Featuring
Shannon Walsh · 2019 · 1h27m
A compelling meditation on the resilience of five women in the face of ecological and personal disaster, revealing surprising ways to re-imagine life in the ruins.
Wednesday, Nov. 30, 8:00pm
Illusions of Control (Shannon Walsh, 2019)
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We are thrilled to announce our 4th screening 
Taking inspiration from the late cultural theorist Lauren Berlant’s influential scholarly work Cruel Optimism, Vancouver-based director Shannon Walsh delivers a philosophical portrait of five women’s stories of survival and transformation on a global scale.A compelling meditation on resilience in the face of disaster, Illusions of Controlo unfolds in landscapes that are irrevocably shaped by human attempts to dominate them. Five women confront crises that seem unbearable. Silvia searches for her missing daughter in the deserts of northern Mexico. Yang attempts to hold back the expanding desert in China. Kaori mobilizes mothers as citizen-scientist to monitor radiation in Fukushima, Japan. Stacey builds on Indigenous knowledge to confront toxic industrial legacies in Yellowknife. Lauren stands at the crossroads of a terminal cancer diagnosis in Chicago.
What opportunities does ecological instability offer for imagining new ways of relating to each other, to the places we inhabit, and to our collective future? In this ambitious and reflective film, each story reveals surprising ways to live on, and re-imagine life in the ruins.
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