May 31, 7:00 PM: Cinema 53: SWAGGER: Screening + conversation with Global Girls, Jacqueline ...

Part urban fantasy and part ethnographic group portrait, SWAGGER (Olivier Babinet, 2015, 84 min) focuses on a dozen teenagers getting by in the streets, projects and schools of Aulnay-sous-Bois, a suburb of Paris that made the headlines during the riots of 2005. Instead of concentrating on the hard knock life of his subjects, Babinet creates a colorful visual exploration, allowing the kids to showcase their dreams and desires over their fears. A visually striking, atypical portrait of French youth, SWAGGER mixes one-on-one interviews and impressively staged bursts of pure fiction — including a drone sequence where a fleet of CG spaceships invade the housing projects — oscillating between a documentary chronicle and something more imaginative, uncovering pockets of creativity behind the rough setting. Global Girls is a South Side organization for young African-American women that uses the performing arts to teach critical skills of communication, self-expression, and social responsibility. Through cultural exchanges and collaboration on performances with youth groups in other countries, Global Girls encourages international travel and global understanding, as well as communication, presentation and leadership skills. LOCATION: Harper Theater, 5238 S Harper, Chicago Free and open to the public This event is part of Cinema 53's 4-part spring series, Intimités: Everyday Life in Contemporary Afro/French Cinema; co-sponsored by Institut Français, Cultural Services of the Consulat Général de France, France Chicago Center, and the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality. Cinema 53 is a screening and discussion series presenting conversation-provoking films by and about women and people of color. A partnership between the historic Harper Theater in downtown Hyde Park and UChicago’s Gray Center for Arts & Inquiry, Cinema 53 brings together scholars, artists, students and audiences from the South Side and beyond to consider how visual cultures reflect, and reflect upon, enduring inequalities and revolutionary futures.

Date: May 31, 2018
Time: 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM

See:https://graycenter.uchicago.edu/events/swagger-screening-conversation-with-jennifer-wild-jacqueline-stewart-and-global-girls