IHP Magazine, Winter 2015 by International House Philadelphia

The “Lynchian” Aesthetic / Sam Fuller / Jack Smith / David Cronenberg / Kiki’s Delivery Service / Babette Mangolte / & More

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Barbara Kasten: Stages has been supported by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage.

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Barbara Kasten Documentation of Barbara Kasten working in her studio, New York, NY, 1983. Photo: Kurt Kilgus. Courtesy of the artist.

FEBRUARY 4– AUGUST 16, 2015

Shock Corridor (p. 16)

La Dolce Vita

ta b l e o f contents 2 Calendar 6 Featured Series Babette Mangolte: Camera Studies 8 artist spotlight Justin Miller: You don’t belong to this century 10 programs 12 January 24 February 36 March

tickets/box office: Tickets are available at www.ihousephilly.org + 215.387.5125 IHP’s Box Office is open from 4pm – 8pm, Tuesday – Saturday. Purchase your tickets in person or over the phone during these hours and save the processing fee. Unless noted, all IHP screenings are free admission for IHP members; $7 students + seniors; $9 general admission. Cover: Kiki’s Delivery Service (p. 41)

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American Soldier (p. 42)

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All Around This World 2pm (p. 12) Jamaica Inn 7pm (p. 12)

The “Lynchian” Aesthetic Duffer / Yo A Romantic Comedy / Possibly in Michigan 7pm (p. 13)

The 78 Project Movie with Joe Jack Talcum 7pm (p. 15)

The “Lynchian” Aesthetic Dreams that Money Can Buy / Angry Boy 7pm (p. 14)

Justin Miller: You Don’t Belong to this Century 5:30pm (p. 16)

Sam Fuller Double Feature A Fuller Life / Shock Corridor 7pm (p. 16)

Culture & Cuisine Africa Kilimandjaro 6pm (p. 18)

Scribe Video Center Producers’ Forum Rebel 7pm (p. 21)

Penn Humanities Forum Mother of George 7pm (p. 18)

Motion Pictures The Ruling Class 7pm (p. 19)

The Story of My Death (Història de la meva mort) 7pm (p. 21)

Remembering George Kuchar Corruption of the Damned / Eclipse of the Sun Virgin / Knocturne 7pm (p. 19)

Sex, Drugs & Rock ‘n Roll: A Floyd Mutrux Double Feature Dusty & Sweets McGee / Aloha Bobby & Rose 7pm (p. 22)

Family Matinee Flight of the Navigator 2pm (p.14 ) The “Lynchian” Aesthetic Made in Hollywood / The Life and Death of 9413, A Hollywood Extra 7pm (p. 15)

The Janus Collection La Ciudad de los Signos / Stromboli 7pm (p. 17)

Family Matinee The Iron Giant 2pm (p. 20) Stray Dogs (Jiao you) 7pm (p. 20)

In The Grip of The Lobster: Restoring Jack Smith Part One 5pm (p. 22) Part Two 7pm (p. 23)

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Reelblack Right On! 7pm (p. 34)

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Penn Humanities Forum Pariah 7pm (p. 24)

Archive Fever! 6.0 An Evening with Chris Emmanouilides / Archive 7pm (p. 29)

PHS Philadelphia Flower Show Film Competition Finalist Screening 7pm (p. 32)

Burroughs: The Movie 7pm (p. 24)

Wayfaring: Conversations on Travel, Art + Culture Marshall Allen 7pm (p. 29)

City of Signs Muri Romani 7pm (p. 32)

Ghostbusters / Ghostbusters II 7pm (p. 25)

Exhumed Films: David Cronenberg Triple Feature Scanners / Dead Zone / Naked Lunch 7:30pm (p. 30)

15th Annual Lunar New Year Celebration 6pm (p. 33)

All Around This World 2pm (p. 28)

Intercultural Journeys The Apple Hill String Quartet with Kinan Azmeh and Sally Pinkas 7:30pm (p. 28)

Family Matinee E.T. 2pm (p. 31) The Janus Collection Marketa Lazarova 7pm (p. 31)

Canyon Cinemaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Long Form Films Landscape Suicide 5pm (p. 33) Step Across the Border 8pm (p. 34)

Archive Fever! 6.0 Golden Slumbers 7pm (p. 35)

Babette Mangolte: Camera Studies Lives of Performers 7pm (p. 35)

Family Matinee Never Ending Story 2pm (p. 36)

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Scribe Producers’ Forum Citizen Koch 7pm (p. 36)

International Women’s Day 2015: Global Migrant Rights & Justice 6pm (p. 37)

Motion Pictures Othello 7pm (p. 38)

Penn Humanities Forum Mississippi Damned 7pm (p. 37)

Israeli Film Festival (p. 39)

Culture & Cuisine: Holland Noord Eet Café 6pm (p. 42)

Babette Mangolte: Camera Studies The Sky on Location 7pm (p. 47)

Penn Humanities Forum Middle of Nowhere / The Door 7pm (p. 43)

City of Signs Europa ‘51 7pm (p. 40)

Intercultural Journeys Liberian Women’s Chorus for Change 7:30pm (p. 38)

All Around this World African Dance with Adwoa Tacheampong 2pm (p. 39) Israeli Film Festival (p. 39)

Exhumed Films Hack-OLantern / Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers / Don’t Go in the Woods 7:30pm (p. 41)

The Janus Collection American Soldier 7pm (p. 42)

