"Thirteen Ways" - CANCELED

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Imagine an experiment in which scientists, artists, hunters, children, daredevils, and naturalists explore the same small area of field and forest in Maine and respond to their experiences on that land. Thirteen Ways elicits the hidden wonders of the natural world, confronts environmental dangers, and also delights in the myriad, sometimes astonishing, discoveries and insights of people from diverse walks of life as they encounter plants, animals, and the elements. Ian Cheney’s understated film draws us irresistibly into its contemplative, curious, and revelatory vision of the Earth.

Introduction by Daniel Pope (UMass).

The screening will begin at 7:30 PM on Wednesday, March 11th in the Isenberg Flavin Family Auditorium (SOM 137).

Director Ian Cheney will be present.

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Director Will Be Present

Ian Cheney is an Emmy-nominated and Peabody Award-winning documentary filmmaker. Cheney grew up in Massachusetts and Maine, and received bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Yale University. He shared a Peabody Award in 2008 for King Corn, which he co-produced and starred in. In 2011 he and longtime collaborator Curt Ellis received the 17th Annual Heinz Award with special focus on the environment, becoming the youngest recipients to receive the Heinz Award. Cheney received an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Science & Technology Documentary in 2013 for his film The City Dark. Cheney runs Wicked Delicate Films, a documentary film production company based in Maine. He is a co-founder and former member of the board of directors of the FoodCorps non-profit organization.

 

Introduced By

With a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature, with a focus in visual culture, Daniel Pope pursues research and teaching interests across genres, national boundaries, and cultural histories.  His film courses engage national cinemas, including American, Hispanic, French, and Italian cinemas, as well as topics in transnational cinemas, questions of film realism, and modes of film criticism, including new media, such as the videographic essay and the podcast.  His teaching also centers on such film genres as apocalyptic cinema, enigmatic or “puzzle” films, psychological thrillers, “poetic” and experimental documentaries, and speculative cinema. Daniel Pope’s research explores photography, realism, and figural approaches to nonfiction narratives.  He is Co-curator of the Massachusetts Multicultural Film Festival, and has interviewed prominent filmmakers and artists from around the world, including Can Candan, Diana Groó, Lech Majewski, Signe Baumane, and Kevin Everson. Pope is a Fulbright Scholar and has published work in Studies in East European Cinema as well as a chapter in Searching for Sebald (2007).