The CSI Library will be offering monthly film screenings this Spring 2025 in February, March, and April. All films will take place during Club hours and are CLUE credit.
In celebration of Black History Month in February, we will be holding a film screening of Say Hey, Willy Mays (2022, 1 hour 39 minutes). The film will be held on Tues Feb 25, 2025 from 2:30pm-4:05pm in room 1L-103. Director Nelson George explores the life of baseball legend Willie Mays, widely regarded as the sport's greatest living player. Tracing his childhood in segregated Alabama and his time with the Negro League's Birmingham Black Barons, the film charts Mays' storied career – from his meteoric rise in Major League Baseball with the New York Giants, to his reign in San Francisco following the league's expansion to the West Coast and his final seasons with the Mets. The film also examines Mays' role in the social and cultural movements of the time and his close relationship with his godson Barry Bonds. Featuring interviews with Mays, Bonds, Hall of Famers Reggie Jackson, Juan Marichal, Orlando Cepeda, and Emmy® Award-winning broadcaster Bob Costas, Say Hey, Willie Mays! serves as a moving chronicle of an athlete who left an indelible mark on the game of baseball – and the nation. This event will feature a discussion with Professor Catherine Lavender and are co-sponsored by the Office of Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion, and the History Department.
In celebration of Women's History Month in March, we will be holding a film screening of Jane: An Abortion Service (1996, 57 mins) . The film will be held on Tues March 25, 2025 from 2:30pm-3:30pm. This fascinating political look at a little-known chapter in women's history tells the story of "Jane", the Chicago-based women's health group who performed nearly 12,000 safe illegal abortions between 1969 and 1973 with no formal medical training. As Jane members describe finding feminism and clients describe finding Jane, archival footage and recreations mingle to depict how the repression of the early sixties and social movements of the late sixties influenced this unique group. Both vital knowledge and meditation on the process of empowerment, this documentary showcases the importance of preserving women's knowledge in the face of revisionist history. Nominated for the Grand Jury Prize for Documentary at the Sundance Film Festival. This event will feature a discussion with Professor Catherine Lavender and are co-sponsored by the Office of Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion, and the History Department.
In honor of Earth Day in April, we will be holding 2 short films on Tuesday April 22, 2025. We will be showing Sun Come Up (2011, 38 minutes) from 2:30pm-3:10pm and That Which Once Was (2011, 20 minutes) from 3:20pm-3:40pm. Sun Come Up, an academy award nominated film that shows the human face of climate change. The film follows the relocation of the Carteret Islanders, a community living on a remote island chain in the South Pacific Ocean, and now, some of the world’s first environmental refugees. When climate change threatens their survival, the islanders face a painful decision. They must leave their ancestral land in search of a new place to call home. Sun Come Up follows a group of young islanders as they search for land in war-torn Bougainville, 50 miles across the open ocean. Sun Come Up provokes discussion about climate change, displacement, and the rights of vulnerable communities around the globe. Nominated for an academy award for best documentary short.
That Which Once Was is the story of an eight-year-old boy, displaced by global warming, fends for himself as an environmental refugee in a hostile metropolis. Haunted by memories of flooding that left him homeless and orphaned, the boy forms an unexpected bond with a mysterious Inuk ice carver from the Arctic (Natar Ungalaaq), who helps him confront his past. Heart-warming and visually stunning, That Which Once Was brings a human face to the climate crisis and celebrates how those who’ve experienced trauma can find hope and healing through friendship. Official Selection at the SXSW Film Festival and the Toronto International Film Festival. That Which Once Was was the winner of Best Short Film at the Barcelona International Environmental Film Festival and winner of the Audience Award at ITVS-Futurestates Series.
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