FILM SCREENING - CURATED BY FILM CRITIC AND PROGRAMMER JORDAN CRONK

Event details Date: Thursday, October 22, 2026 Time: 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM Location: School of Cinematic Arts - SCA (SCA) - SCI 106 - 900 West 34th Street, Los Angeles, CA 90089 Cost: FREE RSVP Type: Arts, Film Screening Campus: Capital Campus Department: Center for Ethnographic Media Arts, School of Cinematic Arts Audience: Students, Alumni, Faculty/Staff About this event We are excited to welcome acclaimed film critic, programmer, and founder of the Acropolis Cinema screening series, JORDAN CRONK, to the Center for Ethnographic Media Arts as part of CEMA’s Visiting Artist Series. SHORTS PROGRAM This Is My Land (Ben Rivers, 2006, 14 min) A hand-processed portrait of Jake Williams, who lives alone within miles of forest in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. Jake always has many jobs on at any one time, finds a use for everything, is an expert mandolin player, and has compost heaps going back many years. He has a different sense of time to most people in the 21st Century, which is explicitly expressed in his idea for creating hedges by putting up bird feeders. It struck me straight away that there were parallels between our ways of working – I have tried to be as self-reliant as possible and be apart from the idea of industry – Jake’s life and garden are much the same – he can sustain himself from what he grows and so needs little from others. To Jake this isn’t about nostalgia for some treasured pre-electric past, but more, a very real future. —Ben Rivers “The red filter is withdrawn.” (Minjung Kim, 2020, 12 min) Numerous colonial places including coastal cave and military bunkers, as well as memories of uprising and massacres are everywhere on Jeju Island. The film is based on René Magritte’s ‘La Condition Humaine’. The camera captures the landscape of caves and bunkers on Jeju Island, with the text from Hollis Frampton’s “A Lecture”, and asks the meaning of capturing and showing landscape through the media. Barbs, Wastelands (Marta Mateus, 2017, 25 min) In the end of the 19th century the peasants in Portugal started a courageous struggle for better work conditions. After generations of starving misery, the Carnation Revolution sowed the promise of an Agrarian Reform. Mostly in the Alentejo region, these rural workers occupied the huge properties where they were once submitted to the power of their Masters. Perhaps the lost seed of other fruits… It is said in Alentejo, when something is lost, those who are looking should start to walk back to the beginning. We must pray and ask Saint Lucy to clear our vision, so we can see and look better. The protagonists of this film, resistants of this struggle, many of them illiterate, working since childhood, tell their story to the youngsters of today, in their own words. Anti-Objects, or Space Without Path or Boundary (Sky Hopinka, 2017, 13 min) The title of this video, taken from the texts of the architect Kengo Kuma, suggests a way of looking at everything as “interconnected and intertwined” – such as the Official event details: https://calendar.usc.edu/event/film-screening-curated-by-film-critic-and-programmer-jordan-cronk