Harpur Cinema Presents: A Common Sequence

Mary Helena Clark and Mike Gibbiser, USA , 2023, 78 min.

Friday, November 8, 2024, and Sunday, November 10, 2023: Lecture Hall 6, 7:30 pm. Doors open at 7:00 pm. $4 Single Admission.

Within the human struggle to live and work on a changing planet, questions of value, extraction, and adaptation echo across seemingly disparate worlds. A Common Sequence examines shifts of life and labor through a critically endangered salamander and plant patents in the apple industry. Weaving the stories of Dominican nuns running a conservation lab, a group of fishermen attempting to live off of a depleting lake, engineers developing AI-driven harvesting machines, and an indigenous biomedical researcher resisting the commodification of human DNA, the film becomes a meditation on the shifting border between the natural and unnatural world, and the dynamics of power at play.

Artists are visiting.