Cinema and Digital Media combines the study of audio-visual and
digital media, theories about such media, and relevant modes of
artistic practice and production.
Adapting Helon Habila’s The Chibok Girls, this
experimental documentary re-enacts the journey to Chibok to visit
those left behind after the shocking kidnapping of 276 girls from
Chibok Girls School in 2014. Actor Wale Ojo plays Habila
alongside the community in Gombe State, who re-enact the original
interviews. With daring complexity, this film invites audiences
to listen, feel, empathise and meditate on one of the greatest
challenges facing Nigeria today.
In conjunction with the California Studio Manetti Shrem Artist
Residencies program, there will be a special screening of
Xu Bing’s acclaimed film Dragonfly Eyes. The
screening will be held on Nov. 1 in the Main Theatre, Wright
Hall, at 4:30 p.m (doors open at 4:00 p.m.). The event is free
and open to the public.
Artnet’s Tim Schneider has
named professor emerita Lynn Hershman Leeson’s “Twisted Gravity”
one of the most boundary-pushing works at this year’s Art Basel.
