Fall 2016 Program Guide

Fall

2016 Program Guide

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welCome to inteRnational house philaDelphia IHP is pleased to broaden the horizons of its Residents, Members and the Greater Philadelphia community by offering a wide range of renowned international and independent films, concerts, cultural celebrations, art exhibitions and special events. For information on films and programs, visit www.ihousephilly.org/calendar.

tiCkets • Advance tickets can be purchased online at www.ihousephilly.org/calendar for most listed films and events.

• Tickets can be purchased at IHP’s Box Office, which is open Tuesday - Saturday from 12 to 8 pm and at other select times. Phone: 215.387.5125.

• Unless noted, tickets prices for IHP films are $9 for General Admission, $7 for seniors and students. Ticket prices for Family Matinees are $5 and children under the age of 2 are free.

getting heRe International House Philadelphia is located at 3701 Chestnut Street in the heart of University City. It is easily reached by public transportation or car. Metered street parking is available on Chestnut and nearby streets. Discounted parking for IHP guests is available at the Sheraton University City parking garage, 3549 Chestnut Street. Bring your parking receipt to the IHP Front Desk or Box Office for a validation stamp to receive a $2.00 discount on the regular parking rates at the Sheraton garage, which is open 24 hours.

geneRal inFoRmation • General Information; call 215.387.5125, email info@ihphilly.org or visit www.ihousephilly.org.

• To rent IHP’s Ibrahim Theater for a film screening or special event: 215-895-6539 or email events@ihphilly.org.

• IHP Members and Residents enjoy free admission to most films.

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Cover Image: Cosmos Friday, October 7 at 7pm

octobeR

Thursday, Oct. 13 at 7pm

Saturday, Oct. 1 at 2pm

BRutti, spoRChi e Cattivi (ugly, DiRty anD BaD)

Family Matinee

my neighBoRs the yamaDas

(New RestoRatioN!)

Dir. Isao Takahata, Japan, 1999, DCP, English, 104 min

Academy Award-nominated director Isao Takahata hilariously depicts the irresponsible, lazy, and sympathetic Yamada family in their everyday activities. With a watercolor-style unlike any other past work of Studio Ghibli, this animation beautifully showcases the prevailing presence of love despite frustrations that occur within a family.

Thursday, Oct. 6 at 7pm

Don’t Blink - RoBeRt FRank Dir. Laura Israel, US, 2015, DCP, 82 min

Robert Frank, now 91 years old, is among the most influential artists of the last half-century.

His highly influential photography book, The Americans, earned him critical acclaim for its perceptions of poverty and racism in America.

With a soundtrack featuring the likes of Bob Dylan and the Rolling Stones, this film captures unprecedented insights of the notably hotheaded American photographer and filmmaker.

Dir. Ettore Scola, Italy, 1976, DCP, Italian w/ English subtitles, 116 min

Acclaimed Italian auteur Ettore Scola pairs up with legendary actor Nino Manfredi in this grotesque Cannes-winning comedy. After a work accident leaves Giacinto (Manfredi) bestowed with insurance money, the four generations of his crooked family, all of which whom live in the same cramped home with him, devise several plots in hopes of wrenching the riches away.

Tuesday, Oct. 25 at 7pm

Scribe Producers’ Forum presents PhiladelPhia PRemieRes of two New documeNtaRies:

ovaRian psyCos

Dirs. Kate Trumbull-Lavalle & Joanna Sokolowski, US, 2016, 72 min

The “Ovas” are a group of young Latina women in East Los Angeles who find power and agency by banding together into a bicycle squad that fights for justice, visibility, and an end to domestic violence, all with passion and high spirits.

FisheRmen without a sea Dir. Lucas Bonetti, US, 2016, 20 min

Bonetti’s fishermen lament the state of Rio’s Guanabara Bay, made infamous by concerns over a polluted Olympics, but also navigate the audience through the disappearing beauty of the place they call home.

Followed by discussion with B. Ruby Rich, EditorIn-Chief of Film Quarterly and Professor of Film and Digital Media at UC Santa Cruz.

Producers’ Forums are supported by the National Endowment for the Arts, PNC Arts Alive, Philadelphia Cultural Fund, and the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts.

