Film Screening and Discussion of Harlan County, USA with Director Kopple

Harlan County
March 2, 2016
6:30PM - 10:00PM
Film/Video Theater, Wexner Center for the Arts

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2016-03-02 18:30:00 2016-03-02 22:00:00 Film Screening and Discussion of Harlan County, USA with Director Kopple Join us for a screening and discussion of Barbara Kopple’s Harlan County U.S.A. (1976), a documentary account of the 1974 strike of Kentucky mine workers. The screening will be followed by a musical performance by David Morris, who provided some of the music for the documentary. Kopple will discuss aspects of documentary film-making as well as her current project, Shelter, which examines homeless veterans and features music by David Morris and his son, Jack Ballangee Morris. This film documents the 1974 strike of Kentucky mine workers when Duke Power acquired the Eastover Mining Company and refused to honor their union contract in the United Mine Workers union. Kopple photographs the picketing, the company’s use of state troopers and the showdowns between the miners and the strikebreakers during this riveting documentary.There will also be an opportunity for students to participate in a filmaking workshop with Barbara Kopple. Click here for more information!Kopple produced and directed Harlan County USA and American Dream, both winners of the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. In 1991, Harlan County USA was named to the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress and designated an American Film Classic. Harlan County USA was restored and preserved by the Women’s Preservation Fund and the Academy Film Archive, and was featured as part of the Sundance Collection at the Sundance Film Festival in 2005. The Criterion Collection released a DVD of the documentary in 2006. If you require assistance to attend these events, please contact Afsane at rezaeisahraei.1@osu.edu.Student WorkshopThursday, March 3, 2016 – 10:00am to 12:00pmThe Collaboratory, The Barnett Center for Integrated Arts and EnterpriseRSVP to Afsane at rezaeisahraei.1@osu.edu if you would like to attend the workshop.Join us for a student workshop with Barbara Kopple, who will discuss her lengthy career as a documentary filmmaker, focusing especially on the production of Harlan County USA, which documents the 1974 strike of mine workers in Kentucky, and her newest project,Shelter, which focuses on homeless veterans. Kopple will talk with students about creating her own film company, Cabin Creek Films, being a woman in the film industry, the ethics of documenatary filmmaking, and filmmaking as advocacy.This event is organized by The Appalachian Project, Ohio (a collaboration between the Center for Folklore Studies, the Department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, and Student Life's Department of Social Change), and co-sponsored by the Department of Arts Administration, American Indian Studies, Education and Policy; Wexner Center for the Arts; Comparative Studies; Film Studies; the Department of English; and the Barnett Center for Integrated Arts and Enterprise. Photo courtesy of Criterion Collection at www.criterion.com Film/Video Theater, Wexner Center for the Arts America/New_York public

Join us for a screening and discussion of Barbara Kopple’s Harlan County U.S.A. (1976), a documentary account of the 1974 strike of Kentucky mine workers. The screening will be followed by a musical performance by David Morris, who provided some of the music for the documentary. Kopple will discuss aspects of documentary film-making as well as her current project, Shelter, which examines homeless veterans and features music by David Morris and his son, Jack Ballangee Morris. This film documents the 1974 strike of Kentucky mine workers when Duke Power acquired the Eastover Mining Company and refused to honor their union contract in the United Mine Workers union. Kopple photographs the picketing, the company’s use of state troopers and the showdowns between the miners and the strikebreakers during this riveting documentary.

There will also be an opportunity for students to participate in a filmaking workshop with Barbara Kopple. Click here for more information!

Kopple produced and directed Harlan County USA and American Dream, both winners of the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. In 1991, Harlan County USA was named to the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress and designated an American Film Classic. Harlan County USA was restored and preserved by the Women’s Preservation Fund and the Academy Film Archive, and was featured as part of the Sundance Collection at the Sundance Film Festival in 2005. The Criterion Collection released a DVD of the documentary in 2006. 

If you require assistance to attend these events, please contact Afsane at rezaeisahraei.1@osu.edu.

Student Workshop

Thursday, March 3, 2016 – 10:00am to 12:00pm
The Collaboratory, The Barnett Center for Integrated Arts and Enterprise
RSVP to Afsane at rezaeisahraei.1@osu.edu if you would like to attend the workshop.

Join us for a student workshop with Barbara Kopple, who will discuss her lengthy career as a documentary filmmaker, focusing especially on the production of Harlan County USA, which documents the 1974 strike of mine workers in Kentucky, and her newest project,Shelter, which focuses on homeless veterans. Kopple will talk with students about creating her own film company, Cabin Creek Films, being a woman in the film industry, the ethics of documenatary filmmaking, and filmmaking as advocacy.

This event is organized by The Appalachian Project, Ohio (a collaboration between the Center for Folklore Studies, the Department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, and Student Life's Department of Social Change), and co-sponsored by the Department of Arts Administration, American Indian Studies, Education and Policy; Wexner Center for the Arts; Comparative Studies; Film Studies; the Department of English; and the Barnett Center for Integrated Arts and Enterprise. 

Photo courtesy of Criterion Collection at www.criterion.com