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Civic Cinema: Fiction, documentary, and experimental shorts by Miami professors and students

Thursday, November 6, 2025
5:30 pm
Richard and Carole Cocks Art Museum Auditorium
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I Was a Hurricane teaser (8:18), Lexi Marsh

The Amherst Hurricanes became a youth ultimate frisbee powerhouse in 2003, but a single, controversial moment threatened to derail their entire season.  What’s it like for those players and coaches to revisit that moment 20 years later?

Ashanti Immigrant (17:31), Emmanuel Gbede (Director of Photography)

A retired artist struggles to come up with a creative idea for an international gallery exhibition despite the help offered by her studio assistant.

Here (3:19), Nick Karpinski

Here presents a 'new wild' and explores the blend between nature and culture.

Banded in El Chocó (17:23), Kira Pietila and Andy Rice

Team Avian Research and Education Institute (AREI) from Oxford, Ohio meets the ornithologists at Un Poco del Chocó outside of Quito, Ecuador to flesh out a research partnership… and band some really cool birds.

Ink (16:30), Hackett Rascher

In a near future world, accomplice AI must fend off the lawyers… and the movies.

Whose Nostalgia? (4:16), Nick Karpinski

Whose Nostalgia? grapples with ways in which our bodies are entangled with capitalism's false promises.

From Smoky to Rocky (12:00), Luke Wilson and Reed Mattingly

An exploration of the impacts of funding cuts to our National Parks.

Henna Stains: (14:37), Emmanuel Gbede (Director of Photography)

A translator who is caught between the dilemma of words in her local dialect and its translation in English.

Shatterpoint (7:55), Josiah Jackson

Separated brothers of the Rebellion try to reunite in this Star Wars-themed allegory about totalitarian government.

Halal Down the Holler (5:50), Rosemary Pennington and Andy Rice

The opening scene of a work-in-progress feature film about Muslim life in Appalachia.