Motion Pictures Monty Python’s Meaning of Life 7pm (p. 43)

Selections from the Human Rights Watch International Film Festival A Quiet Inquisition 7pm (p. 45)

Babette Mangolte: Camera Studies Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles 7pm (p. 44) Selections from the Human Rights Watch International Film Festival Private Violence 7pm (p. 45)

Family Matinee Kiki’s Delivery Service 2pm (p. 41)

Israeli Film Festival (p. 39)

Family Matinee Ernest & Celestine 2pm (p. 46) Selections from the Human Rights Watch International Film Festival Festival Sepideh Reaching for the Stars 7pm (p. 46)

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F e at u r e d series Babette Mangolte: Camera Studies Since relocating to New York from her native France in the early 1970s, Babette Mangolte has forged a singular path across the art and cinema worlds. As a director, cinematographer, and documentarian, Mangolte has amassed an extensive body of work that intersects with the worlds of dance, performance art, and experimental film. In her New York years, Mangolte documented some of the eraâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most important performers and artists in both still and moving images. In these works, her collaborative partners include Chantal Akerman, Trisha Brown, Richard Foreman, and Yvonne Rainer. Her own films range from experimental narratives to artist documentaries, both short and featurelength. Camera Studies, a collaboration with the Institute of Contemporary Art at the University of Pennsylvania, focuses primarily on Mangolteâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s work in film, with screenings over the course of several months, culminating in a public conversation with the artist and special guests on April 1. 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.

Friday, February 27 at 7pm Lives of Performers Friday, March 20 at 7pm Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles Tuesday, March 31 at 7pm The Sky on Location Wednesday, April 1 at 6:30pm Babette Mangolte in Conversation Special guests TBA Thursday, April 2 at 7pm The Gold Diggers

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ARTIST S P OTLI G H T Justin Miller: You don’t belong to this century For the past five years International House has presented selections from the Janus Collection series, screening some of the greatest art-house films of the past 100 years. The collection features films directed by some of the most renowned directors of all-time: Akira Kurosawa, Louis Malle, Jean-Luc Godard, and Michelangelo Antonioni, among others. You Don’t Belong to this Century draws inspiration from these films, all of which have screened at IHP, to create new works. This series of hand pulled screen prints have been created by designer and printmaker, Justin Miller of Haunt Love Print and Design Co. and IHP’s own in-house graphic designer. Miller has been screen printing for nearly 10 years, creating film-themed prints for groups like Exhumed Films, International House Philadelphia, The Colonial Theatre, and The Brattle Theatre. Taking his influence from his punk DIY roots to

the Polish and Czech poster art of the ‘60s and ‘70s. Justin uses a combination of hand-drawn elements and images cut and manipulated on photocopiers to create his own style of half-tone textured beauty. Please join us for an opening reception on Friday, January 16 from 5:30-7pm to open Justin Miller’s “You Don’t Belong to this Century.” The exhibit will be on view through the end of March 2015, in IHP’s East Alcove on the Main Level.

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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 the archive, archival, and found materials are central to the works of film and video artists who are discovering the dynamic possibilities within archives. Wednesday, February 11 at 7pm An Evening with Chris Emmanouilides / Archive Thursday, February 26 at 7pm Golden Slumbers 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, February 19 at 7pm Muri Romani Thursday, March 12 at 7pm Europa ‘51 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, January 10 at 2pm Flight of the Navigator Saturday, January 24 at 2pm The Iron Giant

Saturday, February 14 at 2pm E.T. (the Extra-Terrestrial) Saturday, February 28 at 2pm Never Ending Story Saturday, March 14 at 2pm Kiki’s Delivery Service Saturday, March 28 at 2pm Ernest & Celestine 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. Saturday, February 7 at 7:30pm The Apple Hill String Quartet with Kinan Azmeh and Sally Pinkas Friday, March 6 at 7:30pm Liberian Women’s Chorus for Change 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, January 17 at 7pm La Ciudad de los Signos / Stromboli Saturday, February 14 at 7pm Marketa Lazarova Saturday, March 14 at 7pm American Soldier The “Lynchian” Aesthetic Organized and introduced by Jon Dieringer David Lynch is one of the most distinctive and singular of all filmmakers, forging a unique syntax based upon the legacy of the Surrealists, classic Hollywood genres, American iconography, European art-house cinema, and an appreciation for popular melodrama, deftly balancing earnestness and kitsch. To fully reduce this syntax to its constituent parts is not only futile, but beside

the point; similarly, it would be impossible to make a full accounting of its influence on cinematic and other arts, direct or otherwise. This series of three programs, featuring a total of seven films and videos, explores influences, predecessors, and antecedents, either real or speculative. Selections range from the expressly influential Dreams That Money Can Buy to the obscure British cult film Duffer, noted for its striking tonal similarities to Eraserhead, which it predates. In the spirit of Lynch’s museum retrospective, we also look at cinematic artists who often show in a gallery setting, including Ryan Trecartin, in whose early work the manic smears of MiniDV and freakish pop-hyperreality anticipate Inland Empire, and Bruce and Norman Yonemoto, whose Made in Hollywood mirrors the soap operatic artist-television approach of Twin Peaks, while sharing thematic affinities with Wild at Heart and Mulholland Drive. Special thanks to Rebecca Cleman at EAI. Thursday, January 8 at 7pm Duffer / Yo A Romantic Comedy / Possibly in Michigan Friday, January 9 at 7pm Dreams that Money Can Buy / Angry Boy Saturday, January 10 at 7pm Made in Hollywood / The Life and Death of 9413, A Hollywood Extra Motion Pictures Motion Pictures is a monthly series that focuses on different movements in film culture, such as science fiction, city symphonies, and New German Cinema. It has previously featured the films of Georges Méliès, John Ford, Preston Sturges, and Andrei Tarkovsky. Thursday, January 22 at 7pm The Ruling Class Thursday, March 5 at 7pm Othello Thursday, March 19 at 7pm Monty Python’s Meaning of Life

