Shorts Program 9
Saturday, September 14, 2024 4:00 PM CDT
Harper Theater 1
https://cuff31.eventive.org/schedule/66acd8bf03f5e30051dd8e0d
Otherhood | Deborah Stratman
Mother and child confront the other. Meanwhile, some ladies are thinking.
Retracing Our Steps | Kelly Gallagher
A woman reflects back on her time spent assisting abortion seekers when Roe v. Wade was law of the land in the US.
Contractions | Lynne Sachs
What happens when women and other who gestate no longer have control of their bodies? In 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court ended a woman’s right to a safe and legal abortion in the United States. “Contractions” takes us to Memphis, Tennessee where we contemplate the discontinuation of abortion services at a women’s health clinic. We listen to an obstetrician and a reproductive rights activist who movingly lay out these vital issues. We watch 14 women and their male allies who witness and perform with their backs to the camera. In a place where a woman can no longer make decisions about her own body, they “speak” with the full force of their collective presence.
We Continue To Speak | Lynne Sachs
In this sound collage Filmmaker Lynne Sachs records the participants and producers of her film Contractions as they vocalize their reactions to the reduction of women’s bodily autonomy in the United States.
Patient | Lori Felker
Fiction, reality, the private, and the performed overlap on a routine but emotional day at a medical center.
What Went Down | Danièle Wilmouth
Beauty is pain – at least in the world of Dance. WHAT WENT DOWN takes a humorous and irreverent approach to unpacking ideas of suffering in pursuit of physical virtuosity. A collaboration between choreographer Peter Carpenter and filmmaker Danièle Wilmouth, WHAT WENT DOWN features a group of middle-aged dancers who navigate the tense relationship between their chronically injured bodies and the barked orders of an uncompromising film director. Exposing the strenuous labor of the cinematic process both in front of and behind the camera, WHAT WENT DOWN devolves from constant action to profound inaction… all for you!
Ashes of Roses | Sasha Waters
This movie is about loving things that are embarrassing and people who are inappropriate. It’s an essay film reflection on popular trash.
I Was There (Part 1) | Chi Jang Yin
“I Was There” is a trilogy of experimental documentary films that explores the problem of radiation, our society’s fading collective memory of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and the unresolved debate between ethics and science. These series concern the immediate effects of weaponized nuclear technology, as invisible poison, on the human body. Meditating on the survivor’s memories, “I Was There” (Part I) traces the experience of a physician for the past 70 years, who recounted his day as a rare witness when the atomic bomb was dropped in Hiroshima. The poignant and thought-provoking evidence of the secret war tactics reveals the human value during times of war in conflicts. Saving American lives is the commonly known and acceptable narrative of why the United States government dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima. However, this narrative contradicts the finding in personal and petitions letters, and arsenal photography housed at the Truman Presidential Museum. The evidence uncovers a rather surprising reason for testing the atomic bomb on humans – competing for war power against Russia and securing the US dominant role in global politics.