The American Sector (2020) screening and Q/A with Director!

Film Title: The American Sector (2020) by Courtney Stephens and Pacho Velez

Event Location: Nau 101

Description:

Part scavenger-hunt, part window into collective memory, the film goes around the US to find large slabs of The Berlin Wall and reflects on their significance significance. The film invites audiences to witness the unexpected sight of a concrete panel standing in a forest, a hotel lobby, and even the UVA campus! Through vignettes, recorded during three years of travel to over sixty sites, and featuring conversations with everyone from CIA agents to parking attendants, the filmmakers ask their fellow Americans - what is it doing here? Through the claims, concerns and questions that these questions raise, The Berlin Wall emerges as an open symbol, a “freedom” charm applicable to all sorts of ideologies, or fantasies.

Filmmaker Courtney Stephens will be at the screening in person! A Q&A will follow the screening.

For members of the public: please use the parking garage next to Student Health, which is free after 5pm.

https://parking.virginia.edu/student-health-and-wellness-center-parking-information

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