Wayfaring: Conversations on Travel, Art & Culture Wayfaring, a speaking 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, February 12 at 7pm Marshall Allen

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, February 13 at 8pm Cronenberg Triple Feature: Scanners / Dead Zone / Naked Lunch Friday, March 13 at 7pm Slasher Triple Feature: Hack-O-Lantern / Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers / Don’t Go in the Woods Reelblack Reelblack promotes discoveries and rediscoveries in African-American films. Tuesday, February 24 at 7pm Right On! 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, January 27 at 7 PM Rebel Tuesday, March 3 at 7pm Citizen Koch

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Saturday, January 3 at 2pm All Around This World All Around This World’s January date features members of FICA Philadelphia, doing a capoeira workshop for families. FICA Philadelphia is a non-profit organization which represents the local chapter of the Fundaçao Internacional de Capoeira Angola (FICA) -in English: the International Capoeira Angola Foundation (ICAF). Capoeira Angola is a dance fight, a playful sparring involving style, wit, flexibility and strategy. Capoeira weaves intricate movements, spirituality, mental and physical discipline, fight, and philosophy into a unique “game”. As Capoeira Angola synthesizes movement, rhythm, and African-Brazilian history into an artistic form of self-expression, it serves as a unique tool that promotes harmony with others and allows for individual growth. Bring your children and learn about this fantastic movementbased art form! Free to Children 2 + under; $5 Adults + Children over 2

Saturday, January 3 at 7pm Jamaica Inn - new digital restoration! dir. Alfred Hitchcock, UK, 1939, DCP, 98 min.

Hitchcock’s last film before leaving England is a tale of thieves and smugglers set on the rocky coast of Cornwall towards the end of the 18th century. Operating out of the tavern Jamaica Inn, a gang of criminals prey upon the merchant ships they lure close to shore. When the ships crash against the rocks, the ruthless gang of cut-throats seize the cargo and kill all aboard, leaving no witnesses behind. Mary, an orphaned young woman (Maureen O’Hara) arrives at the tavern seeking her aunt who runs the inn with her husband, the leader of the gang. Mary seeks the help of the local Magistrate (Charles Laughton) and an officer of the law operating under cover, but the true mastermind behind the gang has his own plans for her.

Thursday, January 8 at 7pm The “Lynchian” Aesthetic

Duffer

dir. Joseph Despins & William Dumaresq, UK, 1971, Blu-ray, 72 min

A 1972 British cult film, Duffer is an independently made psychodrama that plays like a queer mélange of Joe Orton, Hubert Selby Jr., and David Lynch. In his only acting role, Kit Gleave stars as the title character, a wayward hustler who wanders the London streets between two lovers. As he contemplates love and codependency, Duffer’s world grows increasingly unhinged with overtones of both Free Cinema-style social realism and proto-Lynchian weirdness that anticipates the high-anxiety world of Eraserhead. Preceded by:

Yo A Romantic Comedy

dir. Ryan Trecartin, USA, 2002, video, color, 12 min.

In Yo A Romantic Comedy, Ryan Trecartin creates a bombastic, grotesque pop explosion between a jilted lover and her would-be baby daddy in this piece with manic aesthetic affinities to Lynch’s 2007 shot-on-prosumer-video feature Inland Empire. Preceded by:

Possibly in Michigan

dir. Cecilia Condit, USA, 1983, video, color, 12 min.

Possibly in Michigan narrates, in light sing-songy vocals, the story of a pair of friends with two things in common: “violence and perfume.” So begins a funny and disturbing story of cannibalism, homicidal psychosexual urges, and the macabre in suburbia, which, like Twin Peaks, locates beyond the department store cosmetics counter a rabbit hole into a whimsical and twisted world.

Duffer

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Dreams That Money Can Buy Friday, January 9 at 7pm The “Lynchian” Aesthetic

Dreams that Money Can Buy

dir. Hans Richter, USA, 1947, 16mm, 81 min.

As Hans Richter called it: “Seven dreams shaped after the visions of seven contemporary artists.” To attempt to trace David Lynch’s seemingly irreducible aesthetic to a single point of origin, one couldn’t do much better than to arrive at this surrealist super group film, which Lynch praised in-depth on a 1987 episode of BBC Arena. Of particular note is the sequence by Man Ray, in which the cinema is grounds for interesting behavior modeling experiments. Painter Léger also contributes a brilliant segment, “The Girl with the Prefabricated Heart,” portrayed as a satirical mechanized romance between store mannequins. It’s set to John La Touche’s brilliant title song, sung as a duet between Libby Holman and Josh White, which may well have planted the seeds for Eraserhead’s “In Heaven.” Preceded by:

Angry Boy

dir. Alexander Hammid, USA, 1951, 16mm, b/w, 33 min.