Saturday, Oct. 1 at 7pm

$10, $7 Students/Seniors, $5 Scribe and IHP members

BlaCk giRl

Friday, Oct. 14 at 7pm

(New 4K RestoRatioN!)

ICA & Ars Nova Workshop Present

Dir. Ousmane Sembène, France/Senegal, 1966, DCP, b/w, French w/ English subtitles, 65 min

Ousmane Sembène, the most internationally acclaimed African director of the 20th century, transforms a deceptively simple plot about a Senegalese woman who lives in small apartment as she works for a wealthy white couple in France into a radical political statement that makes Black Girl one of the essential films of the 1960s.

Preceded by:

BoRom saRRet

Dir. Ousmane Sembène, Senegal, 1963, DCP, b/w, French w/ English subtitles, 20 min

shwaBaDa: the musiC oF nDikho XaBa Friday, Oct. 7 at 7pm

Cosmos

Dir. Andrzej Zulawski, Portugal/France, 2015, DCP, French w/ English subtitles, 97 min

The late Andrzej Zulawski’s final film is a gripping thriller that follows two friends who discover ominous signs surrounding them during their stay at a guesthouse. This literary adaptation explores desire, obsession, and tension in an atmosphere of metaphysical noir.

Sembène’s first film follows a day in the life of a Dakar cart-driver navigating through increasingly distressing circumstances.

Dir. Nhlanhla Masondo, South Africa, 2016, video, 90 min

Shwabada: The Music of Ndikho Xaba is an inquiry into the music of composer, multiinstrumentalist and political activist Ndikho Xaba, a musical ode to a man “whom ‘jazz’ is much too small to define.” A multi-instrumentalist, music historian and philosopher, Ndikho Xaba has led an extraordinary life dedicated to music and Africa. The documentary, directed

by Nhlanhla Masondo, includes rare archival footage of his early performances and accolades from some of South Africa’s greatest musical icons, using the structure of Xaba’s long sought-after 1970 album Shwabada to tell his fascinating but little-known story.

The screening will be followed by a discussion featuring Nhlanhla Masondo, joined by Carol Muller and longtime AACM members George Lewis and Douglas Ewart, both of whom have collaborated with Xaba.

FREE ADMISSION

Thursday, Oct. 27 at 7pm

the Queen

Dir. Frank Simon, US, 1968, 35mm, color, 69 min

The Queen follows a cross-country drag competition organized by Flawless Sabrina that concludes in the Miss All-America Camp Beauty Pageant held at Town Hall in 1967.

Introduced by Gustavus Stadler, Associate Professor of English, Haverford College Screened in conjunction with the exhibition Bring Your Own Body: Transgender Between Archives and Aesthetics, October 21-December 11, 2016, Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery, Haverford College.

Wednesday, Oct. 12 at 7pm

Saturday, Oct. 1 at Midnight

l’inhumaine

(New RestoRatioN!)

multiple maniaCs Dir. John Waters, US, 1970, DCP, b/w, 82 min

Dir. Marcel L’Herbier, France, 1924, DCP, b/w, silent with English subtitles, original scores from Aidje Tafial and the Alloy Orchestra, 122 min

John Waters’ gloriously grotesque, unavailablefor-decades second feature comes to theaters at long last, brimming with all manner of immorality, from robbery to murder to one of cinema’s most memorably blasphemous moments. The film follows the Cavalcade of Perversion, a traveling show made up of deviant misfits, and its leader Divine, who’s out for blood after discovering her lover’s affair.

Sparking intense controversy in 1924 for its cinematic and technical innovations, L’Inhumaine (The Inhuman Woman) is a conglomeration of legendary figures from the avant-garde movement. The science-fiction melodrama unites some of the period’s greatest artists, including painter Fernand Léger, architect Robert Mallet-Stevens, and director Alberto Cavalcanti, to create a collaborative cinematic experience.

(New RestoRatioN!)

