Event Description
Women's Studies is hosting a discussion panel of three independent filmmakers whose work explores the boundaries of aesthetics and politics.
We, as feminist artists, filmmakers, scholars, work on subjects that we love and that enrage us, and in that tension, there is some re-conception of the political and what could be possible. How do experimental forms in filmmaking envision other ways of being in the world? How does cinema help us rethink the relationship between the experimental and the radical? What kinds of questions can we ask of the political and how does art help us ask those questions?
PANELISTS:
Beatriz Santiago Muñoz:
Beatriz Santiago Muñoz is an artist based in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Her work arises out of long periods of observation, research and documentation, in which the camera is present as an object with social implications, and as an instrument mediating aesthetic thought. Her films frequently start out through research into specific social structures or events, which she transforms into collaborative work, performance and moving image.
Maori Karmael Holmes:
Maori Holmes Maori is a filmmaker, curator, and producer. She is the founder of BlackStar Film Festival. Her award-winning film/video work has been screened internationally at festivals, museums and universities, and broadcast throughout the U.S. She has written about the arts for various national and local publications. She has received awards from Knight Foundation, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, Leeway Foundation, Independence Media, Women’s Way, and Philadelphia Commission on Human Rights. In 2009 she was named an inaugural Philadelphia Creative Ambassador by VisitPhiladelphia. In 2014, she was a Philadelphia Fellow at the 60th Flaherty Film Seminar. Maori previously served on the producing/curatorial committee for TEDx Philadelphia, and on the boards of Philadelphia Women in Film & Television, Live Connections, and Philadelphia Independent Film & Video Association.
Sara Zia Ebrahimi: Sara is a curator of film, visual art and new media and for over a decade has produced film screenings and exhibits in the Philadelphia area. She has worked as a consultant with Independent Television Service (ITVS) and with individual independent filmmakers on their engagement and outreach campaigns. Currently, she works as a social media specialist at American Friends Service Committee (AFSC). An MFA graduate of Temple University, her own short films have screened internationally and been awarded grants from Chicken & Egg Pictures, Rooftop Films and the Leeway Foundation.
MODERATOR:
Mary Ebeling, PhD
Mary Ebeling works in the intersections of science, technologies, media and political aesthetics, medicine, feminism and social justice. Her current
scholarship focuses on patient health privacy, the commodification of private data and the data-broker industry. Additionally, she continues to work
with artists and activists organized in collectives and engaged in critical, political aesthetical practices in urban spaces.
5:30 – 6:00 p.m. – Film Screenings
6:00 – 7:30 p.m. – Panel Discussion
7:30 – 8:00 p.m. – Reception
All are welcome to attend this free event. For more information, please contact Jacqueline Rios at jsr62@drexel.edu. Co-sponsored by the Student Center for Inclusion and Culture, the Power of Inclusion, Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts and Design,
the College of Arts and Sciences, and the Women’s Studies program. |