Already an important figure in the Czech avantgarde, Alexander Hammid emigrated to the United States and in 1943 co-created one of the touchstones of experimental cinema, Meshes of the Afternoon. Later he directed a number of sponsored films, including this study of troubled youth for the Mental Health Film Board’s “Emotions of Everyday Living” series. The white bread suburban setting—and the frustrations boiling beneath—wade in the same pool of AllAmerican imagery drawn upon by Lynch in films like Blue Velvet.

Saturday, January 10 at 2pm Family Matinee: It Came From Outer Space

Flight of the Navigator

dir. Randal Kleiser, USA/Norway, 1986, digital, 90 min.

David Freeman is an ordinary boy destined for a most extraordinary adventure aboard a spectacular, futuristic spacecraft. After a mystifying disappearance, David returns, possessing vast, undiscovered knowledge about the farthest reaches of the universe. With these sudden navigational powers, David is able to take the fantastic flying machine anywhere he desires, accompanied by both its wisecracking robotic commander, Max, and an assortment of bizarre extraterrestrial creatures! Free to IHP Members; $5 Adults + Children

Made in Hollywood Saturday, January 10 at 7pm The “Lynchian” Aesthetic

Made in Hollywood

dirs. Bruce & Norman Yonemoto, USA, 1990, video, 57 min.

“There’s a secret inside, a mighty powerful secret. But it won’t mean nothing to you until the right time comes. I want you to promise me that you won’t open it until you’re in trouble. I don’t mean the everyday, vexin’ kind of trouble: I mean the kind of trouble that’s so dark and black that there’s no hopin’ left.” So farmgirl Patricia Arquette’s kindly aunt tells her, in a scene reminiscent of The Wizard of Oz, before handing her a curious box and sending her on her way to chase her Hollywood dreams. Sound familiar? Obvious affinities to Mulholland Drive, Wild at Heart, and Lost Highway aside, Los Angeles-based video artists Bruce and Norman Yonemoto anticipate the artist-television format Lynch would take in Twin Peaks in this offbeat and wickedly cynical take on the trappings of fame. Preceded by:

The Life and Death of 9413, A Hollywood Extra dirs. Robert Florey, Slavko Vorkapi, USA, 1928, 35mm, b/w, 11 min.

It’s the quintessential Hollywood story: a starryeyed new arrival signs up to become an extra in the hopes of making it big and barrels through highs and lows before bottoming out. The Life and Death of 9413 is a compact masterpiece of alternating whimsy, delirium, and nightmare expressionism.

Thursday, January 15 at 7pm

The 78 Project Movie with Joe Jack Talcum dir. Alex Steyermark, US, 2014, DCP, 96 min.

The 78 Project Movie is a film about connections, framed by a road trip across America to record musicians on a vintage Presto 1930s direct-todisc acetate recorder. The 78 Project creators, Alex Steyermark and Lavinia Jones Wright, shot the film from August 2012 to September 2013, driving across America in a tiny Kia Soul loaded to the roof with cameras, their Presto, spare tubes, blank discs, and a toolbox. Over the course of their journey, the pair visited established and emerging musicians in their homes to cut once-in-a-lifetime 78rpm records. From Tennessee to Mississippi and from California to Louisiana, the folk singers, punk rockers, Gospel, and Cajun singers in The 78 Project Movie tell in their own words what it is to be American today, sharing their lives and histories through intimate musical performances of classic American songs. The 78 Project includes experts from every facet of field recording, from Grammy-winning producers to the factory workers who make the blank acetate discs. The kaleidoscopic viewpoints of these technologists, historians, and craftsmen provide the context that allows for new connections to emerge between people from different generations and seemingly different cultures. Musical performers in The 78 Project Movie include The Reverend John Wilkins, Victoria Williams, John Doe, Louis Michot, Corey Ledet and Ashlee Michot, and many others. Followed by a special live performance by Joe Jack Talcum (Dead Milkmen), which will be recorded and pressed on-site.

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A Fuller Life Friday, January 16 at 5:30pm

Justin Miller: You don’t belong to this century

For the past five years International House has presented selections from the Janus Collection series, screening some of the greatest art-house films of the past 100 years. The collection features films directed by some of the most renowned directors of all-time: Akira Kurosawa, Louis Malle, Jean-Luc Godard, and Michelangelo Antonioni, among others. You Don’t Belong to this Century draws inspiration from these films, all of which have screened at IHP, to create new works. This series of hand pulled screen prints have been created by designer and printmaker, Justin Miller of Haunt Love Print and Design Co. and IHP’s own in-house graphic designer. Miller has been screen printing for nearly 10 years, creating film-themed prints for groups like Exhumed Films, International House Philadelphia, The Colonial Theatre, and The Brattle Theatre. Taking his influence from his punk DIY roots to the Polish and Czech poster art of the ‘60s and ‘70s. Justin uses a combination of hand-drawn elements and images cut and manipulated on photocopiers to create his own style of half-tone textured beauty. Please join us for an opening reception on Friday, January 16 from 5:30-7pm to open Justin Miller’s “You Don’t Belong to this Century.” The exhibit will be on view through the end of March 2015, in IHP’s East Alcove on the Main Level.

Friday, January 16 at 7pm Sam Fuller Double Feature

A Fuller Life

dir. Samantha Fuller, USA, 2014, DCP, b/w & color, 80 min.

