IHP Magazine, Fall 2015 by International House Philadelphia

Jean-luc Godard / Vampyr / THE WOOSTER GROUP / EXPERIMENTAL GROUNDS UNEXPECTED SOURCES / & More

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Here Come the Videofreex (p. 15)

ta b l e o f contents 2 Calendar 6 Featured Series: EXPERIMENTAL GROUNDS / UNEXPECTED SOURCES 8 Featured Series: The Wooster Group on Screen and In Person 10 ARTISTS SPOTLIGHT: Rachel Bernstein / Julia Elsas / Katarina Riesing 12 programs 14 OCtober 24 NovembeR 34 December 38 Special Events tickets/box office: Tickets are available at www.ihousephilly.org + 215.387.5125 IHP’s Box Office is open from 4pm–8pm, Tuesday–Saturday. Purchase your tickets in person or over the phone during these hours and save the processing fee. Unless noted, all IHP screenings are free admission for IHP members; $7 students + seniors; $9 general admission. Cover: Station to Station (p. 20)

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Vampyr (p. 24)

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Intercultural Journeys Season Kickoff! 6pm (p. 39)

Art Exhibit Reception: Rachel Bernstein / Julia Elsas/ Katarina Riesing 5:30pm (p.39) Full Exposure Tom on the Farm 7pm (p. 14)

Archive Fever! 7.0 Hangmen Also Die! 7pm (p. 14)

Motion Pictures Hail Mary (Je vous salue, Marie) 7pm (p. 15)

Here Come the Videofreex 7pm (p. 15)

Family Matinee Animated Shorts from Children’s Film Festival Seattle 2015 2pm (p. 16) Janus Collection Three Colors: Red 7pm (p. 17)

Intercultural Journeys Luigi Mazzocchi: ¡Contrastes! 7pm (p. 40)

Intercultural Leadership Series Rebecca Rescate 7pm (p. 40)

New Middle East Cinema (p. 23)

Scribe Video Center Producers’ Forum Nam June Paik & TV LAB: License to Create 7pm (p. 17)

The Vienna That Never Was La Ronde 7pm (p. 18)

Experimental Grounds / Unexpected Sources Fronterilandia 7pm (p. 18)

UPenn Cinema Studies Zazie dans le Metro 8:30pm (p. 19)

Culture & Cuisine 6:30pm (p. 41)

Intercultural Leadership Series Ryan Pyle: Cultural Understanding and the India Ride 6:30pm (p. 41)

New Middle East Cinema (p. 23)

A Poem is a Naked Person 5pm (p. 19) Station to Station 7pm (p. 20) A Poem is a Naked Person 10pm (p. 19)

The Sun Behind the Clouds: Tibet’s Struggle for Freedom 7pm (p. 21)

New Middle East Cinema (p. 23)

Dreamcatcher 7pm (p. 21)

New Middle East Cinema (p. 23)

Experimental Grounds / Unexpected Sources Todos Están Muriendo Aquí 7pm (p. 22)

Exhumed Films 24 Hour Horror-thon (p. 22)

Family Matinee Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit 2pm (p. 23) Janus Collection Vampyr 7pm (p. 24)

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Archive Fever! 7.0 The New Rijkmuseum 7pm (p. 24)

The Wooster Group on Screen and In Person Rumstick Road 7pm (p. 25)

Experimental Grounds / Unexpected Sources Cómodas Mensualidades (Easy Installments) 7pm (p. 26) Coapa Heights 9pm (p. 26)

Out 1: Noli me tangere (pt.2) 2pm (p. 27)

PAAFF (p. 29)

Philadelphia Jewish Film Festival Forbidden Films 7:30pm (p. 28)

Philadelphia Jewish Film Festival The Law (La Loi) 7:30pm (p. 30)

IHP & The Consulate General of Israel present Fernando Knopf and The Latin Power 7pm (p. 44)

Scribe Video Center Producers’ Forum In Motion: Amiri Baraka 7pm (p. 29)

Diwali Celebration 6pm (p. 42)

The Vienna That Never Was Antares 7pm (p. 31)

PAAFF Seoul Searching (p. 29)

The Wooster Group on Screen and In Person White Homeland Commando 7pm (p. 32)

PAAFF (p. 29)

All Around This World 1pm (p. 42) Family Matinee Live Action Shorts from Children’s Film Festival Seattle 2015 2pm (p. 27) Out 1: Noli me tangere (pt.1) 5pm (p. 27)

PAAFF (p. 29) PAAFF Centerpiece Event (p. 30)

Intercultural Journeys Nistha Raj and Christylez Bacon: HipHop Meets Hindustani 8pm (p. 43)

Family Matinee Summer Wars 2pm (p. 33) Experimental Grounds / Unexpected Sources Tequila 7pm (p. 33)

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Motion Pictures The Stations of the Cross 7pm (p. 34)

Penn Cinema Studies New Authors of Italian Cinema (p. 34)

Archive Fever! 7.0 La Frequenza Fantasma (The Ghost Frequency) 7pm (p. 35)

The Vienna That Never Was The Night Porter 7pm (p. 37)

Full Exposure Iron Ministry 7pm (p. 35)

Full Exposure Jauja 7pm (p. 37)

Experimental Grounds / Unexpected Sources ¿Quién diablos es Juliette? 7pm (p. 36)

All Around This World 1pm (p. 44)

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Tequila

F e at u r e d series: EXPERIMENTAL GROUNDS / UNEXPECTED SOURCES Experimental Grounds / Unexpected Sources excavates the expanded media landscape that significantly shaped urban cinema culture in 1990s Mexico. The fiction, documentary and experimental shorts and features in the series were the product of a vast, cross-medial horizon that was catalyzed by a vibrant video scene and a rising cinema culture. Energized by the sense of the present as a unique moment, and by a dynamic and vital youth culture, the films draw from a rich audiovisual repertoire that includes music videos, talk shows, avant-garde video and performance practices and advertising, as well as established genres and styles. What characterizes this body of works are the remix aesthetics and rhythmic, rapid editing that became the emblematic “look” of the 1990s. All of the films explore the meaning of the urban through moving images by focusing on a distinct neighborhood of Mexico City

through particular genres (Perfume de violetas, Cómodas mensualidades) or by highlighting the city’s cosmopolitan, trans-urban connections (Fronterilandia, ¿Quién diablos es Juliette?). Three veritable “indies,” rarely screened outside Mexico – Tequila, Todos están muriendo aquí, and the riotously nonsensical Coapa Heights – unravel the experimental art and music scenes that thrived in 1990s Mexico City by documenting the venues, practices and artists that constituted these milieus. Marked by the youthful energy of directors and actors, a distinctive sense of irreverence and contestation, as well as a defiant, Do-It-Yourself attitude in the face of precariousness, these works constitute unique registers of the thrills and challenges of making moving images in Mexico City during a turbulent decade. Each feature will be preceded by a short film. Experimental Grounds/Unexpected Sources is curated by Walter Forsberg, Paulina Suárez and Eduardo Thomas and presented by International House Philadelphia in partnership with The Galleries at Moore College of Art & Design. The series is organized in conjunction with Strange Currencies: Art & Action in Mexico City, 1990-2000, on view at The Galleries at Moore September 19 – December 12, 2015.

Perfume de Violetas

Major support for Strange Currencies: Art & Action in Mexico City, 1990-2000 has been provided by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage www.pcah.us/ with additional support from the Mexican Cultural Center and the Consulate General of Mexico in Philadelphia. Experimental Grounds / Unexpected Sources is also supported by the Instituto Mexicano de Cinematografía. Learn more about Strange Currencies here www.moore.edu/the-galleries-at-moore/exhibitions/ upcoming-exhibitions/strange-currencies

Thursday, October 15 at 7pm Fronterilandia (Frontierland) / Amanecer en Disneylandia Friday, October 23 at 7pm Todos están muriendo aquí (Everyone is Dying Here) / Víctimas del pecado neoliberal Friday, November 6 at 7pm Cómodas mensualidades (Easy Installments) / Retrato de la generación de la crisis Friday, November 6 at 9pm Coapa Heights / El secuestro de montserrat Saturday, November 21 at 7pm Tequila / Uno x 5, 3 por diez Friday, December 11 at 7pm ¿Quién diablos es Juliette? (Who the Hell is Juliette?) / En un abrir y cerrar de ojos Friday, December 11 at 9pm Perfume de violetas / Tómbola

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White Homeland Commando

Featured Series:

