Dialogues

Documentaries from the Graduate School of Journalism

Presented by The Pacific Film Archive of the UC Berkeley Art Museum

Artists in Person
The four films in this year's diverse and wide-ranging program of masters projects from the Graduate School of Journalism can be seen as pairs of films in dialogue, illuminating seemingly conflicting points of view and exposing the underlying tensions and complexities in journalistic narratives and human-interest expositions.

In Whose Interest? (David Kaplowitz, MJ '02, 27 mins), a polemical look at the casualties of U.S. foreign policy after World War II, acutely resonates in the aftermath of 9/11, while Afghan Elvis (Matthew MacLean, MJ '02, 27 mins) documents an aspect of that aftermath: it presents the trials, both political and spiritual, of local Afghan American youths struggling to understand and appreciate the rich artistic and musical heritage of a country with a volatile history.

In Good Faith (Kelly Davis, Megan Lardner, MJ '02 22 mins), investigating the effects of the construction of a Nissan manufacturing plant on property owners in Canton, Mississippi, is paired with Celestial Real Estate (Yvonne Kennedy, MJ '02 , 24 mins), which explores problems of property and commerce in a strikingly different way-by looking at the burial industry, the selling of plots and ceremonies.-Nima Bassiri

Curated by Nima Bassiri, a graduate student in the Department of Rhetoric and Film Studies, and Kim Smith, an undergraduate student in the Department of Anthropology.

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