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CEPPA Film Club: Children of Men
May 31, 2024 @ 4:30 pm - 7:00 pm
We are proud to present the first session of CEPPA Film Club, on Friday 31 May (also the last day of Climate Week), when we will gather from 4.30 onwards to watch and discuss Alfonso Cuarón’s classic dystopian film Children of Men (see trailer here). Miguel de la Cal Moreno is convening and will start us off with a short introduction over drinks and snacks from Luvians, before the viewing begins. Afterwards the floor is open for discussion!
Suggested prewatch/prereads (with spoiler alert!):
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chapter 1 of Mark Fisher’s Capitalist Realism
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The short film ‘The possibility of Hope’, which was a companion short directed by Cuarón featuring interviews with ‘thinkers’ (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5m1TNXIMTkw)
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Žižek on Children of men (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5m1TNXIMTkw)
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E. Ann Kaplan, Climate Trauma: Foreseeing the Future in Dystopian Film and Fiction, chapter 3: ‘Pretrauma Political Thrillers: Children of Men – with Reference to Soylent Green and The Handmaid’s Tale‘
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Samuel Scheffler, ‘Afterlife’ lectures I and II
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P.D. James, The Children of Men (the original novel, arguably not as good as the movie though!