“House Devil, Street Angel”

3/11/13

Fivel Rothberg

Randolph-Macon College will host a screening of filmmaker Fivel Rothberg’s “House Devil, Street Angel” on Monday, March 18, 2013 at 7:00 p.m. in the Andrews Hall Multi-purpose Room, located at 420 Henry Street. Rothberg will introduce the 30-minute film and host a question-and-answer session after the screening. This event is free and open to the public.

Inspired by the feminist tenet, “the personal is political,” this autobiographical documentary looks at the filmmaker’s relationships with his son and father in order to address the root causes of abusive relationships and mental illness in his life and open up possibilities for change. An intensely personal experience, “House Devil, Street Angel” asks viewers to question notions of abuse, fatherhood and masculinity as multiple generations of fathers and sons pursue their own directions. The themes are bound together through Rothberg’s search for answers about the past and a pursuit to embody a different type of man than his father.

Rothberg is a father, media maker, producer, educator and activist who earned his MFA in integrated media arts at Hunter College. He is currently using “House Devil, Street Angel” as a consciousness-raising tool regarding the intimate subjects it raises, including abuse, fatherhood, masculinity and mental illness. In addition, a viral video he co-directed has more than 270,000 views on YouTube and encourages men to non-violently intervene against street harassment.

This event is sponsored by the Department of Sociology, Women’s Studies, Film Studies, Residence Life and Housing, and the First-Year Experience program. For more information, contact Professor Kimberly Borchard at (804) 752-7284 or Professor Reber Dunkel at (804) 752-3105.