IHP Magazine, Spring 2013 by International House Philadelphia

SPRING 2013

e v en t s A pri l Tuesday, April 2 at 7pm Reelblack Presents Am I Black Enough For You Philadelphia Premiere!

Wednesday, April 3 at 7pm Play Like a Lion: The Legacy of Maestro Ali Akbar Khan Thursday, April 4 at 7pm Cinedelphia Film Festival: IHP 79-13: A Short Films Program Opening Night Program!

Friday, April 5 at 7pm Saturday, April 6 at 5pm Gregory Crewdson: Brief Encounters Special Screening!

Saturday, April 6 at 7pm Little Fugitive New 35mm restoration print!

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JUNE Saturday, June 8 at 7pm The Janus Collection The Times of Harvey Milk

Introduction and Q&A with Jonas Mekas in person!

Wednesday, May 1 at 7pm May Day: Images of Work & Revolution An Injury to One/ Misery in Borinage (Misère au Borinage) Exhibit opening reception

Saturday, April 20 at 2pm The Cinema is Jonas Mekas My Friends! The Life and Work of Jonas Mekas

Thursday, May 2 at 7pm May Day: Images of Work & Revolution Finally Got the News The Real Thing

Friday, April 19 at 7pm The Cinema is Jonas Mekas Friends and Artists

Panel discussion with Jonas Mekas in person!

Saturday, April 20 at 7pm The Cinema is Jonas Mekas Selections from The 365 Days Project Introduction and Q&A with Jonas Mekas in person!

Sunday, April 21 at 7pm An Evening with Jackie Raynal Deux Fois

Tuesday, April 9 at 7pm Scribe Producers’ Forum My Brooklyn

Thursday, April 25 at 7pm Living on the Margins: Three Documentaries Drop City

Wednesday, April 10 at 7pm Full Exposure We Are Winning, Don’t Forget: Short works by Jean-Gabriel Périot

Friday, April 26 at 7pm Motion Pictures Canyon Luminaries Program 1: Canyon Classics of the Bay Area

Thursday, April 11 at 8pm Ars Nova Workshop ICP Orchestra

Friday, April 26 at 9pm Motion Pictures Canyon Luminaries Program 2: Through the Looking Glass

Friday, April 12 at 7:30pm Cinedelphia Film Festival: David Goodis and The Burglars The Burglars

Saturday, April 27 Filadelfia Latin American Film Festival

Saturday, April 13 at 7pm The Janus Collection Red Desert

Tuesday, April 30 at 7pm Scribe Producers’ Forum ...But Then, She’s Betty Carter Storme: The Lady of the Jewel Box

Friday, May 3 at 7pm May Day: Images of Work & Revolution Blue Collar Meet King Joe

Friday, June 14 at 7pm Pre-Bloomsday Screening In Bed with Ulysses Friday, June 28 at 7pm Living on the Margins: Three Documentaries All Divided Selves

Saturday, May 4 at 7pm Institute of Contemporary Art Frances Stark Sunday, May 5 at 11am Exhumed Films presents eX-Fest III Thursday, May 9 at 7pm Motion Pictures – Black Box/White Cube Eye Machine I, II, and III Respite In Comparison Friday, May 10 at 8pm Ladyfest Philadelphia Ladies and Gentlemen… The Fabulous Stains Rare 35mm archival print!

Saturday, May 11 at 7pm The Janus Collection Antonio Gaudi Saturday, May 11 at 9pm Living on the Margins: Three Documentaries The Source Family

Wednesday, April 17 at 7pm Archive Fever! 4.0 Cinema Komunisto

Tuesday, May 14 at 7pm Cetra Un Cuento Chino

Thursday, April 18 at 7pm Not-So-Silent Cinema presents Buster Keaton Shorts

Friday, May 31 at 7pm Portrait of Jason New 35mm restored print!

tickets/box office: Tickets are available at www.ihousephilly.org + 215.387.5125 IHP’s Box Office is now open from 1pm – 8pm, Tuesday – Saturday. Purchase your tickets in person or with IHP over the phone during these hours and save the processing fee. Cover: Gregory Crewdson: Brief Encounters

Dear Readers, Spring is upon us! We heard from so many of you over the past few months about our jam-packed schedule full of incredible programming, and we’re certain that you won’t be disappointed with this season, either! Beyond what you see in the pages of this edition of our magazine, we’re also excited to share some of the programs that we have lined up for the summer, which, fortunately, is right around the corner… Starting in July, members and visitors to IHP will have the opportunity to enjoy an expanded schedule of evening film screenings under the stars on Fridays instead of our usual Wednesdays. We have five fantastic films that are sure to be solid crowd pleasers. What better way to start your weekend?

table of contents 3 Treasures of armenia 5 Featured prgram: may day: images of work and revolution 7 Programs 8 Partner programs 9 april 22 may 28 june

Also coming over the summer, we will introduce a new series of family matinees scheduled for one weekend each month. These screenings will continue throughout the year and are the perfect solution for a lazy afternoon - whatever the season. This will be an excellent opportunity to introduce your children to the wonderful world of film, while also delighting in the entertainment yourself. Last but not least, you might have noticed we have been hosting many more ‘members only’ events, for example our sold-out reception in March with the legendary Belgian-born, French New Wave film auteur Agnes Varda. Continue to look for these special offerings as we continue to build our membership program to give you more benefits and opportunities than you can count. With such an affordable membership program, there truly is no better time to become a member at IHP! See you soon!

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Treasures o f armenia larger Philadelphia community, including corporate and government leaders, and other influential members of the region. After a one-year hiatus, we are so excited to bring the Gala back!

International House Philadelphia’s Gala: Treasures of Armenia When speaking of friendship, Armenians often remark, “we have bread and salt among us,” – staples of their diet and found on every table, and so shared between all people. On May 18th, guests of International House Philadelphia will have not only bread and salt among them, but also a whole host of other traditional Armenian delicacies such as boureg (a flaky golden brown phyllo pastry baked with a mixture of cheeses and fresh parsley), joojukh (a cold cucumber and yoghurt soup garnished with crispy lavash and toasted spices), yalanchi (stuffed grape leaves), tass kebab (Armenian lamb stew), and many more delicious dishes. This lavish and carefully curated menu will be just one of the attractions when IHP holds its 52nd Annual Global Gala in celebration of the people, culture, art, and cuisine of Armenia. The history of IHP’s Global Gala dates back to 1962, when it was known as the International Festival Ball, held in conjunction with the Annual Festival of Nations. Styled as a dinner-dance, the gala honored a different nation each year, and continues to do so today. The Global Gala is a major event, and brings together both foreign and American students, as well as the ihousephilly.org

Throughout the evening on May 18th, guests will have the opportunity to bid on a whole host of enticing items in our silent auction, and mingle with some of the best-dressed in Philadelphia. Live music will fill International House when we are treated to the sounds of Armenian community favorite, The Steve Vosbikian Ensemble. Dedicated to promoting and cultivating Armenian music in the Armenian diaspora of the US, along with many original compositions, the band’s repertoire contains selections from a broad spectrum of Armenian folk and dance music, including those written by many legendary Armenian composers. For those unfamiliar with this genre – think of the highly-charged, irresistible rhythms and sounds of Eastern European music that literally spin you on to the dance floor in a swirl of energy. For those that can’t get enough, DJ Serop will keep everyone on their toes as he delights the crowd with contemporary Armenian and American favorites until the wee hours of the morning. This year, we at International House are particularly thrilled to announce that this will be the first time that a portion of the proceeds from the Global Gala will benefit Armenian students and scholars who are members of International House. Additionally, Gala proceeds will benefit a housing project in Vanadzor, Armenia, and the Armenian Sisters Academy – the only Armenian school in the Greater Philadelphia region. Don’t miss this opportunity to celebrate the rich cultural traditions and achievements of the Armenian people around the world. Join us for a night of revelry, festivities, vibrant colors, flavors, art, and music on May 18th at International House Philadelphia. For partnership opportunities, more information, or to purchase tickets, please call the Development Office at 215-895-6527 or e-mail globalgala@ihphilly.org.

armenia N ART EXHIBIT As part of IHP’s celebration of Armenia culture, please join us on Wednesday, April 3, 2013 at 6pm for the opening of the Treasures of Armenia fine art exhibit. The open-call, juried exhibit for artists of Armenian descent will feature works in a variety of two-dimensional media from artists of at least partial Armenian descent. Works will be selected to create a cohesive presentation that highlights contemporary Armenian art. The exhibited artworks will hang from April 3, 2013 until June 30, 2013 and will be on view during IHP’s 52nd Global Gala Treasures of Armenia on May 18th. All exhibited artwork will be for sale, and proceeds will benefit a housing project in Vanadzor, Armenia, and the Armenian Sisters Academy – the only Armenian school in the Greater Philadelphia region. The reception begins at 6pm, and will include wine and hors d’oeuvres. Exhibiting artists include: Monique Kendikian-Sarkessian Rose Manteghian Vahe Ashodian Luke Momjian Adrienne Minassian Ara Zeibarian Stepan Sacklarian Sophia Chitjian Hratch Babikian Sosy Maral M. Shishmanian 4

FEATURED PROGRAM

May Day: Images of Work and Revolution

In recognition of May Day, the International Workers’ Day, International House Philadelphia has organized an exhibition of labor posters from the collection of long-time labor activist Stephen Lewis, which will coincide with a three-day film series related to themes of organized labor and labor unions. May Day (May 1st) is celebrated throughout the world and is closely associated with the creation of the 8-hour workday among many other historic labor struggles. The poster exhibition is a showcase of unique designs for May Day celebrations from around the world. Accompanying the exhibition will be a selection of short and feature length films that are significant for their depiction of workers engaged in an ongoing struggle for justice. The recent global financial collapse has inspired nations and governments to respond with a variety of extreme measures, including austerity programs, tax hikes, the gutting of social programs, and the troubling attack on workers’ rights. Union busting and other tactics to diminish the power of ihousephilly.org

workers in the workplace have a long history throughout the world. Teachers in Chicago, miners in South Africa, and the ongoing Occupy movement have all brought the plight of the working class to the fore once again. With a legacy of presenting thoughtful and unique arts programs, International House is proud to spotlight some of the key elements associated with global labor struggles worldwide and how they have been captured and expressed by artists. Sponsored in part by Dolfinger-McMahon Foundation. Wednesday, May 1 at 7pm An Injury to One Misery in Borinage (Misère au Borinage) Thursday, May 2 at 7pm Finally Got the News The Real Thing Friday, May 3 at 7pm Blue Collar Meet King Joe

PROGRAMS Archive Fever! 4.0

May Day: Images of Work and Revolution

Wednesday, April 17 at 7pm Cinema Komunisto

Sponsored in part by Dolfinger-McMahon Foundation.

