Category Archives: Film Series

Film showings mark Hurricane Katrina anniversary

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Join us to commemorate the 5-year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina at two film showings:

A Village Called Versailles
Wednesday, August 25, 7 p.m.
Hodges Library Auditorium

In a New Orleans neighborhood called Versailles, a tight-knit group of Vietnamese Americans overcame obstacles to rebuild after Hurricane Katrina, only to have their homes threatened by a new government-imposed toxic landfill. A Village Called Versailles is the empowering story of how the Versailles people, who have already suffered so much in their lifetime, turn a devastating disaster into a catalyst for change and a chance for a better future. (Sadly, the Vietnamese American community in New Orleans has also recently been impacted by the BP Oil Spill.)

    Sponsored by the Asian American Association, Asian Studies Program, International House, and the University Libraries

Faubourg Tremé: The Untold Story of Black New Orleans
Thursday, August 26, 7 p.m.
Hodges Library Auditorium

Arguably the oldest black neighborhood in America and the birthplace of jazz, Faubourg Treme was home to the largest community of free black people in the Deep South during slavery and a hotbed of political ferment. While the Treme district was damaged when the levees broke, this is not another Katrina documentary. Long before the flood, two native New Orleanians—one black, one white—writer Lolis Eric Elie and filmmaker Dawn Logsdon, began documenting the rich living culture of this historic district. Miraculously, their tapes survived the disaster unscathed. The completed film is a powerful testament to why New Orleans matters, and why this most un-American of American cities must be saved.

    Sponsored by Africana Studies, the Commission for Blacks, the Department of History, and the University Libraries

MORE INFORMATION:
CNN article about Vietnamese American Fisherfolk and BP Oil Spill
History of Faubourg Treme
HBO Series on Faubourg Treme

Five Year Updates:
Been in the Storm Too Long, Tavis Smiley
Brookings Institute, New Orleans at Five
Greater New Orleans Community Data Center
CNN, Katrina: Five Years Later

Katrina Related Sites and Archives:
New Orleans Times-Picayune
Hurricane Digital Memory Bank

In Hodges Library:
Hurricane Katrina resources
New Orleans resources

Documentaries in the Library Focus on Political Themes

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The University of Tennessee Libraries and the Howard Baker Center for Public Policy invite the campus and local community to attend the Documentaries in the Library series. Each event features a documentary film screening followed by a discussion. The events are free and open to the public.

To celebrate the 2008 election, the current series schedule focuses on political themes.
During the months of September and October, thought-provoking documentaries will inspire viewers to think critically about important issues in American politics. After the screenings, discussion leaders will encourage lively debate on the topics posed by the films.

The program schedule is as follows:

Young Voices on Today’s Politics – Tuesday, September 30 at 7 p.m. in Hodges Library Auditorium
Documentary: Student Free Range Video Contest Entries
The spring 2008 contest encouraged students to create short videos commenting on politics. Entries from this contest as well as student videos from UT courses and selections from YouTube will be screened.
Discussion Leader: Mark Harmon, Journalism and Electronic Media

Religion and Politics – Tuesday, October 14 at 7 p.m. in Hodges Library Auditorium
Documentary: God and Politics
This PBS series examines how religious beliefs shape political events. Discussed are the influence of schisms amongst the Southern Baptists, the war for souls in Central America, which parallels American foreign policy in the area, and the movement known as Christian Reconstruction.
Discussion Leader: Will Jennings, Political Science

The Presidential Mandate? – Tuesday, October 28 at 7 p.m. in Hodges Library Auditorium
Documentary: Mandate
This video, narrated by veteran CBS News correspondent Lesley Stahl, examines the long and complex relationship between the presidency and public opinion. Leading historians, political scientists, and public figures offer insight into presidents and the presidency from George Washington through Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Discussion Leader: Michael Fitzgerald, Political Science

Films in April

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Film Movement Film Series
Tuesday, April 8, 2008
7:30pm Hodges Library Auditorium
Dreams Of Dust
Burkina Faso, Canada, France / d. Laurent Salgues / 86 min
Mocktar, a Nigerien peasant, comes looking for work in Essakane, a dusty gold mine in Northeast Burkina Faso, Africa, where he hopes to forget the past that haunts him. Once there, he quickly finds out, the gold rush ended twenty years before, and the inhabitants of this wasteland and strange timelessness manage to exist simply from force of habit.

