2018 Naamani Memorial Lecture: Nina Paley

Please mark your calendars for a special pre-Passover event Sunday, March 25 from 1-3 at UofL’s Rauch Planetarium with renowned animator and feminist activist Nina Paley, which will also premiere “Seder-Masochism,” a wildly imaginative and provocative new animated film on the Ten Plagues. Nina Paley is the renowned creator of animated musical films such as the award-winning, critically acclaimed “Sita Sings the Blues,” a wildly popular film that juxtaposes a 3,000-year-old Sanskrit epic with modern marital breakup, which Roger Ebert proclaims as one of the best films of 2009, leaving him “utterly enchanted, swept away, and smiling from one end of the film to the other. It is astonishingly original.” That astonishing originality is present in all of Nina Paley’s playfully serious films, including the powerful short work, “This Land Is Mine: A Brief History of the Land called Israel/Palestine/Canaan/the Levant,” an arresting meditation on the region’s long history of conflict, which can be found on youtube.

For those who have time, her acclaimed previous work, the charming full-length film “Sita Sings the Blues” can be viewed here for free in its entirety: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RzTg7YXuy34

And a much shorter whimsical excerpt from her new work on goddesses and patriarchy can be viewed here: https://vimeo.com/253135841

The event includes a dessert reception and is free but RSVPs are strongly encouraged to Ranen Omer-Sherman: ranen.omersherman@louisville.edu