Central to our visual culture, the archive is a repository for any 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 the archive, archival, and found materials are central to the works of film and video artists who are discovering the dynamic possibilities within archives.

The Cinema is Jonas Mekas

Jonas Mekas (born 1922) emigrated from Lithuania to New York following WWII and became a pivotal figure in American independent film. Shortly after settling in Brooklyn, he bought a Bolex camera and began recording film diaries of his daily life. These diaries have been shaped into undoubtedly the most mesmerizing personal documentaries (a genre he invented) that have ever been made. More than just a filmmaker, Mekas founded the Film-makers Cooperative, a film distribution cooperative that currently holds the world’s largest collection of experimental film and video works. Soon after, Mekas (along with Stan Brakhage, P. Adams Sitney and Peter Kubelka) founded Anthology Film Archives, an organization with the purpose of exhibiting and preserving artist’s film and video. He has been honored across the world for this and other work, including extensive writing on film and his Lithuanianlanguage poetry. IHP is excited to present the films of Jonas Mekas in Philadelphia for the first time in many years. Jonas Mekas in person! Friday, April 19 at 7pm Friends and Artists Saturday, April 20 at 2pm My Friends! The Life and Work of Jonas Mekas Panel discussion! Saturday, April 20 at 7pm Selections from The 365 Days Project

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 it’s constantly evolving practice. Wednesday, April 10 at 7pm We Are Winning, Don’t Forget: Short works by Jean-Gabriel Périot

Languages

Our Language Program offers the opportunity to study a foreign language or improve English conversation skills. At our friendly and affordable sessions, the small class setting will allow you to quickly learn how to communicate clearly outside of the classroom and enhance skills that assist with future goals. Summer 2013 Registration: May 13 – 17 from 9:30am – 4pm Summer 2013 Class dates: May 28 – August 8

For more information call 215.895.6592 or visit www.ihousephilly.org.

Wednesday, May 1 at 6pm Opening Reception for Labor Poster Exhibit Wednesday, May 1 at 7pm An Injury to One Misery in Borinage (Misère au Borinage) Thursday, May 2 at 7pm Finally Got the News The Real Thing Friday, May 3 at 7pm Blue Collar Meet King Joe

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. Friday, April 26 at 7pm Canyon Luminaries Program 1: Canyon Classics of the Bay Area Friday, April 26 at 9pm Canyon Luminaries Program 2: Through the Looking Glass Thursday, May 9 at 7pm Eye Machine I, II, and III Respite In Comparison

The Janus Collection

Truly one of our national treasures, Janus Films is a vital part of American film culture. International House continues the Janus Collection with titles from their library, all in brand new or restored 35mm prints. Saturday, April 13 at 7pm Red Desert Saturday, May 11 at 7pm Antonio Gaudi Saturday, June 8 at 7pm The Times of Harvey Milk

The following programs are support in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts: Janus Collection, Archive Fever, Motion Pictures, Directors in Focus, Human Rights Watch, Jonas Mekas

PARTNER PROGRAMS Ars Nova Workshop

Scribe Video Center Producers’ Forum

Thursday, April 11 at 8pm ICP Orchestra

Tuesday, April 9 at 7pm My Brooklyn

CETRA

Tuesday, April 30 at 7pm ...But Then, She’s Betty Carter Storme: The Lady of the Jewel Box

Ars Nova Workshop is a Philadelphia nonprofit jazz and experimental music presenting organization. As a facilitator between artists and their audiences, Ars Nova Workshop works to inform, inspire and challenge listeners in order to elevate the role of jazz, improvisation and experimental music in contemporary culture.

IHP’s Language Programs and CETRA Language Solutions presents a series of international language films. They range from drama to documentaries, a variety of foreign languages to sign language, and are both thought provoking and entertaining. Learn more about the world around you through these fabulous films being screened throughout the year. We are delighted to offer these films free of charge to the public.

The Producers’ Forum in-person screening series is a lecture discussion program, that 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, May 14 at 7pm Un Cuento Chino

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. Sunday, May 5 at 11am eX-Fest III Friday, June 21 & Saturday, June 22 at 8pm The Whole Bloody Affair (Kill Bill vol 1 & 2)

FLAFF

The Filadelfia Latin American Film Festival’s mission is to showcase and nurture established and emerging creative Latin American and Latino filmmakers; to promote and celebrate the richness and diversity of Latin American/Latino cultures and experiences, and to foster cross-cultural understanding and dialogue. Saturday, April 27 Filadelfia Latin American Film Festival

ICA

The Institute of Contemporary Art at the University of Pennsylvania www.upenn. edu believes in the power of art and artists to inform and inspire. The ICA is free for all to engage and connect with the art of our time. Saturday, May 4 at 7pm Frances Stark

REELBLACK

Reelblack promotes discoveries and rediscoveries in African-American films. Tuesday, April 2 at 7pm Am I Black Enough For You Philadelphia Premiere!

Unless noted, all IHP screenings are free admission for IHP members; $7 students + seniors; $9 general admission.

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APRIL Wednesday, April 3 at 7pm Play Like a Lion: The Legacy of Maestro Ali Akbar Khan dir. Joshua Dylan Mellars, US/India, 2011, digital, 75 min.

Am I Black Enough for You Tuesday, April 2 at 7pm

Reelblack Presents

Am I Black Enough for You Philadelphia Premiere! dir. Göran Olsson, Sweden, 2009, digital, 87 min.

Film subjects Billy Paul and Blanche Williams in attendance for a post-film Q&A The first feature from filmmaker Göran Olsson (The Black Power Mixtape), Am I Black Enough for You tells the story about the artist Billy Paul, the city of Philadelphia, and the lifelong companionship between Billy and his wife Blanche. It’s a film about love, marriage, and life’s complications. The film follows the story of Billy Paul’s song ‘Am I Black Enough for You,’ which was the follow up to the classic ‘Mrs. Jones,’ a smash hit on both sides of the Atlantic. On release, ‘Am I Black Enough for You’ flopped, a failure that nearly cost Billy his career. Am I Black Enough For You offers neverbefore-seen insight into the now legendary Philadelphia R&B scene which produced some of the most successful songs/albums in modern popular culture. $10 general admission, $8 students/seniors, $5 Reelblack/IHP members. ihousephilly.org

American born Alam Khan, son of legendary Indian sarodist Maestro Ali Akbar Khan, is traveling from California to India on his first concert tour without his ailing father. Ali Akbar Khan, who introduced Indian classical music to the US at New York’s Museum of Modern Art in 1955, was “The Emperor of Melody,” a national treasure in India and the US, a Grammy nominee, and according to renowned master violinist Lord Yehudi Menuhin, “possibly the greatest musician in the world.” Alam finds it’s not always easy following a legend, so when he feels the weight of living up to his family’s North Indian Classical music tradition, he remembers his father’s advice: “Don’t worry, play like a lion!” Shot throughout India and California, Play Like a Lion features Carlos Santana, Grateful Dead drummer Mickey Hart, blues slide guitarist Derek Trucks, jazz saxophone great John Handy, world class percussionist and tabla artist Ustad Zakir Hussain, master tabla player Pandit Swapan Chaudhuri, master Indian flutist Pandit G. S. Sachdev, master sarodist Ustad Aashish Khan and Alam Khan. With narration by Mark Cohen. This screening accompanies the Raga Samay Festival, a 24-hour Indian classical music concert featuring Alam Khan and 9 other soloists, to be held at Drexel University on April 5-6, 2013. The festival is presented by Crossroads Music in collaboration with the Sangeet Society and the University of Pennsylvania South Asia Center and has been supported by the Pew Center for Arts and Heritage through the Philadelphia Music Project with additional support from Drexel University’s Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts and Design. For Festival information: www.ragasamay.org $9 general admission, $7 students/seniors, $5 Crossroads & IHP members.

Thursday, April 4 at 7pm

Cinedelphia Film Festival: Opening Night Program!

