Cross Circuits with Michael Baker

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You are invited to this season’s Cross Circuits with film scholar Michael Baker, who will respond to Sharon Lockhart’s Fogo through the history and practice of documentary film.

Baker is co-editor of Challenge for Change: Activist Documentary at the National Film Board of Canada, which examines the NFB’s pioneering documentary program and its work on Fogo Island. Drawing on this history, Baker will consider Lockhart’s long-term engagement with the people and landscape of Fogo Island, exploring questions of place, representation, participation, and the evolving relationship between filmmaker, artist, and subject.