4/27/23: Virtual Talks with Video Activists: “Chemical Valley”
Screening/discussion of the 1991 documentary “Chemical Valley” with director Mimi Pickering and moderated by Patricia Zimmerman
Virtual Talks with Video Activists is an ongoing series of screenings and discussions with artists, journalists, and community organizers who use video to break boundaries.
Below you can find out about upcoming events and watch recordings of past ones.
Screening/discussion of the 1991 documentary “Chemical Valley” with director Mimi Pickering and moderated by Patricia Zimmerman
Screening/discussion of protest videos from Turkey, featuring Guliz Saglam and Florencia Incarbone.
A screening/discussion about the groundbreaking 1990s “camcorder series” CamNet, with producer Judith Binder and scholar Leah Shafer
A screening/discussion of “For Teachers and Students–Notes and Images from the Viet Nam War” with filmmaker Jill Godmilow, moderated by Ricky Herbst.
A screening/discussion of Nancy Cain’s foundational feminist classic Harriet (1973) and Lori Felker’s acclaimed Spontaneous (2020) with artist Felker and media scholar Melissa Dollman.
Preview screening/discussion of “Nam June Paik and TV LAB: License to Create” with filmmaker Howard Weinberg
Listening session / discussion of the podcast “Change Agents,” with executive producer Judith McCray. NOTE: this event was not recorded.
Preview screening/discussion of “SOUTHEAST: a city within a city” with filmmaker Steven J Walsh, moderated by Professor Christine Walley