IHP 79-13: A Short Film Program In late 2012, the staff of IHP’s Arts program started a concerted effort to begin examining their “archive,” a few rooms overstuffed with dusty boxes that hadn’t been touched in years. Through many hours of lugging, sorting, and organizing, the archives have revealed a rich legacy of film and video programming at IHP that reaches back to the mid ‘70s. IHP 79-13 is the first of an ongoing examination that brings our past into the present and future. In the summer of 1979, IHP welcomed the Neighborhood Film Project into the building and organization. This partnership was celebrated with “Rialto Bijou: Films for Summer Nights,” a series of fun and interesting short films. Our program for Cinedelphia Film Festival will bring together a number of animated, comedic, and experimental 16mm short films that were screened in this series, including work by well-loved filmmakers George Kuchar, Robert Breer, and Sally Cruikshank. Audience members are encouraged to come early to view the exhibition of letters, posters, photos and ephemera showcasing the history of film at IHP in our east gallery. Pasadena Freeway Stills dir. Gary Beydler, US, 1974, 16mm, 6 min., silent

Black-and-white photos of freeway traffic are inserted and removed from a masking tape rectangle to create an engaging film puzzle with the filmmaker as human projector. Hold Me While I’m Naked dir. George Kuchar, US, 1966, 16mm, 15 min.

A favorite among those who love Hollywood as well as those who hate it. Kuchar spares no cliché; melodramatic movie music, roll on titles, garish lighting and a star-studded cast that includes his mother in this story of the heart-rending sexual mores and pathos. Print courtesy of Anthology Film Archives. Coney dir. Frank and Caroline Mouris, US, 1975, 16mm, 5 min.

Coney Island in the day, at night, and during all the seasons of the year. Print courtesy of the Academy Film Archive.

Shorelines dir. Al Jarnow, US, 1977, 16mm, 3 min.

Playfully animated sea shells become the visual tour-de-force that appeals to the mind as well as the senses. Styx dir. Jan Krawitz and Thomas Ott, US, 1977, 16mm, 10 min.

A very unusual exploration of the Philadelphia subway and its riders, which creatively utilizes black and white photography. Rubber Cement dir. Robert Breer, US, 1976, 16mm, 10 min.

The rich, seemingly infinite varieties of Breer’s graphic expression come bursting out in a rollicking joyous collage of invention. Real Italian Pizza dir. David Rimmer, US/Canada, 1971, 16mm, 10 min.

Life outside a New York pizza shop is studied over a six month period of time. Quasi at the Quackadero dir. Sally Cruikshank, US, 1975, 16mm, 10 min.

Quasi (a charming duck-like creature of some future century), his girlfriend Anita, and their robot companion Rollo visit the Quackadero, an elaborate amusement park, in this lavishly colored and imaginative cartoon. Rapid Eye Movements dir. Jeff Carpenter & Mary Lambert, US, 1977, 16mm, 13 min.

Rapid Eye Movemints uses a wide variety of stylistic approaches and animated techniques to build a complex, yet intentionally ambiguous science-fiction narrative. Poliphilo, a member of the space age La Dolce Vita, is its protagonist. Hand Held Day dir. Gary Beydler, US, 1975, 16mm, 6 min., silent

An exploration of time/space relationships and the mysteries and tensions produced by a landscape within a landscape.

Gregory Crewdson: Brief Encounters Friday, April 5 at 7pm Saturday, April 6 at 5pm Gregory Crewdson: Brief Encounters dir. Ben Shapiro, US, 2012, digital, 77 min.

An acclaimed photographer with the eye of a filmmaker, Gregory Crewdson has created some of the most gorgeously haunting pictures in the history of the medium. His meticulously composed, large-scale images are stunning narratives of small-town American life—moviescapes crystallized into a single frame. While the photographs are staged with crews that rival many feature film productions, Crewdson takes inspiration as much from his own dreams and fantasies as the worlds of Alfred Hitchcock, David Lynch, Edward Hopper, and Diane Arbus. Crewdson’s imagery has also infiltrated the pop culture landscape—including his inimitable Six Feet Under ads and Yo La Tengo album art. Shot over a decade with unprecedented access, Gregory Crewdson: Brief Encounters beautifully bares the artist’s process—and it’s as mesmerizing and riveting as the images themselves. Saturday, April 6 at 7pm Little Fugitive New 35mm restoration print! dir. Ray Ashley, Morris Engel, Ruth Orkin, US, 1953, 35mm, b/w, 86 min.

A practical joke between brothers goes awry and sets off a whimsical chain of events that finds seven-year-old Joey Norton embarking on a Coney Island adventure. This low-budget, independent film has been praised by critics and has been cited by ihousephilly.org

François Truffaut as a key influence of the French New Wave, particularly his first feature film The 400 Blows. The black and white cinema verite photography brilliantly captures the drama and wonder of the world as seen through the eyes of a sevenyear-old. Little Fugitive is a time capsule of 1950s Americana and a delightful tribute to the golden era of Coney Island. An Artists Public Domain/Cinema Conservancy Release. Preserved by The Museum of Modern Art with support from the National Endowment for the Arts, The Film Foundation and The Celeste Bartos Film Preservation Fund. Tuesday, April 9 at 7pm

Scribe Producers’ Forum My Brooklyn

dir. Kelly Anderson, Allison Lirish Dean, US, 2013, digital, 76 min.

My Brooklyn follows director Kelly Anderson’s journey, as a Brooklyn gentrifier, to understand the forces reshaping her neighborhood. The film documents the redevelopment of Fulton Mall, a bustling African-American and Caribbean commercial district that - despite its status as the third most profitable shopping area in New York City - is maligned for its inability to appeal to the affluent residents who have come to live around it. As a hundred small businesses are replaced by high rise luxury housing and chain retail, Anderson uncovers the web of global corporations, politicians and secretive public-private partnerships that drive seemingly natural neighborhood change. $10 general admission, $8 students/seniors, $5 Scribe & IHP members

200000 Phantoms Wednesday, April 10 at 7pm

Full Exposure

Nijuman no borei (200000 Phantoms) 2007, 10 min.

We Are Winning, Don’t Forget: Short works by Jean-Gabriel Périot

The Devil

Introduction and Q&A with Jean-Gabriel Périot

Undo

Co-presented by Shooting Wall.

2005, 10 min.

Jean-Gabriel Périot, born in France in 1974, has over the past fifteen years perfected an innovative filmmaking approach by focusing on archival editing. Moving image and photographic archives make up the raw material of his shorts, which are edited to create an impressionistic story or narrative, typically aided by compelling soundtracks. Periot’s work is distinguished for its intense, emotional approach to contemporary and historic political themes. Despite the labor-intensive process of compiling a film via multiple edited images, Périot has made numerous short films using digital video and/or film that reside within combined documentary/essay, animation, and experimental genres. His works have been honored with many prizes and shown worldwide in numerous festivals, institutions, and cinemas. This event is Périot’s first travel to the US. –Sally Berger, Department of Film, MoMA

2012, 7 min.

We Are Winning, Don’t Forget 2004, 7 min.

The Barbarians 2010, 5 min.

Even If She Had Been A Criminal... 2006, 10 min.

#67 2012, 2 min.

Before I Was Sad 2012, 4 min.

Between Dogs and Wolves 2008, 28 min. All works screened in HD video, in French with English subtitles; total running time: 83 minutes

This event is organized by Amélie Garin-Davet and Steve Holmgren, and is presented with support from UnionDocs and The Cultural Services of the French Embassy. Special thanks to VTape, film Re-distribution, Heure Exquise and LightCone. 12

Thursday, April 11 at 8pm

Ars Nova Workshop ICP Orchestra

Ars Nova Workshop is thrilled to welcome the Instant Composers Pool Orchestra back to Philadelphia for the first time since 2011, when we presented the legendary Dutch ensemble for three consecutive nights. “If you can imagine a piece of music as an object that can be picked up and looked at from many angles and maybe even turned inside out,” writes MTV.com, “you can begin to understand the ICP Orchestra’s approach to making and treating music.” Instant Composers Pool (ICP) is a collective of Dutch composers and improvisers (and instant composers) that was formed in 1967 by Misha Mengelberg, Han Bennink, and Willem Breuker. The corresponding artist-run ICP Records has released over 40 albums, and is the longest running label of its kind. Over the years, the always-evolving ICP Orchestra has collaborated with giants of the experimental music world, such as Derek Bailey, Peter Brötzmann, Evan Parker, Anthony Braxton, John Tchicai, and Alan Silva. The current line-up for the ICP Orchestra consists of nine of the most innovative voices from around the globe, including co-founder and drummer Bennink, the saxophonists/clarinetists Michael Moore and Ab Baars, and the trombonist Wolter Wierbos (ICP co-founder Mengelberg will not be performing). From ragtime to swing, bop to free jazz, classical to carnival, the ICP Orchestra continues to be at the forefront of the creative music scene they helped create over four decades ago. $15 general admission, $10 IHP members

Friday, April 12 at 7:30pm

Cinedelphia Film Festival David Goodis and The Burglars The Burglars

dir. Henri Verneuil, France, 1971, 35mm, 119 min.

