Irene Lusztig will be sharing clips from her latest documentary film titled, RICHLAND, which offers a portrait of a community staking its identity and future on its nuclear origin story. The film moves between archival past and observational present, and blooms into an expansive and lyrical meditation on home, safety, whiteness, land, and deep time. Irene is a feminist filmmaker, archival researcher, and educator. Through her films, Irene works in a space of delicate mediation between people, their pasts, and the present-tense landscapes and spaces where unresolved histories bloom and erupt.

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Irene Lusztig is a feminist filmmaker, archival researcher, and educator. She works in a space of delicate mediation between people, their pasts, and the present-tense spaces and landscapes where unresolved histories bloom and erupt. Born in England and raised in Boston, Irene is a first generation American whose parents fled Ceaucescu’s Romania as political asylum-seekers. Her work has been screened around the world and she has been awarded fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, the Fulbright, two MacDowell fellowships, the Flaherty Film Seminar, and the Rydell Visual Arts Fellowship. She teaches filmmaking at UC Santa Cruz where she is Professor of Film and Digital Media.

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