Loyola University Chicago

Center for Global Media and Documentary Studies

SPACE GHOST
February 18,2009; 6:30-9:30 pm
Crown Center Auditorium
Lake Shore Campus
Space Ghost  (26 minutes, 2007) compares the experiences of astronauts and prisoners, using popular depictions of space travel to illustrate the physical and existential aspects of incarceration: sensory deprivation, the perception of time as chaotic and indistinguishable, the displacement of losing face-to-face contact, and the sense of existing in a different but parallel universe with family and loved-ones. Exciting video art!

• Staged Reading: A Day at Stateville (excerpt, 15 minutes, 2009) is a play written by current prisoners in Stateville Correctional Center in Joliet, Illinois to communicate both the material and emotional realities of life in Stateville. The work was born out of a unique class taught at Stateville by Jim Chapman.

• Q&A and Discusstion:Artistic strategies for representing the condition of long-term incarceration with respondent Stephen F. Eisenman, Northwestern University Art History Professor and author of the Abu Ghraib Effect.

• Stateville Speaks Loyola Edition (20 pages, January, 2009) is a publication for and by Illinois prisoners on topics in criminal justice and prison life co-founded and coordinated by Bill Ryan and published by Cynthia Kobel. The January edition was written and organized by Loyola students in collaboration with Illinois prisoners in a class taught by Laurie Jo Reynolds. 

Stateville Speaks Presentation with Invited Guests
December 10, 2008 3:00-5:30 pm
Rubloff Auditorium, 25 East Pearson St.

Stateville Speaks is a new course shared by the programs in Journalism, Communication Studies, Criminal Justice, Sociology, and Fine & Performing Arts. The course is taught by filmmaker and prisoner's advocate Laurie Jo Reynolds. Students work together to edit, design and publish an issue of "Stateville Speaks," written in collaboration with current Illinois prisoners about topics in criminal justice and prison life.

Former prisoners and other special guests will discuss the history and future of the publication, and students will discuss their challenges and experiences. See www.illinoisprisontalk.com for past issues or read the Stateville Speaks class blog.

Events 2007-2008

April 7, 2008, 4:00 p.m. – 6:30 p.m.

Lake Shore Campus, Damen Hall Auditorium

KING CORN is a feature documentary about two friends, one acre of corn, and the subsidized crop that drives our fast-food nation. Stay for the Q&A session following the film to learn about the political, social, and environmental impacts of the subsidized agricultural corn industry.
Contact: Gina Lettiere, glettie@luc.edu for more information. 

 

This screening of KING CORN is sponsored by the Alumni Association, CUERP, University Ministry, the College of Arts and Sciences, the Center for Ethics, Center for Global Media and Documentary Studies, the Gannon Center, the School of Business Administration, and the Student Environmental Alliance

The Robben Island Singers Documentary Film-in-Progress and Singing Event
February 26. 2008 
Life Sciences Auditorium 4:00-6:00pm
Filmmaker and concert director, Jeff Spitz, and Muntu Nxumalo, musical director of the Robben Island Singers will be at LSC, Life Sciences Auditorium, on Feb. 26th, from 4-6 PM to close the events of Black History Month with a film screening and singing event.

In the film, three ex-political prisoners from South Africa narrate their own journeys from a prison island with Nelson Mandela to a musical triumph in America. Film clips will trigger lively discussion focusing on various topics including: South African history; human rights; terrorism; liberation; documentary filmmaking; a capella singing; the role of religion in South Africa's freedom struggle.

See www.robbenislandsingers.com for more info.

Come Walk in My Shoes
Written and Directed by Robin Smith
January 24, 2008
Simpson Hall, Multipurpose Room, 11:30am-1:30pm
Come Walk in My Shoes is a documentary film that details the journey of the honorable John R. Lewis (D-GA) who leads colleagues from the House and Senate on an emotional pilgrimage to the sacred sites of the Civil Rights Movement in Alabama. The journey begins in Montgomery where an 18 year-old Lewis first met Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and ends in Selma on the Edmund Pettus Bridge where the future congressman was brutally beaten as he led a march for the right to vote.

This event is part of Loyola University's Martin Luther King Day Celebrations: Dreaming of Justice. The events sponsored by the Department of Student Diversity & MulticulturalAffairs, Division of Mission & Ministry and Public Affairs. For additional information, please contact Kevin Huie at 773-508-3335 or khuie@luc.edu.

Nice Bombs (2006)
by Usama Alshaibi
November 14, 2007
Crown Center, 3:30PM

The War in Iraq has gone on longer than the United States’ participation in World War II.  Early on, Usama Alshaibi and his wife returned to Baghdad to reconnect with his home country and his family and to observe the US intervention in Iraq up close.  Usama is a filmmaker living in Chicago.  His film won first prize at the 2006 Chicago Underground Film Festival and has been favorably reviewed in newspapers across the country.

Co-sponsored with Center of Ethics, Muslim Students Association, Ministry, Theology Dept., Islamic World Studies Program.

Past Events

2006-2007—I-55: from New Orleans to Chicago-- Les Blank, Wetlands Panel  

2005-2006—Laramie, Wyoming, Music Journalism, Nonviolent Resistance, and Doulas

Center Event Archive

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