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Join us for a discussion about the film I Had a Dream (Bir Rüya Gördüm). Introduced by Smithsonian National Museum of Asian Art film curator Tom Vick, filmmaker Burcu Esenç, producer Umut Egitimci, and Mary Linn, Curator of Language and Cultural Vitality, Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage, will focus on reconnections made during the filming, the life of Tevifik Esenç, and the wider history of the Ubykh language.
This event is co-sponsored by the Freer Gallery of Art and the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery—the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art.
To view the film beforehand, please register at: bit.ly…
Accessibility: ASL interpretation and live real-time captioning will be provided for the discussion.
Acompáñenos en este conversatorio sobre la película Bir Rüya Gördüm, presentada por Tom Vick, Curador de Cine del Museo Nacional de Arte Asiático. Esta mesa redonda incluye la cineasta Burcu Esenç, el productor Umut Egitimci y Mary Linn, Curadora de Revitalización Cultural y Lingüística del Centro de Tradiciones Populares y Patrimonio Cultural de la Institución Smithsonian. Coversaran sobre las reconexiones realizadas durante la filmación, la vida de Tevifik Esenç, y sobre la historia del idioma Ubykh.
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The Mother Tongue Film Festival is a public program of Recovering Voices, a collaboration between Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History, the National Museum of the American Indian, the Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage, and the Asian Pacific American Center.
Additional Smithsonian partners include the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art. This program received support from the Smithsonian Asian Pacific Initiatives Pool, administered by the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center, and from the Latino Initiatives Pool, administered by the Smithsonian Latino Center.
Additional support is provided by Columbia University School of the Arts, Documentary Educational Resources, the Embassy of Canada to the United States, the Québec Government Office in Washington D.C., Georgetown University Department of Anthropology, The Elizabeth and Whitney MacMillan Endowment, Wick and Bonnie Moorman, The Environmental Film Festival in the Nation’s Capital, and Ferring Pharmaceuticals.
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