Pre-screening panel discussion on Goodis’ work and life, moderated by local film writer Samm Deighan, and featuring Inquirer film critic Steven Rea, writer and Poe expert Edward Pettit, NoirCon founder Lou Boxer and crime novelist Duane Swierczynski. Though he spent a stint living and working in New York and L.A., ihousephilly.org

The Burglars noir novelist David Goodis (1917-1967) was born and raised in Philadelphia. The city left an indelible stamp on his work and his fixation with Philadelphia’s poor urban areas and criminal life, as well as his tendency to sympathize with the city’s outsiders and outlaws often show up in his fiction. His novels such as The Burglar, Of Tender Sin, The Wounded and the Slain, and Down There focus on criminals, fugitives, hard luck cases and lives gone wrong. These compelling stories attracted filmmakers, many of them French, where Goodis’ work is more popular than the U.S., and a number of his novels were adapted into wellknown films, such as Truffaut’s Shoot the Piano Player (1960). French director Henri Verneuil made a second adaptation of Goodis’ novel The Burglars (1971) aka Le Casse, which was also partly a remake of a ’57 version of the film scripted by Goodis, shot in Philadelphia, directed by Philadelphian Paul Wendkos and starring Jayne Mansfield. Verneuil’s version stars Omar Sharif and Jean-Paul Belmondo. A dirty police inspector pursues a gang of burglars who are seeking out a cache of emeralds. This Euro-crime film is relatively obscure within the United States, but became known for a famous car chase sequence through the streets of Athens, some impressive cinematography from the prolific Claude Renoir, and a great score from composer Ennio Morricone. This stunt heavy, noir tinged heist film is an entertaining look at Goodis’ Philadelphia by way of Europe.

Saturday, April 13 at 7pm

The Janus Collection Red Desert

dir. Michelangelo Antonioni, Italy/France, 1964, 35mm, 117 min., Italian with English subtitles

Michelangelo Antonioni’s 1960s panoramas of contemporary alienation were decade-defining artistic events, and Red Desert, his first color film, is perhaps his most epochal. This provocative look at the spiritual desolation of the technological age—about a disaffected woman, brilliantly portrayed by Antonioni muse Monica Vitti, wandering through a bleak industrial landscape beset by power plants and environmental toxins, and tentatively flirting with her husband’s coworker, played by Richard Harris—continues to keep viewers spellbound. With one startling, painterly composition after another —of abandoned fishing cottages, electrical towers, looming docked ships—Red Desert creates a nearly apocalyptic image of its time, and confirms Antonioni as cinema’s preeminent poet of the modern age.

Wednesday, April 17 at 7pm

Archive Fever! 4.0

Cinema Komunisto dir. Mila Turajlic, Serbia, 2010, digital, 100min., Serbo-Croatian with English subtitles

Recommended as a ‘must-see’ by critics of the Wall Street Journal and indieWIRE, and proclaimed as the ultimate festival film at Tribeca Film Festival, Cinema Komunisto takes us on a journey through the crumbling remains of Tito’s film industry, exploring the rise and fall of the cinematic illusion called Yugoslavia. Using rare footage from dozens of forgotten Yugoslav films, never-seenbefore archive from film sets and Tito’s private screenings, the documentary recreates the narrative of a country, the stories told on screen and the ones hidden behind it. Stars such as Richard Burton, Sofia Loren, and Orson Welles add a touch of glamour to the national effort, appearing in super-productions financed by the state. Tito’s personal projectionist who showed him films every night for 32 years, his favorite film director, the most famous actor of partisan films, and the boss of the central film studios with secret police links all tell how the myth of Yugoslavia was constructed on the screen. Fiction and reality diverged until it all collapsed, leaving behind rotting sets and film clips from a country that no longer exists. Thursday, April 18 at 7pm

Not-So-Silent Cinema presents Buster Keaton Shorts

Live musical accompaniment performed by Kyle Tuttle (banjo), Andy Bergman (clarinet) and Brendan Cooney (piano). Stumbling through shooting galleries, trains, secret societies, and falling houses Buster Keaton delivers outrageous stunts and antics (all with the famous deadpan delivery that earned him the nickname “The Great Stone Face”) in 3 classic comedic shorts. Enjoy these films along with Brendan Cooney’s fresh new original scores, complementing the films with a classic 1920’s urban-Americana soundscape, combining many strands of American roots music including ragtime, blues, bluegrass, and hot jazz.

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The Goat The Goat dir. Buster Keaton, Malcolm St. Clair, US, 1921, HD, 27 min., silent with live accompaniment

A rambling tale of pranks, chases, and mistaken identities as Buster Keaton finds himself mistaken for an escaped felon. The High Sign dir. Buster Keaton, Edward F. Cline, US, 1921, HD, 21 min., silent with live accompaniment

Keaton finds himself recruited by a secret society to assassinate a local millionaire… the same millionaire who has just hired him as a bodyguard. One Week dir. Buster Keaton, Edward F. Cline, US, 1920, HD, 19 min., silent with live accompaniment

Two newlyweds, Keaton and Sybil Seely, receive a build-it-yourself house as a wedding gift. The house can be built, supposedly, in “one week.”

Scenes of the life of Andy Warhol

Friday, April 19 at 7pm

The Cinema is Jonas Mekas Friends and Artists

Introduction and Q&A with Jonas Mekas This program features short films by Jonas Mekas documenting some of the most important artists of the 20th century, who also happened to be his close friends in New York. Film portraits focusing on Andy Warhol, The Living Theater (Street Songs), and George Maciunas show that Mekas’ contributions consist not only of his personal diary footage, but also of valuable documentation of how these artists worked and lived. Film Magazine of the Arts dir. Jonas Mekas, US, 1963, 16mm, color, 20 min.

“In Spring, 1963 Show Magazine called me and asked that I make a film on arts in New York. I told them, why did they want me to make it – didn’t they know I was a bit unusual? … ‘We want something unusual,’ they said. So I went out and made a newsreel on arts. Show people looked at the rough cut of the film and became very angry. ‘But there is nothing about Show Magazine and DuPont fabrics in the movie,’ they said. ‘What has that to do with the arts in New York!’ I said. The battle was short. The film was destroyed. Really, I have no idea what they did with it. This workprint of the first Film Magazine of the Arts is the only print in existence, as far as I know.” — J.M.

Scenes of the Life of Andy Warhol dir. Jonas Mekas, US, 1990, 16mm, color, 36 min.

Music: Velvet Underground, recorded in 1966. Opening segment taped at the Dom at the public performance with Nico. End section: Mass for Andy Warhol at St. Patrick’s Cathedral. The film is made up of film diaries related to Andy Warhol from the years 1965-1982. The “cast” includes Lou Reed, Nico, Edie Sedgwick, Gerard Malanga, Andy Warhol, Allen Ginsberg, Barbara Rubin, Tuli Kupferberg, John Lennon, Yoko Ono, George Maciunas, Paul Morrissey, John Kennedy Jr., Caroline Kennedy, Mick Jagger and many others. Completed in June 1990. Street Songs dir. Jonas Mekas, France, 1983, 16mm, b/w, 11 min.

Made 1966/1983, Street Songs is a 1966 performance, in France, of a section of The Living Theater’s “Mysteries and Smaller Pieces.” Zefiro Torna, or Scenes from the Life of George Maciunas dir. Jonas Mekas, US, 1992, 16mm, color, 35 min.

A tribute from one Lithuanian expatriate to another, Zefiro Torna is Jonas Mekas at his most heartfelt. Comprised of diary footage of Maciunas from the mid-’50s until his tragically early passing in the mid-’70s, this early-’90s production is a beautiful portrait of a lost friend and living spirit. – Anthology Film Archives 16

Saturday, April 20 at 2pm

The Cinema is Jonas Mekas

My Friends! The Life and Work of Jonas Mekas Panel discussion with Jonas Mekas, Amy Taubin, Jackie Raynal and Ed Halter, moderated by Andrew Lampert. This discussion will utilize expert panelists, each of whom has a different connection to Mekas’ life and work. They will share their perspectives on his film and video practice, the influence he has had on moving image culture, and how he became the central figure in American independent film. Jonas Mekas was born in 1922 in the farming village of Semeniškiai, Lithuania. In 1944, he and his brother Adolfas were taken by the Nazis to a forced labor camp in Elmshorn, Germany. After the War, the UN Refugee Organization brought both brothers to New York City. Two weeks after his arrival he borrowed money to buy his first Bolex camera and began to record brief moments of his life. He soon got deeply involved in the American Avant-Garde film movement, creating Film Culture magazine, the Movie Journal column in The Village Voice, the artist-run distribution collective the FilmMakers Cooperative, and Anthology Film Archives, one of the world’s largest and most important repositories of and venues for avantgarde cinema. During this time he completed 20 books of poetry and over 74 films varying from 4 minutes to 284 minutes in length. His film Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania has been selected for preservation by the Library of Congress when it was added to the National Film Registry in 2006. Andrew Lampert is a filmmaker and Curator of Collections at Anthology Film Archives. Lampert is at the forefront of a new generation of artists engaging with film, video and performance, revisiting and extending the dialogue around an expanded cinema. Over the last decade his works have been widely exhibited at festivals, in cinemas, in galleries, performance venues, museums, and elsewhere. Amy Taubin is a film critic and current contributing editor to both Film Comment and the British magazine Sight & Sound. She was the film and television critic for The Village Voice from 1987 to 2001. She has also written regularly for Millenium Film Journal and Artforum. ihousephilly.org