Saturday, Oct. 22 at 7pm

‘til maDness Do us paRt (Feng ai)

Dir. Wang Bing, China, 2013, DCP, Mandarin & Yunnan dialect w/ English subtitles, 238 min

Master director Wang Bing documents the inmates of an isolated mental institution in rural Zhaotong, inside of southwest China’s Yunnan province. Within the facility’s gates, the patients are confined to one floor of a single building.

Once locked on that floor, anything goes.

FREE ADMISSION

Saturday, Oct. 29 through Sunday, Oct. 30 Exhumed Films presents

the 24 houR hoRRoR-thon, paRt X For the 10th year, Exhumed Films proudly presents their annual 24 Hour Horror-thon: a full 24-hour marathon of nonstop horror mayhem!

This event is SOLD OUT!

FOR MORE INFORMATION ON OUR FILMS AND UPCOMING EVENTS VISIT:

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November

Saturday, Nov. 5 at 2pm Family Matinee

Homo SapienS

Welcome to tHe Space SHoW

Homo Sapiens is a film about the finiteness and fragility of human existence and the end of the industrial age. Empty spaces, ruins, cities increasingly overgrown with vegetation, the areas we currently inhabit, though humanity has disappeared. Homo Sapiens presents a possible future scenario and poses the question, “What will remain of our lives after we’re gone?”

With an intergalactic cast of thousands, Koji Masunari’s colorfully explosive debut feature sets a new high for visual spectacle in what has to be one of the most gleefully surreal depictions of alien life forms ever portrayed in cinema. Amane and her older cousin Natsuki have their boredom vanish once they find an alien that brings them to the dark side of the moon, and they are struck with a nonstop parade of humorous creatures.

Wednesday, Nov. 2 at 7pm Dir. Nikolaus Geyrhalter, Austria, 2016, DCP, No dialogue, 94 min

Dir. Koji Masunari, Japan, 2014, DCP, English, 136 min

Monday, Nov. 7 at 7:30pm Philadelphia Jewish Film Festival presents

Keep Quiet

Dir. Sam Blair & Joseph Martin, UK/Hungary, 2016, Hungarian w/ English subtitles, 90 min

An Official Selection of the 2016 Tribeca Film Festival, Keep Quiet is a powerful and unsettling documentary which leaves you questioning the veracity of Csanád Szegedi’s intentions to embrace his faith and start his life anew. As a former Holocaust denier and outspoken antiSemite, Szegedi had no choice but to face his true identity after discovering his grandmother is a survivor of Auschwitz.

Thursday, Nov. 17 at 7pm

tHe BeSt oF ottaWa international animation FeStival 2015 The Best of Ottawa touring program showcases many audience favorites and award winners from the OIAF Official Competition. This year’s nine shorts include the stop motion tragedy The Master, the oddly hilarious Unhappy Happy, as well as the first-ever student film to win the OIAF Grand Prize for Best Independent Short Film, Small People With Hats.

Not recommended for young audiences.

General Admission, $13; Seniors, $11; Free: Students with ID

Friday, Nov. 4 at 7pm

political advertiSementS iX: 1952-2016 Dir. Muntadas & Marshall Reese, US, 2016, video, 94 min

This fascinating anthology, updated to include advertisements from the 2016 presidential campaign, documents the selling of the American presidency since the 1950s. In this revealing survey of the American televisual campaign process, a social and media history emerges as Muntadas and Reese trace the development of the TV “spot” as a political strategy and manipulative marketing technique. This stream of political advertisements, presented without commentary, includes many rare spots, including several never before seen.

Reflecting the increasing manipulation of a candidate’s image in contemporary media culture, from Eisenhower in 1956 through Clinton, Bush, Obama and the 2016 campaign, this compilation reveals the political use of advertising tactics such as negative ads, soft-sell techniques and emotionalism. Writes Muntadas: “Looking back at these political ads provides a key to understanding the evolution of images on television and the marketing of politics.”

This is the ninth version in an ongoing 32-year project. Since 1984, Muntadas and Reese have revised, expanded, and updated Political Advertisements with every presidential election.

