Please join us to celebrate the inspiring life of Teshome H. Gabriel on Friday, November 19th at the Freud Playhouse, Macgowan Hall, on the UCLA campus.
The memorial service begins at 5:00 p.m. Reception to follow.
Teshome Gabriel was a revered faculty member in the Cinema & Media Studies program at UCLA, a pioneering scholar and activist, and an internationally recognized authority on Third World and Post-Colonial cinema. He earned his doctoral degree at UCLA in 1979. At the time of his passing Gabriel was in the process of writing a book, "Third Cinema: Exploration of Nomadic Aesthetics & Narrative Communities."
The below passage dramatizes the complexity of feeling and thought presented throughout his work:
“Movement is not just a spatial displacement, or a matter of sequence, or of a linear history. While stones are generally associated with immobility, those that tend to remain still are in fact the ones that move the most throughout history. By not moving at all, they move in other directions, in other dimensions, in their own curious and often ironic way. Pyramids would seem to be the most immobile of things, yet they have been all over the world; there is no place in the world that does not carry archival memories of pyramids, for whom the pyramid does not signify something of deep cultural importance. One can argue that the same forces are at work in the wailing wall of Jerusalem and the great wall of China, and the Kaaba/Ka’ba of Mecca. Stones, like sacred relics, travel and induce us to do likewise; they move us emotionally and spiritually.” - Teshome Gabriel (2005)
This memorial service will celebrate Teshome Gabriel’s profound influence on his discipline, as well as the inspiration he brought to those around him.
RSVP: http://legacy.tft.ucla.edu/memorial/
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