Arctic Cinemas and the Documentary Ethos Public Lecture and Screening: "Change Perspective, Change the World"

• Event Date: Thursday, August 27, 2015
• Time: 7:30 pm–9:30 pm (CDT)
• Location: Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum, 600 S. Gregory St., Urbana, IL
• Cost: Free Admission

• Talk

Arctic Cinemas and the Documentary Ethos examines documentary cinema as a key to contextualizing environmental, indigenous, political, cultural, sociological and ethnographic understandings of the Arctic. This event is the first major international conference to address the Arctic Documentary tradition.

Ivalo Frank, Filmmaker and Director of Greenland Eyes Film Festival.

In her presentation, Ivalo Frank will screen her documentaries Echoes (2010, 24 min), about the legacy of the Cold War in the Greenlandic landscape, and Killerbird (2015, 14 min), made with Greenlandic performance artist Jessie Kleemann. Frank will also show clips from some of her other Greenlandic films, including Open (2012), which addresses the plight of mentally ill Greenlandic inmates, imprisoned in Denmark for indefinite amounts of time, 4000km away from their home country. Ivalo will also present recent Greenlandic films and the growing film scene in Nuuk, contextualized in light of the film festival she directs, Greenland Eyes. The festival has toured Europe and the United States since 2012, including as part of a special program at the Smithsonian Museum in May 2015.

For further information, visit the Arctic Cinemas and the Documentary Ethos (external link) page or e-mail arcticdocumentary@gmail.com(email link)