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Echoing Histories

Fri, Dec 8, 2017 @ 6 pm7:30 pm

6-6:30pm reception, 6:30-7:30pm program

Join us for a community talk-back showcasing Echoing Histories, a documentary video created by filmmaker David H. Wells which follows his wife Annu Palakunnathu Matthew, a Rhode Island immigrant artist and woman of color, as she navigates cultures and immigrant experiences around the world. The discussion will be led by scholar and critic Bakirathi Mani who will engage the audience between clips and moderate discussion between Matthew and Wells. This evening is an opportunity to discuss the film and provide feedback to help the filmmaker refine the film towards completion.

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Annu Palakunnathu Matthew’s work has been exhibited at the Royal Ontario Museum and the Smithsonian She has been warded her fellowships from the Fulbright Foundation, the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts, a MacColl Johnson Fellowship and the American Institute of Indian Studies. Matthew is a professor of photography at the University of Rhode Island whose work draws on her experience of living among three cultures.

Bakirathi Mani, Associate Professor of English Literature at Swarthmore College, will lead the interchanges. Mani’s in-progress book, “Ways of Seeing: South Asian American Art and Exhibition Cultures”, explores how South Asians create new definitions of Asian-American identity and community. She is also the author of Aspiring to Home: South Asians in America (Stanford University Press, 2012.) Mani has written about and curated an exhibition including Matthew’s work. She has co-curated film festivals in San Francisco and in Philadelphia as well as lead film discussions in the U.K. and the U.S.

David Helfer Wells is an award-winning visual storyteller whose short films have been juried into film festivals around the globe, including San Francisco, Philadelphia, Providence, New York City, India, and Pakistan, among others. His still imagery was used for decades by publications such as Fortune, Life, National Geographic, Newsweek, The Sunday New York Times, and Time magazine, and other publications. “Echoing Histories” is the first feature length documentary by Wells, who is also Matthew’s husband.Registration is required.