Choi Auditorium

Detroit cop killed in the line of duty becomes a crime-fighting cyborg in this dark satire of corporate privatization and greed, now celebrating its 35th Anniversary!

Films include a recent restoration of Oscar winning film, The Man Who Planted Trees, and short films exploring a range of topics including environmental health, happiness, leaving home, a post-apocalyptic world, masks from around the world, and more. Selected production artwork from the films will be exhibited. There will be a pre-screening reception 6-7pm outside of Choi with light refreshments (pizza, dessert) served. Surgical grade or higher masks (N95, KN95, KN94) must be worn in the auditorium.

This screening is part of the Media Arts & Culture Department's Fall 2022 MAC Cinematheque series, which brings together the Occidental and Los Angeles communities to explore representational questions tied to a chosen theme. 

Stay tuned for the Spring 2023 series: "Oxy Creates: Media and Scholarship by MAC Faculty.

The series is sponsored by the Media Arts & Culture Department (MAC) in collaboration with  Institutional Advancement and Alumni and Parent Engagement, with support from the Mellon Arts & Technology Grant. 

Professor Mary Beth Heffernan will trace the arc of her research-based art practice, illuminating the questions and material explorations that inform her work.

Winona LaDuke is a Harvard-educated economist, environmental activist, author, hemp farmer, grandmother, and a two-time former Green Party Vice President candidate with Ralph Nader. LaDuke specializes in rural development, economic, food, and energy sovereignty and environmental justice.

An international thought leader and lecturer in climate justice, renewable energy, and environmental justice, Winona LaDuke is also an advocate for protecting Indigenous plants and heritage foods from patenting and genetic engineering. 

Mr. Dujarric previously served as Spokesperson for Secretaries-General Kofi Annan and Ban Ki-moon, the Director of News and Media for the UN Department of Public Information, and the Director of Communications for UNDP.

During this multimedia presentation, Aoki will share his experiences dealing with the television networks, movie studios and radio stations while pushing for more inclusion and sensitive portrayals of Asian Americans.  He’ll address the growing problem of white-washing, where Hollywood takes Asian or Asian American source material and hires non-Asians for the lead r

Prisca Dorcas Mojica Rodríguez was born in Managua, Nicaragua but calls Nashville, Tennessee home. She got her Masters of Divinity from Vanderbilt University in the Spring of 2015. The bulk of her work is around making accessible, through storytelling and curating content, the theories and heavy material that is oftentimes only taught in the racist/classist institutions known as academia.

This event is sponsored by the Intercultural Community Center and the departments of Critical Theory and Social Justice, Politics, Sociology, and Urban and Environmental Policy with funding generously provided by the Remsen Bird Fund. This lecture will be recorded for those who cannot attend in person. 

*This event will require the use of a mask and will follow all COVID-19 safety guidelines set out by the College.

Professor Dolores Trevizo’s research examines why vigilantes in Mexico illegally armed themselves in the name of enforcing the law between 2012-2015. Her talk will focus on those organized groups who declared they were providing security in specific places and whose collective actions were sustained for several weeks. 

A reception will follow the lecture on the Hameetman Career Center patio at 5:30 p.m.

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