IHP Magazine, Spring 2015

Babette Mangolte / Zoe Strauss / Ulrike Ottinger / Nagisa Oshima / Chris Marker / & More

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Freak Orlando (p. 19)

La Dolce Vita

ta b l e o f contents 2 Calendar 6 Featured Series Directors in Focus: Nagisa Oshima 8 artist spotlight Bridge to Korea: Namsook Kwon & Sueim Koo 10 programs 12 April 24 May 38 June

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Cover: Juliet of the Spirits (p. 47)

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That Man from Rio (p. 34)

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Babette Mangolte: Camera Studies Babette Mangolte in Conversation 6:30pm (p. 12)

Babette Mangolte: Camera Studies The Gold Diggers 7pm (p. 12)

Global Gala Event Chihwaseon (Painted Fire) 7pm (p. 13)

All Around This World: African Dance and Movement with Adwoa Tacheampong 2pm (p. 13) Hairy Who & the Chicago Imagists 8pm (p. 14)

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Intercultural Journeys: Songs for Peace Family Concert Elena Moon Park: Rabbit Days and Dumplings 2pm (p. 20)

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Art Exhibition: Situations Shelby Donnelly 6pm (p. 23)

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Scribe Video Center Producers’ Forum On Strong Shoulders / United In Anger: A History of ACT UP 6:30pm (p. 15)

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Reelblack presents In The Morning / Fleecing Led Zeppelin 7pm (p. 17)

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Art Exhibition: Situations Shelby Donnelly (p. 23)

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A Global Gala Event - Art Exhibition Bridge to Korea Opening Reception 5:30pm (p. 21)

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Art Exhibition: Situations Shelby Donnelly 5pm (p. 23)

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Wayfaring: Conversations on Travel, Art & Culture Zoe Strauss 7pm (p. 15)

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City of Signs Umberto D 7pm (p. 18)

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Earth Day: Mass Movement to Mass Extinction In Marin County / Dead Earth / Dozer / Portrait #2: Trojan / Mountain Fire Personnel 7pm (p. 21)

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Archive Fever!

6.0 Harun Farocki Recent Work A New Product / Parallel I-IV 7pm (p. 24)

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Exhumed Films Andy Milligan Triple Feature: Torture Dungeon / Bloodthristy Butchers / Man with Two Heads 8pm (p. 16)

Janus Collection The Bad Sleep Well 7pm (p. 17)

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Ticket of No Return 7pm (p. 19)

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Earth Day: Mass Movement to Mass Extinction Double Feature Idaho Transfer / Glen and Randa 7pm (p. 22)

Family Matinee: Go Green Mia & the Migoo 2pm (p. 16)

Freak Orlando 2pm (p. 19) Dorian Gray in the Mirror of the Yellow Press 7pm (p. 20)

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Family Matinee: Go Green Pom Poko 2pm (p. 22) Red Grooms & Friends Hippodrome Hardware / Lurk / Tappy Toes 7pm (p. 23)

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Full Exposure Bestiaire 7pm (p. 24)

Exhumed Films presents eX-Fest 2015!

11am (p. 25) All Around This World Bhangra Dancing!

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Blueazul Productions and Minas present La Giara (The Water Jug): A Musical Drama In Concert 4pm (p. 31)

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Scribe Video Center Producers’ Forum Food Chains / Los Tabajadores 7pm (p. 28)

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6.0 Three films by Eddie Moses Boxer / Underdog / The Birthday 7pm (p. 32)

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Directors in Focus: Nagisa Oshima Death by Hanging 7pm (p. 35)

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Lupe / Sins of the Fleshapoids 7pm (p. 29)

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City of Signs The White Sheik (Lo Sciecco Bianco) 7pm (p. 32)

Nicolas Philibert Double Feature Louvre City / La Maison de la Radio 7pm (p. 30)

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Stations of the Elevated / Claw 7pm (p. 33)

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GLOBAL GALA: KOREA 6:30pm (p. 28)

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Family Matinee: Go Green Never Cry Wolf 2pm (p. 30) Janus Collection Children of Paradise 7pm (p. 31)

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Family Matinee: Mythical Monsters & Beasts King Kong 2pm (p. 34) Motion Pictures That Man from Rio 7pm (p. 34)

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Directors in Focus: Nagisa Oshima Diary of a Shinjuku Thief 7pm (p. 35)

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Directors in Focus: Nagisa Oshima Boy 7pm (p. 36)

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Ottawa Animation Festival Welcome to Kanata 2pm (p. 36) Directors in Focus: Nagisa Oshima The Man Who Left His Will on Film 5pm (p. 37) The Ceremony 8pm (p. 38)

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Scribe Video Center Producers’ Forum Evolution of a Criminal / Stolen Dreams II 7pm (p. 40)

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Chris Marker Feature Program Level Five 7pm (p. 41)

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Family Matinee: Mythical Monsters and Beasts The 7th Voyage of Sinbad 2pm (p. 41) Janus Collection Eraserhead 7pm (p. 42)

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Chris Marker Shorts Program To Chris Marker, an Unsent Letter / Description of a Memory 7pm (p. 40)

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Hard to be a God 7pm (p. 43)

City of Signs Mid-August Lunch 7pm (p. 44)

Sagrada: The Mystery of Creation 7pm (p. 43)

Motion Pictures The Adventures of Baron Munchausen 7pm (p. 45)

Family Matinee: Mythical Monsters and Beasts Clash of the Titans 2pm (p. 46) Archive Fever!

6.0 Juliet of the Spirits (Giulietta degli Spiriti) 7pm (p. 47) Archive Fever!

6.0 How Strange to be Named Federico 9:30pm (p. 47)

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F e at u r e d series

Directors in Focus: Nagisa Oshima

Often called the Godard of the East, the esteemed Japanese director Nagisa Oshima was one of the most provocative film artists of the twentieth century, and his works challenged and shocked the cinematic world for decades. Following his rise to prominence at Shochiku, Oshima struck out to form his own production company, Sozo-sha, in the early sixties. That move ushered in the prolific period of his career that gave birth to the five films collected here. Unsurprisingly, this studio renegade was fascinated by stories of outsiders— serial killers, rabid hedonists, and stowaway misfits are just some of the social castoffs you’ll meet in these audacious, cerebral entries in the New Wave surge that made Japan a hub of truly daredevil moviemaking. As part of IHP’s continuing programming of the Janus Collection, we are pleased to offer these five newly restored 35mm gems to our audiences.

Wednesday, May 27 at 7pm Death by Hanging Thursday, May 28 at 7pm Diary of a Shinjuku Thief Friday, May 29 at 7pm Boy Saturday, May 30 at 5pm The man who left his will on film (Tokyo senso sengo hiwa) Saturday, May 30 at 8pm The Ceremony

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ARTIST S P OTLI G H T Bridge to Korea

harsh environment. They are the ones who desire freedom and peace.They are the ones who long for happiness in dreams and visions. No one can live alone in this world, but each person has to fight with oneself to survive. This is the message of the wilderness discovered through the painting.

Someday, the wilderness will end. However, with the answer to life and vision for the future, we will realize that today is that day and all will become new around us. As an artist, I continuously seek to express this message. I am not the one who paints, but only following what it requires of me.

Presented in partnership with The Da Vinci Art Alliance.

Artist Statement: Sueim Koo

Please join us for an opening reception on Thursday, April 22 from 5:30-7pm to open Namsook Kwon and Sueim Koo’s “Bridge to Korea.” The exhibit will be on view through the end of June 2015, in IHP’s East Alcove on the Main Level.

Artist Statement: Namsook Kwon

I paint wilderness. Because life is a wilderness.

Those without directions live and die at the same place. Nevertheless, wilderness is beautiful for those who walk toward the future, as they always have dreams and visions. I strive to illustrate various lives of the wilderness. In the barren land, the acacia tree survived, deeply rooted there.

It discovered the water of life with thanksgiving and joy.My painting started with the acacia tree I saw in Israel. The lives of people are depicted through the tree that grew so strong despite the

My first diary began like this: “The light purple rays of the sounds of the violin playing on the radio radiated towards me.” It was February 1977.

I was seventeen years old. My hometown was Jong-Ro, the central part of the capital city, Seoul, which was being destroyed in accordance with our government’s Country Modernization Plan, begun in 1975. When I saw bulldozers breaking down houses one by one, I felt that the experience and significance of my teenage years were being torn down. The sorrows that I felt while watching the demolition of Jong-Ro filled many pages of my diary. This is how my adolescent years went by.

Re-reading my diary over thirty years later, and

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reliving the moments captured in the pages – filled with happiness, sorrow, and even pain – was an absolute thrill. Today, the fifty-plus year-old me is now creating landscapes using the emotions I had felt as a teenage girl and recorded in my diary.

Therefore, although I depict landscapes, those landscapes lie beyond the geographic imagery itself. I translate my diary into landscapes, so each landscape has its own story. I wish to express the love, hope and despair of my teenage years using rice papers and other papers I’ve decorated myself. As if seeking the forgotten and precious memories, I attach these papers on the canvas piece by piece.

