7:30 Wednesday, March 29, 2023
137 Isenberg School of Management, UMass Amherst
THE SEA ON THE DAY WHEN MAGIC RETURNS
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(2022, Jiwon Han, South Korea, 24 min, in Korean w/ English subtitles)
In this startlingly imaginative animation, Sejin once had the power to have anything she wanted just by wishing for it. The world was her oyster. But now, as she strives for a career in tourism, hobbled by the dysfunctional men in her life, she has lost her magic. Can she survive and find it again?
THE NIGHT I LEFT AMERICA
(2021, Laki Karavias, 14 min, Uganda/US)
As a small boy, Chamagello dreamed of leaving Uganda for the wonders of America. Now a teenager in a ramshackle trailer in rural Texas, he awaits the decision on his mother’s work visa renewal, confronted by memories of the life he left behind in Uganda and the prospect of returning.
LAMPI
(2022, Paolo Santamaria, 16 min, Italy, in Italian w/ English subtitles)
A woman struggles to contain an extraordinary, electric part of herself in an effort to fit into ordinary life. An allegory of otherness? A metaphor for mental illness? Or a meditation on anxieties about women wielding power? Lampi evokes these and other questions with its fantasy.
DEEPLOVE (???????)
(2019, Mykyta Lyskov, 14 min, Ukraine)
Set in the city of Dnipro, Ukraine, this kaleidoscopic animated short brings dark humor in the absurdist tradition to reflect on the effects of modern commerce on urban life, with proliferations of plastic bags, anonymous monsters, apocalyptic mushrooms, distorted chronologies, and prescient themes of military invasion.
Film Screening
Wednesday, March 29th
Free and open to the public.
Nefeli Forni Zervoudaki
(UMass Amherst)
Nefeli Forni Zervoudaki is a Ph.D. candidate in Comparative Literature at the University of Massachusetts Amherst with a Graduate Certificate in Film Studies. She received an Associate’s Degree (University of ORT, Uruguay) and a BA in Audiovisual Communication (University of Vic, Spain) with a focus on film and gender studies. She began an MA in Women, Gender, and Citizenship Studies (Interuniversitary, Spain). Her main interests are migration studies and representations of gender and sexuality, the effects of film on society, and the interaction between literature and film.