The McGillicuddy Humanities Center is holding a year-long film series examining “The Cinema of Colonization and Decolonization” as part of our annual symposium. The films selected engage with the theme in a variety of ways, from incorporating the legacies of colonization into the storyline to disrupting traditional Western systems and methods of production and distribution. Films are shown in Hill Auditorium in Barrows Hall (ESRB) on select Monday evenings at 6 p.m. All movies are free, open to the public, and include a meal and discussion.

March 9: Coffy

颁辞蹿蹿测听听(1973), directed by Jack Hill, is a classic of blaxploitation cinema starring Pam Grier as a vigilante nurse fighting drug dealers, criminals, and the system, in an effort to avenge her sister’s death. The film subverts the action/crime movie genre and places black characters at the center as the heroes. Noted visiting film scholar, Professor Ernest Mathijs from the Film and Media Studies Department at the University of British Columbia, will lead a discussion following the film.

March 23: Innocence Unprotected

Innocence Unprotected聽(1968), directed by聽Dusan Makavejev, is a Yugoslav film pieced together with footage from an earlier 1941 film of the same name made by gymnast Dragoljub Aleksi膰 that was never released due to Nazi censors. Makavejev added additional news footage from the war and Nazi propaganda to turn it into something entirely new, part documentary, part bizarre acrobatic montage.聽Michael Grillo, Associate Professor of the History of Art at U海角社区, will lead a discussion following the film.

April 6:听罢颈尘产耻办迟耻

罢颈尘产耻办迟耻听(2014), directed by聽Abderrahmane Sissako, is a聽French-Mauritanian film that examines the brief occupation of Timbuktu, Mali by the militant Islamist group聽Ansar Dine. The film has won numerous awards, including the New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Foreign Language Film, and the National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Foreign Language Film. Alan Berry, PhD student in Communication, will lead a discussion following the film.

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The McGillicuddy Humanities Center Film Series will feature a collection of six films throughout the academic year related to “The Cinema of Colonization and Decolonization.” The global films in the series, from France, Africa, Canada, Argentina and the United States, feature a variety of filming styles, including documentary, ethnographic, and outsider films alongside studio productions. The film selections examine colonialism, racism and post-colonial identity, as well as decolonization of the film industry itself.

All films will be shown in the Hill Auditorium in Barrows Hall at 6PM on the following Mondays. Spring films and dates announced soon:

• October 21 – Zama (2017), dir. Lucrecia Martel, 115 minute runtime
• November 4 – Carol (2015), dir. Todd Haynes, 118 minute runtime
• November 18 – Before Tomorrow (2008),聽dir. Marie-H茅l猫ne Cousineau and Madeline Ivalu, 93 minute runtime

Roger Ebert’s review of Carol:

“In “Carol,” Haynes turns his eye on the “invisible” lesbian sub-culture of the 1950s closet. A lush emotional melodrama along the lines of the films of , Haynes’ patron saint, “Carol” is often about its surfaces, their beauty聽contrasting with the scary duality of people, relationships. The surfaces in “Carol” are so seductive that one understands the ache to belong in that world.”

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Greg Quill’s review of Before Tomorrow from The Star:

“A disturbing and powerful metaphor for the doom visited on the Inuit after their insulated world was penetrated by Europeans in the mid-1800s, Before Tomorrow, co-directed by native filmmakers and writers Marie-H茅l猫ne Cousineau and Madeline Ivalu, imagines a moment in which these once hardy people, ill-equipped to survive in the new order, face the awful inevitability of extinction.”

The McGillicuddy Humanities Center Film Series will feature a collection of six films throughout the academic year related to “The Cinema of Colonization and Decolonization.” The global films in the series, from France, Africa, Canada, Argentina and the United States, feature a variety of filming styles, including documentary, ethnographic, and outsider films alongside studio productions. The film selections examine colonialism, racism and post-colonial identity, as well as decolonization of the film industry itself.

All films will be shown in the Hill Auditorium in Barrows Hall at 6PM on the following Mondays. Spring films and dates announced soon:

• October 21 – Zama (2017), dir. Lucrecia Martel, 115 minute runtime
• November 4 – Carol (2015), dir. Todd Haynes, 118 minute runtime
• November 25 (rescheduled from November 18) – Before Tomorrow (2008),聽dir. Marie-H茅l猫ne Cousineau and Madeline Ivalu, 93 minute runtime:

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