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Film Screenings: "La Maison en Petits Cubes" and "ThuleTuvalu"

Event Type: Films-Movies-Videos
Age Group(s): Family (All Ages)
Date: 1/4/2018
Start Time: 3:00 PM
End Time: 5:00 PM
Description:
 Join us for free film screenings, presented in conjunction with the exhibition "Portable Memories in Rising Seas" by Fifty-Fifty. Before and after each screening, Fifty-Fifty will lead interactive discussions allowing for shared reflection about the changing local landscape, lived experiences, and memories of the land, habitat, and local culture. Participants will also be invited to record their responses to the films and the dialogue as part of the ongoing Portable Memories in Rising Seas project.

"ThuleTuvalu"
Thule lies in the extreme north of Greenland, Tuvalu is a small island state in the Pacific Ocean. Although at completely distant corners of the world, the people of these two places are intimately related: as the ice melts in Thule, Tuvalu drowns in the ocean. In Thule the ice is retreating ever further and turning into seawater, in Tuvalu sea level is perpetually rising. Thule Tuvalu is a 2014 documentary film directed by Matthias von Gunten.

"La Maison en Petits Cubes"
As his town is flooded by water, an old man adds additional levels onto his home in order to stay dry. But when he accidentally drops his favorite pipe into the lower submerged levels of his home, his search eventually leads him to relive scenes from his eventful life, including his time before the flooding began. This 2008 Japanese animated short subject film was created by Kunio Katô, with music by Kenji Kondo, and produced by Robot Communications.
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