Sitting Still

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Sitting Still
by Gina M. Angelone
2024, U.S., 93 minutes

Screening & Discussion
Sat, Oct 25, 10:45AM
Violet Crown 5
200 W. Main, Charlottesville

Innovative, brilliant, and pioneering are just a few ways to describe Laurie Olin, one of the world’s most renowned landscape architects and urban designers. The mind behind the design of Bryant Park, the Getty Center, and the Grounds of the Washington Monument, Olin has built a career defined by bold experimentation and a humanist approach to shaping space, profoundly influencing the look of the modern city. 

Through candid interviews with Olin himself, archival sketches, and reflections from colleagues and collaborators, Sitting Still offers a rare glimpse into the mind of an iconoclast, with his story and unique vision becoming a lens through which urgent questions of sustainability, equity, and climate change come into focus.

Discussion with director Gina M. Angelone and Elizabeth Meyer, Merrill D. Peterson Professor, Landscape Architecture and Director, UVA Morven Sustainability Lab

Closed Captions are available for this screening and assistive devices are available upon request.
The on stage presentations will include ASL interpretation.


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Speakers

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Gina M. Angelone has lived and worked all over the world as a film director, producer, and writer. Her documentaries have garnered top festival prizes and notable grants from the NEA, Philadelphia Foundation, William Penn Foundation, Graham Foundation, New York Women in Film, and The American Academy of Arts and Letters, among many others.

Her credits include founding producer of Inside the Actors Studio (BRAVO), writer/director of the original series, Defining Beauty (Disney), and creator of acclaimed documentaries Connections: Preserving America’s Landscape Legacy for the National Park Service (PBS), René & I (NBC), and Itʼs Better to Jump (Al Jazeera). Gina’s TV work has received two Emmy awards and multiple nominations.

Sitting Still is Gina’s most recent feature documentary and her eighth film dealing with themes of landscape architecture and design. 

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Elizabeth K. Meyer is the inaugural faculty director of the University of Virginia's Morven Sustainabilty Lab, a place-based, pan-university teaching and research endeavor located on 2900 acres of rural Piedmont land ten miles from the University. Meyer continues to be involved with the UVA Center for Cultural Landscapes (CCL) that she founded in 2015, directing the annual Landscape Studies Initiative JB Jackson Book Prize and David Coffin Publication Grant. 

As the Merrill D. Peterson Professor of Landscape Architecture at UVA, Meyer has been recognized for her excellence in teaching by the Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture, the University of Virginia, and Design Intelligence magazine. 

Her scholarship and design criticism connect theory and practice through professional and popular writing. She is currently writing a book on the design and social history of the Charlottesville Downtown Pedestrian Mall designed by Lawrence Halprin Associates (1973-1976). 

Presented as part of the Virginia Film Festival with support from UVA Department of Landscape Architecture and UVA Morven Sustainability Lab.