She has appeared in many notable avant-garde films including films by Jonas Mekas, Andy Warhol, Yvonne Rainer, and Michael Snow. Her film In the Bag is in the collection of The Museum of Modern Art and has been preserved by Anthology Film Archives with the support of a grant from the National Film Preservation Foundation. From 1983 to 1987, Taubin was the curator of video and film at the non-profit experimental performance space The Kitchen. She is the recipient of an “Art Historian/Teacher Award” (2004) at the School of Visual Arts where she teaches. Jackie Raynal is a filmmaker and film curator born in France. She made her directorial debut in 1962 with a short film documenting the Merce Cunningham Dance Company. Her 1969 feature film Deux Fois won the Grand Jury Prize at the Toulon Film Festival (1969) and the Grand Prize at the Hyères Festival (1972). The short New York Story won the Grand Prize (Golden Boomerang) at the 1981 Melbourne Film Festival. She was a principal member of the Zanzibar Group, a collective of filmmakers making radical films in France in the 1960s-70s. Moving to NYC in the 1970s, she was film curator at the Bleecker Street and Carnegie Hall Cinemas until the 1990s. Raynal has recently completed a number of documentaries on filmmakers, including the 2000 short documentary, Notes on Jonas Mekas. Ed Halter is a critic and curator living in New York City. He is a founder and director of Light Industry, a venue for film and electronic art in Brooklyn, New York, and his writing has appeared in Artforum, The Believer, Bookforum, Cinema Scope, frieze, Little Joe, Mousse, Rhizome, Triple Canopy, The Village Voice and elsewhere. He is a 2009 recipient of the Creative Capital | Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant, and his book “From Sun Tzu to Xbox: War and Video Games” was published in 2006. From 1995 to 2005, he programmed and oversaw the New York Underground Film Festival, and he has curated screenings and exhibitions at Artists Space, BAM, Institute of Contemporary Art, London, The Museum of Modern Art, and Tate Modern, as well as the cinema for Greater New York 2010 at MoMA PS1 and the film and video program for the 2012 Whitney Biennial. He teaches in the Film and Electronic Arts department at Bard College, and is currently writing a critical history of contemporary experimental cinema in America. Free admission.

Saturday, April 20 at 7pm

The Cinema is Jonas Mekas

Selections from The 365 Days Project dir. Jonas Mekas, US, 2007, digital, 137 min.

Introduction and Q&A with Jonas Mekas This program features selections of the short digital films Mekas posted daily throughout 2007. Combining brand-new footage with older material unearthed and made public for the first time, The 365 Days Project was both a bold leap into the digital world for Mekas and a natural extension of the approach to cinema– small-scale, intimate, and direct–that he had been practicing in his diary films for decades. – Anthology Film Archives “It’s a big struggle and I’m still struggling now. Poets have always struggled. The haiku, for example, is the art-form which absolutely comes closest to reality and is also the formal ecstasy of what poetry can achieve. In cinema, the camera can only film reality, that is, what is in front of it. But how to achieve this formally? It’s a question of essence and how to structure it, so that it can contain reality and at the same time transport it into a completely different plane! It is a challenge I think that poets have—and we will be facing it forever. I have been trying in The 365 Days Project, I continue to try today, and I will keep trying until the day I won’t be able to try anymore.” – J.M., from an interview with Brooklyn Rail magazine

Deux Fois

Drop City

Sunday, April 21 at 7pm

Thursday, April 25 at 7pm

Deux Fois

Drop City

An Evening with Jackie Raynal

Living on the Margins: Three Documentaries

dir. Jackie Raynal, France, 1969, 35mm, b/w, French with English subtitles

dir. Joan Grossman, US, 2012, digital, 82 min.

Introduction and Q&A with Jackie Raynal

Drop City is a story of whimsical innovation and the drive to create a new civilization on the scrapheap of a wasteful society. Often cited as the first rural commune of the 1960s, Drop City was an experimental community on the plains of Southern Colorado that blended practices of art, architecture, and resourceful living in ways that came to define a global counterculture.

IHP welcomes French filmmaker, film editor, critic, and curator Jackie Raynal to present her landmark feature film debut Deux Fois. Raynal began her career in the 1960s as the film editor for New Wave directors such as Eric Rohmer, JeanDaniel Pollet, and Jean Eustache. Challenged by producer and patroness Sylvina Boissonnas to stop editing other people’s films and make her own, Raynal traveled to Barcelona, where she completed Deux Fois in a single week. One of the most enigmatic films of the Zanzibar group (which included Philippe Garrel, Pierre Clementi, and Nico), it is composed of a series of unconnected episodes, some repeated twice. The fairy-tale phrase “once upon a time” is turned on its head, as is the logic of classical film construction. With herself as the film’s “star,” Raynal announces each of the film’s sequences and proclaims, theatrically and ironically, “tonight will be the end of meaning.” Deux Fois has been described by Noël Burch as “an intentionally elementary meditation on certain primary functions of film, that could be said to be at the roots of film editing as such— expectations, exploring the picture, perceptual memory, relationships between on-screen and off-screen space—all explored in a series of free-standing sequence shots of perfect simplicity.” ihousephilly.org

The Droppers’ vision of life-as-art was evidenced in their iconographic dwellings, which were based on Buckminster Fuller’s vision for geodesic domes and the crystalline designs of Steve Baer, a pioneer in fractal geometric design and solar energy, who used Drop City as a lab for experimental building. The Droppers built the community for nearly nothing from salvaged materials, including culled lumber and chopped-out car tops. In 1966 Fuller honored Drop City with his Dymaxion Award for “poetically economic structural accomplishments.” But the flood of attention led to overcrowding. By late 1969 all of the long-time residents had departed and the community was abandoned to transients. By 1973, Drop City had become the world’s first geodesic ghost town. The story is brought to life through interviews with former Droppers (artists, writers, inventors, and activists), hand-drawn animation, and a trove of archival material.

My Name is Oona

Sarabande

Friday, April 26 at 7pm

Friday, April 26 at 9pm

Canyon Luminaries Program 1: Canyon Classics of the Bay Area

Canyon Luminaries Program 2: Through the Looking Glass

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Curator and film scholar Irina Leimbacher in person

Canyon Classics of the Bay Area opens with early films by James Broughton (Mother’s Day) and Sidney Peterson (The Lead Shoes) that were screened at and supported by Frank Stauffacher’s legendary Art in Cinema series at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Then, moving from urban angst to celebrations of nature, we have short gems from the 1960s: Bruce Baillie’s single take of a rose-covered fence, All My Life, and Gunvor Nelson’s portrait of her young daughter, My Name is Oona. We conclude back in the city center with Ernie Gehr’s rigorous and unsettling silent city symphony Side/Walk/Shuttle.

Nathaniel Dorsky once said that his films were “of the world as it comes through the hole of his Bolex camera.” The three filmmakers in this program use the Bolex and 16mm film as their “looking” glass. Guy Sherwin’s 100-foot-roll studies reveal the power of his spring-wind camera to philosophically contemplate and comment on light, temporality, and life. In 19 Scenes Relating to a Trip to Japan, Konrad Steiner places moving images next to each other to reflect on the dynamism and transience of relation and the force of the cinematic frame. Finally Nathaniel Dorsky’s Sarabande is a continuous, moving experience of discovery of the mysterious world that we see—but usually miss—every day.

Mother’s Day dir. James Broughton, US, 1948, 16mm, 15 min.

The Lead Shoes dir. Sidney Peterson, US, 1949, 16mm, 18 min.

All My Life dir. Bruce Baillie, US, 1966, 16mm, 3 min.

My Name is Oona

Short Film Series dir. Guy Sherwin, US, 1976-1999, 16mm, 33 min., silent, 18 fps

19 Scenes Relating to a Trip to Japan dir. Konrad Steiner, US, 1998, 35mm, 15 min.

Sarabande dir. Nathaniel Dorsky, US, 2008, 16mm, 15 min., silent, 18 fps

dir. Gunvor Nelson, US, 1969, 16mm, 10 min.

Side/Walk/Shuttle dir. Ernie Gehr, US, 1991, 16mm, 41 min., silent

Saturday, April 27

Filadelfia Latin American Film Festival The 2nd Annual Filadelfia Latin American Film Festival (FLAFF) returns to International House on Saturday, April 27, 2013. Its film line-up includes two Philadelphia Premieres: Violeta Went to Heaven, (Chile, 2011), a film about the iconic singer Violeta Parra and 7 Boxes, (Uruguay, 2012), an action thriller about a young man who unknowingly becomes an accomplice in a dangerous crime. For additional information on these and other films and a festival schedule, please visit www.flaff.org Tuesday, April 30 at 7pm

Scribe Producers’ Forum

...But Then, She’s Betty Carter dir. Michelle Parkerson, US, 1980, 16mm, 53 min.

Director Michelle Parkerson in person! This lively film is an unforgettable portrait of legendary jazz vocalist Betty Carter. Uncompromised by commercialism throughout her long career, she forged alternative criteria for success - including founding her own recording company and raising her two sons as a single parent. Parkerson’s special film captures Carter’s musical genius, her paradoxical relationship with the public and her fierce dedication to personal and artistic independence. Storme: The Lady of the Jewel Box dir. Michelle Parkerson, US, 1987, digital, 21 min.

Storme DeLarverie looks back on her time touring, during the 1950s and ‘60s, as a mistress of ceremonies and sole male impersonator of the legendary Jewel Box Revue, America’s first integrated female impersonation show. Producers’ Forums are supported by the National Endowment for the Arts, Philadelphia Cultural Fund, and the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts $10 general admission, $8 students/seniors, $5 Scribe/IHP members

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... But then, she’s be t t y carter

MAY An Injury to One

Wednesday, May 1 at 7pm

May Day: Images of Work & Revolution An Injury to One

dir. Travis Wilkerson, US, 2003, 16mm, 53 min.