The process of choosing colors, defining shapes and patterns of rice papers is not about creating something aesthetically pleasing. Rather, these are the means by which I reconstruct broken memories and seek to recover my feelings.

Therefore, my paintings are dream-like and phantom-like, and provide clues to the turbulent and churning emotions of my youth. I orchestrate the colors and forms as soft and romantic musical pitches so that my diary landscapes become an elegiac portrayal of my state of mind.

The title of the work with filigree is, “How many times did I wet my cheeks with the glow of the sunset,” and the title of the work with colorful landscape images across nine panels is, “It excited

me when it was gusty, rainy and thundering. So I sang, I knew there will be rainbow soon.”

These images represent the consolation, inspiration and rediscovery of my past, present and future. And my diary is still being continued.

Da Vinci Art Alliance

Da Vinci Art Alliance is a public, non-profit 501(c)(3) artists’ organization located in South Philadelphia.The organization was founded in 1931 to serve the needs of professional artists and artisans in the Delaware Valley. Da Vinci currently has over 140 members and is supported through membership dues, gallery/studio rentals, sales commissions, grants, and donations. It holds exhibitions of members’ and non-members’ artwork as well as special events, workshops, performances, poetry readings, and lectures, and keeps its members informed on community events, news, and opportunities. The mission of the non-profit artists-run organization is to support its members and to further community-based arts, cultural, and educational exchanges.

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programs Archive Fever! 6.0 Central to our visual culture, the archive is a repository for personal memories, shared histories, objects, and documents through which we revisit the history of our time. In this series, we explore the myriad ways in which archives, and archival and found materials, are central to the works of film and video artists discovering the dynamic possibilities within them.

Thursday, April 30 at 7pm A New Product / Parallel I-IV Wednesday, May 20 at 7pm Boxer / Underdog / The Birthday / Saturday, June 27 at 7pm Juliet of the Spirits (Giulietta degli Spiriti) Saturday, June 27 at 9:30pm How strange to be Named Federico City of Signs City of Signs will travel through history and the films of Rome, the Italian capital, starting with the classic Roberto Rossellini’s Roma, Citta’ Aperta, and will move on through several other titles, including Paolo Sorrentino’s most recent hit La Grande Bellezza, and Samuel Alarcon’s La Ciudad de los Signos, examining how and why this city, in all its various representations, is the Caput Mundi, or capital of the world.

Thursday, April 16 at 7pm Umberto D Thursday, May 21 at 7pm The White Sheik (Lo Sciecco Bianco) Thursday, June 25 at 7pm Mid-August Lunch Family Matinees International House Philadelphia entertains families of all ages when we open the doors for our series of family-friendly matinees two Saturdays a month. The series brings the big screen to children, inspiring their imaginations, and yours, too! Take this opportunity to encourage a love of film and art from a young age. Audiences of all ages will delight in this carefully curated selection of inspired educational and entertaining cinema from around the world. With a diverse

line-up of programming geared towards children, teens, parents, and grandparents, there’s no reason to leave anyone at home!

Support provided in part by the Philadelphia Cultural Fund.

Saturday, April 11 at 2pm Mia & the Migoo Saturday, April 25 at 2pm Pom Poko Saturday, May 16 at 2pm Never Cry Wolf Saturday, May 23 at 2pm King Kong Saturday, June 13 at 2pm The 7th Voyage of Sinbad Saturday, June 27 at 2pm Clash of the Titans Full Exposure Full Exposure is a series dedicated to recent works by innovative film and video makers from around the world, and is a snapshot of the current state of moving image production and its constantly evolving practice.

Friday, May 1 at 7pm Bestiaire Friday, June 5 at 7pm The Painting (Le Tableau) Intercultural Journeys: Songs for Peace Intercultural Journeys seeks to promote understanding in pursuit of peace amongst people of diverse faiths and cultures through dialogue and the presentation of world-class performances in music, dance, the spoken word, and other art forms. They, and we, believe that performances, done for the purpose of bringing people together who might otherwise be in conflict, give us the opportunity to play a small part in contributing to world peace.

Sunday, April 19 at 2pm Elena Moon Park: Rabbit Days and Dumplings

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The Janus Collection Truly one of our national treasures, Janus Films is a vital part of American film culture. International House continues this series with titles from the Janus Collection, all in brand new or restored 35mm prints.

Saturday, April 11 at 7pm The Bad Sleep Well Saturday, May 16 at 7pm Children of Paradise Saturday, June 13 at 7pm Eraserhead 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.

Saturday, May 23 at 7pm That Man from Rio Friday, June 26 at 7pm The Adventures of Baron Munchausen Wayfaring: Conversations on Travel, Art & Culture Wayfaring, a speaker series that takes place once a quarter, curated and moderated by Anthony Smyrski of Random Embassy and Megawords, will give members of the community a vehicle to discuss the way that travel and multi-cultural experiences have influenced their artistic process.

Wayfaring, or the action of traveling from place to place, whether literally or metaphorically, is the journey of life, choices, and experiences, and this speaker series will investigate both individual moments and the sum of these experiences in order to determine cultural resonance.

Thursday, April 9 at 7pm Zoe Strauss

PARTNER programs 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.

Friday, April 10 at 8pm Andy Milligan Triple Feature: Torture Dungeon / Bloodthirsty Butchers / Man with Two Heads Saturday, May 2 at 11am eX-Fest part V Reelblack Reelblack showcase discoveries and rediscoveries in African-American films.

Tuesday, April 14 at 7pm In The Morning / Fleecing Led Zeppelin Tuesday, June 23rd at 7pm Philly Shorts Scribe Video Center Producers’ Forum The Producers’ Forum in-person screening series is a lecture discussion program, which allows Scribe to invite important nationally and internationally recognized media makers to Philadelphia to share their work and talk about their process of creating.

Tuesday, April 7 at 6:30 PM On Strong Shoulders / United In Anger: A History of ACT UP Tuesday, May 12 at 7pm Food Chains / Los Tabajadores Tuesday, June 9 at 7pm Evolution of a Criminal / Stolen Dreams II

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Wednesday, April 1 at 6:30pm Babette Mangolte: Camera Studies

Babette Mangolte in Conversation

Co-presented with the Institute of Contemporary Art at the University of Pennsylvania IHP welcomes acclaimed director, cinematographer, and documentarian Babette Mangolte, who will be joined by Thomas Beard and Yvonne Rainer in a discussion about Mangolte’s long and multi-faceted career.

For more information on Babette Mangolte, Thomas Beard, and Yvonne Rainer, visit www.ihousephilly.org.

Babette Mangolte: Camera Studies has been supported by a grant from the The Christian R. and Mary F. Lindback Foundation Additional Support has been provided by the Cinema Studies program at the University of Pennsylvania.

Thursday, April 2 at 7pm Babette Mangolte: Camera Studies

The Gold Diggers

dir. Sally Potter, UK, 1983, 35mm, 89 min.

The ground-breaking first feature from the director of Orlando and The Tango Lesson, The Gold Diggers is a key film of early Eighties feminist cinema. Made with an all-woman crew, featuring stunning photography by Babette Magolte and a score by Lindsay Cooper, it embraces a radical and experimental narrative structure.

Celeste (Colette Laffont) is a computer clerk in a bank who becomes fascinated by the relationship between gold and power. Ruby (Julie Christie) is an enigmatic film star in quest of her childhood, her memories, and the truth about her own identity. As their paths cross they come to sense that there could be a link between the male struggle for economic supremacy, and the female ideal of mysterious but impotent beauty.

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Friday, April 3, at 7pm Global Gala Event

Chihwaseon (Painted Fire)

dir. Im Kwon Taek, Korea, 2002, 35mm, Korean w/ English subtitles, 116 min.

The Global Gala is International House Philadelphia’s largest fundraising event of the year. This year, our 54th Global Gala will celebrate the people and culture of Korea!

Leading up to the Gala, IHP is presenting a series of programs for guests to experience and learn more about Korea’s rich history and culture before the big event on May 9th.

Winner of the Cannes Film Festival’s Best Director award, Chihwaseon is a vivid portrait of the turbulent life and times of Korea’s greatest artist.

As remarkably embodied by Choi Min-sik (Oldboy), the temperamental, passionate brush master, Jang Seung-up, paints with a martial artist’s fervor while indulging a rock star’s single-minded lust for life. Amidst the tumult and destruction of nineteenth century Korea, “Ohwon” as he comes to be called, fights to escape both the rigid artistic boundaries and the social fetters that would deny his low-born, unschooled genius.

Saturday, April 4 at 2pm All Around This World:

African Dance and Movement with Adwoa Tacheampong Adwoa Tacheampong is a vocalist, drummer, dancer, and actor who has been performing since the age of 10. She has studied many forms of dance, including Afro-Cuban, Ghanaian, Brazilian, and Haitian dance. Adwoa plays several instruments including, but not limited to, Batá, surdo, sekere, sakara, agogo, and caixa. Her International House workshop will invite families to sing, dance, and move to African rhythms.

