Aubin Film Screening: Born to Fly (2014)

Join the Center for the Study of Women and Society for our screening of BORN TO FLY: ELIZABETH STREB V GRAVITY. Following our screening, director Catherine Gund will answer audience questions in a Q+A. To learn more about the film and Catherine Gund, read below. 

BORN TO FLY (2014): 

Elizabeth Streb and the STREB Extreme Action Company form a motley troupe of flyers and crashers. Propelled by Streb’s edict that “anything too safe is not action,” these daredevils challenge the assumptions of art, aging, injury, gender, and human possibility. Born to Fly: Elizabeth Streb vs. Gravity traces the evolution of Elizabeth Streb’s movement philosophy as she pushes herself and her performers from the ground to the sky. Revealing the passions behind the dancers’ bruises and broken noses, Born to Fly: Elizabeth Streb vs. Gravity offers a breathtaking tale about the necessity of art, inspiring audiences hungry for a more tactile and fierce existence.

Catherine Gund: 

Founder and Director of Aubin Pictures, Catherine Gund is an Emmy-nominated and Academy-shortlisted producer, director, writer, and activist. She focuses on strategic, sustainable social transformation, arts and culture, HIV/AIDS, and racial, reproductive and environmental justice. Her films, which have screened around the world and on PBS, HBO, Paramount+, the Discovery Channel, Sundance Channel, Free Speech TV, Netflix, and Amazon, include: And Again I Dream, Paint Me a Road Out of Here, Meanwhile, Angola Do You Hear Us? Voices From a Plantation Prison, Primera, Aggie, Chavela, and Born to Fly. She has served on several arts, media, and justice nonprofit boards and has been a creative advisor on numerous documentary films. She is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and alumnus of Brown University and the Whitney Independent Study Program, she has four children and lives in NYC.

RSVP is required to attend the event. Please RSVP using this link: https://bit.ly/bornflying

If you have any questions, please send them to csws@gc.cuny.edu. 

Thank you!