Sasha Lucas
InMotion Staff Writer
The Southeast Museum of Photography at Daytona State College is continuing its Spring 2016 film series until April 20. The two film series, “It’s a Small World” screens on select Wednesdays at 2pm and “Never Before, Never Again,” also select Wednesdays at 7:30pm. All films will be shown with captions when available for the hearing impaired. The SMP will be presenting a special Earth Day Film Series on Friday April 22nd to celebrate the 45th annual Earth Day event. The four films that will be screened are provocative and exhibit current critical environmental issues and solutions. This FREE event is open to the public. All screenings take place in the Madorsky Theater located in the Hosseini Center, Building 1200.
The Earth Day Film Series will screen “Just Eat It: A Food Waste Story” at 1:30; “Divide In Concord” at 3pm; “Groundswell Rising: Protecting Our Children’s Air & Water” at 5pm; and “A Will for the Woods” at 7pm.
Each semester SMP presents a comprehensive selection of films formulated to focus on a unified theme of the collection. “It’s a Small World” film series pursues the issues of globalization, and analyses the effects it has on essential matters such as human rights, food and the health of people. On April 6th “Thirst” from director Alan Snitow will focus on the global corporate drive to control and profit from our water.
April 13th “End of the Rainbow” from director Robert Nugent explores the human dimensions of the industrial gold mining in Africa.
April 20th from director Rebecca Cammisa concludes the “It’s a Small World” series with a topic heavy in current American news. This documentary shows the personal side of immigration as child immigrants from Mexico and Central America strive to make it to the United States.
The film series “Never Before, Never Again” is a theme based on movies that are controversial, radical, unusual and unique. The public can join DSC staff and film gurus for trivia, discussion, and audience Q & A session after the movie
. Professor Eric Breitenbach leads the discussions along with trusted instructors in a related field. Some of those include DSC professors Benjamin Graydon and Maggie Karta and retired DSC professor Kathleen Lazarus. Paul Edson, a retired Humanities professor from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Daytona Beach, Florida, lead the discussion for the series premier “Belle Du Jour,” co-wrote and directed by Luis Buñuel. The directing is great and the storyline is ever so dramatic about a chaste housewife who decides to join a high-class brothel.
The first movie choice was certainly eye opening, but the following selection “The Deer Hunter,” included a scene in which a few characters lost at the gruesome game of Russian roulette. The scene was difficult to watch for some people who decided to leave. This epic war drama won an Academy Award for Best Picture in 1979. This movie introduced Meryl Streep and included the beginnings of successful careers for Robert De Niro, Christopher Walken, and John Savage among others. Michael Cimino co-wrote and directed this 3-hour long movie that won him an Academy and Golden Globe Award for Best Director.
“Blackfish” from director Gabriela Cowperthwaite will be screening April 6, which features an orca named Tilikum at SeaWorld and the surrounding controversy involving captive killer whales.
April 13th Leviathan is an experimental documentary from directors Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Verena Paravel focused on the commercial fishing industry in the North Atlantic. This film has powerful underwater footage created by filmmakers from the Sensory Ethnography Lab at Harvard University. An excellent movie to experience after “Blackfish.”
April 20th “The Bridge” wrote and directed by Eric Steel will be the final screening of the “Never Before, Never Again” series. The documentary explores the mythic beauty of the Golden Gate Bridge, the most popular suicide destination in the world.
The public can watch any of the films previously screened anytime the SMP is open on a computer located in the museum with headphones.
Fill up at Café 101 before the show times for lunch or dinner (dinner offered on Wednesdays only). Call Café 101 at 386-506-3859 for reservations (strongly encouraged).
For more information and show times please visit www.smponline.org/films or call 386-506-4475.