Free to children under 2; $5 Adults + Children over 2

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Saturday, April 4 at 8pm

Hairy Who & the Chicago Imagists

dir. Leslie Buchbinder, USA, 2014, digital, 104 min.

In the mid 1960s, the city of Chicago was an incubator for an iconoclastic group of young artists. Collectively known as the Imagists, they showed in successive waves of exhibitions with monikers that might have been psychedelic rock bands of the era - Hairy Who, Nonplussed Some, False Image, and Marriage Chicago Style. Kissing cousins to the contemporaneous international phenomenon of Pop Art, Chicago Imagism took its own weird, wondrous, in-your-face tack. Variously pugnacious, puerile, scatological, graphic, comical, and absurd, it celebrated a very different version of ‘popular’ from the detached cool of New York, London, and Los Angeles.

From Jim Nutt’s cigar-chomping, amputated women to Christina Ramberg’s studies of corsetry and bondage; from Barbara Rossi’s bejeweled dot paintings to Roger Brown’s secretive, silhouetted figures in windows; Chicago’s diverse artists followed no trend, preferring a path they ferociously cleared for themselves. Hairy Who & The Chicago Imagists is the first film to tell their wild, woolly, utterly irreverent story. Over forty interviews with the artists and a prominent group of critics, curators, collectors, and contemporary artists are featured, intertwined with a wealth of re-discovered archival footage and photographs.

The film is narrated by Chicago theater legend Cheryl Lynn Bruce, and propelled by an original score for cello and voice by composer Tomeka Reid.

Introduced by Robert Cozzolino, Curator of Modern Art, The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts

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United in Anger Tuesday, April 7 at 6:30 PM Scribe Video Center Producers’ Forum

On Strong Shoulders

dirs. Warren Bass, Dorothea Braemer, Chris Emmanouilides, Keith Fulton, Mike Kuetemeyer, Adrienne Murphy, Frances Negrón-Muntaner, Andres Nicolini, Louis Pepe, Sloane Seale, Anula Shetty, MarieAnn Walker , USA, 1995, digital, 30 min.

On Strong Shoulders is a collaborative documentary commissioned and produced

by Scribe Video Center to look at heroes and heroines in the struggle against HIV/AIDS. Twelve Philadelphia filmmakers look at “a day in the life of caregivers, advocates and activists” as part of the observance of World AIDS Day, 1995.

United In Anger: A History of ACT UP

dir. Jim Hubbard, USA, 2012, digital, 93 min.

Director Jim Hubbard in person A documentary about the birth and life of the AIDS activist movement from the perspective of the people in the trenches fighting the epidemic. The film combines startling archival footage, which puts the audience on the ground with the activists, with interviews from the ACT UP Oral History Project to explore ACT UP (the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power) from a grassroots perspective, examining how a small group of men and women of all races and classes came together to change the world and save each other’s lives. $5 Scribe + IHP members; $7 Students + Seniors; $10 General Admission

Thursday, April 9 at 7pm Wayfaring: Conversations on Travel, Art & Culture

Zoe Strauss

Moderated by Anthony Smyrski of Random Embassy and Megawords For a decade, Philadelphia photographer Zoe Strauss showed her photographic works once a year in a public space beneath an I-95 highway overpass in South Philadelphia. Through portraits and documents of houses and signage, Strauss took a hard look at the economic struggles and lives of residents in her own community and other parts of the United States. Strauss, a self-taught photographer and political activist, will discuss her work as a type of social intervention. $5 IHP Members; $8 Students + Seniors; $10 General Public

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Friday, April 10 at 8pm Exhumed Films presents an Andy Milligan triple feature

TORTURE DUNGEON

dir. Andy Milligan, USA, 1970, 35mm, 77 min.

In Medival England, a sadistic duke plots to kill off all the heirs to the throne of England so he can claim the crown for himself.

BLOODTHIRSTY BUTCHERS dir. Andy Milligan, USA, 1970, 35mm, 79 min.

A murderous barber and his equally psychopathic friend, a baker, hatch a plan whereby the barber murders people and the baker makes them into pies to be sold in his shop.

MAN WITH TWO HEADS

dir. Andy Milligan, USA, 1972, 35mm, 80 min.

Milligan’s version of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. $15 IHP Members; $20 General Admssion

Saturday, April 11 at 2pm Family Matinee: Go Green

Mia & the Migoo

dir. Jacques-Rémy Girerd, France/Italy, 2008, DCP, 92 min.

From the distributors of the Academy-Award nominated The Secret of Kells, comes the gorgeous second feature from renowned French animator Jacques-Rémy Girerd. Created from an astounding 500,000 hand-painted frames of animation, Mia and the Migoo is a work of art, breathtaking to behold, with backgrounds that invoke Van Gogh, Monet, and Cezanne.

Figures are outlined in pastel and bathed in rustic watercolors for a handcrafted look that bursts at the seams with painterly detail. The film is a fablelike journey of a young girl who must overcome her fears on a quest to find her father and save the world from destruction. One night Mia has a premonition, so, after saying a few words of parting at her mother’s grave, she sets out on a cross continent journey, though mountains and jungles in search of her father, who has been trapped in a landslide at a construction site on a remote tropical lake. In the middle of the lake stands the ancient Tree of Life, watched over by innocent, bumbling forest spirits called the Migoo, who grow and change shape as they please, morphing from small childlike beings to petulant giants. The Migoo have been disrupting the construction to protect this sacred site – and now together with Mia they join in a fight to find Mia’s father and save the Tree, with the future of life on Earth hanging in the balance.

Free to IHP Members; $5 Adults + Children

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Saturday, April 11 at 7pm Janus Collection

The Bad Sleep Well

dir. Akira Kurasawa, Japan, 1960, 35mm, b/w, Japanese w/ English subtitles, 150 min.

A young executive hunts down his father’s killer in director Akira Kurosawa’s scathing, The Bad Sleep Well. Continuing his legendary collaboration with actor Toshiro Mifune, Kurosawa combines elements of Hamlet and American film noir to chilling effect in exposing the corrupt boardrooms of postwar corporate Japan.

Tuesday, April 14 at 7pm Reelblack presents

In The Morning

dir. Nefertite Nguvu, USA, 2014, Blu-Ray, 75 min.

Filmmaker Nefertite Nguvu and members of the cast will be in attendance.

Set in Brooklyn, In The Morning is a searing journey through the lives of nine smart, fiercely articulate New Yorkers. Friends: Harper, Ravi, Fez, Bly, and Amara gather to bid farewell to one of their own moving abroad, and debate the compromise and loss of their youthful ideals regarding marriage, fidelity, life, and love. Two lovers: Malik and Cadence, meet to ceremoniously end a whirlwind romance that has collapsed under the weight of fears, obligations, and regrets. A couple: Zuri and Leal, sift through the remains of their broken relationship as they try to make a life-altering decision. They begin to come to terms with their disintegrated trust, and the possibility of renewal. For everyone, life will be indelibly altered in the morning.

Screening with:

Fleecing Led Zeppelin

dirs. Jackie Maw Tolliver and Gabriel Tolliver, USA, 2014, digital, 20 min.

Filmmakers Jackie Maw Tolliver and Gabriel Tolliver will be in attendance.

In 1973 someone stole $200,000 from Led Zeppelin’s safety deposit box. Forty years later, it creates a Pandora’s box of trouble for a New York City cop. $5 Reelblack + IHP Members; $8 Students + Seniors; $10 General Admission

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Thursday, April 16 at 7pm City of Signs

Umberto D

dir. Vittorio De Sica, Italy, 1952, 35mm, b/w, Italian w/ English subtitles, 88 min.

This neorealist masterpiece by Vittorio De Sica follows an elderly pensioner as he strives to make ends meet during Italy’s postwar economic recovery. Alone except for his dog, Flike, Umberto struggles to maintain his dignity in a city where human kindness seems to have been swallowed up by the forces of modernization. His simple quest to satisfy his basic needs—food, shelter, companionship—makes for one of the most heartbreaking stories ever filmed, and an essential classic of world cinema.

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Friday, April 17 at 7pm Ulrike Ottinger’s Berlin Trilogy

Saturday, April 18 at 2pm Ulrike Ottinger’s Berlin Trilogy

dir. Ulrike Ottinger, West Germany, 1979, 35mm, German w/ English subtitles, 109 min.

dir. Ulrike Ottinger, West Germany, 1981, DCP, German w/ English subtitles, 126 min.

Ticket of No Return

A portrait of two unusual but also extremely different women. One rich, eccentric, hiding her feelings behind a rigid mask, consciously drinks herself to death. The other is a known drinker in town. In the course of the story they try to get to know each other, but they cannot come together. The background is Berlin, thrown open to a grotesque kind of sightseeing (drinkers’ geography), and complemented by authentic contributions from people who live here or are visiting: rock singers, writers, artists, taxi drivers. With Tabea Blumenschein, Magdalena Montezuma, Nina Hagen, and Eddie Constantine.

Freak Orlando

In the form of a “small theater of the world,” a history of the world from its beginnings to our day, including the errors, the incompetence, the thirst for power, the fear, the madness, the cruelty, and the commonplace, in a story of five episodes. – Ulrike Ottinger

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Saturday, April 18 at 7pm Ulrike Ottinger’s Berlin Trilogy

Dorian Gray im Spiegel der Boulevardpresse (Dorian Gray in the Mirror of the Yellow Press)

dir. Ulrike Ottinger, West Germany, 1984, DCP, German w/ English subtitles, 150 min.

A media conspiracy as relevant today as it was 30 years ago, Frau Dr. Mabuse intends to create and ultimately destroy the perfect celebrity, all in the name of profit. The dreamlike Dorian Gray moves beyond mere media critique into a full-fledged tragic-comedy opera of Western society’s greatest flaws.

Sunday, April 19 at 2pm Intercultural Journeys: Songs for Peace Family Concert

Elena Moon Park: Rabbit Days and Dumplings Join Intercultural Journeys for a joyous, multicultural music celebration the whole family can enjoy! Elena Moon Park brings her acclaimed and catchy album Rabbit Days and Dumplings to Philadelphia for our final concert in the 2014/15 Songs for Peace season. Rabbit Days and Dumplings is a celebration of folk and children’s music from all over East Asia, reinterpreted to mix various musical traditions, languages, styles, and stories. Tunes range from northern Japanese sea shanties to Tibetan jump rope rhymes, joyous Korean harvest sing-a-longs, and Taiwanese train songs. Elena Moon Park, who also plays fiddle, trumpet, and mandolin for Grammy Award®winning all-ages folk rock band Dan Zanes and Friends, leads a fun and adventurous group of musicians for this cross-cultural musical fiesta.

Expect to do some dancing and sing along to tunes in Korean, Japanese, Tibetan, Cantonese, Mandarin, and English!

Elena Moon Park has found a way to incorporate Asian elements with American elements in grandly metaphoric sort of way that says something powerful and positive about the potential of crosscultural exchange, and, on that note, about the immigrant experience. But also? It’s just fun to listen to, and that’s enough in and of itself.

– About.com $8 Students; $10 IHP Members; $15 General Public

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Mountain Fire Personnel Wednesday, April 22 at 5:30pm A Global Gala Event Art Exhibition

Thursday, April 23 at 7pm Earth Day: Mass Movement to Mass Extinction

Bridge to Korea

In Marin County

The Global Gala is International House Philadelphia’s largest fundraising event of the year. This year, our 54th Global Gala will celebrate the people and culture of Korea!

Leading up to the Gala, IHP is presenting a series of programs for guests to experience and learn more about Korea’s rich history and culture before the big event on May 9th.

“In Marin County approaches the subject of America’s ecological disaster as a comic yet bizarre vision. The tradition of Old MacDonald’s farm has long since disappeared and in its place are bulldozer and insect sprays.” – Whitney Museum of American Art

Please join us for an opening reception on Thursday, April 22 from 5:30-7pm to open Namsook Kwon’s and Sueim Koo’s exhibit, Bridge to Korea. The exhibit will be on view through the end of June 2015, in IHP’s East Alcove on the Main Level.

Please see page 8 for Artist Statements related to this exhibit.

Presented in partnership with The Da Vinci Art Alliance.

Da Vinci Art Alliance Da Vinci Art Alliance is a public, non-profit 501(c)(3) artists’ organization located in South Philadelphia.The organization was founded in 1931 to serve the needs of professional artists and artisans in the Delaware Valley. Da Vinci currently has over 140 members and is supported through membership dues, gallery/ studio rentals, sales commissions, grants, and donations. It holds exhibitions of members’ and non-members’ artwork as well as special events, workshops, performances, poetry readings, and lectures, and keeps its members informed on community events, news and opportunities. The mission of the non-profit artists-run organization is to support its members and to further communitybased arts, cultural, and educational exchanges.

dir. Peter Hutton, US, 1970, 16mm, 10 min.

Dead Earth

dir. Leonard Henny, US, 1970, 16mm, 20 min.

“An ecology film which links together the issues of the survival of our environment, with the issues of corporate irresponsibility and the devastating effects of the war, both in S. E. Asia and at home.”

– noted ecologist Barry Commoner.

Dozer

dir. Anna Geyer, US, 1999, 16mm, color/b&w, 15 min.

Dozer features the bulldozer as an icon of American culture and examines the continuous reconstruction of our surroundings.

Portrait #2: Trojan

dir. Vanessa Renwick, US, 2006, video, 6 min.

The final days of Oregon’s Trojan nuclear power plant.

Mountain Fire Personnel

dir. Alex Tyson, US, 2015, video, 29 min.

Mountain Fire Personnel is an experimental documentary that explores a wild fire near an evacuated mountain tramway in Southern California.

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Idaho Transfer Friday, April 24 at 7pm Earth Day: Mass Movement to Mass Extinction Double Feature

Idaho Transfer

dir. Peter Fonda, US, 1973, 35mm, 86 min.

A group of young researchers travel into the future, discover that a potential ecological catastrophe awaits mankind, and must uncover the mystery before their project is shut down. With several of the group stranded in the future, the dark truth of humanity’s fate is gradually revealed.

The desolate landscape of Arco, Idaho and Craters of the Moon National Park provide a perfect backdrop for this eerie sci-fi gem.

Followed by:

Glen and Randa

dir. Jim McBride, 1971, 35mm, 93 min.

In a post-apocalyptic wasteland, a young couple set out to find a distant city that may or may not exist. As they encounter the strange inhabitants of this crumbling society, their journey seems more and more futile. Glen and Randa is a haunting meditation on mankind’s struggle for survival seen through the eyes of youth.

Special thanks to Harry Guerro

Saturday, April 25 at 2pm Family Matinee: Go Green

Pom Poko

dir. Isao Takahata, Japan, 1994, 35mm, 119 min.

In this brilliant and often overlooked Studio Ghibli masterpiece, the forests are filled with groups of magical tanuki, mischievous raccoon-like animals from Japanese folklore that are capable of shape-shifting from their standard raccoon form to practically any object. The tanuki spend their days playing idly in the hillsides and squabbling over food – until the construction of a huge new Tokyo suburb clears the nearby forest and threatens their way of life. In an effort to defend their home, the tanuki learn to transform into humans and start playing tricks to make the workers think the construction site is haunted, ending in a spectacular night-time spirit parade, with thousands of ghosts, dragons, and other magical creatures descending on the city.

Free to IHP Members; $5 Adults + Children

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Lurk Saturday, April 25 at 7pm Red Grooms & Friends The screening will be followed by a discussion between Red Grooms, Philadelphia-based artist Will Brown, and PAFA curator Robert Cozzolino.

Hippodrome Hardware dir. Red Grooms, US, 1973, 16mm, 43 min.

“Hippodrome Hardware is based on a performance piece presided over by the antic Mr. Ruckus (played by Red Grooms), featuring a crew of klutzy carpenters whose job it is to build a house for Mr. Ruckus’ witchy mother. Combining live action and animation, the film is a unique blending of the beautiful and the vulgar, the innocent and the sharp-edged.”

– The American Federation of the Arts Preceded by:

Lurk

dir. Rudy Burckhardt, US, 1965, 16mm, b/w, 36 min.

“Happy with his luscious daughter Aurora in a rustic setting, Professor Borealis has devised an improved brain and is ready to transplant it. The humor is tenderly black. Burckhardt’s fusion of documentary-type photography with fairytale storyline is nearer Keystone than avant-garde with its visual honesty and particular virtuosity.”

– Edwin Denby

Tappy Toes

dir. Red Grooms, US, 1969, 16mm, 19 min.

An extravaganza with all stops out, Tappy Toes captures the stylish flamboyancy of Mr. Busby Berkley’s shimmering 1930’s magic combined with the poltical bullyism of Major Daley’s Chicago.

Monday, April 27 - Wednesday, April 29 Art Exhibition

Situations Shelby Donnelly

Opening reception, Monday, April 27 at 6pm Closing reception, Wednesday, April 29 at 5pm Situations is the latest body of work by visual artist Shelby Donnelly. Donnelly, a fabricbased artist working in Philadelphia, is for the first time incorporating video as a medium to explore narrative themes in her artwork through collaborations with filmmakers Raúl Romero and Patrick J.F. Smith, and audio/visual integrator Aaron Billheimer.

Situations will feature five single channel HD videos projected onto three-dimensional movie screens. Each video piece explores a psychological state of purgatory as characters navigate themes of intimacy and idealism for the future. The sculptural movie screens are inspired

by Communist Era architecture, which through their austere presence become a container for the projected imagery.

Situations is on exhibit in International House Philadelphia’s Ibraham Theater from Monday, April 27, through Wednesday, April 29th, and was made possible through the 2014 Visual Artist fellowship from the Independence Foundation of Philadelphia.

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Thursday, April 30 at 7pm Archive Fever! 6.0 Harun Farocki Recent Work

Friday, May 1 at 7pm Full Exposure

Harun Farocki (1944-2014) is an internationally acclaimed filmmaker and artist who began making films in the late 1960s. In the mid-’90s, Farocki began exploring the possibilities of multi-channel installations, showing his work in galleries and museums, and participated in international exhibitions such as Documenta and the Venice Biennale.

dir. Denis Côté, Canada, 2012, DCP, 72 min.

A New Product

dir. Harun Farocki, Germany, 2012, digital, German w/ English subtitles, 36 min.

“Scenes from meetings within a company which advises corporations how to design their offices -- and the work done there. The film shows that words are not just tools, they have become an object of speculation.” – Harun Farocki

Parallel I-IV

dir. Harun Farocki, Germany, 2012-14, digital, 43 min.

The four part cycle Parallel deals with the image genre of computer animation. The series focuses on the construction, visual landscape, and inherent rules of computer-animated worlds.

Followed by a panel discussion with Farocki scholars: Nora M. Alter (Film and Media Arts, Temple University), Homay King (History of Art, Film Studies and Visual Culture, Bryn Mawr College), and Thomas Y. Levin, German and Comparative Literature, Media and Modernity, Princeton University). This program is cosponsored by the Department of Film and Media Arts, Temple University, and the Cinema Studies Program at the University of Pennsylvania.

Free Admission

Bestiaire

Fascinating and beguiling, Bestiare is Denis Côté’s mesmerizing meditation on the relationship between man and beast. This strikingly beautiful film about looking, which begins with a group of art students attempting to sketch an animal, blurs the line between observer and observed.

There may be no traditional narrative, yet there is breathtaking dramatic tension in every exquisitely framed shot: the sight of a lion attacking the doors of its cage, or the scurrying striped legs of zebras in a holding pen. Contemplative and enthralling, Bestiare is cinema at its purest.

“Using the film form to challenge the very notion of representation, Bestiaire is an elegant, bewitching meditation on the nature of sentience and the boundaries between nature and civilization.” — Sundance Film Festival

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Saturday, May 2 at 2pm All Around This World

Saturday, May 2 at 11am Exhumed Films presents

Allarh Mast Jawani is a Bhangra team composed of women from undergraduate and graduate studies at Drexel University. The team focuses on both folk dances of Punjab – Bhangra and Giddha – and appeals to young ladies who share the passion of the Punjabi national dance created by women. This workshop will be interactive and exciting, so come ready to dance!

12 Hour Marathon! 11am to 11pm (Doors open at 10am)

Bhangra Dancing!

Free to children under 2; $5 Adults + Children over 2

eX-Fest 2015!

It’s time once again for Exhumed Films’ annual assault of oddities and outrageousness! eX-Fest is a full 12-hour marathon showcasing the craziest, nastiest, bloodiest exploitation movies ever made, all presented in 35mm. Harken back to the glory days (and gory days) of grimy grindhouse cinema! A wide swath of exploitation genres will be represented, from kung-fu to blaxploitation, spaghetti western to sexploitation, etc. The film selections are kept secret and the titles only revealed to the audience as each film is projected.

For fans of cult and genre movies, this event is not to be missed! $20 IHP Members; $30 General Admission

Ghostbusters

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Food Chains Saturday, May 9th at 6:30pm

GLOBAL GALA: KOREA The Global Gala is International House’s largest fundraising event of the year and a wonderful way to network and engage with leaders and innovators in the fields of business, government, philanthropy, science, academia, and the arts. It is also an exciting opportunity to meet some of our young international residents, who represent the next generation of leaders from around the world This year, International House Philadelphia’s 54th Global Gala celebrates the people and culture of Korea! You’ll experience the soft glow of colorful paper lanterns floating overhead, savor traditional dishes flavored with the spicy kick of Korean BBQ, while the upbeat rhythms of K-pop electrify the dance floor.

The evening will begin with cocktails and hors d’oeuvres in a beautiful outdoor setting on IHP’s patio on Chestnut Street. After getting a sample of some traditional Korean cuisine and performance, as well as bidding on an eclectic array of silent auction lots, guests will proceed into International House for a formal seated dinner in the Galleria.

After the meal guests will be invited into the Ibrahim Theater for dessert and an after party featuring music, performance, and dancing late into the evening.

Don’t miss out on this once-a-year event—buy your tickets today and support IHP! Visit www.ihousephilly.org/globalgala for tickets and more info.

Tuesday, May 12 at 7pm Scribe Video Center Producers’ Forum

Food Chains

dir. Sanjay Rawal, US, 2014, digital, 83 min.

Director Sanjay Rawal in person Food Chains exposes the injustice embedded in America’s agriculture and food production industries. This hard hitting documentary sheds light on the wage theft, physical abuse, and near slavery that constitutes everyday life for thousands of America’s mostly-Latino farm workers. Food Chains gives a voice to those fighting to change these practices, and bring justice to the table. Eva Longoria is the Executive Producer.

Sanjay Rawal’s experience running a small agricultural genetics company led to work as a consultant on the hit documentary Pray the Devil Back to Hell (2008). Since then, he has gone on to produce award-winning shorts and films. Food Chains is his first feature.

Preceded by:

Los Tabajadores

El Comite de Apoyo a Los Trabajadores Agricolas (CATA) and Scribe Video Center, USA, 2002, digital, 20 min.

Los Trabajadores (The Workers) tells the stories and day-to-day experiences of migrant mushroom farm laborers based in Kennett Square and Reading, PA, and examines their efforts to improve working and living conditions through organizing. $5 Scribe + IHP members; $7 Students + Seniors; $10 General Admission

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Thursday, May 14 at 7pm Co-presented by Pig Iron Theatre Company Actor, director, playwright and founder of New York’s Ridiculous Theatrical Company, Charles Ludlam believed in “virtuosic maximalism.”

Philadelphia’s Pig Iron Theatre Company draw from Ludlam’s creative modus operandi as inspiration for their new production, I Promised Myself To Live Faster, a sci-fi space odyssey created from a multi-year workshop process. In conjunction with the play, which opens on May 22nd at FringeArts, Pig Iron has partnered with IHP to show a selection of films that stem from Ludlam’s era of downtown art making.

Lupe

dir. Jose Rodriguez Soltero, US, 1966, 16mm, 49 min.

Strangely neglected for way too long, Jose Rodriguez Soltero’s Lupe is an underground classic of the stature of Flaming Creatures, Scorpio Rising, Hold me While I’m Naked, or The Chelsea Girls. It is ostensibly a biopic of Lupe Velez inspired

by Kenneth Anger’s sketch of the Mexican spitfire in Hollywood Babylon and, stylistically, by Von Sternberg’s Marlene Dietrich vehicles.

Preceded by:

Sins of the Fleshapoids dir. Mike Kuchar, US, 1965, 16mm, 42 min.

Love, a million years in the future, in a world that abandons all mechanical knowledge, and plunges itself into the abyss of erotic pleasure and stomach-churning hate! Delightfully and shamelessly over-acted, and filmed in blazing color, Sins of the Fleshapoids reaches a new peak in the cinema of the ridiculous.

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Louvre City Friday, May 15 at 7pm Nicolas Philibert - Double feature

Saturday, May 16 at 2pm Family Matinee: Go Green

dir. Nicolas Philibert, France, 1990, digital, French w/ English subtitles, 85 min.

dir. Carroll Ballard, US, 1983, 35mm, English and Inuktitut, 105 min.

Louvre City

Louvre City takes the form of one of the classic symphonies of the 1920s, which begin at daybreak, end at nightfall, and chronicle the lives of urban dwellers at work and at play. The mighty Louvre, housed in a medieval castle, with its miles of hallways and hundreds of employees, does seem like its own city-state in this elegantly filmed documentary. Rather than focus on its familiar role as a monument to high culture, director Nicolas Philibert (To Be and to Have) shows us the everyday life of the museum and how it operates. Far from being didactic, Louvre City is a celebration of the ordinary processes of work in an extraordinary setting.

Followed by:

La Maison de la Radio

dir. Nicolas Philibert, France, 2013, digital, French w/ English subtitles, 99 min.

La Maison de la Radio is a vibrant portrait of Radio France, that nation’s equivalent of NPR or the BBC. Directed by Nicolas Philibert, a master of the documentary genre, La Maison shows the dayto-day of a beloved cultural institution, as radio hosts, producers and journalists produce a vast array of shows to “culture-loving, politics-mad, talk-obsessed France.” – Variety

Never Cry Wolf

“We have doomed the wolf not for what it is but for what we deliberately and mistakenly perceive it to be: the mythologized epitome of a savage, ruthless killer—which is, in reality, not more than the reflected image of ourselves.”

– Farley Mowat, Never Cry Wolf Based on author Farley Mowat’s autobiographical novel, Never Cry Wolf is a fictionalized account of when Mowat was sent to subarctic Canada to collect evidence of the grievous harm the wolf population was allegedly doing to the caribou herds. In his struggle to survive in that difficult environment, the main character, Taylor (Charles Martin Smith), studies the wolves, and realizes that the old beliefs about wolves and their supposed threat are almost totally false.