An Injury to One provides a corrective—and absolutely compelling—glimpse of a particularly volatile moment in early 20th century American labor history: the rise and fall of Butte, Montana. Specifically, it chronicles the mysterious death of Wobbly organizer Frank Little, a story whose grisly details have taken on a legendary status in the state. Much of the extant evidence is inscribed upon the landscape of Butte and its surroundings. Thus, a connection is drawn between the unsolved murder of Little and the attempted murder of the town itself. Butte’s history was entirely shaped by its exploitation by the Anaconda Mining Company, which, at the height of WWI, produced ten percent of the world’s copper from the town’s depths. War profiteering and the company’s extreme indifference to the safety of its employees (mortality rates in the mines were higher than in the trenches of Europe) led to Little’s arrival. “The Agitator” found in the desperate, agonized miners overwhelming support for his ideas, which included the abolishment of the wage system and the establishment of a socialist commonwealth. In August 1917, Little was abducted by still-unknown assailants who hung him from a railroad bridge. Pinned to his chest was a note that read 3’-7’-77”,

dimensions of a Montana grave. Eight thousand people attended his funeral, the largest in Butte’s history. The murder provides An Injury to One with a taut, suspenseful narrative, but it isn’t the only story. Butte’s history is bound with the entire history of the American left, the rise of McCarthyism, the destruction of the environment, and even the birth of the detective novel. Archival footage mixes with deftly deployed intertitles, while the lyrics to traditional mining songs are accompanied by music from William Oldham, Jim O’Rourke, and the band Low, producing an appropriately moody, effulgent and strangely out-of-time soundtrack. The result is a unique film/video hybrid that combines painterly images, incisive writing, and a bold graphic sensibility to produce an articulate example of the aesthetic and political possibilities offered by filmmaking in the digital age. Preceded by: Misery in Borinage (Misère au Borinage) dir. Joris Ivens, Henri Storck, Belgium, 1933, HD, 36 min., silent, Flemish and French intertitles with English subtitles

Through documentary and re-enactments this landmark film frames the aftermath of a miner’s strike in the Walloon region of Belgium from the workers’ point of view. As the workers’ living conditions worsen the mining company remains steadfast in its opposition to the efforts of organized labor. This brutal portrait of struggle and resistance is one of the most important political films ever made. 22

Thursday, May 2 at 7pm

Friday, May 3 at 7pm

May Day: Images of Work and Revolution

dir. Stewart Bird, Rene Lichtman, Peter Gessner, US, 1970, video, 55 min.

dir. Paul Schrader, US, 1978, 35mm, 114 min.

Produced in Association with the League of Revolutionary Black Workers

Paul Schrader (writer of Taxi Driver and American Gigolo) made his directorial debut with this gritty story of loyalty and corruption. The corruption, in this case, comes in the form of a union that is consistently undermining the workers as they fight over their paltry wages in an all too familiar class struggle. Three friends (Harvey Keitel, Yaphet Kotto and Richard Pryor) decide to take matters into their own hands by stealing from the union. From there things spiral out of control as those in power resort to ever more dramatic measures to keep their secrets from the very workers they are supposed to represent. Blue Collar is an underrecognized gem from the peak of the New American Cinema and a scathing critique of American greed and power.

Finally Got the News

Finally Got the News is a forceful, unique documentary that reveals the activities of the League of Revolutionary Black Workers inside and outside the auto factories of Detroit. Through interviews with the members of the movement, footage shot in the auto plants, and footage of leafleting and picketing actions, the film documents their efforts to build an independent black labor organization that, unlike the UAW, will respond to worker’s problems, such as the assembly line speed-up and inadequate wages faced by both black and white workers in the industry. Beginning with a historical montage, from the early days of slavery through the subsequent growth and organization of the working class, Finally Got the News focuses on the crucial role played by the black worker in the American economy. Also explored is the educational ‘tracking’ system for both white and black youth, the role of African American women in the labor force and relations between white and black workers. Preceded by:

The Real Thing

Blue Collar

Preceded by:

Meet King Joe prod. John Sutherland Productions, US, 1949, 16mm, color, 9 min.

A relic from the post-war boom in American economic growth, this animated film is a perfect example of capitalist propaganda. The main character “Joe” represents the typical American worker who, evidently, doesn’t realize how good his life really is compared to other workers around the world.

dir. Peter Schnall, US, 1984, video, 36 min.

When the Coca Cola bottling plant in Guatemala City was abruptly closed in 1984, 460 workers lost jobs. The owners claimed bankruptcy, the workers cried foul play and refused to leave the plant. The Real Thing tells the union’s story, and of the ultimately successful year long occupation of the plant, as it examines the use of bankruptcy as a method to bust unions and the neglect of foreign responsibilities by U.S. based multinationals. Narrated by Martin Sheen.

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Sunday, May 5 at 11am

Exhumed Films presents eX-Fest III

Exhumed Films departs from its traditional horror programming for this 12-hour marathon showcasing exploitation films across multiple genres. As is the case with the 24 Hour Horror-thon, all film selections are a secret and are only revealed to the audience as each film is projected. For fans of cult and genre films, this event is not to be missed! $26 general admission, $20 IHP members

Thursday, May 9 at 7pm

Respite dir. Harun Farocki, Netherlands/Germany, 2007, video, b/w, 39 min., silent

Respite consists of silent black-and-white films shot at Westerbork, a Dutch refugee camp established in 1939 for Jews fleeing Germany. In 1942, after the occupation of Holland, its function was reversed by the Nazis and it became a ‘transit camp.’ In 1944, the camp commander commissioned a film, shot by photographer Rudolph Breslauer. By exhuming the scattered fragments and traces of the phantom film (intertitle cards, ideas for the scenario, graphic elements), Harun Farocki inscribes the Dutch footage within the genre of the corporate film.

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In Comparison

Once called “Germany’s best-known unknown filmmaker,” Harun Farocki makes experimental documentaries and “essay films” that explore the use of images and ways of seeing, as well as questioning and commenting on the nature of film-making itself. In this retrospective series, IHP presents some of Farocki’s most recent work that has screened in (White Cube) gallery settings as well as (Black Box) cinema settings.

“Bricks are the resonating fundamentals of society. Bricks are layers of clay that sound like records, just simply too thick. Like records they appear in series, but every brick is slightly different– not just another brick in the wall. Bricks create spaces, organize social relations, and store knowledge on social structures. They resonate in a way that tells us if they are good enough or not. Bricks form the fundamental sound of our societies, but we haven’t learned to listen to them.

Black Box/White Cube

“The tone is that of wonder, the inflection is that of astonishment: in Farocki’s cinema, a child’s sense of surprise is never far away, but it always surges up most forcefully when he is asking himself about the status and nature of images.” – Thomas Elsaesser, Senses of Cinema Eye Machine I, II, and III dir. Harun Farocki, Germany, 2001-2004, video, b/w and color, 65min., German with English subtitles

In Eye Machine I, II, and III, Harun Farocki utilizes a vast collection of image sequences from laboratories, archives and production facilities to explore modern weapons technology. This trilogy examines “intelligent” image processing techniques such as electronic surveillance, mapping, and object recognition, in order to take a closer look at the relationship between man, machine, and modern warfare.

dir. Harun Farocki, France/Germany, 2009, video, color, 61min., German with English subtitles

“Through different traditions of brick production Farocki’s film has our eyes and ears consider them in comparison and not in competition, not as clash of cultures. Farocki shows us various brick production sites in their colors, movements, and sounds. Brick burning, brick carrying, bricklaying, bricks on bricks, no off-commentary. 20 intertitles in 60 minutes tell us something about the temporality of working processes. The film shows us that certain production modes require their own duration and that cultures differentiate around the time of the brick.” – Ute Holl

Ladies and Gentlemen… The Fabulous Stains Friday, May 10 at 8pm

Ladyfest Philadelphia

Ladies and Gentlemen… The Fabulous Stains Rare 35mm archival print! dir. Lou Adler, US, 1982, 35mm, 87 min.

Introduction by rock critic Sara Sherr The original riot grrl film, Ladies and Gentlemen…The Fabulous Stains was tepidly made and not-actually-released by Paramount in the early 1980s. A tumultuous production and disastrous preview showings led the film to be shelved. When it later ended up on late-night TV and in repertory theaters it became a cult hit, inspiring rockers like Tobi Vail of Bikini Kill and Courtney Love to pick up their instruments. Recently orphaned Corrine “Third Degree” Burns (a 14-year-old Diane Lane) enlists her cousin (Laura Dern) and sister to launch a punk rock band, The Stains. Three rehearsals later, the band scores the opening ihousephilly.org

slot on a cross-country tour with aging metal act The Metal Corpses and British punk rockers The Looters. The Stains meteoric rise—and equally lightening-quick fall—owes more to TV exposure than to talent. Featuring real-life punks (Paul Simenon of The Clash, Steve Jones and Paul Cook of The Sex Pistols), outrageous fashions and The Stains’ post-punk hits “Waste of Time” and “Join the Professionals,” Ladies and Gentlemen…The Fabulous Stains is a sarcastic and hilarious look at the early 1980s punk scene. Sara Sherr is a Philadelphia-based rock critic and host of Sugar Town, a 12-year-old monthly music series for female and female-identified musicians, performers, and DJ’s. She co-ran independent booking agency Plain Parade from 2002-2006 and is an organizer for the Phreak N Queer Arts & Music Festival and Ladyfest Philadelphia.

