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Film: "Ouroboros"

Ouroboros (2017, in Italian, English, and Chinook with English subtitles), the symbol of the snake eating its tail, is both end and beginning: death as regeneration. A 74-minute experimental narrative film that turns the destruction of Gaza into a story of heartbreak, Ouroboros asks what it means to be human when humanity has failed. Taking the form of a love story, the film’s central character is Diego Marcon, a man who embarks on a circular journey to shed his pain only to experience it, again and again. In the course of a single day, his travel fuses together Native American territories, the ancient Italian city of Matera, a castle in Brittany, and the ruins of the Gaza Strip into a single landscape.

Hosted by: Center for Advanced Study, Department of Asian American Studies, Mellon Minor Aesthetics Lab, and Department of Gender & Women's Studies

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