Calling on a wide range of her father’s collaborators and fellow travelers, from James Franco to William Friedkin, to read from his autobiography, the filmmaker Samantha Fuller evokes the inimitable voice and spirit of her father, the legendary writer-director Sam Fuller. Shot entirely within “The Shack,” as Fuller called the backyard writing refuge he filled with notes for future projects, the film follows Fuller on his path from New York tabloid journalist to Hollywood hyphenate, including his formative experiences as an infantryman in World War II. Generously illustrated with scenes from his films and newly discovered home movies, A Fuller Life is a celebration of a passionate individualist and a major American artist. Followed by

Shock Corridor

dir. Samuel Fuller, USA, 1963, 16mm, 101mins. b/w

In Shock Corridor, the great American writerdirector-producer Samuel Fuller masterfully charts the uneasy terrain between sanity and madness. Seeking a Pulitzer Prize, reporter Johnny Barrett (Peter Breck) has himself committed to a mental hospital to investigate a murder. As he closes in on the killer, insanity closes in on him. Constance Towers costars as Johnny’s coolheaded stripper girlfriend. With its startling commentary on racism and other hot-button issues in sixties America, as well as its daring photography by Stanley Cortez, Shock Corridor has had far-reaching influence.

Saturday, January 17 at 7pm The Janus Collection

La Ciudad de los Signos

dir. Samuel Alarcón, Spain, 2009, digital, color & b/w, Spanish with English subtitles, 63 min.

In March 1980, César Alarcón traveled to Pompeii to carry out an ambitious project–to collect psycho-phonic samples of the great eruption of Vesuvius that had destroyed the city in 79 AD. Upon reviewing all his recordings, none of them seems to contain sounds from the Pompeian disaster. Instead, recorded unexpectedly on one of the tapes was a strange phrase captured that Alarcón remembers hearing much more recently. La ciudad de los signos is a journey through the films of the Italian director Roberto Rossellini. Rossellini’s cinema was a stiletto that opened the breach through which all modern cinema now passes. The landscapes used as locations for Rossellini’s films still retain signals; signs that are part of a vast city built on the backs of the living and the dead. Followed by:

Stromboli

dir. Roberto Rossellini, Italy, 1950, DCP, b/w, Italian w/ English subtitles, 106 min.

The first collaboration between Roberto Rossellini and Ingrid Bergman is a devastating portrait of a woman’s existential crisis, set against the beautiful and forbidding backdrop of a volcanic island. After World War II, a Lithuanian refugee (Bergman) marries a simple Italian fisherman (Mario Vitale) she meets in a prisoner of war camp, and accompanies him back to his isolated village on an island off the coast of Sicily. Cut off from the world, she finds herself crumbling emotionally, but she is destined for a dramatic epiphany.

Stromboli

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Tuesday, January 20 at 6pm Culture & Cuisine: Africa

Kilimandjaro 4317 Chestnut Street

Owner Youma Ba will speak about African cuisine and the work of her organization, Echoes of Africa. Time, menu, and full program to be confirmed. Join us for dinner and explore the wonderful diversity and culinary treasures in Philadelphia as we visit an ethnic restaurant for an authentic experience. A special menu is prepared, and a short overview of the food and culture of the region is presented. Bring your friends and enjoy new tastes from around the world!

Wednesday, January 21 at 6pm Penn Humanities Forum Screenings New Black Cinematography: Films of Bradford Young Penn Humanities Forum in collaboration with Cinema Studies and International House Philadelphia Prior to the screening there will be a conversation between Bradford Young and a distinguished panel of Philadelphia filmmakers and film scholars: Louis Massiah (Scribe Video Center), and Salamishah Tillet (UPenn). They will discuss the work of contemporary Black cinematography and new tools and techniques of racial representation in film and video.

Mother of George

dir. Andrew Dosunmu, Nigeria/USA, 2013, DCP, English, Yoruba w/ English subtitles, 107 min.

‘Adenike and Ayodele (The Walking Dead’s Danai Gurira and veteran actor Isaach De Bankolé) are a Nigerian couple living in Brooklyn. Following the joyous celebration of the their wedding, complications arise out of their inability to conceive a child - a problem that devastates their family and defies cultural expectations, leading Adenike to make a shocking decision that could either save her family or destroy it. “[A] beautiful, vibrant, and moving portrait of a couple whose joys and struggles are at once intimate and universal.”—Oscilloscope. Winner of the Best Cinematography Award, U.S. Dramatic at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival. Followed by a Q&A with Bradford Young. Free admission

Eclipse of the Sun Virgin Thursday, January 22 at 7pm Motion Pictures

The Ruling Class

dir. Peter Medak, UK, 1972, 35mm, 154 min.

Peter O’Toole gives a tour-de-force performance as Jack, a man “cured” of believing he’s God only to become Jack the Ripper incarnate. Based on Peter Barnes’ irreverent play, this darkly comic indictment of Britain’s class system peers behind the closed doors of English aristocracy. Insanity, sadistic sarcasm, and black comedy - with just a touch of the Hollywood musical - are all featured in this beloved cult classic directed by Peter Medak.

Friday, January 23 at 7pm Remembering George Kuchar

Corruption of the Damned

dir. George Kuchar, US, 1965, 16mm, b/w, 55 min.

