Outside the Box (Free Screening!)

Though we often feel compelled to conform, tonight's films remind us that when we embrace our diverse abilities and desires, we amaze ourselves and others. Tsaiyun Mou's animated Lovesick (2003, 2 mins) dips into the light and dark sides of infatuation. A nervous narcoleptic sleepily falls into the embrace of an understanding peer in Miki Ann Maddox's My People the Manatee (2003, 7 mins). When a teacher's monotone has students falling asleep, they answer with an eye-opening, hip-loosening response in Erica Eng's Inertia (10.5 mins). The subjects of Sachi Cunningham's Crutch (3 mins) and Laurie Koh's Sisterz of the Underground: Extra Credit (2003, 9 mins) break through barriers and put a new spin on able-bodied, male–dominated dance scenes. Finally, students talk candidly about controversial notions of identity and belonging within the historical racial hegemony of Yale University in Still Black, at Yale by Monique Walton and Andia Winslow (34 mins).

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