The Wooster Group on Screen and In Person International House Philadelphia - in association with the Institute of Contemporary Art at the University of Pennsylvania, and FringeArts, and in collaboration with New York’s Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI) - is pleased to present two screenings of work by the New York-based experimental theater and media ensemble The Wooster Group. For over 40 years, this company of artists has explored the interplay between media and live performance, transgressing traditions of theater and dance on stage and in single-channel video and media installations. Founded in 1975 by Elizabeth LeCompte and Spalding Gray, The Wooster Group has played a pivotal role in bringing technologically sophisticated and evocative uses of sound, film and video into the realm of contemporary

theater. Constructed as assemblages of surprising juxtapositions, their productions draw on a wide array of cultural references and employ a strategy of layering eclectic elements, including found materials, dance, multi-track scoring, classic texts, and an architectonic approach to design. Their innovative work in film, single-channel video and multi-media installation has been included in three Whitney Biennials (White Homeland Commando in 1993, Rhyme ‘Em to Death in 1995, and Wrong Guys in 1997) and has premiered in two New York Film Festivals (White Homeland Commando in 1992 and Rumstick Road in 2013). Pieces have been screened at MoMA, The Kitchen, Microscope Gallery, Spectacle Theater, 356 Mission in LA and the Rotterdam Film Festival, and included in exhibits at PS1, the Grey Art Gallery, The Garage Center for Contemporary Culture in Moscow and the Zacheta National Gallery in Warsaw. In 2012, Anthology Film Archives hosted a week-long survey of work, including performance documentation and original videos, and the following year AFA presented the theatrical premiere of Rumstick Road to sold-out audiences. Their 360° immersive video installation There Is Still Time...Brother (2007) has been

presented at EMPAC, ZKM, the Portland TBA Festival, the Run Run Shaw Creative Media Centre in Hong Kong, SESC Pompeia in São Paulo, Brazil, and the Chronus Arts Center in Shanghai. The Wooster Group views their enormous archive as a creative project and an active part of their ongoing work. Their re-construction of Rumstick Road was called “not merely a document of something extraordinary - it is something extraordinary all on its own” (The Village Voice). That project sits alongside five other acclaimed performances transformed and re-conceived for video. Alongside groundbreaking theater-media hybrids by numerous artists of the 1970s, The Wooster Group’s use of media to deconstruct and recombine plays, operas, B-movies, television shows, and art history breaks down stringent distinctions between disciplines, widening the frame to include a diverse range of references that reflect a dynamic contemporary culture. The Wooster Group has made more than 30 works for theater, dance, film, and video under the direction of LeCompte. These works include Nayatt School (1978) L.S.D. (…Just the High Points…) (1984), Frank Dell’s The Temptation Of St. Antony (1988), Brace Up! (1991), The Emperor Jones (1993), Dances With T.V. And Mic (1998) House/ Lights (1999), To You, The Birdie! (Phèdre) (2002), Hamlet (2007), Vieux Carré (2011), the opera La Didone (2009), the 2006 MoMA commissioned performance, Who’s Your Dada?!, and they were invited to create and perform the “Ribbon Cutting Ceremony” for the 2015 opening of the new Whitney Museum of American Art. Based at The Performing Garage, 33 Wooster Street in lower Manhattan, the company regularly tours worldwide, including North and South America, Europe, Asia and Australia. The Performing Garage is part of the Grand Street Artists Co-op, a 1960s project of the Fluxus art movement. The Wooster Group has received numerous awards, including several BESSIES and multiple OBIES for direction, design, performance, best production of the year and one for “sustained excellence.” The original and founding members of The Wooster Group were: Elizabeth LeCompte, Spalding Gray (1941-2004), Jim Clayburgh, Ron Vawter (1948-1994), Willem Dafoe, Kate Valk and Peyton Smith.

Elizabeth LeCompte is the director and a founding member of The Wooster Group. Since TWG’s first show in 1975, she has composed, designed and directed over 30 works for theater, dance, film and video. She has received an NEA Distinguished Artists Fellowship for Lifetime Achievement in American Theater, a MacArthur Fellowship, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Skowhegan Medal for Performance, the Chevalier des Arts et Lettres from the French Cultural Ministry, a Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship, a Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Performing Artist Award, a US Artists Fellowship, an Anonymous Was a Woman Award, and honorary doctorates from the New School and California Institute for the Arts. Ken Kobland has been making personal experimental film and video work since the mid-1970s, which have been shown at a long list of festivals, (Ann Arbor, Black Maria, Oberhausen, New York, Berlin, Montreal, etc.) He has been the recipient of a number of grants and awards, including Guggenheim, Rockefeller, Nysca - as well as residencies in Berlin (DAAD), The Macdowell Colony and Cinque Terre-Italy. For many years, he has also worked as a cinematographer and editor on feature documentaries on contemporary artists including Joan Mitchell, Chuck Close, Louise Bourgeois, and most recently, Ilya and Emilia Kabakov. Since the mid-70s, he has worked in collaboration with Elizabeth LeCompte on a number of Wooster Group pieces, beginning early on with films and videos that were projected as part of the performances, as in Nayatt School, Point Judith, Route 1&9, and onwards...as well as on separate film and video projects, including Flaubert Dreams Of Travel…, White Homeland Commando, There Is Still Time..Brother, Wrong Guys, and the reconstruction of Rumstick Road. Thursday, November 5 at 7pm Rumstick Road Thursday, November 19 at 7pm White Homeland Commando

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Katarina Riesing: Contour Line Study #2

Rachel Bernstein: Small Intestine: Large

ARTISTS S P OTLI G H T: Rachel Bernstein / Julia Elsas / Katarina Riesing This exhibition features representations of the figure, often times fragmented into parts, bringing attention to taken-for-granted anatomies, gestures and forms. Through their multi-media works, each artist responds to the body in familiar ways that are familiar, humorous and unsettling. Bernstein recontextualizes appendages into strange and beautiful landscapes using collage, drawing and photography. Riesing visually dissects her own body into abstracted portraits through drawing, painting, and video. Elsas’ work ponders ideas of femininity and form through isolated gestures and articles of clothing. Individual works in the show will approach the body from different perspectives and relationships, zooming in and out to examine the ways in which we perceive our own bodies and their environments. This is a figurative art exhibition that denies the whole figure, instead looking intently at the moments, movements, joints and gestures that make us strange and beautiful individuals. Rachel Bernstein’s sculptural and mixed media work has been exhibited across the U.S. in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Detroit and New York. She has appeared in articles in Bust and Ready Made magazines, the Washington Post and Daily News Los Angeles. Rachel was awarded the Emerging artist grant in Durham, North Carolina in 2007, and a fellowship to the Headlands Center for the Arts in 2008. In 2013, her site-specific

Julia Elsas: Untitled installation was included in “Social Fabric” at the Craft and Folk Art Museum in Los Angeles. In 2014, she was a panel speaker at the Brooklyn Public Library for the Dialogues in the Visual Arts series. Rachel lives and works in New York. www.artrachel.com

Katarina Riesing’s work spans material and discipline to explore the genre of portraiture of figurative art. Her work has been shown nationally and internationally with recent exhibitions in Brooklyn, Chelsea and upstate New York. In 2010, she completed a residency at the New York Arts Residency and Studio Foundation. In 2016, she will partake in a textile residency in Iceland. Riesing is a professor of Art at Alfred University in western New York. www.katarinariesing.com

Julia Elsas’ work has exhibited and published widely across the United States. Her work ranges from print making to video to ceramics. She has participated in collaborations with musiciansboth making music videos and hand-designed ceramic musical instruments. She participated in the Gowanus Studio Printmaking residency in 2014 and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts Residency in 2009 and 2010. She is a lecturer of Art at Montclair State University in New Jersey and SUNY Purchase in Purchase, New York. www.juliaelsas.com

Please join us for an opening reception on Friday, October 2 from 5:30-7:30pm to celebrate a new exhibition featuring Rachel Bernstein, Julia Elsas and Katarina Riesing. The exhibit will be on view through the end of December 2015 in IHP’s East Alcove on the Main Level.

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programs Archive Fever! 7.0 Central to our visual culture, the archive is a repository for personal memories, shared histories, objects, and documents through which we revisit the history of our time. In this series, we explore the myriad ways in which archives, and archival and found materials, are central to the works of film and video artists discovering the dynamic possibilities within them. Wednesday, October 7 at 7pm HangmEn Also Die! Wednesday, November 4 at 7pm The New Rijkmuseum Wednesday, December 9 at 7pm La Frequenza Fantasma (The Ghost Frequency) Family Matinees International House Philadelphia entertains families of all ages when we open the doors for our series of family-friendly matinees two Saturdays a month. The series brings the big screen to children, inspiring their imaginations, and yours, too! Take this opportunity to encourage a love of film and art from a young age. Audiences of all ages will delight in this carefully curated selection of inspired educational and entertaining cinema from around the world. With a diverse lineup of programming geared towards children, teens, parents, and grandparents, there’s no reason to leave anyone at home! Support provided in part by the Philadelphia Cultural Fund.

Saturday, October 10 at 2pm Kids edition - Fantastic Journeys: Animated Shorts from Children’s Film Festival Seattle 2015 Join us for a pre-show reception, featuring healthy snacks and juices.

