Join us for a pre-festival screening addressing the SIUC campus common theme for 2011/2012: "Choosing Civility: Individual Rights and Communal Responsibility." A discussion will follow with guest speakers Dr. Beverly Love; Dr. Roudy Hildreth; Joseph A. Brown, SJ; and Dr. Patsy Manfredi. Reception will follow the discussion.

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Come meet and greet with the visiting filmmakers.

Please visit Studio 27 for a detailed description of the work shown in this program.

Studio 27 presents a program of experimental films and videos that offer visions of aborted utopias and fragmented futures. In some of these pieces, alternate routes of empowerment are explored, while others offer dystopian maps for commodified or isolated living. Future relationships between technology and biology hint at or directly demand technological intervention on the very essence of life. Other videos poke fun at the neurotic rigors of obsessive leisure gardening, or muse on the beauty of nature and its precarious position in the hands of humans. Finally, some of the works celebrate the utopic spaces of sea, industry, and flesh, consuming these environments with sensual rhapsody.

The winners again!