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“We Come As Friends” Screening featuring Enough Project’s Lindsey Hutchison
August 21, 2015 @ 7:15 pm
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Join Enough's Lindsey Hutchinson for a screening of Academy Awardu00ae-nominated director Hubert Sauper's We Come As Friends. The director of Darwin's Nightmare takes audiences on this voyage in his tiny, self-made, tin-and-canvas flying machine. He leads viewers into most improbable locations and into people' thoughts and dreams, in both stunning and heartbreaking ways. Chinese oil workers, U.N. peacekeepers, Sudanese warlords and American evangelists ironically weave common ground in this documentary, a complex, profound and humorous cinematic endeavor. Join Enough's Lindsey Hutchison for a screening of Academy Award®-nominated director Hubert Sauper’s We Come As Friends.
Academy Award®-nominated director Hubert Sauper’s WE COME AS FRIENDS is a modern odyssey – a dizzying, science fiction-like journey into the heart of Africa. At the moment when the Sudan, the continent’s biggest country, is being divided into two nations, an old “civilizing” pathology re-emerges – that of colonialism, the clash of empires and new episodes of bloody (and holy) wars over land and resources. The director of DARWIN’S NIGHTMARE takes audiences on this voyage in his tiny, self-made, tin-and-canvas flying machine. He leads viewers into most improbable locations and into people’s thoughts and dreams, in both stunning and heartbreaking ways. Chinese oil workers, U.N. peacekeepers, Sudanese warlords and American evangelists ironically weave common ground in this documentary, a complex, profound and humorous cinematic endeavor.