Open Shutters
October 15, 2013
7:30 p.m.
Beau Beausoleil, poet and book artist, will host a screening and discussion of the movie Open Shutters. This film documents the photography project of five women living together in Damascus. They learn to take photos and present their ‘life maps’ to each other. The women are able to unearth memories buried for 30 years while trying to survive war, sanctions, and dictatorship. In the end, these women from different cities all over Iraq have woven together the threads of their individual lives into a collective fabric.