Tuesday, April 22, 2008
7:30pm Hodges Library Auditorium
Adam’s Apples
Denmark / d. Anders Thomas Jensen / 94 min
Ivan is an insanely optimistic preacher who takes in convicts to help around the remote, rural church he ministers to. Grasping the extent of Ivan’s crazed, preternatural determination to look on the bright side of everything, his newest ‘helper’ Adam immediately decides to shake him out of his rose-colored stupor

Biology Nights in the Library

Thursday, April 10, 2008
6:30 PM Hodges Library Rm 253
The Last Antibiotic: Late Lessons from Early Warnings
The prescription of antibiotics is a medical tightrope-walk. The drugs save lives, but, because of overuse, may soon usher in a new era of super-germs. This program outlines the discoveries of bacteria and penicillin and sheds light on the frightening emergence of multi-resistant, often deadly microbes during the last six decades. Presenting interviews with researchers who are deeply involved with the issue–including Tufts University microbiology professor Stuart Levy and Eva Nathanson of the World Health Organization’s Stop TB Program–the film examines the implications of antibiotic-enhanced livestock feed and the dangers that staphylococcus poses to hospital patients. Viewer discretion advised. Contains footage of injections, surgeries, and open wounds.

Films in March

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Film Movement Film Series

Tuesday, March 11
7:30pm Hodges Library Auditorium
The Way I Spent The End Of The World
Romania / d. Catalin Mitulescu / 106 min
Set in Romania towards the end of the Ceausescu regime, The Way I Spent the End of the World depicts a few months in the life of one family as they deal with universal struggles like raising kids, finding work, and abiding by societal expectations

March 25, 2008
7:30pm Hodges Library Auditorium
Fraulein
Switzerland / d. Andrea Staka / 81 min
Fraulein explores questions of nationality, immigration and generational differences through the lives and friendships of three women from the former Yugoslavia living in Zurich and working in a cafeteria

Biology Nights

Thursday, March 27
6:30 PM Hodges Library 253
Too Hot Not to Handle: Winning the Battle Against Global Warming
Run Time: 55 min.
This film offers a wealth of scientific evidence for dire climate-change predictions–but it also shows how businesses, local governments, and citizens can take positive action to reduce future dangers. With in-depth discussions of what may lie ahead, including increases in storm surges, hurricanes, water pollution, forest fires, and epidemics, the program promotes the urgently needed use of alternative energy sources, such as biodiesel, clean-burning coal, and wind and solar power. Interviews with leading climatologists and environmental health experts enliven the film’s two-pronged focus on perils and solutions.

Working for Democracy in the South and Appalachia: The Highlander Research and Education Center

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UT Libraries Hosts Documentary Series and Exhibit to celebrate Highlander’s 75th anniversary

The University of Tennessee Libraries is hosting a documentary series and exhibit to teach the university and local communities about the Highlander Research and Education Center, as it celebrates its 75th anniversary this year.

All programs in the Documentaries in the Libraries series are held on Tuesday evenings in the Hodges Library Lindsay Young Auditorium, from 7-9 pm. The programs feature a documentary film showing and discussion led by experts from Highlander, filmmakers, and UT faculty.

The exhibit, on display in Hodges Library outside the reference room, was designed by Sarah Lowe, associate professor of art, and Paul Chinetti, a senior in graphic design. The exhibit is a time line that highlights milestone events in the history of Highlander. It includes many photographs of Highlander students, including civil rights leaders Martin Luther King, Jr. and Rosa Parks.

The Highlander Center was founded in 1932 to serve as an adult education center for community workers involved in social and economic justice movements. The goal of Highlander was, and is, to provide education and support to poor and working people fighting economic injustice, poverty, prejudice and environmental destruction.

The Highlander Center works internationally, but is located in New Market, Tennessee, 23 miles from Knoxville.

Films & Dates
September 18
You Got to Move
Discussion leader: Pam McMichael, director of the Highlander Research and Education Center

October 2
Uprising of ’34
Discussion leader: Anne Mayhew, UT emeritus professor of economics

October 16
We Shall Overcome
Discussion leader: Tufara Waller Muhammed, cultural program coordinator of the Highlander Research and Education Center

October 30
Morristown
Discussion leaders: Bill Troy and Luvernel Clark

November 13
Up The Ridge
Discussion leader: Amelia Kirby, Up the Ridge documentarian

November 27
The Telling Takes Me Home
Discussion leaders: Guy and Candie Carawan, activists, musicians and educators, with their son, hammered dulcimer player Evan Carawan.
A reception will follow this event in the Mary E. Greer room of Hodges Library. All are welcome to attend.

Conversations about the Constitution, Monday September 17

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constitution2.jpgThe University Libraries will show two short films about the importance of the Constitution

1-4 pm
Room 129, Hodges Library

These films, hosted by Supreme Court Justices Sandra Day O’Connor, Anthony Kennedy and Stephen Breyer, discuss why we need a written Constitution, separation of powers, federalism, individual rights and the role of judges who are sworn to uphold the laws of this nation and to protect the rights of all citizens.

The films include
A Conversation on the Constitution: Judicial Independence (32 minutes)
Judicial independence is a cornerstone of democracy, guaranteed by the Constitution and enshrined in our system of government.

Our Constitution: A Conversation (30 minutes)
In the summer of 1787, delegates to the Constitutional Convention gathered in Philadelphia to create a document that would establish the government of the United States. On September 17, that landmark document, our Constitution, was signed into law.

The films will be shown continuously throughout the afternoon. Please drop by!