Friday, Nov. 18 at 7pm

an evening WitH douglaS crimp + Screening oF agneS martin’S gaBriel

Saturday, Nov. 5 at 7pm

delicateSSen

Monday, Nov. 14 at 7:30pm

(25th ANNiversAry screeNiNg)

Philadelphia Jewish Film Festival presents

Dir. Marc Caro & Jean-Pierre Jeunet, France, 1991, DCP, French w/ English subtitles, 99 min

tHe Freedom to marry

Dir. Edward Rosenstein, US, 2016, English, 86 min

An unemployed circus clown applies for a job as a handyman at an apartment building in post-apocalyptic France, unaware that the ad is meant to lure people to slaughter. The landlord provides human meat for his tenants, but when his daughter falls in love with the clown, wits are put to the test in a trial of life or death.

Harvard Law graduate Evan Wolfson and American lawyer Mary Banauto have devoted their careers to the marriage equality movement.

This profoundly moving film presents their emotionally-charged first-hand accounts of the Supreme Court’s decision to legalize gay marriage in June 2015.

Celebrate the release of acclaimed art critic, curator, and historian, Douglas Crimp’s muchanticipated memoir Before Pictures (Dancing Foxes Press, 2016), with a conversation and a rare screening of painter Agnes Martin’s film Gabriel, 1976. The only completed film by Martin, Gabriel, is a pensive mediation on perception and innocence as it follows a young boy as he roams the rural New Mexico beachfront not far from where she lived and worked. Two years prior to ICA’s iconic 1973 Agnes Martin exhibition Crimp organized his own show of the painter and began a dialogue with her.

This program is co-presented by the Institute of Contemporary Art and the History of Art Department, University of Pennsylvania.

FREE ADMISSION

General Admission, $13; Seniors, $11; Free: Students with ID

pHiladelpHia aSian american Film FeStival Thursday, Nov. 10 - Sunday, Nov. 13 Philadelphia Asian American Film Festival (PAAFF) is back, and better than ever!

Founded in 2008, PAAFF is the East Coast’s largest festival celebrating and elevating the Asian American experience both on screen and behind the camera.

Presenting the best in Asian, Asian American, and Pacific Islander 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’16 promises to be the most successful yet!

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 20th 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.

Thursday, Nov. 10 at 7pm PAAFF’16 Opening Night Film & Reception

tHe tiger Hunter Dir. Lena Khan, 2016, 94 min

Starring Danny Pudi (Community), The Tiger Hunter is a comedy drama about a young Indian man who relocates to 1970s Chicago to become an engineer.

When his dream job falls through, he is forced to concoct an elaborate charade with misfit friends in order to woo his childhood sweetheart and impress her overbearing father.

General Admission, $10; Students/Seniors, $8

December Thursday, Dec. 1 through Sunday, Dec. 4

neW italian cinema

A free admission film festival made possible thanks to the support of New Italian Cinema Events (NICE).

The Cinema Studies Program and the Center for Italian Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, in collaboration with International House Philadelphia, present the 2016 edition of New Italian Cinema. The festival, curated by Nicola M. Gentili (Penn, Cinema Studies), aims at presenting very recently released Italian feature films.

Titles and times will be posted soon to www.ihousephilly.org/calendar.

Friday, Dec. 9

An Exhumed Films Double Feature!

Titles and times will be posted soon to www.ihousephilly.org/calendar.

Wednesday, Dec. 14 at 7pm

city oF Women (New restorAtioN!)

Thursday, Dec. 8 at 7pm

regrouping

Dir. Lizzie Borden, US, 1976, 16mm, b/w, 74 min

Director Lizzie Borden in person!

Well before her landmark independent feature Born In Flames (1983), filmmaker Lizzie Borden undertook this seldom-seen experimental documentary about a women’s group, formed to offer solidarity among women exclusively. The film’s exquisitely layered images and soundtrack echo the group’s torrent of political, artistic and romantic fusions, then its dissolution, as members first welcome Borden, then harshly critique her process and intentions.

A fascinating chronicle of a heady moment in feminist and lesbian history, Regrouping astutely captures the clash of ideals and lived experience.

Co-presented with Cinema Studies Department and the Gender & Sexuality Studies Reading Group at the University of Pennsylvania.

