
Study and Struggle
Still from Study and Struggle
In Development
Directed by | Jules Rosskam |
Produced by | Julianna Brannum |
Study and Struggle is a cinematic inquiry into who gets to define knowledge—and who is erased from it. Moving across six land-grant universities, the film asks what it means to learn inside institutions built through Indigenous dispossession, racialized labor, and extraction, as well as what other forms of study exist alongside these institutions. The project brings together educators, students, land defenders, and community historians whose work traces the foundations of the university and the struggles to transform it. Instead of a neutral good, the film approaches education as a political practice: one entangled with questions of sovereignty, governance, and accountability to place.