Film Movement films for August

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See some very good films at Hodges Library for free

This summer, the UT Libraries is screening four of the best Film Movement films that have been shown in the last two years. Film Movement features award-winning independent and international films that are not often shown in regular movie theaters. The UT Libraries began showing Film Movement films in 2005. Each of the four films has a summer theme or setting. This gives you a good chance to catch up on the Film Movement series and see some very good films for free.

All films are shown in the Lindsay Young Auditorium of Hodges Library on the UT campus. Showings begin at 7 p.m. and are free and open to the public.

Film Schedule

August 2: Wilby Wonderful (Canada) running time: 99 minutes
This bittersweet comedy is about the difference a day makes. Over the course of twenty-four hours, the residents of the tiny island town of Wilby try to maintain business as usual in the face of very unusual business. The film stars Sandra Oh, of Grey’s Anatomy and Sideways.

August 9: Ginger and Cinnamon (Italy) running time: 82 minutes
While vacationing on the Greek “Isle of Love”, a repressed 30 year old Stefania reluctantly plays chaperone to her precocious 14 year old niece, Meggy, who plans to lose her virginity before the summer is over.

The first Film Movement film of the fall semester will be September 25, Men at Work.

Film Movement Summer Series Features “The Best of the Best”

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See some very good films at Hodges Library for free

This summer, the UT Libraries is screening four of the best Film Movement films that have been shown in the last two years. Film Movement features award-winning independent and international films that are not often shown in regular movie theaters. The UT Libraries began showing Film Movement films in 2005. Each of the four films has a summer theme or setting. This gives you a good chance to catch up on the Film Movement series and see some very good films for free.

All films are shown in the Lindsay Young Auditorium of Hodges Library on the UT campus. Showings begin at 7 p.m. and are free and open to the public.

Film Schedule

July 19: The Rage in Placid Lake (Australia) running time: 89 minutes
Australian Singer-Songwriter Ben Lee stars as Placid Lake in this dark, coming-of-age comedy. Lake’s hippy parents have raised him to always challenge people’s perceptions. But after a lifetime of bullying, he decides to rebel by taking a job at an insurance company. The quirky film is full of quotable lines and off-the-wall moments.

July 26: The Man of the Year (Brazil) running time: 106 minutes
In this vibrant and thrilling crime saga, Maiquel (Murilo Benicio) has lost a bet and dyed his hair blond. This little event triggers a head-on collision with destiny in which Maiquel goes from nobody to hero to outlaw…all in 24 hours.

August 2: Wilby Wonderful (Canada) running time: 99 minutes
This bittersweet comedy is about the difference a day makes. Over the course of twenty-four hours, the residents of the tiny island town of Wilby try to maintain business as usual in the face of very unusual business. The film stars Sandra Oh, of Grey’s Anatomy and Sideways.

August 9: Ginger and Cinnamon (Italy) running time: 82 minutes
While vacationing on the Greek “Isle of Love”, a repressed 30 year old Stefania reluctantly plays chaperone to her precocious 14 year old niece, Meggy, who plans to lose her virginity before the summer is over.

Film Movement Summer Series Features “The Best of the Best”

Posted on

See some very good films at Hodges Library for free

This summer, the UT Libraries is screening four of the best Film Movement films that have been shown in the last two years. Film Movement features award-winning independent and international films that are not often shown in regular movie theaters. The UT Libraries began showing Film Movement films in 2005. Each of the four films has a summer theme or setting. This gives you a good chance to catch up on the Film Movement series and see some very good films for free.

All films are shown in the Lindsay Young Auditorium of Hodges Library on the UT campus. Showings begin at 7 p.m. and are free and open to the public.

Film Schedule

July 19: The Rage in Placid Lake (Australia) running time: 89 minutes
Australian Singer-Songwriter Ben Lee stars as Placid Lake in this dark, coming-of-age comedy. Lake’s hippy parents have raised him to always challenge people’s perceptions. But after a lifetime of bullying, he decides to rebel by taking a job at an insurance company. The quirky film is full of quotable lines and off-the-wall moments.

July 26: The Man of the Year (Brazil) running time: 106 minutes
In this vibrant and thrilling crime saga, Maiquel (Murilo Benicio) has lost a bet and dyed his hair blond. This little event triggers a head-on collision with destiny in which Maiquel goes from nobody to hero to outlaw…all in 24 hours.

August 2: Wilby Wonderful (Canada) running time: 99 minutes
This bittersweet comedy is about the difference a day makes. Over the course of twenty-four hours, the residents of the tiny island town of Wilby try to maintain business as usual in the face of very unusual business. The film stars Sandra Oh, of Grey’s Anatomy and Sideways.

August 9: Ginger and Cinnamon (Italy) running time: 82 minutes
While vacationing on the Greek “Isle of Love”, a repressed 30 year old Stefania reluctantly plays chaperone to her precocious 14 year old niece, Meggy, who plans to lose her virginity before the summer is over.