UofR's On Film group will present Immigration and Displacement in the Hubbell Auditorium on the UofR Campus featuring screenings of Nobel Nok Dah (Emily Hong, Miasarah Lai, and Mariangela Mihai, 2016, 23 min., video), and People, Years, Life, Uomini, anni, vita (Yervant Gianikian and Angela Ricci Lucchi, 1990, 70 min., 16mm) with Nobel Nok Dah co-director Mariangela Mihai in attendance for a Q&A.

Utilizing salvaged archival footage and first-person testimony, these works reorient movement and proximity in transforming their visual and aural documents to access the living memories of historical experience. By resurrecting immigration stories from the distant and recent past of humanity and freedom of movement under threat, the urgent cinematic works in this program redefine our understandings of displacement in times of ongoing crisis.

[source: On Film website, 2017-Apr-17]