International Lens Film Series
Living Downstream
Tuesday February 2Presented by: Carwil Bjork-James, Assistant Professor of Anthropology.
Argentina/USA (2010) Dir: Chanda Chevannes.
Biologist Sandra Steingraber defines -understanding the public story of cancer- as her life-s work. She calls public attention to the role of environmental pollutants in causing cancer even as she confronts her own diagnosis with the disease in a compelling environmental documentary that interrelates the personal, the scientific, and the political. English. Unrated. 85 minutes. DVD.Presented in collaboration with the EOS Project.
M-A City Looks for a Murderer
(Part of the Fritz Lang series)
Wednesday, February 3 Presented by: Lutz Koepnick, Gertrude Conaway
Vanderbilt Professor of German, Cinema and Media Arts.
Germany (1931) Dir: Fritz Lang.
The story of a serial killer in Weimar-era Germany embodies the social criticism and terror of the time immediately before Nazi rule. German, with English subtitles. Unrated. 111 minutes. Blu-Ray. Presented in collaboration with the Department of Germanic & Slavic Languages.