Saturday, October 31 at 2pm Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit Saturday, November 7 at 2pm Fantastic Journeys: Live Action Shorts from Children’s Film Festival Seattle 2015 Saturday, November 21 at 2pm Summer Wars

Full Exposure Full Exposure is a series dedicated to recent works by innovative film and video makers from around the world, and is a snapshot of the current state of moving image production and its constantly evolving practice. Friday, October 2 at 7pm Tom on the Farm (Tom à la ferme) Thursday, December 10 at 7pm Iron Ministry Thursday, December 17 at 7pm Jauja The Janus Collection Truly one of our national treasures, Janus Films is a vital part of American film culture. International House continues this series with titles from the Janus Collection, all in brand new or restored 35mm prints. Saturday, October 10 at 7pm Three Colors: Red Saturday, December 12 at 7pm The Organizer Motion Pictures Motion Pictures is a monthly series that focuses on different movements in film culture, such as science fiction, city symphonies, and New German Cinema. It has previously featured the films of Georges Méliès, John Ford, Preston Sturges and Andrei Tarkovsky. Thursday, October 8 at 7pm Hail Mary (Je vous salue, Marie) Wednesday, December 2 at 7pm The Stations of the Cross The Vienna That Never Was “The Vienna that never was, is the greatest city in the world.” - Orson Welles Vienna in the cinema has most often been represented as a fantasy, based on the imperial city it was in the era of the ‘fin de siècle’ when traditional social, moral and artistic values were all in transition. This IHP series explores the city of Vienna as a city both real and mythic within the history of cinema. The series, The Vienna That Never Was, features works representing the late 19th to

the early 21st centuries, from the historical and romanticized images of Vienna, to a noir-tinged Cold War narrative, to the present-day artistic experimentations within the avant-garde, to cinematic masterworks, to rediscoveries of old fictions and nonfictions, as well as a rich selection of newsreels, actualités and home movies.

Wednesday, November 18 AT 7pm Antares

will feature an experienced “culture bearer” from around the world who will invite you and your kids to engage in his or her traditional music or dance; learn samba rhythms or Brazilian capoeria; play a West African djembe or a North African doumbek; chant to tabla “bols.” Explore different countries and cultures without having to worry about your toddlers toddling! Each workshop will last approximately 40 minutes and will invite you and even your tiniest kids to sing, dance and clap along. Best for grown-ups and their young kids, infants to 7 years old.

Wednesday, December 16 at 7pm The Night Porter

Saturday, November 7 at 1pm All Around This World

PARTNER programs

Saturday, December 12 at 1pm All Around This World

Wednesday, October 14 at 7pm La Ronde

Exhumed FIlms Formed in 1997, Exhumed Films was created to provide a theatrical venue for a much beloved art form that had all but disappeared in the 1990s and is in further decline in the early 21st century: the cult horror movie. Saturday, October 24 24 Hour Horror-thon Scribe Video Center Producers’ Forum The Producers’ Forum in-person screening series is a lecture discussion program, which allows Scribe to invite important nationally and internationally recognized media makers to Philadelphia to share their work and talk about their process of creating. Tuesday, October 13 at 7pm Nam June Paik & TV LAB: License to Create Tuesday, November 10 at 7pm In Motion: Amiri Baraka / Loqueesha Ashley Franklin José Brown / Amiri Baraka’s “Something In The Way Of Things (In Town)”

Special Events All Around This World International House joins All Around This World, a Philadelphia-based global music and world cultures program for small children, in presenting a monthly series of participatory cultural workshops that will be fun for the whole family. Hosted by All Around This World educators Jay Sand, Emily Bate and Melanie Hsu, each workshop

Intercultural Journeys Intercultural Journeys seeks to promote understanding in pursuit of peace among people of diverse faiths and cultures through dialogue and the presentation of world-class performances in music, dance, the spoken word, and other art forms. They, and we, believe that performances, done for the purpose of bringing people together that might otherwise be in conflict, give us the opportunity to play a small part in contributing to world peace. Thursday, October 1 at 6pm Intercultural Journeys Season Kickoff! The Artistry of Identity and Transformation Sunday, October 18 at 7pm Luigi Mazzocchi: ¡Contrastes! Friday, November 20 at 8pm Nistha Raj and Christylez Bacon: Hip-Hop Meets Hindustani

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Friday, October 2 at 7pm Full Exposure

Tom on the Farm (Tom à la ferme)

dir. Xavier Dolan, Canada, 2014 , DCP, French w/ English subtitles, 102 min.

After the sudden death of his lover, Guillaume, Tom travels from his home in the city to a remote country farm for the funeral. Upon arriving, he’s shocked to find that Guillaume’s family knows nothing about him and was expecting a woman in his place. Torn between his own grief and that of the family, Tom keeps his identity a secret but soon finds himself increasingly drawn into a twisted, sexually-charged game by Guillaume’s aggressive brother, who suspects the truth. Stockholm syndrome, deception, grief, and savagery pervade this psychological thriller from filmmaker Xavier Dolan.

Wednesday, October 7 at 7pm Archive Fever! 7.0

HangmEn Also Die!

dir. Fritz Lang, USA, 1943, DCP, b/w, 134 min.

Beautifully shot by James Wong Howe and tightly scripted by Brecht and Lang, this Noir-like espionage thriller is set in occupied Czechoslovakia and revolves around the successful plot by the Czech resistance to assassinate Deputy Reich-Protector of Bohemia and Moravia “Hangman” Reinhard Heydrich, and the hunt by the Gestapo to track down the killers.

Thursday, October 8 at 7pm Motion Pictures

Hail Mary (Je vous salue, Marie) dir. Jean-Luc Godard, France, 1985, DCP, French w/ English subtitles, 107 min.

Denounced by the Pope and banned and boycotted worldwide, this surprisingly serene and lyrical work translates the Virgin Birth into tangible contemporary terms, with Mary as a teenage, basketball-playing gas-station attendant who receives the Annunciation by jetliner. Mary is a beautiful yet ordinary teenager who vows to maintain her chastity. Following a warning from an angel, a confused and innocent Mary unexpectedly falls pregnant and is forced to wed her taxi-driving boyfriend Joseph. He, in turn, must love his virgin bride from a distance, revering her without touching her. Forced to face a shocking reality, Mary and Joseph, along with their family and friends, must struggle to cope as the provocative theme unfolds. Hail Mary is a sensational and bold work from French master director Jean-Luc Godard that touched off an uproar of protest heard around the world.

Friday, October 9 at 7pm

Here Come The VideoFREEX

dir. Jon Nealon/Jenny Raskin, USA, 2015, Video, 79 min.

Co-presented with PhillyCAM (Philadelphia Community Access Media) Followed by a discussion with Skip Blumberg In the 1960s and 70s, the Videofreex blazed a trail for truly alternative media. Tapping into a treasure trove of recently restored Videofreex tapes, including interviews with icons like Fred Hampton and Abbie Hoffman, Here Come The Videofreex charts the path of this underground video collective, from their time traveling the countercultureal beat for CBS News to the establishment of their radically local pirate television station in Lanesville, N.Y. Directors Nealon and Raskin captured the enthusiasm of the Videofreex as they attempted to harness the democratic power of portable video. “Here Come the Videofreex should become mandatory viewing in journalism schools… the film delivers an illuminating and moving portrait of these largely unknown, intrepid renegade journalists who were the forerunners of both public access television and the contemporary freelance reporting that has become the bedrock of countless news outlets.” – Hollywood Reporter

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Anatole’s Little Saucepan Saturday, October 10 at 2pm Family Matinee

Fantastic Journeys: Animated Shorts from Children’s Film Festival Seattle 2015

Families, Kids! Join us for a pre-show reception, featuring healthy snacks and juices, then travel with us around the world with our dazzling selection of high-energy, high-imagination shorts. Join a space-alien potato on his zany adventures, witness the creation of the alphabet, sing along with a brave little octopus, and grow up along with a rebellious daughter made of frosting, in this vibrant celebration of creativity. Following the show there will be a program of arts and crafts for those who want to stay and make a day of it with your friends at IHP.

Zebra

dir. Julia Ocker, Germany, 2:45 min.

Wombo

dir. Daniel Acht, Germany, 8:02 min.

The Numberlys

dirs. William Joyce and Brandon Oldenburg, USA, 11:23 min.

Papa Cloudy’s Restaurant

dir. Akiko McQuerrey, USA, 5:51 min.

Papa Cloudy’s Restaurant

Anatole’s Little Saucepan

dir. Eric Montchaud, France, 5:47 min.

Visitor

dir. Tatiana Skorlupkina, Russia, 4:08 min.

The Magic Time dir. Kine Aune, Norway, 9:16 min.

The New Species

dir. Katerina Karhánková, Czech Republic, 6:18 min.

Trampoline

dir. Maarten Koopman, Netherlands, 2:29 min.

Decorations

dir. Mari Miyazawa, Japan, 7 min.

Traditional Healing dir. Raymond Caplin, Canada, 2:24 min. Total running time: 65 minutes For all ages.

This program is supported by the Philadelphia Cultural Fund. Free to IHP Members; $5 Adults + Children

Saturday, October 10 at 7pm Janus Collection

Three Colors: Red

dir. Krzysztof Kieslowski, France, Switzerland, 1994, 35mm, French w/ English subtitles, 99 min.

Krzysztof Kieslowski closes his Three Colors trilogy in grand fashion, with an incandescent meditation on fate and chance, starring Irène Jacob as a sweet-souled yet somber runway model in Geneva whose life dramatically intersects with that of a bitter retired judge, played by Jean‑Louis Trintignant. Meanwhile, just down the street, a seemingly unrelated story of jealousy and betrayal unfolds. Red is an intimate look at forged connections and a splendid final statement from a remarkable filmmaker at the height of his powers.

Tuesday, October 13 at 7pm Scribe Video Center Producers’ Forum

Nam June Paik & TV LAB: License to Create dir. Howard Weinberg, USA, 2015, 95 min.

Director Howard Weinberg will be in attendance. He is an award-winning independent documentary film and television producer. His innovative reporting and imaginative producing have contributed to the successes of major figures in American journalism such as Bill Moyers, Studs Terkel, Robert MacNeil, Jim Lehrer and Harry Reasoner. This story focuses on Nam June Paik, the “father of video art”, whose work inspired the creation of TV LAB. It sheds light on a fascinating creative era in the history of television production through the eyes of one of the most interesting figures involved in 20th century video art. $5 Scribe + IHP members; $7 Students + Seniors; $10 General Admission

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Wednesday, October 14 at 7pm The Vienna That Never Was

La Ronde

dir. Max Ophuls, France, 1950, digital, b/w, French w/ English subtitles, 93 min.

Simone Signoret, Anton Walbrook and Simone Simon lead a roundelay of French stars in Max Ophuls’s delightful, acerbic adaptation of Arthur Schnitzler’s controversial turn-of-the-century play Reigen. Soldiers, chambermaids, poets, prostitutes, aristocrats—all are on equal footing in this multi-character merry-go-round of love and infidelity, directed with a sweeping gaiety as knowingly frivolous as it is enchanting, and shot with Ophuls’ trademark mellifluous cinematography.

Thursday, October 15 at 7pm Experimental Grounds / Unexpected Sources

Fronterilandia (Frontierland)

dir. Jesse Lerner/Rubén Ortiz-Torres, Mexico/USA, 1995, 16mm, English/Spanish w/ English subtitles, 77 min.

Frontierland juxtaposes nationalist and exoticizing views from both sides of the U.S.- Mexico border in order to dislocate the spaces where these cultures intertwine. The film challenges the common assumption of a border as a fixed entity, as a material divide between geographies. From Southern to Baja California, Mexico City to South Carolina, Vancouver’s Chinatown, and the homes of European collectors of PreColumbian art, Lerner and Ortiz-Torres dismantle the conventions of filmmaking through a clever collage of vignettes, each with a different stylistic approach. Mashing up travelogue with essay film, music video, and surrealist reenactments, the ultimate result is a witty and layered road trip that creatively disorients any stable sense of interiors and exteriors, north and south, center and margin. Preceded by:

Amanecer en Disneylandia

dir. Santiago Huerta & Tonatiuh González, Mexico, 1991, video, 35 min.

Friday, October 16 at 8:30pm UPenn Cinema Studies

Zazie dans le Metro dir. Louis Malle, France, 1960, 35mm, French w/ English subtitles, 92 min.

Free Admission Introduction and post-film Q&A by Justine Malle (Louis Malle’s daughter) A brash and precocious ten-year-old (Catherine Demongeot) comes to Paris for a whirlwind weekend with her rakish uncle (Philippe Noiret); he and the viewer get more than they bargained for, however, in this anarchic comedy from Louis Malle, which rides roughshod over the City of Light. Based on a popular novel by Raymond Queneau that had been considered unadaptable, Malle’s audacious Zazie dans le Métro, made with flair on the cusp of the French New Wave, is a bit of stream-of-consciousness slapstick, wall-to-wall with visual gags, editing tricks, and effects. This screening of Zazie dans le Métro is part of “The Transatlantic Cinema of Louis Malle: A Critical Reassessment, 20 Years after his Death” conference organized by the Romance Languages department and Cinema Studies program of the University of Pennsylvania. This conference at the Kislak Pavilion (Paley Library) runs October 16th and 17th. It revisits the acclaimed, provocative and versatile career of the French director Louis Malle in light of national and international cinema. This symposium was made possible by a Conference Grant from Provost’s Interdisciplinary Arts Fund and an SAS Conference Support Grant.

Saturday, October 17 at 5pm & 10pm

A Poem is a Naked Person

dir. Les Blank, USA, 1974/2015, DCP, 90 min.

An ineffable mix of unbridled joy and vérité realism, A Poem Is a Naked Person presents the beloved singer-songwriter and Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Leon Russell as filmed by documentarian Les Blank between 1972 and 1974. Blank’s camera lets us into the world of Russell and his friends and fellow artists in and around his recording studio in northeast Oklahoma, capturing intimate, off-the-cuff moments and combining them with mesmerizing scenes of Russell and his band performing live. This singular film about an artist and his community never got an official theatrical release and has attained legendary status. Now, after more than 40 years, it can finally be seen and heard in all its rough beauty.

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Saturday, October 17 at 7pm

Station to Station

dir. Doug Aitken, USA, 2015, DCP, 70 min.

Sending a burning arrow into the stunting effects that the compartmentalization of culture has on how creativity manifests, visual artist Doug Aitken embarked on an experiment exploring a less materialistic and more nomadic direction of art creation, exhibition and participation. Station to Station involves a train that crossed North America while housing a constantly changing creative community including artists, musicians, and curators, who collaborated in the creation of recordings, artworks, films, and 10 unique happenings, across the country. A high-speed road trip through modern ideas, Station to Station is composed of 61 individual one-minute films that feature profiles shot before, during, and after the trip, and capture indelible moments of the journey such as Beck performing with a gospel choir in the Mojave desert. Station to Station is a kaleidoscope of experience and artistic production, as much as it is a story of our evolving creative culture.

Tuesday, October 20 at 7pm

The Sun Behind the Clouds: Tibet’s Struggle for Freedom

dirs. Ritu Sarin/Tenzing Sonam, 2009, digital, India/UK, English/Mandarin/Tibetan w/ English subtitles, 79 min.

Special Screening Honoring His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet arrives in the City of Brotherly Love this October. In honor of his visit, IHP will be screening the documentary film, The Sun Behind the Clouds: Tibet’s Struggle for Freedom. Tibetan filmmaker Tenzing Sonam and his partner Ritu Sarin take a uniquely Tibetan perspective on the trials and tribulations of the Dalai Lama and his people as they continue their struggle for freedom in the face of determined suppression by one of the world’s biggest and most powerful nations.

Thursday, October 22 at 7pm

Dreamcatcher

dir. Kim Longinotto, USA, 2014, DCP, 98 min.

Join us for a post-screening Q&A and discussion with filmmaker Kim Longinotto, Brenda Myers-Powell from the Dreamcatcher Foundation and the film, and producer Lisa Stevens. “You got any dreams you wanna catch?” Sundance award winner Dreamcatcher takes us into a hidden world of prostitution and sexual trafficking through the eyes of one of its survivors, Brenda Myers-Powell. A former teenage prostitute with a drug habit, Brenda defied the odds to become a powerful advocate for change in her community, and works to help women and young girls break the cycle of sexual abuse and exploitation. With unprecedented access, multi-award winning director, Kim Longinotto (Sisters In Law, Rough Aunties, Salma) paints a vivid portrait of a community struggling to come to terms with some of its most painful truths and of the extraordinary woman who uses her past to inspire others to survive. With warmth and humor, Brenda gives hope to those who have none in the four magic words she offers up to everyone she meets: “It’s not your fault.” Dreamcatcher is on tour this Fall with generous support from The Fledgling Fund in collaboration with Women Make Movies and The British Council. For more information on The Dreamcatcher Foundation visit: www.thedreamcatcherfoundation.org

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Todos Están Muriendo Aquí Friday, October 23 at 7pm Experimental Grounds / Unexpected Sources

Todos están muriendo aquí (Everyone is Dying Here) dir. Ali Gardocki, Mexico, 2000, Video, Spanish w/ English subtitles, 80 min. Free Admission

Ali Gardocki’s thesis project for the CCC film school (Centro de Capacitación Cinematográfica) provides both an ethnographic record and playful engagement with Mexico City’s alternative music scene. A movie portrait of the raw and raucous allfemale musical group Las Ultrasónicas, Gardocki’s documentary is part-home video, part-concert film, told through an amalgam of cinematic styles and raw improvisational montage. Featuring everyday footage and on-stage performances by the protagonists, the musicians that constitute Las Ultras, we follow the lives of vocalists Suzy and Tere, guitarist Ali, drummer Jenny, and bassist Jessy, as they trail-blaze feminine roles within a male-dominated music mainstream. With its impressive rockumentary ambition, its shaky and visceral camerawork, and the gratuitous ripple-dissolves that appear as visual echoes from the soundtrack’s over-modulation, Todos Están Muriendo Aquí can be seen as a Mexican paragon of the Mini-DV era explosion of DV and DIY nonlinear editing that emerged across North America circa 1997-2000. Preceded by:

Víctimas del pecado neoliberal

dir. Ximena Cuevas & Jesusa Rodríguez, Mexico, 1995, Video, 15 min.

Saturday, October 24 Exhumed Films

24 Hour Horror-thon To celebrate Halloween, Exhumed Films proudly presents the seventh annual 24 Hour Horrorthon: a full-24 hour marathon of nonstop horror mayhem! As always, the lineup of films is being kept secret–people who come to the show will only find out what the features are as they unspool onto the screen. The show will feature some of the biggest horror titles of the last 30 years mixed with some really rare gems. Plus, we’ll run tons of classic trailers, shorts and other oddities, all projected on 16mm or 35mm film. SOLD OUT! Follow us on Facebook and sign up for our emails to get up-to-date info on special events and tickets.

Boys With Broken Ears Monday, October 26 Thursday, October 29

New Middle East Cinema Free Admission

The Cinema Studies Program, the Jewish Studies Program, the Middle East Center, and the Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations Department at the University of Pennsylvania, in collaboration with the Philadelphia Jewish Film Festival and International House Philadelphia, present the 2015 edition of New Middle East Cinema. Recently released feature films representing a large number of countries in the region have been selected as the best to be presented and discussed to further the understanding of current Middle Eastern societies and cultures through cinema. Visit www.ihousephilly.org/middleeast for info on the titles being screened.

Saturday, October 31 at 2pm Family Matinee: Trick-or-Treat

Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit

dirs. Steve Box/Nick Park, UK/USA, 2005, digital, 85 min.

It’s ‘vege-mania’ in Wallace & Gromit’s neighborhood, and our two enterprising chums are cashing in with their humane pest-control outfit, “Anti-Pesto.” With only days to go before the annual Giant Vegetable Competition, business is booming, but Wallace & Gromit are finding out that running a “humane” pest control outfit has its drawbacks as their West Wallaby Street home fills to the brim with captive rabbits. Suddenly, a huge, mysterious, veg-ravaging “beast” begins attacking the town’s sacred vegetable plots at night, and the competition hostess, Lady Tottington, commissions AntiPesto to catch it and save the day. Lying in wait, however, is Lady Tottington’s snobby suitor, Victor Quartermaine, who’d rather shoot the beast and secure the position of local hero - not to mention Lady Tottingon’s hand in marriage. With the fate of the competition in the balance, Lady Tottington is eventually forced to allow Victor to hunt down the vegetable chomping marauder. Little does she know that Victor’s real intent could have dire consequences for her... and our two heroes. Free to IHP Members; $5 Adults + Children

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Saturday, October 31 at 7pm jAnus Collection

Wednesday, November 4 at 7pm Archive Fever! 7.0

dir. Carl Theodore Dreyer, Denmark, 1932, digital, b/w, German w/ English subtitles, 73 min.

dir. Oeke Hoogendijk, Netherlands, 2014, DCP, Dutch/English/French/Spanish w/ English subtitles, 131 min.

Vampyr

Halloween Special Screening With Vampyr, Danish filmmaker Carl Theodor Dreyer’s brilliance at achieving mesmerizing atmosphere and austere, profoundly unsettling imagery (The Passion of Joan of Arc and Day of Wrath) was for once applied to the horror genre. Yet the result, concerning an occult student assailed by various supernatural haunts and local evildoers in a village outside Paris, is nearly unclassifiable, a host of stunning camera and editing tricks and densely layered sounds creating a mood of dreamlike terror. With its rolling fogs, ominous scythes and foreboding echoes, Vampyr is one of cinema’s great nightmares.

The New Rijkmuseum

In 2003, the ambitious renovation of one of the world’s greatest museums began. The Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, home to a glorious collection including masterpieces by Rembrandt and Vermeer, was supposed to reopen its doors in 2008 after five years of construction. But from the start, the project was opposed by unyielding bureaucrats and public resistance. The museum directors battled politicians, designers, curators and even the Dutch Cyclists Union as they struggled to complete the renovation and put its massive collection back on public display. Five years late, with costs exceeding half a billion dollars, the museum finally reopened. Oeke Hoogendijk’s epic documentary captures the entire story from design to completion, offering a fly-on-the-wall perspective on one of the most challenging museum construction projects ever conceived. With its decade-long scope, the film reveals a surprisingly dramatic story that art and architecture lovers will not want to miss.

Thursday, November 5 at 7pm The Wooster Group on Screen and In Person

Rumstick Road

video reconstruction by Elizabeth LeCompte & Ken Kobland, US, 1977/2013, Video, 75 min.

Screening followed by a discussion with filmmaker Ken Kobland and IHP curator Jesse Pires. The Wooster Group’s 1977 production Rumstick Road has been recognized by critics and scholars as a landmark work that helped usher in a new era of experimental performance. Composed by Spalding Gray and Elizabeth LeCompte in response to the suicide of Gray’s mother, Rumstick Road combines Gray’s personal recorded conversations, family letters, the writings of Mary Baker Eddy, 35mm slides, music, and dance. The video reconstruction keeps faith with the theater piece by registering, in a new composite, the vivid texture of time and memory that shaped the original production. LeCompte and filmmaker Ken Kobland have worked with Wooster Group archivist Clay Hapaz to layer, juxtapose, and blend together numerous archival fragments – including U-Matic video, Super 8 film, reel-to-reel audio tapes, photographs, and slides – in order to reconstruct that lost performance.

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Cómodas Mensualidades Friday, November 6 at 7pm Experimental Grounds / Unexpected Sources

Cómodas mensualidades (Easy Installments) dir. Julián Pastor, Mexico, 1992, 35mm, Spanish w/ English subtitles, 90 min.

This comedy by veteran filmmaker Julián Pastor is set to the rhythm of the economic turmoil that permeated the whole decade. As we follow the manic pace and urgencies of a young, gullible and hardworking accountant, Pastor offers an accurate portrait of an energetic labor force, a young and ambitious generation that organized their life around a corporate vision and an exacerbated consumerism. Rushed into adulthood, the characters of this musical farce are pressured to fulfill social and class requirements in their quest to “the top.” Indeed, English-language classes and driving lessons, the longing for household electrodomestics, the yearning for a car of one’s own, and the pressures of sustaining this lifestyle, have an ultimate price, accessible only through monthly installments. Preceded by:

Retrato de la generación de la crisis dir. Roberto López, Mexico, 1998, Video, 8 min.

Coapa Heights Friday, November 6 at 9pm Experimental Grounds / Unexpected Sources

Coapa Heights

dir. Yibrán Asuad, Mexico, 1999, Video, Spanish w/ English subtitles, 66 min. Free Admisson

This is the story of a day like any other day in the life of Erick and Harris, a couple of loose cannonballs trying to score their next fix in the streets of Villa Coapa. Once a thriving suburbia, Coapa soon gave way to a monotonous landscape of endless shopping malls and fast food restaurants, the dulling background that frames the ludicrous misadventures of the protagonists. Martín Altomaro, Flor Edwarda Gurrola, Diego Luna, are some of the young recognizable faces to star in the directorial debut of Yibrán Asuad. Coapa Heights is a fast paced, over the top epic modeled around urban narratives of drugs, violence and car cruising reminiscent of other cult films of the period such as Dany Boyle’s Trainspotting, Jan Kounen’s Dobermann, or Álex de la Iglesia’s Perdita Durango. Indeed one of the rarely seen, true gems of the indie underground of Mexican cinema. Preceded by:

El secuestro de montserrat

dir. Guillermo Fadanelli, Mexico, 1994, Video, 22 min.

Sprout Saturday, November 7 at 2pm Family Matinee

Fantastic Journeys: Live Action Shorts from Children’s Film Festival Seattle 2015 The kids in this collection of award-winning films aren’t afraid to strike out on their own, in journeys small and grand. These girls and boys find their own ways through woods and run-down cities, bustling markets and the canals of Venice. Take a walk with them and feel a spark of inspiration as you see the world anew.

Sounds of Nature

dir. Simon Weber, Switzerland, 7:45 min.

Balloons

dir. Sitora Takanaev, USA, 5:02 min.

The Dive

dir. Delphine Le Courtois, France, French w/ English subtitles, 9:51 min.

The Girl and the Gondola

dir. Abbe Robinson, Italy/UK, Italian w/ English subtitles, 11:42 min.

100 Miles

dir. Tamas Tatai, UK, 7:15 min.

Sprout

dir. Ga-eun Yoon, South Korea, Korean w/ English subtitles, 20 min. For ages 7 and up. Free to IHP Members; $5 Adults + Children

Saturday, November 7 at 5pm

Out 1: Noli me tangere (pt.1)

dir. Jacques Rivette, France, 1971, DCP, color, b/w, French w/ English subtitles, 380 min.

Sunday, November 8 at 2pm

Out 1: Noli me tangere (pt.2)

dir. Jacques Rivette, France, 1971, DCP, color, b/w, French w/ English subtitles, 380 min.

Philadelphia Premiere Paris, April 1970. Two theatre groups each rehearse avant-garde adaptations of plays by Aeschylus. A young deaf-mute begs for change in cafés while playing the harmonica. A young woman seduces men in order to rob them. As a conspiracy begins to be uncovered, the protagonists’ stories start to intertwine… Crowned with success after L’Amour Fou, Jacques Rivette throws himself into a film project “without any time limitation” and films a group of actors in an almost constant state of improvisation as they interact with and move through the cafés, the streets, and the apartments of Paris. Equally inspired by Honoré de Balzac’s History of the Thirteen and Lewis Carroll’s The Hunting of the Snark, as he was by the serials of Louis Feuillade, Out 1 is a unique snapshot of post-May 1968 society, when the utopian dreams of a new era give way to a general malaise.

