Calendar – Past Event

Petra Epperlein and Mike Tucker devoted seven years to the making of a remarkable quartet of documentaries on the Iraq War and its aftermath. For the first time, all four films will be shown together as we bring filmmakers and members of the cast together to discuss their experience. 

All events at the Whitney Humanities Center, 53 Wall Street, New Haven, CT. 
Friday, June 17^th 

7 pm: Screening Bulletproof Salesman (2008) 
Fidelis Cloer is a self-confessed war profiteer. During the U.S. occupation of Iraq he finds the perfect business opportunity supplying top of the line armored vehicles in a place where security is at a premium. A Q & A with the filmmakers follows the screening. 

Saturday: June 18^th
11 am: "The Films of Petra Epperlein and Mike Tucker" 
A Presentation by Patricia Aufderheide. Followed by selections from a forthcoming documentary on Petra Epperlein and Mike Tucker. 

1:00 pm: Screening Gunner Palace (2004) 
A thought-provoking portrait of American soldiers of the 2/3 Field Artillery, a group known as the "Gunners," based in a bombed-out pleasure palace built by Sadaam Hussein during the Iraq War. The soldiers endure hostile situations in the months after major combat was declared to be at an end. 

2:30pm: Coffee Break 

3:00 pm: Screening How to Fold a Flag (2009) 
Follows members from the 2/3 Field Artillery as they create new lives post Iraq, from a Congressional candidate in Buffalo to a cage fighter in Louisiana. 

4:30pm: Panel: Living the War in Iraq/ Reliving the War at Home. 
With Petra Epperlein, Mike Tucker and two of the "Gunners," Stuart Wilf and Jon Powers. 

Sunday, June 19th: 
1:00 pm: The Prisoner; Or How I Planned to Kill Tony Blair(2006) 
In an absurd comedy of errors, Yunis Khatayer Abbas, a freedom-loving Iraqi journalist is mistaken as Tony Blair's would-be assassin and sent to Abu Ghraib Prison. In a place suffering from food shortages, riots and insurgent attacks, Yunis forges an unlikely friendship with one of his guards, who he calls "The Good Soldier". 

2:30 pm: Panel: Working Under Duress in Iraq 
A conversation with Benjamin Thompson, "The Good Soldier" who worked at Abu Graib Prison, and Alaa Majeed, a Iraqi journalist and translator who worked with Yunis. 

3:30 pm: Coffee Break 

3:45 pm Presentations on "Documentary and the Iraq Experience" 
With Jim Dingeman, Zareena Grewal, Charles Musser followed by a Q & A with the scholars and the filmmakers. 

Co-sponsored by the International Festival of Arts & Ideas and the Yale Summer Film Institute