{"id":49089,"date":"2018-01-29T07:08:50","date_gmt":"2018-01-29T12:08:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=49089"},"modified":"2018-01-29T17:06:26","modified_gmt":"2018-01-29T22:06:26","slug":"brock-film-series-to-screen-human-flow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2018\/01\/brock-film-series-to-screen-human-flow\/","title":{"rendered":"Brock Film Series to screen Human Flow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Brock University Film Series continues this week with <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Human Flow<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, a powerful film about the global refugee crisis.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Though he\u2019s known primarily as a star of the contemporary art world, Ai Weiwei makes a dramatic entrance into documentary filmmaking with this recent creation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Human Flow<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> was shot in 23 countries around the world in an effort to capture the magnitude of a problem that has forced 65 million people from their homes in recent years.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The result is a film of unbelievable empathy and humanity, one that was tackled by an artist who has been living in exile for years, and who feels a profound connection to the story and to the countless individuals involved.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Weiwei never makes the film about himself, but is present in a number of key scenes, reaching out to some of the refugees he\u2019s met, communicating with them, capturing their stories and letting them be seen and heard. \u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For more than 40 years, the Department of Communication, Popular Culture and Film has hosted Brock\u2019s film series to bring some of the best in international, independent and Canadian cinema to St. Catharines. Films, all selected from the TIFF circuit, screen most Wednesdays until April 4 at the Pen Centre\u2019s Landmark Cinemas.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tickets for each screening are $10 for adults and $5 for Brock students and can be purchased in the lobby of Landmark Cinemas each Wednesday night. Season tickets are also available. For more information and a full lineup, see the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/social-sciences\/cpcf\/brock-university-film-series\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">BUFS website<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/z_YbgOZYrOc\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Brock University Film Series continues this week with Human Flow, a powerful film about the global refugee crisis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49090,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[54,38],"tags":[1620,5006,6234],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49089"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49089"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49089\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49093,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49089\/revisions\/49093"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}