An Emergent Seas research series that unravels the madness of our time. “Where is my mind?” takes place on the second and fourth Saturday of each month, and includes a film screening followed by a critical conversation. Pay-what-you-can (suggested $5-20) –no one turned away for lack of funds. Open to all curious minds (recommended ages 15+). Kids activities and popcorn provided.

About the Film

Daisies / Sedmikrásky (76min) is a 1966 Czechoslovakian experimental surrealist comedy art film written and directed by Věra Chytilová. Regarded as a milestone of the Czechoslovak New Wave movement, it follows two young women (Jitka Cerhová and Ivana Karbanová), both named Marie, who engage in strange pranks. Originally planned as a satire of bourgeois decadence, the movie targets those attached to rules and was referred to by Chytilová as "a necrologue about a negative way of life." Daisies also inverts the stereotypical ideas of women and redraws them to the heroines' advantage. The film is considered critical of authoritarianism, censorship, and patriarchy, and it was banned from theaters or export in the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic.