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DOCS ON THE EDGE:
New Short Documentaries from
the 2009-2010 Video Production Seminar
Presented by the Departments of Anthropology and Cinema Studies and
the Program in Culture and Media at New York University

Monday, May 10, 2010 @ 6:00 pm

Cantor Film Center
36 East 8th Street
Theater 200
New York City

The Beloved Witness
by Dwaipayan Banerjee (Anthropology)
The poetry of Agha Shahid Ali is acknowledged to be one of the most powerful representations of the war-torn region of Kashmir. This film looks back at Shahid's life in exile in America, where he transformed 20th century American poetry by weaving it together with Islamic forms, while at the same time leaving an unforgettable impression in the lives of many artists, writers and friends.

Citizenship Archive
by Eugenia Kisin (Anthropology)
In 1913, the amateur ethnographer Joseph K. Dixon led an expedition to reservations across the United State that promised symbolic American citizenship to Native Americans. The only material traces of the expedition -photographs - are contained within two drawers at the American Museum of Natural History in New York. Offering a speculative and critical reading of the expedition through photographs, this film explores the question of what the colonial archive remembers - and what it forgets.

Tonto Plays Himself
by Jacob Floyd (Cinema Studies)
While researching American Indian actors in Hollywood during the Great Depression, aspiring Native filmmaker Jacob Floyd finds a surprising and unknown personal connection to a strange footnote in Hollywood history. This discovery leads him to confront his own issues and anxieties about representation in film, as he revisits his love of movies, and his aversion to film Westerns.

Sweet Clover, a homecoming
by Jen Heuson (Media, Culture, and Communication)
For filmmaker Jen Heuson, the Black Hills of South Dakota hold much more than national icons. The Hills are home to a family pilgrimage dating back almost a century. Following the death of her grandmother, Jen takes her grandfather Harvey on one last trip to the Black Hills. Through Super-8mm film and non-synchronous audio recordings, Sweet Clover unravels the landscapes of memory, nostalgia, and imagination they encounter along the way.

First Voices
by Amalia Córdova (Cinema Studies)
From a studio on Wall Street, global indigenous voices stream to the world through a unique radio show produced and hosted by Tiokasin Ghosthorse, a tireless Lakota activist, musician and journalist. This film highlights Tiokasin's efforts to build awareness on the Native experience through media and art.

Buggin' Out
by Jamie Berthe (Media, Culture, and Communication)
For the past several years, New Yorkers have been fighting bed bugs in shame, solitude, and silence. Buggin' Out is filmmaker Jamie Berthe's attempt to break this silence: it chronicles epidemic from the eye of the storm, following Jamie as she comes to grips with her own infestation and embarks upon a quest for answers about one of Mother Nature's most formidable and resilient foes.

*a short intermission will follow the third film*

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