Available Wednesday, October 28th:
Screening and discussion between Frederick Wiseman and Errol Morris

Join us Wednesday, October 28th for a virtual screening of Frederick Wiseman’s Sinai Field Mission, which documents the routine activities of U.S. diplomats and electronic technicians who operate an early warning system designed to help keep peace between Egypt and Israel. The screening will be followed by a discussion between Wiseman and Academy Award winner ERROL MORRIS (The Thin Blue Line, Gates of Heaven, Fast Cheap and Out of Control, The Fog of War).

After claiming the Sinai peninsula during 1967’s Six Day War, Israel held onto the land for several years before agreeing to restore most of the desert terrain to Egyptian control. As seen here, the Sinai is a territory of oppressive, arid nothingness, its empty landscapes broken only by remnants of recent conflict, from burned-out trucks to other scattered wreckage. Populated by a range of personalities who often compete even as they point toward the same peaceable purpose, the film displays a broad variety of agencies and interests – from a large Ghanaian army presence to a retinue of Texas good ol’ boys. Entrenched in the everyday minutiae of international conflict arbitration, the film stretches their conversations toward points of rhythmic enchantment and presents an instance of an old movie about intractable clashes that are in many senses still ongoing.

Unrated / 2 hrs 7 mins.

Sinai Field Mission is being presented as part of the Wednesdays With Wiseman series. To read more about the series, click here.