7 p.m.
Admission: Free
Continuing its strong partnership with the film and media studies program at the University of Florida, the museum will screen student films showcasing the innovative work of the next generation of filmmakers.

RISK Cinema: Crossing Over
The spring 2010 RISK Cinema series is presented as a counterpart to Project Europa: Imagining the (Im)Possible. The exhibition focuses on relationship between art and democracy in Europe after the fall of the Berlin Wall, and it serves as a reflection of democracy in the United States.

Amie Siegel, DDR/DDR, 2008, 135 minutes, HD
7 p.m.
Introduced by Barbara Mennel, Associate Professor, Department of English and Germanic and Slavic Studies

Amie Siegel’s “ciné-constellation” DDR/DDR combines vérité interviews with staged dialogue to excavate East German traumas associated with both the Socialist state and reunification. Siegel’s lens finds filmic lessons, too, in her analysis of Stasi information operations and her inquiries into the suppression of psychoanalysis in the DDR (artforum.com). Siegel teaches in the Department of Visual and Environmental Studies at Harvard University and is a recent recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship. This event is co-sponsored by the Center for European Studies and the Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere with support from the Rothman Fund and the Harn Museum.

Admission: Students: $3 | General Public: $4 | Members: free

RISK Cinema: Crossing Over
The spring 2010 RISK Cinema series is presented as a counterpart to Project Europa: Imagining the (Im)Possible. The exhibition focuses on relationship between art and democracy in Europe after the fall of the Berlin Wall, and it serves as a reflection of democracy in the United States.

Johan Grimonprez, Double Take, 2009, 80 minutes, DVD
7 p.m.
Introduced by Kerry Oliver-Smith, Curator of Contemporary Art

Grimonprez’s second film essay, Double Take, questions how our view of reality is held hostage by mass media, advertising and Hollywood. Written by award-winning British novelist Tom McCarthy, the film addresses the global rise of fear-as-commodity. Johan Grimonprez lives and works in Belgium and New York. His 1997 video Dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y earned Grimonprez the Best Director award at the San Francisco Film Festival and Toronto’s Images Festival. In 2006, he was the recipient of the Carnegie Art Award. This event is co-sponsored by FLEX Films and the Center for Humanities and the Public Sphere.

Admission: Students: $3 | General Public: $4 | Members: free