This Is Not a War Story

This Is Not a War Story
Directed by Talia Lugacy
(2021, 112 min)

THIS IS NOT A WAR STORY tracks a ragtag group of combat veterans in New York whose anti-war art, poetry and papermaking keep them together, despite the spectre of their friend’s suicide and the ever-crystalizing fact that healing from war is sometimes an impossible mission.

This hybrid narrative film features a supporting cast of Iraq and Vietnam veterans, as well as their original artwork, poetry, and music. It was produced over three years as an ongoing collaboration with a thriving community of veteran artists and papermakers, who begin their work by shredding and pulping their uniforms. Their critique of war, and of their own roles within it, form the apex of the film’s rallying anti-war cry. The film carefully and unblinkingly faces the guilt and the moral injury that leads so many veterans to suicide.

The screening will be followed by a Q&A and discussion with the film’s director Talia Lugacy.

Links:
Twitter: @inclinations_fc
Instagram: @inclinations_film_club

About the director:

Talia Lugacy is a filmmaker, actor, and writer based in New York. She is a Assistant Professor of Screen Studies at Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts, The New School, in NYC. She has directed numerous short films as well as directed environmental PSAs with Frack Action, Water Defense, Mark Ruffalo and Food & Water Watch.