PUTNEY — The Landmark College Academic Speaker Series opens its spring 2023 schedule with a presentation entitled “Resisting Nuclear Armament in the 21st Century” by filmmakers Taylor Dunne and Eric Stewart on Tuesday, Feb. 7, at 5 p.m., in the Brooks M. O’Brien Auditorium, located in the Lewis Academic Building.
Dunne and Stewart will preview their in-production documentary Off Country, and facilitate a conversation about how experimental cinema and documentary can augment, resist, and subvert the institutional memory of the nuclear weapons industry.
Off Country interrogates the institutional racism of the nuclear weapons industry, using oral history to articulate how the creation of “National Sacrifice Zones” has disproportionately affected Native and Anglo-ranching people as well as communities of color throughout the southwestern United States.
Dunne is a filmmaker, curator, and university lecturer based in Colorado’s San Luis Valley and the Catskill Mountains of New York State. Her works have been exhibited widely at international venues. She has curated film screenings for The Black Cube Artist Program, Experiments in Cinema Film Festival (Albuquerque), and The Boulder Public Library.
Stewart is an interdisciplinary multimedia artist and assistant professor of visual communication at Landmark College. He was awarded the 2015 Mono No Aware Award for Excellence in Filmmaking at the Haverhill Experimental Film Festival, and his films have shown from San Francisco to Zagreb. He holds a bachelor’s from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a master’s from the University of Colorado, Boulder.
This event is free and open to the public. For additional information or questions about venue accessibility, contact Lynne Shea at [email protected].
Driving directions, a campus map, and more information about the Landmark College Academic Speaker Series is available at landmark.edu. Videos of previous speaker presentations are made possible by Brattleboro Community Television and can be found at landmark.edu/speakerseries.