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In Motion: Amiri Baraka Monday, November 9 at 7:30pm Philadelphia Jewish Film Festival

Tuesday, November 10 at 7pm Scribe Video Center Producers’ Forum

dir. Felix Moeller, Germany, 2014, German/French/English/Hebrew w/ English subtitles, 94 min.

dir. St. Clair Bourne, USA, 1983, 60 min.

Forbidden Films

Philadelphia Premiere! Before Germany’s government fell in 1945, the Nazis made over 1,200 feature films under the aegis of Joseph Goebbels’ Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda. Forty of them are still considered “dangerous” and are banned in Germany and many other countries to this day. But should they be, or is this censorship? This is the key question director Felix Moeller grapples with in his provocative and thoughtprovoking documentary Forbidden Films. Moeller aims the spotlight onto some of the most contested films in the Nazi canon, while local and international experts, ranging from journalists, historians, and political scientists to the children of the infamous Nazi film stars and former neoNazis, attempt to contextualize the argument either for or against the outlawing of these inflammatory films. Official Selection of the Jerusalem International Film Festival, New York Jewish Film Festival, and Toronto Jewish Film Festival.

In Motion: Amiri Baraka

In Motion: Amiri Baraka profiles the outspoken representative – formerly LeRoi Jones – of the Black consciousness movement, who has been a major figure on the American literary and political landscape for three decades. Lou Potter, the screenwriter of the film, will be in attendance. Preceded by:

Loqueesha Ashley Franklin José Brown dir. Nadine Patterson, USA, 2001, 18 min.

An experimental documentary about children in Philadelphia, with poetry by Ursula Rucker. The director will be in attendance. and:

Amiri Baraka’s Something In The Way Of Things (In Town) dir. Bryan Green, USA, 2007, 9 min.

A visual adaptation of Baraka’s scathing and foreboding social commentary, with music by The Roots. The director will be in attendance. $5 Scribe + IHP members; $8 Students + Seniors; $10 General Admission

Thursday, November 12 Sunday, November 15 Philadelphia Asian American Film Festival

Thursday, November 12 Philadelphia Asian American Film Festival

The Philadelphia Asian American Film Festival (PAAFF) is back and better than ever!

dir. Benson Lee, South Korea/USA, 2015, 105 min.

Founded in 2008, PAAFF is the East Coast’s premier cinema showcase celebrating and elevating the Asian American experience both on screen and behind the camera. Presenting the best in Asian and Asian American cinema through their year-round programming and annual festival hosted each November at International House and elsewhere throughout the city. Featuring dozens of film screenings, speaker panels, receptions, and special events - PAAFF’15 promises to be the most successful yet!

Director and members of the cast expected in attendance for post-film Q&A, followed by the PAAFF’15 Opening Night Reception featuring 80s dance music and a costume contest!

Many of this year’s events will feature guest appearances from today’s most popular Asian American filmmakers, as well as actors and directors from around the world. Full program details will be announced during the October 23rd Preview Party, after which program guides will be available in the International House lobby. For more information visit www.paaff.org and www.facebook.com/paaff $6 Students + Seniors; $8 General Admission

Seoul Searching

Opening Night Film & Reception

Set against the backdrop of 1980s Seoul Korea and inspired by a summer exchange program that Writer/Director Benson Lee attended in the summer of ‘86, this John Hughes-esque teen comedy tells a universal coming-of-age story chock full of pop culture tropes, teen hijinks and first love. Free to all ticket and badge holders.

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Saturday, November 14 Philadelphia Asian American Film Festival

Strength In Numbers: Sights and Sounds of the Asian American Hip Hop Generation Centerpiece Event Guest curated by producer and emcee Scott CHOPS Jung of Philly’s legendary Mountain Brothers, the first Asian American Hip Hop group signed to a major record label. This multimedia program explores the Asian American Hip Hop movement through music videos and live performances by artists included in the seminal compilation album Strength in Numbers. Featuring a Q&A with Strength in Numbers creator CHOPS (other producer credits include Kanye West, Snoop Dogg, Lil Wayne, and Nicki Minaj) and special guests to be announced at a later date. Full program details will be announced during the October 23rd Preview Party, after which program guides will be available in the International House lobby.

Monday, November 16 at 7:30pm Philadelphia Jewish Film Festival

The Law (La Loi)

dir. Christian Faure, France, 2014, French w/ English subtitles, 87 min.

Based on a true story, this racy and riveting courtroom drama will have audiences on the edge of their seats through its closing credits. In the fall of 1974, Simone Veil, the French health minister under President Valéry Giscard d’Estaing, was charged with the thankless job of pushing for the passage of a law legalizing abortion in France. As portrayed by Emmanuelle Devos in a career-defining role, this taut political thriller follows Veil as she fights for The Law on behalf of all French women during a harrowing three-day parliamentary debate. Against the objections of the opposition party, the Catholic Church, and even amongst some in her own party, Veil, a survivor of both Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen, refuses to back down. As the stakes are raised and Veil is forced to confront increasingly vile personal attacks, she intensifies her efforts to upend society’s dangerous misconceptions about abortion and a woman’s right to choose.

Wednesday, November 18 AT 7pm The Vienna thAT Never Was

Antares

dir. Götz Spielmann, Austria, 2004, digital, German w/ English subtitles, 105 min.

Eva is in her late thirties and has her whole life, from her daily work routine as a nurse to her role as wife and mother, perfectly under control. Then one day she finds Tomasz, doctor and casual out-of-town acquaintance from the past, waiting for her as she gets off her shift. A few passion-filled nights later Tomasz is on his way back to the airport. He takes home with him a few photographs of Eva in compromising positions – frozen moments of intense intimacy in the wake of which nothing will ever be the same. Sonja, the grocery store checkout girl, is frantically jealous of her husband Marco. And she has every reason to be. A baby, she thinks, could change everything. But can you exact love with a lie? It’s been awhile since Nicole divorced the real estate agent Alex, and there’s no longer any room for him in her new life as a single mother. His way of dealing with his powerlessness to change the situation follows the same pattern as ever: first ignorance and arrogance, and then hate and violence. Antares is about lives that intersect at critical moments, skillfully woven into a film about the obsessions of love, the search for closeness, and the hope for happiness. It is about fear, loneliness, and courage. In the constellation of Scorpius, 500 light years away, the variable double star Antares shines bright and red in the sky. Its unique luminosity is at the same time its demise. In the foreseeable future it will explode as a supernova.

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Thursday, November 19 at 7pm The Wooster Group on Screen and In Person

White Homeland Commando

dir. Elizabeth LeCompte, USA, 1992, Video, 63 min.

Screening followed by a discussion between Rebecca Clemen of Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI) and Director Elizabeth LeCompte. White Homeland Commando is The Wooster Group’s skewed take on the police procedural, conceived at the start of the true-crime craze. The first totally stand-alone video by the Group, WHC plays like a transmission from a parallel universe. The plot centers on the infiltration of a white supremacist cult by a special unit of the police force. Company members Willem Dafoe and Ron Vawter are featured as shady characters on opposite sides of the law, with Dafoe playing a ragged new cult inductee, and Vawter a jaded, hard-boiled detective. Written for the company in 1987 by Michael Kirby, the teleplay is a Structuralist narrative that interweaves the stories of eight characters – four cops and four white supremacists – and mixes experimental theater strategies with the aesthetics of popular television crime shows like Kojak and Hill Street Blues. Kirby’s script also incorporates actual propaganda material from sources such as The Aryan Nation Archives and the Anti-Defamation League of B’nai B’rith’s Bulletin.

Under the direction of Elizabeth LeCompte, working with cinematographer Ken Kobland and editor Melody London, the video is abstracted by intentional disruptions – garishly beautiful computer animations, stuttering playback, and sound-sync delays – that invite an impressionistic viewing, akin to late-night channel surfing. The result is an indelible portrayal of the sinister violence and aggression seething within society. Broadcast, just once, on public television, the video was also screened at the New York Film Festival, The Kitchen, MoMA, and was selected for the controversial “politically correct” 1993 Whitney Biennial, where it struck a disharmonic chord with the tone of much of the art on display. Shot in various locations in New York, White Homeland Commando includes original music by David Van Tieghem, and along with Dafoe and Vawter, features performances by Wooster Group members Peyton Smith, Anna Köhler, Jeff Webster, Nancy Reilly, Michael Stumm and Kate Valk.

Tequila

Saturday, November 21 at 2pm Family Matinee

Summer Wars

dir. Mamoru Hosoda, Japan, digital, 114 min.

Kenji is a teenage math prodigy recruited by his secret crush Natsuki for the ultimate summer job – passing himself off as Natsuki’s boyfriend for four days during her grandmother’s 90th birthday celebration. But when Kenji solves a 2,056 digit math riddle sent to his cell phone, he unwittingly breaches the security barricade protecting Oz, a globe-spanning virtual world where millions of people and governments interact through their avatars, handling everything from online shopping and traffic control to national defense and nuclear launch codes. Now a malicious AI program called the Love Machine is hijacking Oz accounts, growing exponentially more powerful and sowing chaos and destruction in its wake. Recommended for ages 13 and up Free to IHP Members; $5 Adults + Children

Saturday, November 21 at 7pm Experimental Grounds / Unexpected Sources

Tequila

dir. Rubén Gámez, Mexico, 1991, 35mm, Spanish w/ English subtitles, 85 min.

