Film Screening with Sasha Tycko, 4/23
The University Ecologies project, in conjunction with the "Stop Cop City" group, invites everyone to come to the Olin Center on 4/23 at 7 pm for a screening of "Dwelling: A Measure of Life in the Atlanta Forest." This event will feature the film creator and anthropologist Sasha Tycko, from Emory University, in conversation with Olivia Portier from Tufts.
Dwelling: A Measure of Life in the Atlanta Forest (2023, 40 min.) follows one Atlanta forest defender's quixotic struggle to build a hut by hand in the forest occupation at the center of the fight against Cop City. By patiently following the building process over several months, the observational film explores how the utopian spirit of the movement meets the practical challenges of living in the forest. As a militant struggle unfolds offscreen, the film contemplates the nature of work, technology, and making a home in the forest.
Sasha Tycko is an anthropologist, photographer, and filmmaker and a PhD candidate at Emory University. Her ethnographic research focuses on the Atlanta forest at the center of the conflict over “Cop City,” using a range of media to explore how the contested landscape—once the site of a city prison farm and antebellum plantation—motivates new articulations of history, nature, and ethics. Through this work, she has produced two films, Dwelling: A Measure of Life in the Atlanta Forest and Atlanta Forest Garden: Four Days of Work, and a photography exhibition, “Ways of the Atlanta Forest." Her co-authored essay "Not One Tree" (2023, n+1) was awarded the University of Iowa's Krause Essay Prize.
Sponsored by: The Center for the Humanities, the Department of Anthropology, and the “University Ecologies and the Question of the Commons” project.
All are welcome. For questions, please reach out to olivia.portier@tufts.edu.