Saturday, Dec. 10 at 7pm

StaviSKy

Dir. Alain Resnais, France/Italy, 1974, 35mm, French w/ English subtitles, 120 min

Based on the life of charismatic financier and embezzler Alexandre Stavisky, this period drama finds French New Wave director Alain Resnais (Last Year at Marienbad; je t’aime, je t’aime) delving into the last days of one of the most controversial figures in French history.

Lavishly photographed by award-winning cinematographer Sacha Vierny, Stavisky captures the decadence of an era and the moral transgressions of the luxury class.

Thursday, Dec. 15 at 7pm

Dir. Federico Fellini, Italy, 1980, DCP, Italian w/ English subtitles, 139 min

le règne de la Beauté (an eye For Beauty)

Federico Fellini’s epic 1980 fantasia introduced the start of the Maestro’s delirious late period. A surrealist tour-de-force filmed on soundstages and locations alike, and overflowing with the same sensory (and sensual) invention heretofore found only in the classic movie-musicals (and Fellini’s own oeuvre), La città delle donne [City of Women] taps into the era’s restless youth culture, coalescing into nothing less than Fellini’s post-punk opus.

Luc is a brilliant young architect with a budding reputation. Opinionated, charming, and confident, he lives with his beautiful wife in the stunning countryside of Quebec. Once he falls for a mysterious woman while on a business trip, he becomes entangled in a triangle of emotions as his seemingly-perfect life begins to fall apart.

Dir. Denys Arcand, Canada, 2014, DCP, French w/ English subtitles, 102 min

Marcello Mastroianni appears as Fellini’s alter ego in a semi-reprise of his character from 8 1/2, Snàporaz. As though passing into a dream, the charismatic avatar finds himself initiated into a phantasmagoric world where women or an idea of women have taken power, and which is structured like an array of psychosexual setpieces, culminating in a bravura hot-air balloon that decisively sticks the “anti” up into “climax.”

Special eventS DINING

Tuesday, Oct. 18 at 6:30pm

culture & cuiSine dinner: italy

International House Philadelphia and the Board of Delegates cordially invite you for an evening of Culture & Cuisine celebrating Italy. Join us to meet and share a meal with IHP residents and friends from around the world in an intimate setting, dining on authentic Italian fare while learning about the culture and traditions. Visit www.ihousephilly.org/calendar for more information.

CULTURAL CELEBRATIONS

Thursday, Nov. 3 at 7pm

diWali celeBration!

Diwali, an Indian cultural festival popularly known as the “Festival of Lights,” commemorates the joyous return of Lord Rama from his 14-year exile with colors, candles, lights, and firecrackers.

Join us as we embrace the spirit of India with an evening of traditional food, music, dance, and culture. Visit www.ihousephilly.org/calendar for more information.

CONCERTS

EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS

Sunday, Nov. 6, 2016 7pm

Wednesday, Dec. 7 at 6pm

alSaraH & tHe nuBatoneS: ya Watan (o Homeland)

reWilding tHe World

Intercultural Journeys presents

Intercultural Journeys kicks off their 2016/17 season with Brooklyn-based Alsarah & The Nubatones. Alsarah is a Sudanese-born singer, songwriter, and self-proclaimed practitioner of East African retro-pop. IJ welcomes Alsarah & The Nubatones for their first Philadelphia appearance, performing music from their internationally renowned debut album, Silt, and their upcoming new album release.

Preceded at 5pm by a Food for Thought community potluck and discussion led by local scholars and community leaders. (East Alcove) General Public, $15; IHP Members, $10; Students, $8

Geographical Society of Philadelphia presents

You will be riveted by the latest project of naturalist and extreme adventurer Paul Rosolie, famous for attempting to be “eaten alive” by an anaconda. Paul risks his life to explore the Amazon rainforest and southern India in his efforts to protect wildlife in those rapidly evolving environments. He describes the close encounters and challenges in protecting species like anacondas, elephants, and tigers and how it affects us all. The event will include a presentation by Paul Rosolie and a reception tasting exotic world cuisine. $25 ($20 for Members of IHP or GSP) for Presentation only. $45 ($35 for Members of IHP or GSP) for Presentation and a Reception Tasting Exotic World Cuisine.

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