Rubén Gámez’s first feature film is dedicated to “the Mexican women.” The filmmaker honors their courage and willingness to take on the political struggles required to make an effective and positive change in Mexican society. Indeed, the critical eye of the long-standing iconoclastic director – one might even call him the dean of Mexican cinematic culture jamming – puts his cameras to work at the service of a narrative of disruption, aimed at social profiling and the most typical take on Mexico as a picturesque and gentle landscape. Based on an impressive economy of filmmaking, an inheritance of his advertising expertise, Gámez creates a fascinating mosaic composed of some of the most puzzling and playful images produced in Mexico during the period. Not bad for a 63-year-old “newcomer.” Preceded by:

Uno x 5, 3 por diez

dir. Jorge Prior, Mexico, 1992, Video, 11 min.

International House Philadelphia

Wednesday, December 2 at 7pm Motion Pictures

The Stations of the Cross

dir. Dietrich Bruggeman, Germany, 2014, DCP, German w/ English subtitles, 107 min.

Told in 14 fixed-angle, single shot, and individual tableaus that parallel Christ’s journey to his own crucifixion, The Stations of the Cross is both an indictment of fundamentalist faith and the articulation of an impressionable teen’s struggle to find her own path in life. Though from the outside Maria lives in the modern world, her family and her heart are faithful to a Catholic radicalism that requires sacrifice and devotion at every turn. As she struggles to balance her own desires with the dictates of her family’s faith, she makes ever more perilous sacrifices, attempting to please a God she worships unquestioningly in the pious hopes of curing the autistic younger brother she adores.

Thursday, December 3 Sunday, December 6 Penn Cinema Studies

New Authors of Italian Cinema Free Admission

The Cinema Studies Program and the Center for Italian Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, in collaboration with the Consulate General of Italy in Philadelphia, New Italian Cinema Events, and International House Philadelphia present the 2015 edition of New Authors of Italian Cinema. This four-day festival has been curated by Nicola M. Gentili (Penn, Cinema Studies) and aims to promote new Italian Cinema abroad. Recently released feature films directed in the past two years by Italy’s most promising filmmakers will be delivered and discussed by Penn’s Italian Ph.D. students. The final remarks will be addressed by Nicola Gentili, Associate Director of Cinema Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. Visit www.ihousephilly.org for information on the titles being screened.

Wednesday, December 9 at 7pm Archive Fever! 7.0

La Frequenza Fantasma (The Ghost Frequency) dir. Chiara Ambrosio, Italy, 2014, HD, Italian w/ English subtitles, 72 min.

La Frequenza Fantasma (The Ghost Frequency) is a feature film that paints a non-hierarchical portrait of a crumbling village nestled on the mountains of Calabria, in the south of Italy. It is the story of a place suspended in time and space, a place of sounds, smells and numberless thresholds where the memory of a mythical past and the present are inextricably intertwined. It is an investigation into the nature of collective and personal history, into the origin and preservation of memory – how it is etched and perpetrated, both in the minds of the people who still live there, and in that of the soil, the ruins, matter itself. It is the story of the relationship between animate and inanimate matter, and of how this relationship turns into the motor and purpose of existence - a search for the sacred patterns of the quotidian within the rhythms of nature. The physical presence of the body and the overwhelming power of a wild and untamed nature are the two forces that dominate all belief in this secluded and anachronistic stretch of land, where faith and superstition are the binding elements that help the continuation of identity and collective history. The few testimonies gathered in the film are the voices of the village’s guardians and have the power of an incantation that grants survival and continuation to what would otherwise crumble into oblivion and loss. Original soundtrack by Bird Radio.

Thursday, December 10 at 7pm Full Exposure

Iron Ministry

dir. J.P. Sniadecki, USA, 2014, DCP, Mandarin w/ English subtitles, 83 min.

Filmed over three years on China’s railways, The Iron Ministry traces the vast interiors of a country on the move: flesh and metal, clangs and squeals, light and dark, language and gesture. Scores of rail journeys come together into one, capturing the thrills and anxieties of social and technological transformation. The Iron Ministry immerses audiences in fleeting relationships and uneasy encounters between humans and machines on what will soon be the world’s largest railway network.

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Friday, December 11 at 7pm Experimental Grounds / Unexpected Sources

¿Quién diablos es Juliette? (Who the Hell is Juliette?)

dir. Carlos Marcovich, Mexico, 1997, Video, Spanish w/ English subtitles, 91 min.

A music video shoot takes a Mexican crew to Havana, an apparently simple journey that detonates an intricate narrative across a threeyear span, multiple urban contexts, and the fraught terrain of gender politics in Latin America. Exploring parallels in the lives of two women, Yuliet Ortega and Fabiola Quiroz ¿Quién diablos es Juliette? is a self-reflexive study on the fictional within the biographical, and documentary cinema as an exercise in both vérité and fantasy. The film explores the constantly shifting line between the agency of its heroines and their exploitation at the hand of larger structures, including the filmmaking process itself. A culminating scene in Mexico City’s Xochimilco is particularly charged with tensions: Has this documentary/fictional experiment resulted in cruelty? Can these women creatively intervene their status as sexual commodities? Deriving its mixed aesthetic from music videos, observational and participative documentary, as well as reality television, ¿Quién diablos es Juliette? juxtaposes multiple modalities to reveal an ambivalent stance towards its subjects and the very nature of moving images. Preceded by:

En un abrir y cerrar de ojos

dir. Paulina del Paso, Mexico, 1999, Video, 8 min.

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 11 at 9PM EXPERIMENTAL GROUNDS / UNEXPECTED SOURCES

Perfume de violetas (Violet Perfume) dir. Maryse Sistach, 2000, 90 min.

Urban melodramas flourished during the 1990s, with the critical and commercial success of El Callejón de los Milagros (Jorge Fons, 1995) and the global blockbuster Amores Perros (Alejandro González Iñárritu, 2000). As in the crime melodramas of the 1940s and 1950s, brutal violence and corruption emerged as an integral part of Mexico City and the construction of its cinematic spaces in this decade. Part of this revival, Perfume de Violetas bravely extracts the glamorous conventions of “golden age” melodramas, and their stylization of urban decadence, to present an unflinching critique of gender disparities, class inequality, and institutional abuse as the crucial ethical conflict of the urban scene. The protagonist, Yessica, a poor and rebellious teenager from a troubled background, strikes up a close-knit friendship with innocent Miriam. An exploration of precariousness and queer friendship, the urban sensorium envelops the two young women with scents, sounds, rhythms, and everyday cityscapes to create a distinct sense of place and ambiance. Preceded by:

Tómbola (Raffle)

dir. Ximena Cuevas, 2001, 7 min.

Wednesday, December 16 at 7pm The Vienna That Never Was

Thursday, December 17 at 7pm Full Exposure

dir. Liliana Cavani, Italy, 1974, digital, 118 min.

dir. Lisandro Alonzo, Argentina, 2014, DCP, Spanish/Danish w/ English subtitles, 109 min.

The Night Porter

In this unsettling drama from Italian filmmaker Liliana Cavani, a concentration camp survivor (Charlotte Rampling) discovers her former torturer and lover (Dirk Bogarde) working as a porter at a hotel in postwar Vienna. When the couple attempt to re-create their sadomasochistic relationship, his former SS comrades begin to stalk them. Operatic and disturbing, The Night Porter deftly examines the lasting social and psychological effects of the Nazi regime.

Jauja

An astonishingly beautiful and gripping Western starring Viggo Mortensen, Jauja begins in a remote outpost in Patagonia during the late 1800s. Captain Gunnar Dinesen has come from abroad with his fifteen-year-old daughter to take an engineering job with the Argentine army. Being the only female in the area, Ingeborg creates quite a stir among the men. She falls in love with a young soldier, and one night they run away together. When Dinesen realizes what has happened, he decides to venture into enemy territory, against his menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s wishes, to find the young couple. Featuring a superb performance from Mortensen, Jauja (the name suggests a fabled city of riches sought by European explorers) is the story of a manâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s desperate search for his daughter, a solitary quest that takes him to a place beyond time, where the past vanishes and the future has no meaning.

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S P ECIAL E V ENTS Art / Culture / MUSIC / LEADERSHIP

Katarina Riesing Thursday, October 1 at 6pm Intercultural Journeys Season Kickoff!

The Artistry of Identity and Transformation Free Admission

Intercultural Journeys kicks off their 2015/16 concert season with a free event designed to promote conversation and dialogue around the season’s theme: The Artistry of Identity and Transformation. In addition to offering a preview of the season, we’ll feature a panel discussion with the IJ season artists, and we’ll close out the evening with a performance from the West Philadelphia Orchestra. Join us for music, conversation, and friendship as we dive deeper into The Artistry of Identity and Transformation.

