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THE STRIKE | Grand Lake Theater
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Amidst the redwood trees on the Pacific Coast sits one of the most infamous prisons in US history: Pelican Bay. The supermax prison was designed specifically for mass-scale solitary confinement and isolated men for decades. Then one day, 30,000 incarcerated people went on hunger strike. Told by those who lived it, The Strike goes beyond making a case against solitary confinement; it illuminates the power of organizing, and in doing so, flips the true-crime genre on its head.
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Summer/Fall 2024
It’s the summer of conferences, conventions, and gatherings of all sorts, in so many different places. In gathering, we create images and reports. Some of them are mundane. And some of them become talismans, like the photographs and videos of a former American president fist-pumping with a bleeding ear. But none of them, alone, are evidence of our togetherness or divisiveness. Because these documents, such as documentary films, are not merely snapshots in time. These images—and all images—are, as stated by cinematographer and filmmaker Kirsten Johnson in her keynote address at Getting Real ’24, “ongoing relationships between the people who made them and the people who see them, as long as they last.” That is, it’s up to us, in the now, to negotiate what happens after gatherings. This issue examines people, films, and filmmaking practices that make crucial decisions about which stories are bestowed with the power of being told and retold.Articles will be published online between August–September 2024.
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SI LA ISLA QUIERE
With 61 times more endemic plant species than the Galapagos, and an equally diverse human population, Chile's Robinson Crusoe Island might be the most unique place in the world. SI LA ISLA QUIERE ("Island Willing") immerses audiences in a radical culture of stewardship through the eyes of three island families. Against the backdrop of a climate in crisis, this film shows what it means to live with nature.
With 61 times more endemic plant species than the Galapagos, and an equally diverse human population, Chile's Robinson Crusoe Island might be the most unique place in the world. SI LA ISLA QUIERE ("Island Willing") immerses audiences in a radical culture of stewardship through the eyes of three island families. Against the backdrop of a climate in crisis, this film shows what it means to live with nature.