Furthermore, he learns that humans represent a far greater threat to the land, and also to the wolves, a species which plays an important role in the ecosystem of the north.

Produced by Walt Disney Pictures, directed by Carroll Ballard (The Black Stallion), and beautifully shot by Hiro Narita, the film received multiple awards for cinematography, and earned an Academy Award nomination for Best Sound.

Shot on location in the Yukon territory, the film took three and a half years to make, and was completed at an expense of almost $12 million, nearly twice the original budget.

Free to IHP Members; $5 Adults + Children

Naked Lunch

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Saturday, May 16 at 7pm Janus Collection

Children of Paradise dir. Marcel Carné, France, 1945, DCP, 190 min

SPECTACULAR 4K DIGITAL RESTORATION! Poetic realism reaches sublime heights with Children of Paradise, the ineffably witty tale of a woman loved by four different men. Deftly intertwining theater, literature, music, and design, director Marcel Carné and screenwriter Jacques Prévert resurrect the tumultuous world of nineteenth-century Paris, teeming with hucksters and aristocrats, thieves and courtesans, pimps and seers. Janus Films is proud to present this masterpiece – repeatedly declared the greatest French film of all time – in a restored DCP taken from the original camera negative.

Sunday May 17 at 4pm Blueazul Productions and Minas present

La Giara (The Water Jug): A Musical Drama In Concert

Performed by a cast of singers and an instrumental ensemble. Narrated by Charlotte Blake Alston. Music, Lyrics and Narrative by Patricia King Haddad. Directed by John Nicholas Peters. Music Director: Orlando Haddad Hot-tempered Nunzio, as explosive as Mount Etna back home in Sicily, thinks he wears the pantaloni in his family until his wife and two daughters suddenly disappear. La Giara merges Italian Folk music and opera with Brazilian choro and jazz, telling the story of Patricia King’s family’s emigration from Sicily to Philadelphia. Comprised of both dramatic and comedic compositions, La Giara expresses themes relevant to gender oppression, migration, and cultural losses that families experienced in adapting to the new world. $10 for Residents, $20 for IHP Members, $25 General Admission

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The Birthday Wednesday, May 20 at 7pm Archive Fever! 6.0 From the Temple University TFMA Film Archive: Three films by Eddie Moses Hosted by Leonard Guercio of Temple University.

Philadelphia in the mid-1970’s was a heady time of social change and cultural innovation.

For many Philadelphia citizens in this period, it was difficult to see the details of what was happening. The observant outsider can often bring a more objective perspective to the insider’s experience. Australian film student Eddie Moses came to Philadelphia in 1974 to earn his MFA in Filmmaking from Temple University. During this time, Eddie made three b/w films that documented a fresh foreigner’s view of the city.

Boxer

dir. Eddie Moses, USA, 1975, 16mm, b/w, 14 min.

A short film highlighting the Philadelphia boxing scene through the training of one fighter. The film’s narrator describes the art of boxing as a perennial means to escape the enslavement of poverty.

Underdog

dir. Eddie Moses, USA, 1976, 16mm, b/w, 28 min.

A documentary film about the 1975 mayoral campaign of Republican Tom Foglietta in Philadelphia, who ultimately lost to popular former Police Chief and incumbent Mayor Frank L. Rizzo.

The Birthday

dir. Eddie Moses, USA, 1977, 16mm, b/w, 40 min.

Moses made this film as his Thesis Project for his Master of Fine Arts degree in Filmmaking at Temple University.

Free Admission

Thursday, May 21 at 7pm City of Signs

The White Sheik (Lo Sciecco Bianco)

dir. Federico Fellini, Italy, 1951, digital, b/w, 86 min.

Ivan Cavalli (Leopoldo Trieste) brings his new wife Wanda (Brunella Bovo) to Rome on the least romantic honeymoon in history: a rigid schedule of family meetings and audiences with the Pope. But Wanda, dreaming of the dashing hero of a photostrip cartoon, drifts off in search of the White Sheik, thus setting off a slapstick comedy worthy of Chaplin. The style and themes which made Federico Fellini world famous are already apparent in this charming comedy (his first solo directorial effort), featuring such long-time collaborators as his wife, actress Giulietta Masina, and composer Nino Rota.

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Friday, May 22 at 7pm

Stations of the Elevated

dir. Manfred Kirchheimer, US, 1980, DCP, 45 min.

Introduced by Manfred Kirchheimer.

The first ever filmed document of graffiti, Manfred Kirchheimer’s richly chromatic 16mm tone poem sets images of the Bronx, Manhattan, and Brooklyn to a soundtrack that interweaves ambient city noises with the gutbucket gospel sound of jazz titan Charles Mingus. Long regarded by cinephiles and hip-hop heads as an obscure cult masterpiece since it premiered at the 1981 New York Film Festival, Stations of the Elevated is a celebration of a quintessentially urban art form—at a time when it was largely dismissed as vandalism. With lyrical shots of tagged trains, desolate rail yards, and other details of the urban landscape, it remains a priceless portrait of a bygone era of New York City culture.

“When a train is whizzing by you in a station, graffiti is literally in your face! But when you get a chance to see it at a distance, especially on elevated trains — my God! You realize what incredible works of art these things are.” — Stations of the Elevated filmmaker Manfred Kirchheimer Preceded by:

Claw

dir. Manfred Kirchheimer, US, 1968, DCP, b/w, 30 min.

A poetic, deeply critical examination of urban renewal.

An Artists Public Domain/Cinema Conservancy release.

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Saturday, May 23 at 2pm Family Matinee: Mythical Monsters & Beasts

King Kong

dirs. Merian C. Cooper & Ernest B. Schoedsack, US, 1933, 35mm, b/w, 100 min.

Carl Denham, an arrogant documentary filmmaker, organizes a trek into uncharted territory to capture a legendary beast that he can bring back to civilization and exploit for profit. After hiring an attractive young woman to star in his film and help him on his mission, Denham leads his crew to the mysterious, fog-enshrouded Skull Island where they encounter something beyond their imagination.

Named one of the 50 best American films by AFI, and selected by the Library of Congress for preservation in the National Film Archive, King Kong is the quintessential monster movie.

Although the film failed to win any awards, it was a special-effects marvel of its time, featuring the 50-foot-tall titular star alongside the other creatures inhabiting Skull Island, and gave life to an enduring contemporary cultural symbol of both unleashed savagery and nobility brought down by greed.

Free to IHP Members; $5 Adults + Children

Saturday, May 23 at 7pm Motion Pictures

That Man from Rio

dir. Philippe de Broca, France/Italy, 1964, DCP, French w/ English subtitles, 110 min.

A blow dart-wielding thug snatches a rare statuette from the Musée de l’Homme; anthropologist Jean Servais (Rififi) is kidnapped in broad Parisian daylight; serviceman Jean-Paul Belmondo begins his 8-day leave by changing to civvies in a Métro entrance and witnesses fiancée Françoise Dorléac (Catherine Deneuve’s sister, killed in a car accident 3 years later) getting kidnapped herself – and then the chase begins: by motorcycle, shoe leather, flight to Rio de Janeiro sans ticket or passport, airport baggage carrier, cable car, pink car complete with green stars and a rumble seat, water skis, Amazon river boat, seaplane, jungle vine… all shot in breathtaking widescreen and color. Even as Dorléac, rescued, is kidnapped again, Belmondo performs his own blood-curdling stunts against that sugar loaf Rio skyline and across that under-construction unearthly architecture of Brasilia (even almost parachuting into the jaws of a hungry croc).

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Wednesday, May 27 at 7pm Directors in Focus: Nagisa Oshima

Death by Hanging

dir. Nagisa Oshima, Japan, 1968, 35mm, Japanese w/ English subtitles, 117 min.

In Japan, a young Korean man (Do-yun Yu) rapes and kills two girls and is then sentenced to hang.

This punishment has no effect on the culprit other than amnesia, leaving the prison warden (Kei Satô) and chief of guards (Masao Adachi) stunned. The lawmen decide that they must show the convict why they’re taking his life, so, with the help of their underlings, they begin to act out the prisoner’s crimes. But they enjoy stepping into his shoes, which further complicates things.

Thursday, May 28 at 7pm Directors in Focus: Nagisa Oshima

Diary of a Shinjuku Thief

dir. Nagisa Oshima, Japan, 1969, 35mm, Japanese w/ English subtitles, 96 min.

The title character, played by Tadanori Yokoo, takes the first step on the road to ruin when he steals an inconsequential item from a bookstore.

Caught in the act by the shopgirl (Rie Yokoyama), the shoplifter becomes the girl’s sexual partnerand virtual slave. The film is rife with erotic symbolism that will be lost on no one. Originally titled, Shinjuku Dorobo Nikki, Diary of a Shinjuku Thief is director Nagisa Oshima’s homage to controversial French author (and unregenerate thief) Jean Genet. – Hal Erickson, Rovi

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Friday, May 29 at 7pm Directors in Focus: Nagisa Oshima

Boy

dir. Nagisa Oshima, Japan, 1969, 35mm, Japanese w/ English subtitles, 97 min.