FRIday, October 2 from 5:30-7:30pm Art Exhibit Opening Reception

Rachel Bernstein / Julia Elsas / Katarina Riesing

This exhibition features representations of the figure, often times fragmented into parts, bringing attention to taken-for-granted anatomies, gestures and forms. Through their multi-media works, each artist responds to the body in ways that are familiar, humorous and unsettling. Bernstein recontextualizes appendages into strange and beautiful landscapes using collage, drawing and photography. Riesing visually dissects her own body into abstracted portraits through drawing, painting, and video. Elsas’ work ponders ideas of femininity and form through isolated gestures and articles of clothing. Individual works in the show will approach the body from different perspectives and relationships - zooming in and out to examine the ways in which we perceive our own bodies and their environments. This is a figurative art exhibition that denies the whole figure, instead looking intently at the moments, movements, joints, and gestures that make us strange and beautiful individuals. Please join us for an opening reception on Friday, October 2 from 5:30-7:30pm to celebrate a new exhibition featuring Rachel Bernstein, Julia Elsas and Katarina Riesing. The exhibit will be on view through the end of December 2015 in IHP’s East Alcove on the Main Level.

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Sunday, October 18 at 7pm Intercultural Journeys: The Artistry of Identity and Transformation

Luigi Mazzocchi: ¡Contrastes! Luigi Mazzocchi, Concertmaster for Pennsylvania Ballet, will lead an original concert specifically developed for Intercultural Journeys and showcasing popular music from his native country, Venezuela. This concert will feature music from various geographic regions and compositions by contemporary Venezuelan composers such as Antonio Lauro, Juan Bautista Plaza, Inocente Carreño, and Manena Contreras. It will also feature a world premiere chamber music composition by Efraín Amaya inspired by topics of identity and transformation in Venezuela. The concert will also pay homage to the late Venezuelan composer and folk singer Simón Díaz, and will represent different musical traditions of the country such as pasajes and joropos llaneros, polo margariteño, valses y golpes tocuyanos, gaita maracaibera, and tambores de barlovento, among others. The ensemble will include string quintet, singers, guitar, Venezuelan cuatro, maracas and other Latin percussion. $8 Students; $10 IHP Members; $15 General Admission

Monday, October 19 at 7pm Intercultural Leadership Series IHP + Entrepreneur Works Presents:

Rebecca Rescate

The Entrepreneur Works Presents series features master entrepreneurs in a variety of fields speaking about their experiences starting a business and offering guidance to aspiring small business owners. The Entrepreneur Works Presents series continues with entrepreneur and two-time ABC-TV’s Shark Tank alum Rebecca Rescate. A Bucks County-based mom of three, Ms. Rescate will talk about her journey as an entrepreneur and her philosophy of business ownership, family, and balance. Ms. Rescate will also provide feedback to emerging entrepreneurs and participate in a live audience Q&A. The Intercultural Leadership Series at International House Philadelphia is an ongoing project involving lectures, symposiums and live performances. The events aim at fostering discussion and offering insight on the competencies, behaviors and specific skills needed to be an effective leader in an intercultural environment. Free for IHP Members + Residents; $20 General Admission

Tuesday, October 20 at 6:30pm

Culture & Cuisine

International House Philadelphia and its Board of Delegates cordially invite you for an evening of Culture and Cuisine, to meet and share a meal with IHP residents and friends from around the world in an intimate setting on Tuesday, October 20, 2015 at 6:30 pm. Please visit www.ihousephilly.org for more details.

Wednesday, October 21 at 6:30pm Intercultural Leadership Series IHP + The Geographical Society of Philadelphia presents

Ryan Pyle: Cultural Understanding and the India Ride

Ryan Pyle spent a decade in China building his career as a documentary photographer. His brother Colin stayed closer to home, in Toronto, and built up his own successful currency trading company before resigning from it. In 2010, they set a Guinness World Record for riding a motorcycle around China. The television show created from that adventure has been syndicated globally. Then the brothers hit the road again in India. The purpose of their motorcycle expedition and television production was to put India on display, and to explore the visual and cultural wonders that have made India one of the hottest travel destination for the century. With a massive population, crowded cities, abundant minorities and its stunning natural landscape, India offers travelers an experience like no other. The Intercultural Leadership Series at International House Philadelphia is an ongoing project involving lectures, symposiums and live performances. The events aim at fostering discussion and offering insight on the competencies, behaviors and specific skills needed to be an effective leader in an intercultural environment. Free for IHP Residents; $15 Students; $35 IHP + Geographical Society Of Philadelphia Members; $45 General Admission

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Saturday, November 7 at 1pm

Wednesday, November 11 at 6pm

International House joins All Around This World, a Philadelphia-based global music and world cultures program for small children, in presenting a monthly series of participatory cultural workshops that will be fun for the whole family. Hosted by All Around This World educators Jay Sand, Emily Bate and Melanie Hsu, each workshop will feature an experienced “culture bearer” from around the world who will invite you and your kids to engage in his or her traditional music or dance; learn samba rhythms or Brazilian capoeria; play a West African djembe or a North African doumbek; chant to tabla “bols.” Explore different countries and cultures without having to worry about your toddlers toddling! Each workshop will last approximately 40 minutes and will invite you and even your tiniest kids to sing, dance and clap along. Best for grown-ups and their young kids, infants to 7 years old.

Diwali, popularly known as the “Festival of Lights”, commemorates the return of Lord Rama, along with Sita and Lakshmana, from his 14-year-long exile and vanquishing of the demon-king Ravana. In joyous celebration of the return of their king, the people of Ayodhya, the Capital of Rama, illuminated the kingdom with earthen diyas and bursting firecrackers.

All Around This World

$5 for Adults + Children over age 2; Free for children age 2 and under

Diwali Celebration

Today, Diwali celebrations involve the lighting of small clay lamps filled with oil to signify the triumph of good over evil. These lamps are kept burning during the night and one’s house is cleaned, both done in order to make the goddess Lakshmi feel welcome. Firecrackers are burst in order to drive away evil spirits. During Diwali, all the celebrants wear new clothes and share sweets and snacks with family members and friends. Be a part of our Indian Cultural Festival when International House Philadelphia brings together various colors, candles, and lights, with traditional food, music, and dance, in observance of Diwali! Every year, Residents and Members attend this event, as we embrace the spirit of India in the heart of Philadelphia. Visit our website for more details on the food, performances, and ticket pricing. Please visit www.ihousephilly.org for more details on food, performances, and ticket pricing.

Friday, November 20 at 8pm Intercultural Journeys: The Artistry of Identity and Transformation

Nistha Raj and Christylez Bacon: Hip-Hop Meets Hindustani

Indian classical violinist Nistha Raj and progressive Hip-Hop artist Christylez Bacon present collaborative works mixing genres of music native to their cultural upbringings and exploring the spaces between Hindustani classical music, acoustic Hip-Hop, and Go-Go from Washington, D.C. This performance features a 5-piece ensemble, with Hindustani violin, beatbox/ percussion, tabla, keyboards and saxophone. $8 Students; $10 IHP Members; $15 General Admission

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Monday, November 23 at 7pm IHP & the Consulate General of Israel present

Fernando Knopf and The Latin Power Fernando Knopf & the Latin Power is an authentic multicultural ensemble led by Fernando Knopf, Argentinean/Israeli bassist, vocalist, composer, arranger, producer and educator. Knopf and company present a powerful, musical fusion where Latin jazz and popular music meet World Music with a special mix of musical flavors from the Middle East. Knopf’s new album, “La Musica es Sentimientos,” was released worldwide on September, 2014 and has received excellent rave reviews from a variety of sources. “Wide-ranging in its musical topography–AfroCuban, Latin American, Brazilian, American—is brought together in an attractive mélange… His playing is joyful and always exploratory in voicing, always imaginative in articulation. Through it all he remains inventive, always looking for new ways to make statements.” – Latin Jazz Network Free for IHP Members + Residents; $15 General Admission

Saturday, December 12 at 1pm

All Around This World International House joins All Around This World, a Philadelphia-based global music and world cultures program for small children, in presenting a monthly series of participatory cultural workshops that will be fun for the whole family. Hosted by All Around This World educators Jay Sand, Emily Bate and Melanie Hsu, each workshop will feature an experienced “culture bearer” from around the world who will invite you and your kids to engage in his or her traditional music or dance; learn samba rhythms or Brazilian capoeria; play a West African djembe or a North African doumbek; chant to tabla “bols.” Explore different countries and cultures without having to worry about your toddlers toddling! Each workshop will last approximately 40 minutes and will invite you and even your tiniest kids to sing, dance and clap along. Best for grown-ups and their young kids, infants to 7 years old. $5 for Adults + Children over age 2; Free for children age 2 and under

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getting here International House Philadelphia is located at 3701 Chestnut Street, in the University City neighborhood, one block south of Market Street and one block north of Walnut Street.

Public Transportation: It’s a short walk from either of the Green Line’s 36th Street stops or the Market-Frankford El’s 34th Street stop. From Center City, take the 21 bus west on Walnut Street to 37th Street. From West Philly, take the 21 bus east on Chestnut to 37th.

Parking: It’s easy to park in University City! Plenty of metered street parking is available on Chestnut and Market Streets, as well as throughout University City. Metered parking is $2 per hour, free after 8pm. Discounted parking for guests of IHP is also available at the Sheraton University City parking garage, located at 3549 Chestnut Street. Bring your parking receipt to our front desk or box office for a validation stamp to receive $2.00 off their regular hourly rates. The garage is open 24-hours.

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