AFVS Alumni & Faculty Film Series: House in the Fields
📽️ Film Screening: HOUSE IN THE FIELDS 📽️
Presented by the AFVS Alumni & Faculty Film Series
Thursday February 20th at 6pm in the Carpenter Center Theater
In House in the Fields, Tala Hadid examines the life of an isolated rural Amazigh community in the south-west region of the High Atlas Mountains. The thousand-year history of the Amazigh in Morocco has been recounted, preserved and transmitted by bards and storytellers in oral form among Tamazight speaking pastoral communities.
Continuing this tradition of transmission in an audiovisual form, House in the Fields presents a portrait of a village and community that has remained unchanged for hundreds of years despite being confronted with the rapidly changing sociopolitical realities of the country at large. The film follows the lives of two teenage sisters, one who must give up school to prepare for her wedding, and the other who dreams of being a judge.
The AFVS Alumni & Faculty Film Series is a free, monthly screening series during the academic year of films made by (or with) former students, fellows, affiliates, and faculty. The screenings are followed by a discussion with the filmmaker (as well as other key collaborators, whenever possible), and accompanied by class visits and other opportunities for discussion