Film Screening:

Flag Wars
(Linda Goode Bryant/Laura Poitras, 2003, 90min, USA, in English, DVD)

This Peabody Award-winning documentary directly profiles the problems caused by gentrification in a Columbus, Ohio urban community. An influx of white, gay homebuyers threatens to displace black working-class families, but at the same time, this area is providing the incoming gay community with a space to live-out dreams of their own. Raw emotionality from the film's subjects are countered by the documenters' unflinching, clear-eyed approach. Flag Wars goes from porch conversations and family gatherings to public hearings and street protests in order to capture a full range of perspectives and arguments.

-- The first of three films leading up to the October 24th conversation between Barbaralee Diamonstein-Spielvogel and Laura Poitras in the Nasher Museum Auditorium at 6:00pm.  

-- Oct 2, 2012 Newsflash: Laura Poitras Named a 2012 MacArthur Fellow!

                                           [CDS Porch write-up]

Cost: Free and open to the public

Sponsors: The Archive of Documentary Arts in the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book and Manuscript Library, the Center for Documentary Studies (CDS), and the Program in the Arts of the Moving Image (AMI)