3 pm: Woven Lives: Contemporary Textiles from Ancient Oaxacan Traditions
1 hour 16 minutes
Woven Lives traces the development of weaving traditions among the Zapotec communities in Oaxaca, Mexico, demonstrating the vibrant, important role textile-making continues to play in their identity and daily living.
5 pm: Assorted Short Films
1 hour total
Six short films featuring makers whose stories are included in the book Making a Life, as well as the artists who inspire them. Among those featured are weaver Jessica Green, slow-fashion pioneer Natalie Chanin, and multidisciplinary artists Louise Bourgeois, Ann Hamilton, and Tanya Aquinga.
Viewers are invited to stay afterward to talk about the films and the role of making by hand in our own lives. Bring some handwork if you like!
7 pm: Wax Print
Nigerian-British filmmaker and fashion designer Aiwan Obinyan takes us across the globe to trace the 200-year history of African wax print (also known as batik) fabric. Traveling from West African sewing schools and North American cotton fields, to fabric mills in the Netherlands and bustling markets in Ghana, Obinyan tells the story of how the iconic fabric came to symbolize a continent, its people, and their struggle for freedom.
Official Selection 2019 African Film Festival New Zealand, Official Selection 2019 Pan African Film Festival, Official Selection 2019 San Francisco Black Film Festival
SUNDAY, MARCH 1, 2020:
1 pm to 5 pm: Pop-up Maker Market in the Story Screen Beacon Theater lobby featuring local artisan makers.
1 pm: The True Cost
1 hour 32 minutes
The price of clothing has been decreasing for decades, while the human and environmental costs of production have grown dramatically. The True Cost is a groundbreaking documentary, filmed in countries all over the world, about the clothes we wear, the people who make them, and the impact the clothing industry is having on our world. “A sweeping, heartbreaking, and damning survey of the clothing economy.” -CNN
After the Screening: We will follow our screening of The True Cost with a Ted Talk about creating regenerative, distributive economies that support human and environmental health, plus a panel discussion with local makers involved in the slow-fashion movement: a growing force focused on countering the destructive fast-fashion economy by making and mending their own clothing, minimizing consumption, and tracking the sources of their purchases
4 pm: Assorted Short Films
1 hour 50 minutes total
Six short films featuring makers around the world, including Rediscovering Jajam, in which Rajasthani craftsmen share their stories about block-printing large, traditional textiles on which community members traditionally gather, and Stitch, in which northwest Alabamans talk about old-time quilting in their region.
Viewers are invited to stay after the screening to talk about the films and the role of making by hand in our own lives. Bring some handwork if you like!
6:30 pm: The New Bauhaus
1 hour 29 minutes
A documentary about Hungarian-born artist Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, one of the instructors at the Bauhaus in Germany, who emigrated to the United States to escape the Nazis, and the impact he made on design, photography, and arts education through his emphasis on experiential learning in the schools he founded in America.
Official Selection 2020 Palm Springs International Film Festival/ Official Selection 2019 Chicago International Film Festival
Tickets for screenings may be purchased in person at the Story Screen box office or online at storyscreenbeacon.com.