Saturday, May 11 at 7pm

The Janus Collection Antonio Gaudi

dir. Hiroshi Teshigahara, Japan, 1984, 35mm, 72 min., Japanese with English subtitles

Catalan architect Antonio Gaudí (1852–1926) designed some of the world’s most astonishing buildings, interiors, and parks; Japanese director Hiroshi Teshigahara constructed some of the most aesthetically audacious films ever made. Here their artistry melds in a unique, enthralling cinematic experience. Less a documentary than a visual poem, Teshigahara’s Antonio Gaudí takes viewers on a tour of Gaudí’s truly spectacular architecture, including his massive, still-unfinished masterpiece, the Sagrada Familia cathedral in Barcelona. With camera work as bold and sensual as the curves of his subject’s organic structures, Teshigahara immortalizes Gaudí on film.

The Source Family Saturday, May 11 at 9pm

Living on the Margins: THREE Documentaries The Source Family

dir. Jodi Wille, Maria Demopoulos, US, 2012, digital, 92 min.

The Source Family was a radical experiment in ‘70s utopian living. Their outlandish style, popular health food restaurant, rock band, and beautiful women made them the darlings of Hollywood’s Sunset Strip; but their outsider ideals and the unconventional behavior of their spiritual leader, Father Yod, caused controversy with local authorities. They fled to Hawaii, leading to their dramatic demise. Years later, former family members surface and the rock band reforms, revealing how their time with Father Yod shaped their lives in the most unexpected ways. The Source Family provides an intimate, insiders’ view at this incredible group of people through their own archival photos, home movies, audio recordings and contemporary interviews with members of the family. Serving as a highly personal, insider’s guide to the counter-culture movement of the early ‘70’s, the film is inspired by the cult-classic book The Source: The Story of Father Yod, Ya Ho Wa 13, and The Source Family (Process Media) which was written by Isis Aquarian and Electricity Aquarian and edited by director Jodi Wille. Tuesday, May 14 at 7pm

Cetra

Un Cuento Chino Dir. Sebastian Borensztein, Argentina, 2011, video, color, 93 min.

In Buenos Aires, the bitter and methodic Roberto is a lonely man and the owner of a hardware store. One day, Roberto sees a ihousephilly.org

Chinese man named Jun being expelled from a taxi while he is watching the landing of airplanes in the airport, and he helps the man to stand up. Jun does not speak Spanish but shows Roberto a tattoo with an address on his arm. They go to this address and discover that the place belonged to Jun’s uncle that sold it three and half years ago. Roberto lodges Jun in his house and after a series of incidents, he finds a delivery boy to translate for Jun, and learns the dramatic story of his life. Friday, May 31 at 7pm Portrait of Jason New 35mm restored print! dir. Shirley Clarke, US, 1967, 35mm, b/w, 105 min.

Shirley Clarke’s feature length portrait of Jason Holiday is one of the most unique and significant works of American independent film from the 1960s. Culled from hours of footage shot by Clarke and partner Carl Lee over the course of one evening, Portrait of Jason is a fascinating and raw document. Holiday, née Aaron Payne, is riveting as he vacillates between recounting charming anecdotes from his past and opening up about the harsh realities of being black and gay in 1960s America, all with considerable goading from the off-screen voices of Clarke and Lee. Clarke’s film is unlike any other film made at the time and is often cited as her masterwork. This new restoration is part of Project Shirley, a four-year mission by Milestone Films to explore the life and work of Shirley Clarke by partnering with archives around the world to bring out the best versions of her films.

JUNE

Saturday, June 8 at 7pm

The Janus Collection

The Times of Harvey Milk dir. Robert Epstein, US, 1984, 35mm, 88 min.

A true twentieth-century trailblazer, Harvey Milk was an outspoken human rights activist and one of the first openly gay U.S. politicians elected to public office; even after his assassination in 1978, he continues to inspire disenfranchised people around the world. The Oscar-winning The Times of Harvey Milk, directed by Robert Epstein and produced by Richard Schmiechen, was as groundbreaking as its subject. One of the first feature documentaries to address gay life in America, it’s a work of advocacy itself, bringing Milk’s message of hope and equality to a wider audience. This exhilarating trove of original documentary material and archival footage is as much a vivid portrait of a time and place (San Francisco’s historic Castro District in the seventies) as a testament to the legacy of a political visionary.

Friday, June 14 at 7pm

Friday, June 28 at 7pm

In Bed with Ulysses

All Divided Selves

PRE-Bloomsday Screening

Living on the Margins: THREE Documentaries

dir. Alan Adelson, Kate Taverna, US, 2012, digital, 80min.

dir. Luke Fowler, UK, 2011, HD, color & b/w, 90 min.

In Bed with Ulysses is a riveting new documentary about James Joyce and the writing, publishing and censoring of his masterpiece Ulysses. Ulysses is widely acknowledged as one of the greatest and certainly the most controversial novel of the modern era, but few have ever read it. In Bed with Ulysses is not just for the dedicated Joyce fans, but for anyone interested in the fascinating story of an obsessed artist willing to sacrifice family, friends and admirers for the sake of his writing. Traditionally, public readings are done across the world on June 16, known as Bloomsday, the day in which the book takes place, (Philadelphia included; see The Rosenbach Museum and Library webpage at www.rosenbach.org). The film weaves wonderful archival footage, interviews and parts of staged readings of Ulysses into a wonderful documentary that covers the amazing life and work of Joyce including the famous attempts to ban the book, which led the most important censorship case in American legal history. The featured readings include acclaimed actress Kathleen Chalfant (Wit, Angels in America) as Molly Bloom, whose soliloquy is regarded as one the highlights of 20th century literature.

The social and cultural revolutions of the 1960s were spearheaded by the charismatic, guru-like figure of Glasgow born Psychiatrist R.D. Laing. In his now classic text “The Politics of Experience” (1967) Laing argued that normality entailed adjusting ourselves to the mystification of an alienating and depersonalizing world. Thus, those whom society labels as ‘mentally ill’ are in fact ‘hyper-sane’ travelers, conducting an inner voyage through aeonic time. The film concentrates on archival representations of Laing and his colleagues as they struggled to acknowledge the importance of considering social environment and disturbed interaction in institutions as significant factors in the etiology of human distress and suffering. All Divided Selves reprises the vacillating responses to these radical views and the less forgiving responses to Laing’s latter career shift; from eminent psychiatrist to enterprising celebrity. A dense, engaging, and lyrical collage—Fowler weaves archival material with his own filmic observations—marrying a dynamic soundtrack of field recordings with recorded music by Éric La Casa, Jean-Luc Guionnet, and Alasdair Roberts.

Friday, June 21 at 8pm Saturday, June 22 at 8pm Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair dir. Quentin Tarantino, US, 2004, 35mm, color, 215 min.

International House Philadelphia and Exhumed Films are proud to present an exclusive 35mm screening of Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair. This unique print, which is truly a director’s cut that combines Kill Bill: Volume 1 and Volume 2 and is on loan from director Quentin Tarantino himself, has only been screened twice before, at the Cannes Film Festival, and at the New Beverly Cinema in Los Angeles, and has remained in the director’s private collection ever since. Don’t miss your opportunity to be one of a handful of people worldwide to experience this saga the way that the director intended. $20 general admission, $17 IHP members

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Language Programs

Our Language Programs offer the opportunity to study a foreign language or improve English conversation skills. At our friendly and affordable sessions, the small class settings will allow you to quickly learn how to communicate clearly outside of the classroom and enhance skills that assist with future goals. To learn more, contact us at 215.895.6592 or languages@ihphilly.org and visit www.ihousephilly.org

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MANDARIN • SPANISH • KOREAN • FARSI Registration: May 13 – 17 from 9:30am – 4pm Class dates: May 28 – August 8

Become a Member at IHP! As a member supported organization, IHP depends upon member contributions to present our signature contemporary arts and cultural programs, and to continue providing a warm and welcoming environment for the thousands of people who come from around the world and call IHP home year after year. Please help IHP continue to serve our century-long mission by becoming a member today!

Flip back through the pages of this magazine, look at all the events taking place at IHP, and consider the variety of subjects covered, the ensuing conversations and dialogue inspired by them, and the way in which this unique programming engages the local and international community. It only happens at International House Philadelphia.

MEMBERSHIP AT INTERNATIONAL HOUSE PHILADELPHIA Individual Member: $60 annually • Young Friend: $50 annually • Student: $35 annually With your membership, you will receive free admission to most IHP films in International House’s Ibrahim Theater, as well as free and discounted admission to concerts, language classes and other events and programs presented at IHP. To discover the full benefits of IHP Membership, please call 215.387.5125 x2, or visit our website: www.ihousephilly.org/membership.

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Beyond Membership - Support our Annual Fund! You can make an even bigger impact on the cultural landscape of the Philadelphia region through the support of one of our Annual Funds. You choose how to direct your gift to one of three specific program areas: Residential Life, Arts & Humanities, and the Area of Greatest Need. By making a tax-deductible contribution to the IHP Annual Fund you take an active role in supporting the vital resources and services that are integral to the success of International House, and you help us to serve our Residents, Members, and the Philadelphia Community for Generations to come. Make a difference in the lives of others that will be felt around the world. Support our Annual Fund! The Arts + Humanities Fund The arts and humanities are an avenue for cultural, political, and social understanding. Through live performance, film, visual arts, and languages, your support allows IHP to present programs and events that successfully unite contemporary and emerging forms with classical traditions. Residential Life Fund Support our philosophy of educating outside of the classroom and help IHPâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s residents discover the Greater Philadelphia and global communities by contributing to the Residential Life Fund. Area of Greatest Need Your support of International House Philadelphia maintains a diverse and welcoming community for scholars from around the world and broadens the horizons of IHP Residents and the Philadelphia community through a wide range of Arts, Humanities, and Leadership Programs. When you give an unrestricted gift, IHP is able to direct your commitment to a budgeted area where there is the most need. IHPâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Members and Donors are integral to maintaining the important cultural exchange at International House through the Arts, Humanities, and Residential Programs. Please use the enclosed envelope to give today.

