Tuesday, March 19, 2024

MKE Film Fest

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Criticism After Authority: The Dissolve at the Milwaukee Film Festival

By Kalling Heck As part of their “Tributes” series, the Milwaukee Film Festival invited the staff of Chicago based film criticism website The Dissolve for a statement and subsequent conversation on the state of cinema. This conversation was followed by a screening of Brian De Palma’s 1981 Blowout, a film...

Lonely No More!

When the Walls Talked

By Laya Liebeseller Talking Walls marked the beginning of something new at C21. It was the first of what would become a series of gallery...

Lonely No More! in the Archive

By Eli Frank I began this summer’s Archive Fellowship ruminating on the historical intimacies between C21’s institutional history and my own research project. Both C21...

6.5 Minutes With… Keramet Reiter

Professor Keramet Reiter gives some detail about the consequences of solitary confinement, and begins to frame a longer discussion for thinking about changes in...

Robot Dogs Can Help Seniors Cope…

Author Sassafras Lowery Description In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, seniors--one of the most vulnerable populations to the illness--are more isolated than ever before. Ageless Innovation,...

Decolonizing Extinction

Author Juno Salazar Parreñas Description In Decolonizing Extinction Juno Salazar Parreñas ethnographically traces the ways in which colonialism, decolonization, and indigeneity shape relations that form more-than-human worlds at orangutan...

Marking Time

Author Nicole R. Fleetwood Description More than two million people are currently behind bars in the United States. Incarceration not only separates the imprisoned from their families...

Connecting, Humanizing, and Healing Through Music with Esteemed Violinist Vijay Gupta

Host Baktash Ahadi Description In this episode, we discuss loneliness and brokenness, and the power of music to be the catalyst for connection and healing. Vijay shares...

23/7: Pelican Bay Prison and the Rise of Long-Term Solitary Confinement

Author Keramet Reiter Description Originally meant to be brief and exceptional, solitary confinement in U.S. prisons has become long-term and common. Prisoners spend twenty-three hours a day...

Animals’ Best Friends

Author Barbara J. King Description As people come to understand more about animals’ inner lives—the intricacies of their thoughts and the emotions that are expressed every day...

Flying Kites

Contributors THE STANFORD GRAPHIC NOVEL PROJECT 2018-2019: Candice Kim, Katherine Liu, Lily Nilipour, Sarah Shourd, Lucy Zhu, Peter DiCampo, Danial Shadmany, Nik Wesson, Elena Kamas,...