Introduced by Andrew Lampert “Kuchar’s films are overtly insane. Anyone who lived in such a world would be mad inside an hour. Perhaps the Marx Brothers might survive, but I doubt it. Godzilla, King of the Monsters, might have a better chance. But the utter insanity, the insanity of perverted cliché, is the genuine unwholesome appeal of Kuchar’s outlook. Corruption might seethe with violence and sex, the two most attractive things you can put on the screen, but beneath them a twisted outlook pervades. Something is very much wrong with the Kuchar world.”- Leonard Lipton, Berkeley Barb Followed by:

Eclipse of the Sun Virgin dir. George Kuchar, US, 1967, 16mm, color, 15 min.

“I dedicate this film poem to the behemoths of yesteryear that perished in Siberia along with the horned pachyderms of the pre-glacial epoch. This chilling montage of crimson repression must be seen. Painstakingly filmed and edited, it will be painful to watch, too.”- G.K.

Knocturne

dir. George Kuchar, US, 1968, 16mm, color, 10 min.

“The rising moon is the main theme in this short movie of three people and an animal going about their nocturnal rituals. This movie is evidently part three of my trilogy that started with Hold Me While I’m Naked and Eclipse of the Sun Virgin. It evidently is, since part three never really came out. This seems to look like it could be part three.”- G.K.

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Saturday, January 24 at 2pm Family Matinee: It Came From Outer Space

The Iron Giant

dir. Brad Bird, USA, 1999, 35mm, 86 min.

Utilizing both traditional animation and computer animation, The Iron Giant tells the story of a lonely boy named Hogarth, raised by his mother (the widow of an Air Force pilot), who one day discovers an iron giant that has fallen from outer space. With the help of a beatnik named Dean, Hogarth must stop the U.S. military and a federal agent from finding and destroying the Giant. Based on a book by British poet laureate Ted Hughes, The Iron Giant is not just a cute romp but an involving story that has something to say. Free to IHP Members; $5 Adults + Children

Saturday, January 24 at 7pm

Stray Dogs (Jiao you) dir. Tsai Ming-liang, Taiwan/France, 2013, DCP, Mandarin w/ English subtitles, 138 min.

Winner of the Grand Jury Prize at Venice, Stray Dogs is a haunting masterpiece, and possibly the last film, from the great Tsai Ming-Liang. There are real stray dogs to be fed in Tsai’s everyday apocalypse, but the title also refers to its principal characters, living the cruelest of existences on the ragged edges of the modern world. Stray Dogs is many things at once: minimal in its narrative content and syntax, as visually powerful as it is emotionally overwhelming, and bracingly pure in both its anger and its compassion. One of the finest works of an extraordinary artist. “A soaring masterpiece, a huge and complex work of art, and one for the ages.” - Neil Young, Indiewire

Tuesday, January 27 at 7 PM Scribe Video Center Producers’ Forum

Rebel

dir. María Agui Carter, USA, 2013, 75 min.

Director María Agui Carter in person Shrouded in mystery and long the subject of debate, the amazing story of Loreta Velazquez, Confederate soldier turned Union Spy, is one of the Civil War’s most gripping forgotten narratives. While the U.S military may have recently lifted the ban on women in combat, Loreta Janeta Velazquez, a Cuban immigrant from New Orleans, was fighting in battle 150 years ago – one of an estimated 1000 women who secretly served as soldiers during the American Civil War. Who was she? Why did she fight? And what made her so dangerous she has been virtually erased from history? Rebel is the story of a woman, a myth, and the politics of national memory. María Agui Carter is an award-winning filmmaker, whose most recent documentary Rebel aired as a National PBS special and won a 2014 Erik Barnouw Honorable Mention Award as best historical film in America. Carter grew up an undocumented “Dreamer,” graduated from Harvard, and is a Trustee of The National Association of Latino Independent Producers. $5 Scribe + IHP Members; $7 Students + Seniors; $10 General Admission

Thursday, January 29 at 7pm

The Story of My Death (Història de la meva mort)

dir. Albert Serra, France, 2013, DCP, French w/ English subtitles, 151 min.

Casanova gets to know his new manservant, who will bear witness to his final days of life. Leaving a French château with its typical 18th century atmosphere of licentiousness, he spends his final days in impoverished, dismal northern Europe. There, his world of frivolity and high society, as well as his Enlightenment rationalism, crumble when faced with a new, violent, esoteric and romantic force represented by Dracula and his eternal power. “Albert Serra stops time, and feeds off elements of nature, trees and wind, of the same material.” - Le Monde

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Aloha Bobby & Rose Friday January 30 at 7pm Sex, Drugs & Rock ‘n Roll: A Floyd Mutrux Double Feature

Saturday, January 31 at 5pm In The Grip of The Lobster: Restoring Jack Smith

Writer, Director, Actor, Playwright, Floyd Mutrux has curiously operated just under the radar for decades despite being involved with some of the most original films from Hollywood’s maverick years, the 1970s. Tonight we celebrate the under– recognized auteur with two of his grittiest classics.

Jerry Tartaglia presents newly restored films from the Jack Smith Archive, courtesy of Gladstone Gallery, NY and Brussels, and discusses the issues of preservation and exhibition of Smith’s work as filmmaker and performance artist.

Dusty & Sweets McGee

MilkBath Scene from Normal Love

dir. Floyd Mutrux, US, 1971, 35mm, 91 min.

An unflinching portrait of junkies in Los Angeles that merges fiction and non-fiction to great effect. Mutrux’s debut feature as a director is a prime example of the changes taking place on the fringes of Hollywood in the late ‘60s and ‘70s that launched the careers of directors like Bob Rafelson, Martin Scorsese and Monte Hellman, the latter directing the Mutrux co-scripted Two-Lane Blacktop.