A self-centered and uncaring father forces his wife and young son to fake being hit by passing cars in order to extort large sums of money from drivers. The increasingly violent authority of the father over the family, and their growing unwillingness to participate in his fraud leads them all on a downward spiral both physically and psychologically.

Saturday, May 30 at 2pm Ottawa Animation Festival Special Presentation

Welcome to Kanata

dirs. various, Canada, 2006-2011, digital, 80 min.

The Ottawa International Animation Festival is proud to present Welcome to Kanata, a touring package of contemporary animated films by Canadian Aboriginal filmmakers curated by awardwinning filmmaker and Director of the National Indigenous Arts Coalition, Ariel Smith.

The Jingle Dress

Christiana Latham, 2010

Canned Meat - The Whole Damn Can Terril Calder, 2009

Spirit of The Bluebird

Jesse Gouchey and Xtine Cook, 2011

The Visit

Lisa Jackson, 2009

Death by Vibration Bear Witness, 2006

Nodin (Wind)

Nodin Wawatie, 2010

Sloth

Alethea Arnaquq-Baril, 2010

Here and There

Diane Obomsawin, 2006

Two Scoops

Jackie Traverse, 2008

Where We Were Not, Part I: Feeling Reserved, Alexus’ Story Alexus Young, 2011

Little Thunder

Nance Ackerman and Alan Syliboy, 2009

Amaqqut Nunaat (The Country Of Wolves) Neil Christopher, 2011

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Saturday, May 30 at 5pm Directors in Focus: Nagisa Oshima

The man who left his will on film (Tokyo senso sengo hiwa) dir. Nagisa Oshima, Japan, 1970, 35mm, Japanese w/ English subtitles, 94 min.

“...This circuitous film begins with the alleged suicide of a young activist who is part of a radical film collective. When his camera is recovered by a friend, Motoki, it is revealed that the footage is nothing but mundane street scenes of Tokyo.

Duly obsessed, a despairing Motoki goes about reconstructing his friend’s life as an extension of the found footage. Oshima’s mercurial experiment avoids the fixed fact—identity and happenstance float like wild mercury, forcing the viewer to actively assemble the reenactment. To piece together a single life seems daunting, to engage with history, nearly impossible. This is the will and testament Oshima would have us consider.”

– Steve Seid

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Saturday, May 30 at 8pm Directors in Focus: Nagisa Oshima

The Ceremony

dir. Nagisa Oshima, Japan, 1971, 35mm, Japanese w/ English subtitles, 123 min.

This well-known film by auteur director Nagisa Oshima offers a humorous and trenchant commentary on trends in Japanese society.

Looking through the eyes of a younger son in a lesser branch of an important Japanese family, we see simultaneously the boy’s history, the family’s history, and the history of Japan. This is done by showing important family ceremonies over the years: anniversaries, weddings, funerals, etc. Various factions in the family, which reflect the factions in Japanese society, struggle for superiority. Viewers of this film will find their enjoyment enriched if they have some knowledge of recent Japanese history.

– Clarke Fountain, Rovi

Friday, June 5 at 7pm Full Exposure

The Painting (Le Tableau)

dir. Jean-Francois Laguionie, France/Japan, 2012, French w/ English subtitles, 78 min.

In this wryly inventive parable, a kingdom within a painting is divided into three castes: the impeccably colored Alldunns, the incomplete Halfies, and the barely outlined Sketchies who are treated as outcasts. Chastised for her forbidden love of the dashing Ramo, Claire runs away into the cursed forest. Ramo and his friends journey after her, crossing over the boundaries of the forest only to arrive at the very edge of the painting – where they tumble through the canvas and into the Painter’s studio. The abandoned workspace is strewn with paintings, each containing its own vividly animated world and characters – and in a feast for both the eyes and the imagination, Ramo, Lola, Quill, and Magenta explore picture after picture, in a quest to discover just what the Painter has in mind for his creations.

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Saturday, June 6 at 2pm All Around This World:

Hands on the Tabla with Daniel Ando Scholnick Daniel Ando Scholnick is a tabla player, guitarist, production manager, and a sound designer based in Philadelphia. He trained with Lenny Seidman (Tabla Choir, Spoken Hand in Philly) before training in Music at Wesleyan University. He went on to study Indian drumming under Pandit Arvind Mulgaonkar on a Fulbright Fellowship in Mumbai, India. At International House he will introduce kids to tabla through playful, interactive rhythms, and give everyone a chance to get their hands on the drums.

Free to children under 2; $5 Adults + Children over 2

Saturday, June 6 at 7:30pm Sunday, June 7 at 4pm

Anna Crusis

Anna Crusis Women’s Choir, the first and longest running feminist chorus in the country, celebrates its 40th anniversary at their upcoming concert, Reclaiming the ‘F’ Word, on June 6th and 7th.

With the mission to celebrate the diversity of women’s lives and culture, and to build a bridge between the world we live in and the world we hope for, this choir of over 60 singers – plus one sign language interpreter for the deaf and hearingimpaired – is a community of women, joining together in song to build community, change lives, and sing out for justice.

The 2014/2015 season marks the Choir’s 40th anniversary. With a repertoire that ranges from classic and contemporary women’s choral music to worldbeat, soulful folk ballads, and rockin’ pop tunes, Anna Crusis Women’s Choir has been entertaining the Delaware Valley since 1975.

Anna Crusis Women’s Choir, a 501(c)3, nonprofit organization, is recognized as both an agent of social change and a premier performing arts group, committed to reaching diverse audiences while supporting the work of social justice. www.annacrusis.org $20 IHP Members; $22 Students + Seniors; $25 General Admission

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Tuesday, June 9 at 7pm Scribe Video Center Producers’ Forum

Evolution of a Criminal dir. Darius Clark Monroe, USA, 2014, digital, 82 min.

Thursday, June 11 at 7pm Chris Marker shorts program

To Chris Marker, an Unsent Letter

Director Darius Clark Monroe in person

dir. Emiko Omori, USA, 2013, digital, 78 min.

How does a 16-year-old evolve into a bank robber? In this gripping blend of documentary, true-crime, and personal essay, a filmmaker confronts his past, dissecting the circumstances that led him to commit a bank robbery as a young man, and his journey since then. Monroe interviews his family members, close friends and mentors who recount his transformation. Returning to his neighborhood several years after the crime, Monroe presents an affecting examination of class struggles, reflection and forgiveness, and the impact and aftermath of his crucial decision.

To Chris Marker, an Unsent Letter, directed by Emmy-award winning cinematographer and filmmaker Emiko Omori, is a contemplative essay whose form is inspired by Marker’s signature style (Omori’s credits include Marker’s The Owl’s Legacy). Alongside Omori’s thoughts and recollections of the filmmaker, and her examinations of some of his key works, the film also incorporates interviews with Marker associates and admirers. Their warm reflections join Omori’s to examine the legacy of a filmmaker as beloved as he was enigmatic.

Darius Clark Monroe is an award winning filmmaker and MFA graduate of NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. He’s a National Board of Review, HBO Short Film, and Urbanworld Best Screenplay award recipient. Most recently, he was selected to the prestigious Screenwriters Colony, and chosen as a fellow at the Sundance Institute Screenwriters Intensive.

Followed by:

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Stolen Dreams II

Youth Art & Self-Empowerment Project (YASP) and Scribe Video Center, USA, 2013, digital, 27 min.

Through this film, YASP breaks down the myth that trying youth as adults is a real solution to violence. $5 Scribe + IHP members; $7 Students + Seniors; $10 General Admission

Description of a Memory (DESCRIPTION D’UN COMBAT)

dir. Dan Geva, Israel, 2007, digital, English, Hebrew, Arabic, & French w/ English subtitles, 80 min.

Description of a Memory is a film within a film; it examines the complexities of Israel’s history through the lens of Chris Marker’s 1960 film Description of a Memory (Descriptions D’un Combat), a portrait of the country made 13 years after its founding. Marker went to Israel as an outsider, looking to discover the spirit of the young country through its “language of signs.”

In Description of a Memory, director Dan Geva, an Israeli, explores what has happened in his homeland in the years since Marker’s film with a more critical eye, asking whether the promises Marker identified have been fulfilled.

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Friday, June 12 at 7pm Chris Marker feature program

Level Five

dir. Chris Marker, France, 1997, DCP, English, Japanese w/ English subtitles, 106 min.

A woman (Laura), a computer, an invisible interlocutor: such is the setup on which Level Five is built. She “inherits” a task: to finish writing a video game centered on the Battle of Okinawa - a tragedy practically unknown in the West, but whose development played a decisive role in the way World War II ended, as well as in postwar times and even our present. A strange game, in fact. Contrary to classical strategy games whose purpose is to turn back the tide of history, this one seems willing only to reproduce history as it happened. While working on Okinawa and meeting informants and even eye-witnesses to the battle through a rather unusual network which parallels the Internet, Laura gathers pieces of the tragedy, until they start to interfere with her own life.

