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Spring Film Series Circular Time: Documentary Futurisms
May 12, 2022 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Spring Film Series Circular Time: Documentary Futurisms
Thursday May 12, 2022, 6 pm-8 pm FREE
Marie Alarcón, 2021-2022 Roswell Artist-in-Residence, curated this series of genre- and time-bending films focused on the simultaneous past and future. This series will take place in the Roswell Museum’s auditorium 6:00 pm-8:00 pm for all four Thursdays in May and it features work by global filmmakers responding to the repetitious “now” with creativity and resistance.
Free Admission, courtesy of the RMAC Foundation.
THURSDAY MAY 12, 2022, 6 PM-8 PM
The second screening in the series will showcase the feature-length film “Sami Blood” (description below). For information on the entire film series, visit https://roswell-nm.gov/342/Events.
Amanda Kernell, “Sami Blood,” 2016, 109 minutes, Courtesy of Synergetic Film
“Elle Marja, 14, is a reindeer-herding Sámi girl. Exposed to the racism of the 1930’s and race biology examinations at her boarding school she starts dreaming of another life. To achieve this other life she has to become someone else and break all ties with her family and culture.”
Image: Amanda Kernell, Poster for “Sami Blood,” 2016, Courtesy of Synergetic Film
