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F21: Week 6 The Gift and Burden of Years

By | Fall 2021, Podcast

The films at IC this week fit the theme of the Gift and Burden of Years. In our podcast, Professor Corinna Tanner, from the BYU College of Nursing, adresses issues related to aging and caregiving. Professor Tanner’s expertise will give you some additional context to think about the films for this week.

F21 Week 4: War and Reconciliation

By | Fall 2021, Films & Discussions, Podcast

This week Co-director Doug Weatherford and Cory Leonard, the Associate Director of the BYU Kennedy Center and an expert in the fields of diplomacy and international affairs. discuss the themes in one of this weeks films Quo Vadis, Aida?

F21 Week 3: Minari Fall 2021

By | Fall 2021, Podcast

Former IC co-director Chip Oscarson (Interdisciplinary Humanities) guest hosts a conversation with Prof. George Handley (Interdisciplinary Humanities) talking about Minari (Chung 2020), stories of displacement, the American dream, and what it means to belong to a place.

Week 13: Death by a Thousand Cuts

By | News, Podcast, Winter 2021 | No Comments

Former IC director Chip Oscarson guest hosts an episode featuring a discussion with Prof. George Handley about the 2016 documentary Death by a Thousand Cuts. The documentary considers the complex relationship between Haiti and the Dominican Republic along their shared border. The situation on the border discussed by Handley and Oscarson points to the ways that environmental issues are often caught up in a web of historical, racial, social, colonial, and economic forces.

Week 12: The Reason I Jump

By | News, Podcast, Winter 2021 | No Comments

This week IC co-director Marc Yamada is joined by two very qualified guests, Natalie Nielson-Riep (professor, advocate for autism, and mother of an autistic son) and Mikle South (Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience) to discuss the film The Reason I Jump which is based on the book by Naoki Higashida, an autistic boy from Japan. This innovative documentary utilizes immersive sound design, cinematography, and editing to bring the viewer directly into the minds of non-speaking autistic people around the world, transforming the way we think about the condition.

Week 11: The Year My Parents Went on Vacation

By | News, Podcast, Winter 2021 | No Comments

Professor Anna-Lisa Halling of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese speaks with IC co-director Doug Weatherford about The Year My Parents Went on Vacation (Brazil, 2006, dir. Cao Hamburger). The pair consider the historical, geographical, and cultural context of the film and suggest, in particular, that the film celebrates a young protagonist’s coming-of-age in a moment in which Brazil suffers under a military dictatorship while celebrating the nation’s victory at the 1970 World Cup.