Carsey-Wolf Center at UC Santa Barbara 
Storytelling for the Screen: Showing Up
- Tuesday, November 7, 2023 / 7:00 PM - 9:30 PM (PST)
- Pollock Theater
- Screening Format: Sony 4K digital projection (107 Minutes)
- With Kelly Reichardt (writer/director)
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Starring: Michelle Williams, Hong Chau, André Benjamin
Directed by celebrated filmmaker Kelly Reichardt, Showing Up (2022) transforms the tensions of one make-or-break week into a nuanced portrait of creativity, art-making, and the messy task of building a life. Showing Up stars Michelle Williams as Lizzy, a Portland-based artist struggling to hold things together even as they keep falling apart. Her hot water heater is busted, her brother might be going off the rails, her divorced parents are exasperating in their own separate ways, and the free spirits at the arts college where she works sometimes prove a bit much. But out of the pressurized absurdities and tumult come not just precious moments of creative inspiration, but the jagged shape of one woman’s life.
In this event, writer/director Kelly Reichardt joined moderator Alex Lilburn (Film and Media Studies, UCSB) for a live Zoom post-screening discussion of Showing Up.
Biographies
Writer/director Kelly Reichardt
Moderator Alex Lilburn (Film and Media Studies, UCSB)
Alex Lilburn is an MA/PhD student in Film and Media Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He holds a BA in the History and Theory of Contemporary Art from the San Francisco Art Institute (SFAI). At SFAI, he studied avant-garde filmmaking practices and artist-based film histories. Prior to coming to UCSB, he worked at the Sundance and Telluride Film Festivals and volunteered at Canyon Cinema in San Francisco. Currently, his research interests include global avant-garde film, media exhibition formats, and urban theory.
This event is sponsored by the Carsey-Wolf Center.
Storytelling for the Screen
Since their emergence, cinema and television have been in a state of constant technological and industrial flux. But even as our ways of distributing and accessing moving images have changed, and even as tastes and styles continue shifting with the times, our passion for compelling onscreen storytelling persists. At the Carsey-Wolf Center, we are committed to fostering a nuanced understanding of cinematic and televisual storytelling across genres, formats, styles, and historical periods. To this end, we sponsor a wide range of events, programs, and workshops designed to cultivate a new generation of media storytellers, and to help audiences better understand the evolving role of narrative across diverse media forms.