Aloha Bobby & Rose dir. Floyd Mutrux, US, 1975, 16mm, 88 min.

Mutrux’s follow up to Dusty & Sweets McGee follows a pair of seemingly doomed young lovers trying to leave the city behind and escape into the night in Bobby’s 1968 Camaro. A soundtrack full of pop and rock hits from the era have earned this lost gem cult status among both film and music enthusiasts.

Part One: Smith’s Performance at 5pm

dir. Jack Smith, US, 1964-69, 16mm transferred to video, 16 min.

From time to time, Jack removed material from his feature film Normal Love and used it for projection during his performances but never returned it to the “completed” film reel. This excised material is Kodachrome original, edge number dated February 1964. It has been preserved as all of this material is, with the edits and formatting as found at the time of Smith’s death.

Midnight At The Plaster Foundation dir. Jack Smith, US, mid-1970s, 16mm transferred to video, 28 min.

This is the only known complete recording of a Jack Smith Performance. It is a failure from start to finish, embodying Smith’s aesthetic of catastrophe. The piece was originally shot on the early Sony ½ inch Portapak video format and digitally remastered.

In The Grip of the Lobster

dir. Jack Smith, US, 1969-1972, 16mm transferred to video, live audio presented from Jack Smith’s record collection, 34 min.

Two weeks before his death in 2013, Mario Montez identified this material as the footage that was to mark the next Smith-Montez collaboration following Normal Love. Smith opens with images of Mario as the Mermaid that he excised and printed from Normal Love. Irving Rosenthal appears in a sequence of card playing before Mario Montez returns with Agosto Machado. The reel shows the duplex Plaster Foundation studio space that Smith created by smashing through the floor of his apartment.

Song For Rent

dir. Jack Smith, US, mid 1970s, 16mm, live audio presented from Jack Smith’s record collection, 6 min.

Jack appears as his alter ego, Rose Courtyard, in this tribute to America, and apple pie. Free Admission

Part Two: Jack Smith’s Anti-Jingoisms at 7pm

Gems, Clips and Shorts

dir. Jack Smith, US, 1968 – 1977, 16mm transferred to video, 45 min.

The current excavation of the archive has also yielded some fascinating shorter film fragments that have been assembled onto a single reel for viewing. This reel is a collection of pieces that are complete executions of a single, cinematic visual idea featuring one or more of Jack’s notorious “Creatures”: Mario Montez, Tally Brown, Irving Rosenthal and Silva, the drag queen mentioned by Stefan Brecht. Like almost all of his films, the narrative is obscure or completely dismantled, yet there is a driving filmic purpose in each of them.

Coffin Scene late-1960s, b/w, 6 min.

Abortion Pit Nightmare early-1970s, b/w, 8 min.

Nun and Zebra 1969 – 1971, color, 9.5 min.

How to Select A Victim mid-1970s, color, 9 min.

Jack Smith at the Cologne Art Fair 1974, color, 12.5 min.

Hamlet in the Rented World (A Fragment)

US, 1970 – 1973, 16mm transferred to video, 30 min.

As early as 1970, Jack Smith had been working on his own, improved version of the Bard’s play. The 16mm film material, however, is not the only Hamlet in the archive. He staged at least one Live Performance of Hamlet and the 1001 Psychological Jingoleanisms of Prehistoric Landlordism of Rima-Puu. He also left behind several different typed scripts (some running to about 40 pages) which were either intended as shooting scripts for the uncompleted film or for the actualized performances. The title on some of these scripts reads Hamlet in the Rented World while others are titled Hamlet and the 1001 Psychological Jingoleanisms of Prehistoric Landlordism of Rima-Puu. The audio that accompanies this preserved fragment came from several 1/4-inch reel-to-reel tape recordings of Jack as he is reading selected lines from some of these scripts. These tapes reveal themselves to be more than merely “wild sound” (that is, unsynched audio) for the 16mm film. It seems that these tapes are themselves a kind of audio-performance of the scripts. With his usual aplomb, Jack rehearses and repeats a single line over and over again, apparently feigning dissatisfaction with his own delivery, then repeating exactly the same line with the same style of delivery. Free Admission

All images, films and video, courtesy of The Jack Smith Archive and Gladstone Gallery, NY and Brussels Support for this program comes from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts

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Wednesday, February 4 at 7pm Penn Humanities Forum Screenings New Black Cinematography: Films of Bradford Young

Pariah

dir. Dee Rees, USA, 2011, DCP, 86 min.

‘Adepero Oduye… portrays Alike (pronounced ah-lee-kay), a 17-year-old African-American woman who lives with her parents [and younger sister Sharonda] in Brooklyn’s Fort Greene neighborhood. She has a flair for poetry, and is a good student at her local high school. Alike is quietly but firmly embracing her identity as a lesbian…Wondering how much she can confide in her family, Alike strives to get through adolescence with grace, humor, and tenacity – sometimes succeeding, sometimes not, but always moving forward.’—Focus Features Winner of the Best Cinematography Award, U.S. Dramatic at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival. Free admission

Thursday, February 5 at 7pm

Burroughs: The Movie dir. Howard Brookner, US, 1983, DCP, 86 min.