As in any self-respecting video game, this one proceeds by “levels.” Laura and her interlocutor, intoxicated by their enterprise, use this as a metaphor for life itself, and gladly attribute levels to everything around them. Will she attain Level Five?

Saturday, June 13 at 2pm Family Matinee: Mythical Monsters and Beasts

The 7th Voyage of Sinbad

dir. Nathan Juran, US, 1958, 35mm, 88 min.

Sailing to Baghdad after a narrow escape from the monster island of Colossa, the wedding plans of legendary hero Sinbad and Princess Parisa are spoiled by the scheming sorcerer Sokurah. In return for his previous help with the cyclops on Colossa, Sokurah demands that Sinbad retrieve a lamp he lost on the island. When Sinbad refuses, the conjurer shrinks Parisa, forcing the sailor and his crew back to the high seas in order to save her.

Among the best stop-motion fantasy films ever made, The 7th Voyage of Sinbad showcases the work of legendary special effects wizard, Ray Harryhausen. Featuring multiple monsters ranging from a cyclops to a fire-breathing dragon, as well as a battle with a sword-wielding skeleton, Harryhausen’s creations went on to inspire a legion of filmmakers. In 2008, the film was selected for preservation in the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress.

Free to IHP Members; $5 Adults + Children

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Saturday, June 13 at 7pm Janus Collection

Eraserhead

dir. David Lynch, USA, 1977, 35mm, b/w, 89 min.

A dream of dark and troubling things . . .

David Lynch’s 1977 debut feature, Eraserhead, is both a lasting cult sensation and a work of extraordinary craft and beauty. With its mesmerizing black-and-white photography by Frederick Elmes and Herbert Cardwell, evocative sound design, and unforgettably enigmatic performance by Jack Nance, this visionary nocturnal odyssey continues to haunt American cinema like no other film.

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Thursday, June 18, 2015 7pm

Hard to be a God

dir. Aleksei German, Russia, 2013, DCP, Russian w/ English subtitles, 170 min.

When legendary Russian auteur Aleksei German died in 2013, he left behind this extraordinary final film, a phantasmagoric adaptation of the revered sci-fi novel by the Strugatsky brothers (authors of the source novel for Tarkovsky’s Stalker).

Hard to be a God began percolating in German’s consciousness in the mid-1960s, and would actively consume him for the last 15 years of his life. Happily, he brought the film close enough to completion for his wife and son to apply the finishing touches immediately after his passing.

Taking place on the planet Arkanar, which is in the midst of its own Middle Ages, the film focuses on Don Rumata, one of a group of Earth scientists who have been sent to Arkanar with the proviso that they must not interfere in the planet’s political or historical development. Treated by the planet’s natives as a kind of divinity, Don Rumata is both godlike and impotent in the face of its chaos and brutality.

Friday, June 19 at 7pm

Sagrada: The Mystery of Creation

dir. Stefan Haupt, Switzerland, 2012, DCP, Catalan, Spanish, French, and German w/ English subtitles, 90 min.

One of the most iconic and enduring human structures ever built, Barcelona’s La Sagrada Familia is a unique and fascinating architectural project conceived by Antoni Gaudi in the late 19th century. More than 125 years after construction began, the basilica still remains unfinished. Sagrada celebrates Gaudi’s vision and the continuing work of countless laborers, artisans, designers, and architects as they strive to complete the colossal project, while delving into the mysterious process of artistic creation.

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Tuesday, June 23rd at 7pm Reelblack presents

Thursday, June 25 at 7pm City of Signs

dirs. various, USA, 2013-2015, digital, 100 min.

dir. Gianni Di Gregorio, Italy, 2008, 35mm, Italian w/ English subtitles, 75 min.

Philly Shorts

Reelblack closes Season 12 by shining the spotlight on some of Philadelphia’s brightest talent with a special night of short films. New work from a dozen directors will be showcased, followed by a post-film Q&A with the filmmakers. Presented in Collaboration with PIFVA, the Greater Philadelphia Film Office, and the Black Film Advisory Committee. Filmmakers in attendance. $50 cash prize will be given to the Favorite Short of the night (voted on by you). $5 Reelblack + IHP Members; $8 Students + Seniors; $10 General Admission

Mid-August Lunch

Introduction by Leonard Guercio of Temple University The charismatic Gianni Di Gregorio (co-scenarist of the smash hit, Gomorrah), stars in his directorial debut—an utterly charming tale of good food, feisty ladies, and unlikely friendships during a very Roman holiday. Broke, and armed with only a glass of wine and a wry sense of humor, middleaged Gianni resides with his 93-year-old mother in their ancient apartment. The condo debts are mounting, but if Gianni looks after the building manager’s mother during the Pranzo di Ferragosto (Italy’s biggest summer holiday, and the Feast of the Assumption), all will be forgiven. The manager then shows up with an auntie, followed by a doctor friend with his mother in tow...can Gianni keep four such lively mamas well-fed and happy in these cramped quarters?

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Friday, June 26 at 7pm Motion Pictures

The Adventures of Baron Munchausen

dir. Terry Gilliam, UK/Italy, 1988, 35mm, 126 min.

Director Terry Gilliam (Brazil) and an all-star cast, including John Neville, Eric Idle, Oliver Reed, and Uma Thurman, deliver this tale of the enchanting adventures of Baron von Munchausen on his journey to save a town from defeat. Being swallowed by a giant sea-monster, a trip to the moon, a dance with Venus, and an escape from the Grim Reaper are only some of the improbable adventures.

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Saturday, June 27 at 2pm Family Matinee: Mythical Monsters and Beasts

Clash of the Titans

dir. Desmond Davis, UK/US, 1981, DCP, 118 min.

Perseus, son of the Greek god Zeus, is destined to marry Princess Andromeda, who is imprisoned in her home city of Joppa. To free her, win her hand, and thus half of the kingdom, Perseus solves a riddle, but in celebrating, Joppa’s Queen angers the sea goddess Thetis, who orders Andromeda fed to the Kraken, a towering sea monster that’s the last of the powerful Titans. To save the Princess, Perseus must endure a series of trials, including securing the head of the grotesque Gorgon named Medusa and battling the Kraken.

“Clash of the Titans is a grand and glorious romantic adventure, filled with brave heroes, beautiful heroines, fearsome monsters, and awe-inspiring duels to the death...It has faith in a story-telling tradition that sometimes seems almost forgotten, a tradition depending upon legends and myths, magical swords, enchanted shields, invisibility helmets, and the overwhelming power of a kiss.” (Ebert) While it features solid performances by legends of the stage and screen such as Laurence Olivier, Maggie Smith, and Burgess Meredith, the real star of this film is special effects pioneer Ray Harryhausen, who arguably does his finest work on Clash of the Titans, his final film.

Recommended for children 10+ Free to IHP Members; $5 Adults + Children

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Saturday, June 27 at 7pm Archive Fever! 6.0

Juliet of the Spirits (Giulietta degli Spiriti) dir. Federico Fellini, Italy, 1965, 35mm, Italian w/ English subtitles, 137 min.

Cinematographer Gianni di Venanzo’s masterful use of Technicolor transforms Juliet of the Spirits, Fellini’s first color feature, into a kaleidoscope of dreams, spirits, and memories. Giulietta Masina plays a betrayed wife whose inability to come to terms with reality leads her along a hallucinatory journey of self-discovery. Rialto Films is proud to present the fully restored version of one of Fellini’s most dazzling dreams.

Saturday, June 27 at 9:30pm Archive Fever! 6.0

How strange to be Named Federico (Che strano chiamarsi Federico. Scola racconta Fellini)

dir. Ettore Scola, Italy, 2013, DCP, Italian w/ English subtitles, 96 min.

For the 20th anniversary of his death, How Strange to be Named Federico retraces the incredible trajectory of legendary Italian director Federico Fellini, and especially the great story of friendship that he shared with Ettore Scola, his cineaste compatriot, eleven years his junior.

After ten years away from the cinematographic landscape, the director of Down and Dirty (1976) gets behind the camera once more to evoke the man who was both a mentor and a friend, and whose journey was often intertwined with his own – from their beginnings at the Marc’Aurelio newspaper to their world legacy as filmmakers, via their mutual friendship with Marcello Mastroianni.

In realizing this film tribute, Ettore Scola uses a strong and atypical aesthetic, as his work is a cross between a documentary, presenting a number of archival elements, and of a quasiexperimental film reconstruction – with Scola’s grandsons playing the roles of the two filmmakers in their youth. Celebrated at the Venice Film Festival 2013, How Strange to be Named Federico chronicles, in the most beautiful and inventive way, the life and extraordinary career of a legend of cinema, Federico Fellini.

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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.

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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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.

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Plenty of metered street parking is available on Chestnut and Market Streets, as well as throughout University City. Metered parking is $2 per hour, free after 8pm.

Discounted parking for guests of IHP is also available at the Sheraton University City parking garage, located at 3549 Chestnut Street. Bring your parking receipt to our front desk or box office for a validation stamp to receive $2.00 off their regular hourly rates.

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