Screening of "Secondhand (Pepe)"
A film by Hanna Rose Shell
Friday, April 10
8:00 pm
MIT, Kresge Theater
Screening of "Secondhand (Pepe)", a film on secondhand clothing and
diasporic cultures by Hanna Rose Shell, Assistant Professor in MIT's
Program in Science, Technology, and Society; and the director (with
Vanessa Bertozzi), will be shown on Friday, April 10, at Kresge
Theater as a double feature with a new puppet show about the history
of public health and the AIDS crisis in Haiti. "Secondhand (Pepe)"
is a 24-minute tri-lingual film about the materiality of recycled
clothes that flow from the United States to Haiti
(www.secondhandfilm.com). The film will be shown in its entirety,
after which Professor Shell will lead a question and answer session.
This event is part of "Antiretrovirals and Water Refugees: A Living
Newspaper on Haiti" which looks at the past, present, and future of
Haiti in terms of the politics of global healthcare, as refracted
through the work of Paul Farmer's Partners in Health organization
and its fight against AIDS. An updating of the 1930s activist
docudramas called Living Newspapers, this show combines
bunraku-style puppets, shadow theater, giant puppets, toy theater,
video and audio sampling, and live brass music to consider the
compelling global nexus of culture and history that is Haiti. The
production will also feature a series of post-show discussions about
Haiti, healthcare, and the history of American political theater.
Info about the puppet show and screening is here:
http://dramashop.mit.edu/haiti/post_show.php
Tickets are for sale here: http://dramashop.mit.edu/tickets/
More info about the film is here:
http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~shell/secondhand.html
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