In conjunction with the exhibition Where Do We Migrate To?, the Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture presents a film series curated by Sonja Simonyi, presented in partnership with the Film and Media Studies Program at Johns Hopkins University. On Thursday, March 31, the CADVC presents the second of six screenings, Sahara Chronicle by Ursula Biermann.

Sahara Chronicle
Ursula Biermann
(2006-2007, 76 minutes. video, Switzerland)
Ursula Biemann's work consists of a number of short videos, which carefully detail the sub-Saharan exodus towards Europe. The visual material collected during various visits to central sites of the migration network in Marocco, Niger, and Mauritania, this piece documents and reflects the complexity and diversity of systems of migration. Bypassing the authoritarian voiceover as a manipulative device often used in documentary filmmaking, Biemann's work opens up the ways in which the viewer might engage with the rich visual material and the textual information mapped onto the images.

7 pm, Lecture Hall 3 (Administration Building). Admission is free. For more information call 410-455-3188.

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