I had an Abortion

Speaker: Kelly Happe, Speech Comm. & Women’s studies
248 Student Learning Center, 7:00pm
Sponsors: IWS & UGA Libraries’ Media Department

1.3 million women get abortions each year in the U.S. alone. For most it is a secret. The debate itself is loud and paralyzing while the voices of the women who get abortions are submerged. "Speak Out: I Had an Abortion," directed by Gillian Aldrich and co-produced by Aldrich and Jennifer Baumgardner, documents the stories of 11 women ranging in age from 21 to 85.

La Pointe-courte

Screening Room, Main Library, 7th floor 7:30pm
Sponsor: UGA Libraries’ Media Department

“The great Agnes Varda's film career began with this graceful, penetrating study of a marriage on the rocks, set against the backdrop of a small Mediterranean fishing village. Both a stylized depiction of the complicated relationship between a married couple and a documentary-like look at the daily struggles of the locals, Varda's discursive, gorgeously filmed debut was radical enough to later be considered one of the progenitors of the coming French new wave.” –Criterion

The Shape of Water

Speaker: Patricia Richards, Sociology & Women’s Studies
248 Student Learning Center, 7:00pm Sponsors: IWS & UGA Libraries’ Media Department

The Shape of Water is a feature documentary that tells the stories of powerful, imaginative and visionary women confronting the destructive development of the Third World with new cultures and a passion for change. The film takes us to Senegal, Israel/Palestine, Brazil, and India.

Wanda

Screening Room, Main Library, 7th floor 7:30pm
Sponsor: UGA Libraries’ Media Department

“Shot in cinema-verité style on grainy 16mm film stock, Wanda tells the story of the unlikely partnership between a coal-mining wife from Pennsylvania, dumped by her husband and the men she met while drifting, and a petty crook on the rebound (Michael Higgins), who convinces her to pull a major ‘bank job’ with him.” –Bérénice Reynaud, Senses of Cinema

Serving in Silence

Speaker: Judi O’Kelley, Lambda Legal
147 Student Learning Center, 6:30pm
Sponsors: Lambda Alliance, UGA OutLaws & IWS

Col. Cammermeyer had a long and distinguished career as a military nurse but was dismissed in 1992 after revealing she was gay during a security clearance interview. With the help of Lambda Legal, she fought a two-year court battle to serve her country, and the Federal District Court in Seattle ruled the military's policy was unconstitutional and based on prejudice.

All My Babies

Speaker: TBA
248 Student Learning Center, 7:00pm Sponsors: IWS & UGA Libraries’ Media Department

Originally intended as a teaching tool to for illiterate midwives, filmmaker George C. Stoney's intimate look at the work of rural Georgian African-American midwife "Miss Mary" Coley has been shown across the globe by UNESCO and subsequently evolved to become a classic non-fiction film. In documenting the preparation for and delivery of healthy babies in rural conditions ranging from decent to deplorable, the filmmakers inadvertently captured a telling snapshot at the socioeconomic conditions of the era that would prove fascinating to future generations.

Blackboards

Screening Room, Main Library 7th floor 7:30pm
Sponsor: UGA Libraries’ Media Department

“A group of male teachers are seen crossing the mountains of the Iran-Kurdistan border with large blackboards on their backs. These freelance teachers split up and one of them finds himself wandering alongside a lost nomadic tribe trying to get back across the border.” –Ben Zipper, Senses of Cinema

Film About a Woman Who

Speaker: Antje Ascheid, Theatre & Film Studies
248 Student Learning Center, 7:00pm
Sponsors: IWS & UGA Libraries’ Media Department

Rainer’s landmark film is a meditation on ambivalence that plays with cliché and the conventions of soap opera while telling the story of a woman whose sexual dissatisfaction masks an enormous anger.

Eileen Gray

Speaker: Margaret Woosnam, Furnishings & Interiors
248 Student Learning Center, 7:00pm
Sponsors: IWS & UGA Libraries’ Media Department

Eileen Gray (1878-1976) was always ahead of her time. Thirty years after her death, she is still considered as the very essence of the Modern. Everyone has seen her furniture-including the famous Adjustable Table, the Lota Sofa, and the Tube Light-but most people don't really know the designer and architect who created them.