Film
Volunteer ***1864 + A Gregarious Species
- 7PM
What drives people to participate in a clinical experiment? That question drove award-winning Brazilian filmmaker Sandra Kogut to approach the August 2020 volunteers of Brazil’s Covid-19 clinical vaccine trial. As the participants were medically tasked with keeping an observational diary, she asked them to also keep a video diary. What emerged was Volunteer ****1864, a deeply intimate nine-month window into the lives of the ordinary people as they courageously join the historic trial to save countless lives.
A Gregarious Species (8 min)
Dir. Natasha Raheja
What do bugs and borders have to do with each other? Bringing together mobile phone videos of gregarious locust swarms, political rallies, and scientific webinars, this experimental, found-footage video raises questions about the selective porosity of borders amidst environmental crisis, farmer insecurity, and nationalism in South Asia.
Leadership support for BAM Access Programs provided by the Jerome L. Greene Foundation.
Leadership support for BAM Film provided by the Ford Foundation and The Thompson Family Foundation
A struggling family methodically cons their way into the household—and lives—of a wealthy family in Bong Joon-ho’s Best Picture-winning diabolical satire.
This powerful documentary born by a Sierra Leonean filmmaker who became disillusioned with the press’ portrayal of Ebola showcases the voices of the people on the front lines.
Featuring never-before-seen footage from Wuhan hospitals at the epicenter of the Covid-19 outbreak, this Emmy Award-winning doc acts as a living, breathing time capsule of what happened in those early days.