The UCSB Current recently published a profile of our spring 2021 virtual feature series, Borders. Across five events, Borders considers how a wide range of borders, borderlands, and frontiers are technologically, politically, cinematically, and archivally mediated.

Borders are at once physical and imaginary, embedded on the ground, imposed upon populations, and played out across the sea. The Carsey-Wolf Center’s spring 2021 public programming series explores borders, borderlands, and frontiers as they are cinematically, politically, technologically, and archivally mediated. The series engages with a range of borders: the US-Mexico border, an ICE detention center in Florida, the aqueous borders across which migrants journey to Europe, and the changeable border that separates India and Bangladesh. The series interrogates

Learn about the Carsey-Wolf Center's new Impact Media Internship Program here.

Throughout film history and across the globe, filmmakers have resisted social conventions and attracted the ire of governments and censorship boards. The Carsey-Wolf Center’s fall 2020 and winter 2021 screening series will showcase films considered politically, socially, culturally, and ideologically subversive. From mischievous caricatures to biting social critiques, the films in this series invite discussion of the efficacy of subversion and the historical contexts that have rendered these works subversive in the first place.

Learn about the Carsey-Wolf Center's 2021 roundtable series here.