KUCI: Film School

Professor Simon Leung discusses the series of six short videos he organized for UCI's Film and Video Center Fall Film Series under the title The Look of Law. Chosen from contemporary videos made mostly by visual artists who have a peripheral relationship with the current video/film world, these videos address the affective ramifications of state and political power using hybrid forms of verbal and textual narration that owe as much to the history of video art in galleries as they do to experimental cinema and video. Included among the contemporary works is a rarely-seen mid-70s work by Ron Clark, which eerily foreshadows the tone of the American psyche in a post 9-11 age of homeland (in)security.

An interview with Amy Berg, director of the documentary "Deliver Us From Evil." Moving from one parish to another in Northern California during the 1970s, Father Oliver O'Grady quickly won each congregation's trust and respect. Unbeknownst to them, O'Grady was a dangerously active pedophile that Church hierarchy, aware of his predilection, had harbored for over 30 years, allowing him to abuse countless children. In "Deliver Us From Evil," filmmaker Amy Berg exposes the deep corruption of the Catholic Church and the troubled mind of the man they sheltered.

"Man Push Cart" director Ramin Bahrani discusses his film's look at a month in the life of a former Pakistani rock star who now sells coffee from his push cart on the streets of Manhattan.

Patricia Foulkrod discusses, "The Ground Truth," her documentary about patriotic young Americans who heeded the call for military service in Iraq. The conflict in Iraq, depicted with ferocious honesty in the film, is a prelude for the even more challenging battles fought by the soldiers returning home.