Screening and Conversation with Karthik Pandian and Philip Deloria

AFVS invites you to a special screening of a new feature film by Associate Professor Karthik Pandian, followed by a conversation with Philip Deloria, the Leverett Saltonstall Professor of History at Harvard. This event will be held in the lower level of the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts. The Carpenter Center is located at 24 Quincy Street in Cambridge, Massachusetts.  

Pandian will share the latest work from his Forsythia cycle, which received a 2022 Creative Capital Award. This 87-minute feature film channels the revolutionary energy of the takedown of a monument to Christopher Columbus, and the transformational power of the relationships seeded in its wake. Since 2021, Pandian has worked closely with Mike Forcia (Bad River Anishinaabe) – the American Indian Movement activist who orchestrated the toppling – and Ta Pe'juta Wičháȟpi Win (Hunkpati Dakota Oyate), who danced around the fallen statue. In Pandian’s words, the film “carries us to the heart of creation and its intimate relationship with destruction. All the way back. To the mother. To the womb. And to the fire that could give birth to a new world."