CANCELLATION NOTICE:

In order to minimize health and safety risks from COVID-19 to our patrons, the larger community, and Duke students, faculty, and staff, Duke University has adopted new policies on spring semester classes, residential life, travel, events, and campus visitors. (Find this update and the latest information on Duke’s Coronavirus response website.)
 
In keeping with the university’s directives, all public events at the Rubenstein Arts Center between March 10 and April 20, 2020 are CANCELED, including this event and all remaining Screen/Society screenings for the Spring 2020 semester.

(Check back in late summer on the Screen/Society website to see which canceled screenings will be rescheduled in the Fall 2020 semester.)

Instructors from the Program in the Arts of the Moving Image (AMI) screen and discuss their latest work.

Full Program:

“Poison Melody” by Curtis Eller’s American Circus (Jim Haverkamp, 2019, 5 min, Color, Digital)
Official music video. Filmed & edited by Jim Haverkamp; puppets by Alan Best; dance by Stacy Wolfson.

Zero Irony (Gary Hawkins, 2015, 11 min, Color, 16mm on video)
An experimental, structuralist film that finds its form in a series of poetic, repeating loops, set atop a soundtrack of 21st century prayer requests. The petitions resolve "in the air" with blue skies, the sudden appearance of a storm, the manifestation of a weather satellite and a procession of symbolic 'deities'.

Rain Train Mother Son (Gary Hawkins, 2019, 2 min, Color, Super 8 on video)
A mother/son moment times five, set to troubadour verse.

The Color Tax: Origins of the Modern Day Racial Wealth Gap (Bruce Orenstein, 2019, 37 min, Color, Digital)
One of five episodes that Orenstein is producing as part of his Shame of Chicago project on the history of housing segregation there, The Color Tax tells the story of how a long-standing system of predatory home contract sales stole hard-earned wealth from the pockets of Chicago’s Black families, denying these families the equity-building mortgages that were given to their White counterparts.

Cornered (Raquel Salvatella de Prada, 2019, 8 min, Color, Digital)
A video and light installation that represents the motivation and struggles of migrants leaving their home country and making an attempt, most often failed, to cross the border from Morocco to the Spanish cities of Melilla and Ceuta, the only European cities on Africa’s mainland.

Total run time: approx. 64 min.  

-- Q&A to follow with faculty filmmakers.

Sponsored by the Program in the Arts of the Moving Image (AMI).