International Lens Film Series
An evening with award-winning filmmaker SASHA WATERS FREYER
Thursday, Sept. 28, 2017
7:30 p.m. – 10:00 p.m.
Sarratt Cinema
2301 Vanderbilt Place, Nashville, TN 37240
Presented by Jonathan Rattner, Assistant Professor Cinema & Media Arts and Art.
Sasha Waters Freyer is a moving image artist trained in photography and the documentary tradition who fuses original and found footage in 16mm film and digital media. She visits iLens with a special sneak peak of her new documentary film! Her films have screened at a variety of prestigious international film festivals and museums, including Rotterdam, Telluride, Tribeca, the Pacific Film Archives, the Museum of the Moving Image in New York, and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Detroit.
Lumumba
Wednesday, Oct. 4, 2017
7:30 p.m. – 10:00 p.m.
Sarratt Cinema
2301 Vanderbilt Place, Nashville, TN 37240
Presented by Moses Ochonu, Cornelius Vanderbilt Professor of History.
France/Belgium/Germany/Haiti (2000) Dir: Raoul Peck. Raoul Peck fictionalizes the life and brutal execution of Patrice Lumumba, the leader of the Congolese National Movement.
The film charts Lumumba’s political career and radicalization in the fight for Congo’s independence and the Cold War-era international forces that undercut the country’s democracy. Critic Elvis Mitchell writes: “This is a movie about chaos and regret, focusing on the unleashing of forces greater than any one person could hope to handle and the carnage, however necessary, left in their wake.” French/Lingala/English. 120 min. DVD.
Presented in collaboration with the Department of History, Cinema & Media Arts Program, and the Robert Penn Warren Center for Humanities.