Kiplinger Theatre, Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts. Free and open to the public. Tickets are not required. The screening will be followed by a Q&A with the filmmakers, Suraj Kushwaha, Meena Haribal, and Esther Grace Brenner. Hosted by PMA/Anthropology Assistant Professor Natasha Raheja.
Sub-Basement Docs: Rock, Flight, Light features three short films by student filmmakers who are also practitioners in the worlds they depict—moving between insider and outsider perspectives. In LEGENDS, Suraj Kushwaha, a climber, traces questions of land and struggle at Oak Flats; In Incredible Birds and Birders of Finger Lakes, Meena Haribal, a birder, evokes the wonder of birding in the Finger Lakes; and in seasons of mists and mellow fruitfulness, Esther Grace Brenner, a painter, reflects on how to render landscape and natural light onto canvas. Across climbing, birding, and painting and questions of land struggle, citizen-science, and art, the films explore different ways of encountering and representing landscape.
Presented by Advanced Documentary Production (ANTHR/PMA 4401/7401).
