The program includes works by community organizers and filmmakers addressing housing struggles from LA to D.C.
A free film screening titled (Dis)placement: Fluctuations of Home will take place Sunday at 7 p.m. at the Billy Wilder Theater. The event will feature a Q&A with filmmakers Lupita Limón Corrales and Diego Robles, moderated by UCLA Activist-in-Residence James Suazo, with seating assigned first-come, first-served starting at 6 p.m. when the box office opens.
The program, presented in collaboration with the UCLA Alumni Association and UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television, includes works by community organizers and filmmakers addressing housing struggles from Los Angeles to Washington, D.C. Featured films include Charles Burnett’s 1995 short When It Rains, depicting a man’s lesson in community support, and Shirikiana Aina’s 1982 documentary Brick by Brick, which examines displacement in Washington, D.C., amid gentrification.
Other screenings include Robles’ 2011 collaborative project We Are Wyvernwood, documenting resistance to demolition in Boyle Heights, and his 2009 work Nuestros Videos Culturales para la Preservación de Wyvernwood with Erasto Arena, capturing a community’s fight against eviction. Limón Corrales’ 2023 film The Need for Roots uses visual poetry to reflect on changes in her Victor Heights neighborhood.
The event is open to the public with no reservations required, though capacity is limited.
