Announcing a new Meetup for Communicate OK!!

What: OCU Film Series & Discussion: Still Life

When: October 11, 2009 2:00 PM

Where:
Meinders Business School Auditorium
2600 McKinley Drive
Oklahoma City, OK 73106

The topic of a film series at Oklahoma City University this fall borrows the theme from the popular and inspirational public radio program-turned book, “This I Believe.”
“This I Believe: The Personal Philosophies of Remarkable Men and Women” is a book based on a National Public Radio series.

This week's film is Jia Zhang Ke's "Still Life" (China, 2006) in the Kerr McGee Auditorium in the Meinders School of Business. Admission to all sessions is free, but donations to the OCU Film Institute will be accepted.
A modern master of postmodern discontent, Jia Zhang-ke is among the most strikingly gifted filmmakers working today whom you have probably never heard of. During the past decade he has made some half-dozen documentary-inflected fictions and several documentaries that weigh the human cost of China’s often brutal, dehumanizing shift from state-controlled communism to state-sanctioned capitalism, a price paid in the blood and sweat of people who have, paradoxically, inspired him to create works of sublime, soulful art.
In “Still Life,” which won the grand prize at the 2006 Venice Film Festival, the blood and the sweat run directly into the Yangtze River, where they mingle with more than a few tears. The movie takes place amid the clatter and misery of the Three Gorges Dam, which cuts across the Yangtze in central China. The largest dam in the world, Three Gorges is a site of great cultural and political strife because of both environmental and humanitarian concerns. More than one million people have been displaced because of the dam (more are expected to follow), evicted from their homes by a ravenous hunger for power, electric and otherwise, that is washing them and history away.


Says Harbour Winn, director of OCU’s Film Institute,“We learn a lot about people when they tell us, in their own words, what they believe,” Winn said. “These stories dive into their deepest thoughts. Through this exploration we also learn a lot about humanity as a whole.”
He said the book will “provide direction and reflection for our cross-cultural study.” It will be available for purchase at the film showings.
The Meinders School of Business is located at N.W. 27th Street and McKinley Avenue.
Each film in the series will begin at 2 p.m. A discussion of the film will follow.

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