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TRACE Meeting: Screening Jenni Olson’s “The Joy of Life” (2005)

“TRACE” logo: white footprints (or traces) on a dark blue background; one of the prints is captioned {TRACE}, the other contains a miniature flag of the United States

We would like to warmly invite you to the next TRACE meeting. We’ll be discussing The Joy of Life (2005), an experimental landscape documentary film directed by Jenni Olson. The screening and presentation will take place on 13 May 2026 (Wednesday) in room 233 at 14:00.

About the film

The Joy of Life combines stunning 16mm landscape cinematography with a bold, lyrical voiceover to share two San Francisco stories: the history of the Golden Gate Bridge as a suicide landmark, and the story of a butch dyke in San Francisco searching for love and self-discovery.

poster: image of a part of a road bridge, some blue sky, and some trees; captions read: {TRACE reading group invites you warmly to their first movie screening}, {The Joy of Life (2005)}, {13 May 2026 (Wednesday) Room 229 at 14:00}