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A Unique Location for Your Next Event or Meeting! Whether you are planning a business conference, an intimate soiree, an executive meeting, or a large social event, International House Philadelphia has the space and services to meet your needs and make your event a success. Located in the heart of Philadelphia’s University City, IHP has over 8,500 square feet of available space with the capacity to meet the needs of groups as small as 10, or as large as 600. IHP’s Ibrahim Theater The Ibrahim Theater is a fully-equipped, multipurpose theater facility. Featuring a state-of-the-art concert sound-system, we can accommodate a variety of music presentations from small acoustic ensembles to fully amplified 10+ piece bands. The Ibrahim Theater is ideal for film and video screenings, with the capability to project 16mm and 35mm film as well as most video formats including DigiBeta, BetaSP, DVD, Blu-ray and miniDV. Additional devices can be incorporated into our system. There is also access from the stage, which is perfect for PowerPoint lectures and other visual presentations. Our lighting system is equipped with a digital lighting board. With a knowledgeable staff able to assist you, we can provide a complete package for most events. South America Room At almost 2,000 square feet, with a capacity of up to 150, South America is our most versatile space with a great view and an outdoor balcony. It is ideal for large seminars and classes, as well as receptions. Australia Lounge A uniquely designed atrium space, the Australia Lounge is an attractive setting for receptions, breakfasts, and as a breakout space for conferences, accommodating up to 100 for stand-up events and 50 for a seated gathering or meeting. Europe, Asia, Africa, and North America Rooms These rooms, which accommodate 10 to 60 people, are ideal for small board meetings, seminars, retreats, classes and conference breakout space. The Asia and Africa Rooms can be combined to form a larger meeting space. To inquire about hosting your event in IHP’s Ibrahim Theater or any of our other wonderful event spaces, please email events@ihphilly.org or call 215.895.6539.

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Great reasons to live at ihp • Free & Discounted admission to events • Convenient location • 24-hour security staff • Computer lab with web access • Resident cafÉ on premises • Leadership development programs • tv lounge + recreation center • discounted gYM membership • long And short term housing • laundry facilities & utilities included If you are a student, scholar, or professional trainee looking for an apartment or room in Philadelphia, consider International House. IHP is a multicultural residential center, and a source of distinctive arts and cultural programming. We are a warm and friendly living environment; a home for nearly 1,000 people from as many as 95 different countries around the world annually, including the US, who attend area colleges and universities. As a resident of International House, you’ll not only enjoy the privacy and quiet of our apartments and single rooms, you’ll also develop relationships while making friends with others from around the world, and become part of a unique community where all cultures are celebrated and shared. Our residents also enjoy the benefits of IHP membership, and get free admission and access to films, concerts, cultural events, art exhibits, leadership seminars, executive networking events and more throughout the year. Inquire today and start enjoying life at the intersection of Philadelphia and the World! housing@ihphilly.org, 215.895.6540, www.ihousephilly.org/student-housing

IHP Corporate Partnerships Residents and the greater community around International House Philadelphia benefit from many of the programs and events hosted at IHP year round. Some of those benefits are in part due to our many corporate and university partners. Citibank recently participated in our Welcome Back Week in September 2012. By tabling at the event, they had the opportunity to share with our residents, many of whom are from another country, their service to establish US credit by opening an international credit card. This can be challenging for many of our residents because a US social security card is generally required when establishing credit here. However, not with Citibank. By partnering with IHP, University City District can show case the magnificent changes in the area over the past 15 years and highlight some of their upcoming events to residents and IHP members watching one of our films in the Ibrahim Theatre. University of the Sciences was the first to sign up for our newly created University Partnering Program. With this agreement, they receive a host of benefits, but the greatest benefit is the one their students receive: free admission to IHP films and events! Contact our Corporate Relations Department at 215.895.6543 or thomasinat@ihphilly.org to learn more.

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I H P A l umni R e l a t i o ns The Alumni Relations office at IHP engages former residents with each other both in Philadelphia and abroad, and demonstrates IHPâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s strong commitment to serving its ever-growing international community â&#x20AC;&#x201C; fostering bonds of friendship for years to come. Known as the iWorld community, please consider how IHP can contribute to your own success! Think of iWorld as your gateway to a professional network of fellow alumni who can serve as collaborators, mentors, clients, and even potential employers and employees. If you used to live at International House Philadelphia, find out more about upcoming alumni events and learn more about the iWorld community by contacting the Alumni Relations office at 215.895.6598, or e-mail iworldihp@ihphilly.org.

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! Discounted parking for International House patrons is available at the Science Center Parking Garage, 3665 Market Street. A special rate of $5 per vehicle is effective after 4pm until 7am, Monday through Friday plus all day Saturday & Sunday. Please bring your parking stub to IHP’s Front Desk to be stamped when attending events. Plenty of street parking, free after 8pm, is available on Chestnut and Market Streets and throughout the neighborhood. Contact Us: General Information 215.387.5125 or info@ihphilly.org

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Staff

Executive Office Tanya Steinberg, President + CEO Clara Fomich, Office Manager Admissions + Resident Services Glenn D. Martin, Admissions + Resident Life Director Michael T. Beachem IV, Associate Director of Resident Life Edwin Garcia, Admissions Coordinator Emily Martin, Admissions Coordinator Yun Joon Park, Front Desk Coordinator Marlon Patton, Cashier + Front Desk Manager Institutional Advancement Arts, Communications, + Events William Parker, Director of Arts, Communications, + Events Austen Brown, Production Supervisor Sasha Dages, Marketing + Communications Manager Patrick DiGiacomo, Box Office + Membership Manager Justin Miller, Graphic Designer Robert Cargni Mitchell, Programs Curator + Projectionist Roshni Patel, Conference Center Manager Jesse Pires, Programs Curator Herb Shellenberger, Programs Office Manager Development Jessamyn Falcone, Development Services Manager Lauren Fenimore, Foundations Research Manager Sarvelia N. Peralta-Duran, Alumni Relations Director Thomasina R. Tafur, Corporate Relations Manager Building Services + Operations Lina Yankelevich, Finance + HR Director Angela Bachman, Finance Manager Moshe Caspi, Security Services + Systems Manager Deborah Sara Houda, Customer Service + Housekeeping Manager Larry Moore, Lead Security Guard Raj Persad, Building Operations + Maintenance Services Manager Alexander Rivkin, Information Systems + Technology Manager Althelson Towns, Lead Housekeeper Anna Wang, HR Coordinator Housekeeping, MAINTENANCE, + SECURITY Reginald Brown David Kodzo Gasonu Amar Persad Melvin Caranda Sylvie Hoeto Ronald Persaud Phillip Carter Yefim Klurfeld Natalia Savelyeva Joe Clinton Vipin Maxwell Ronald Smith Moifee Dorley Lulzim Myrtaj Linda Stanton Semere Dugasa Anthony Noah Robert Wooten

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International House Philadelphia is a multicultural residential center, a source of distinctive programming, and the embodiment of an ideal. It has a critical threefold mission: to maintain a diverse and welcoming community for scholars from around the world, while introducing them to the American experience; to broaden the horizons of its Residents and the larger community through high quality international arts and humanities programs; and to encourage cooperation and respect among the peoples of all nations. www.ihousephilly.org

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THE NEXUS BETWEEN INTERNATIONAL CULTURE AND INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS

The generous support of our Members, Friends and Benefactors allows International House Philadelphia to continue the tradition of offering lifelong learning through the Arts, Culture and Humanities to an increasing number of people each year.

Alpin W Cameron Foundation, Bartlett Foundation, Cetra Language Solutions, Citibank, Citizens Charitable Foundation, City Tap House, Compass Group, North America, Connelly Foundation. Doc Magrogans Oyster House, Dole Fresh Fruit Company, Dolfinger-Mcmahon Foundation, Elliott Lewis Corporation, Epam Systems, Inc., Exude Benefits Group, Inc., Fresh Grocer, Gawthrop Greenwood, PC, Great Lakes Brewing Company, Ikea Pennsylvania, Inc., International House Harrisburg, International House New York, Laura Solomon And Associates, Momentum Partners, LLC, Morgan Stanley Dean Witter, Oliver Fire Protection & Security, Philadelphia City Paper, Philadelphia Exhibitions Initiative, Philadelphia Foundation, Philadelphia Music Project, Philadelphia Runner, Philadelphia Weekly, Philip Rosenau Co., Inc., Progressive Business Publications, Prometrics, Inc., Reed Smith LLP, Rittenhouse Foundation, Rittenhouse Market, Russian Speaking Professionals Network, Sam And Charles Foundation, Scandinavian American Business Forum, Taste Of Norway, Trader Joeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, Tufenkian Artisan Carpets, University Of Pennsylvania, Wegmans King Of Prussia, Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., Zoll, LLC We are also thankful for the support of our in-kind donors and the many generous members and annual donors.