Today from 17:00-20.00 hrs, the UvA Film Club will continue their weekly screening in HVL/BuzzHouse’s Co-Working Space! This week's film is UVA FILM CLUB X UVA GREEN OFFICE: Short Films by Jodie Mack + Arts and Crafts Workshop (Jodie Mack, 2009)-2012 - with an introduction and workshop by Martina Furlan. This event is in collaboration with the UVA Green Office as part of their Slow Fashion Week initiative!

Fast fashion is one of the largest contributors to the environmental crisis. Dictated by mega corporations functioning on exploitative labor relations and defined by trends of overproduction and overconsumption, fast fashion creates unimaginable amounts of textile waste and facilitates a lack of self-sufficiency in its consumer base. To combat this, we present you with Slow Fashion Week!

During Slow Fashion Week, we aim to challenge the trends of overconsumption and overproduction that have become commonplace in our lives, learn more about the impact of fast fashion on the planet and how we can battle this effect both as consumers and producers, and, of course, learn more about how we can become self-sufficient in our wardrobes!

In this collaboration with UVA Film Club, we are screening a selection of short films by Jodie Mack. Jodie Mack is an experimental filmmaker and animator who makes stop motion animations with fabrics, recycled textiles and everyday objects. Her films “unleash the kinetic energy of material remnants of domestic and institutional knowledge to illuminate the relationship between decoration and utility. Straddling the boundary between rigor and accessibility, her cinema questions how we ascribe value to things” (https://jodiemack.com/information).

These films will be accompanied by with an arts and crafts workshop in which the people attending can bring their own (textile) crafts and knit, crochet, embroider during/before/after the films. There will be materials provided but please feel free to bring your own!