Film Series: And Therefore I Am

"And Therefore I Am" Film Series

A film series featuring popular films on consciousness, identity, and the workings of the brain.
Location: Somers classroom

Thursday, February 23
7pm - 8:30pm

A Beautiful Mind
Russell Crowe portrays John Nash, the Nobel Prize-winning mathematician afflicted with schizophrenia. A Beautiful Mind depicts the harrowing journey traveled by Nash as he battled his illness.

Thursday, March 2
7pm - 8:30pm

Film about a Woman Who
An experimental film in which the director focuses on the re-invention of the narrative in film from a feminist point-of-view. A Film About a Woman Who ... plays with cliché and the conventions of soap opera while telling the story of a woman whose sexual dissatisfaction masks an enormous anger.

Thursday, March 9
7pm - 8:30pm

Memento
Following a head injury sustained after intervening in his wife's murder, former insurance investigator Leonard Shelby (Guy Pearce) suffers a rare, untreatable form of memory loss which prevents him from remembering what happened 15 minutes ago. With the past now a blank canvas, Leonard uses notes, tattoos, and Polaroid pictures to piece together the mystery of his wife’s murder.

Thursday, March 23
7pm - 8:30pm

Being John Malkovich
John Cusack plays a discouraged puppeteer who accidentally finds a way into John Malkovich's mind.