This one-of-a-kind portrait of the great American writer began as director Howard Brookner’s senior thesis at NYU (with his friends Jim Jarmusch and Tom DiCillo on sound and camera, respectively). Shooting and post-production took five years, during which Brookner accumulated multiple hours with Burroughs visiting old hangouts and speaking with unusual candor, as well as interviews with many friends, including Allen Ginsberg, Terry Southern, John Giorno, and Brion Gysin. The final result is a remarkable time capsule of one of the most challenging and influential artists of the 20th century. The screening marks what would have been Burroughs’ 101st birthday.

Friday, February 6 at 7pm Ghostbusters Double Feature

Ghostbusters

dir. Ivan Reitman, USA, 1984, 35mm, 105 min.

A trio of university para-psychologists lose their research grant and decide to open their own business, “Ghostbusters,” and almost at once are summoned to investigate the strange happenings in a Central Park West apartment. What they discover is that all Manhattan is being besieged by other worldly demons. Followed by:

Ghostbusters II

dir. Ivan Reitman, USA, 1989, 35mm, 108 min.

Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd and Harold Ramis take up their proton packs once more to battle the forces of evil in Manhattan! After waging a war on slime that cost New York City millions, the Ghostbusters find themselves out of business until an ancient tyrant, preparing a return to the Earthly domain through his portrait at the Manhattan Museum of Modern Art, sets his sights on Dana Barrett’s baby as the new home for his wicked soul! With the help of the Museum’s possessed curator, he plans to turn New York into a really scary place to live! Now only the Ghostbusters can save New York City, by turning paranormal pest control into an art form!

Ghostbusters

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Saturday, February 7 at 2pm

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

Saturday, February 7 at 7:30pm Intercultural Journeys

The Apple Hill String Quartet with Kinan Azmeh and Sally Pinkas In the third installment in the Songs for Peace concert season, we welcome The Apple Hill String Quartet with Syrian-born clarinetist Kinan Azmeh and Israeli-born pianist Sally Pinkas. This special program entitled “Music Bridging Contemporary Cultural Divides,” is part of a project from the Apple Hill Center for Chamber Music that aims to bring together musicians from Arab (both Muslim and Christian) cultures with Israeli/Jewish and American cultures. Through creative collaboration, the Apple Hill String Quartet uses music as a means to cross cultural, religious, and political divides to seek truth, humanity, and beauty. This concert features a special performance of “Traces” by Emmy-nominated composer Kareem Roustom, a work developed exclusively for string quartet, clarinet, and piano. “Traces” evokes the poetic imagery of an abandoned Bedouin camp, a theme often examined in classical pre-Islamic Arab poetry. As is typical of these poems, the poet returns to the camp to find it abandoned; all that remains are memories and the traces of lives once lived. This powerful piece explores the themes of love, loss, memory, life, death, and longing for the past. This performance celebrates Interfaith Harmony Week (February 3-9), a United Nations initiative. $8 Students; $10 IHP Members; $15 General Admission

Wednesday, February 11 at 7pm Archive Fever! 6.0

An Evening with Chris Emmanouilides Fourteen million photos are uploaded to Facebook and one hundred hours of video are uploaded to YouTube…every minute of everyday. 8.7 billion machines are currently connected to the Internet. 40 billion gadgets by 2020.

Thursday, February 12 at 7pm Wayfaring: Conversations on Travel, Art + Culture

Marshall Allen

Moderated by Anthony Smyrski of Random Embassy and Megawords

Archive Fever! 6.0 presents the Philadelphia Premiere of Archive by local filmmaker Chris Emmanouilides, a poetic and provoking documentary film followed by an open discussion that considers the proliferation of photographs and personal video pouring into the vast and mystical digital universe we now inhabit.

Marshall Allen, an American free jazz and avantgarde jazz alto saxophone player, will speak at IHP about his life, his music, and his experiences with other cultures. Allen is best known for his work with eccentric keyboardist/bandleader Sun Ra, having recorded and performed with him since the late 1950s, and has led Sun Ra’s Arkestra since 1993. Critic Jason Ankeny described Marshall as “one of the most distinctive and original saxophonists of the postwar era.”

Archive

$5 IHP Members; $8 Students + Seniors; $10 General Admission

dir. Chris Emmanouilides, USA, 2013, digital, 40mins. color & b/w

Archive reflects on ritual, memory, and the passing of traditional photography in the digital age. Inspired by a trip to Greece for a baptism in 1996, this first person documentary layers B&W film and video, still photographs, digital imagery from the web, and archival footage of the first electronic computer – the ENIAC – to create a moving and contemplative visual essay on an everlasting moment in family – and world – history. A discussion with the director, Chris Emmanouilides, and IHP Senior Curator, Robert Cargni will follow the screening, and will include short film clips to enhance the discussion.

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Friday, February 13 at 7:30pm Exhumed Films: David Cronenberg Triple Feature

Scanners

dir. David Cronenberg, Canada, 1981, 35mm, 103 min.

With Scanners, David Cronenberg plunges us into one of his most terrifying and thrilling sci-fi worlds. After a man with extraordinary telepathic abilities is nabbed by agents from a mysterious rogue corporation, he discovers he is far from the only possessor of such strange powers, and some of the other “scanners” have their minds set on world domination, while others are trying to stop them.

Dead Zone

dir. David Cronenberg, USA, 1983, 35mm, 103 min.

Christopher Walken plays a schoolteacher, Johnny Smith, who awakens from a five-year coma. He discovers that he has acquired the ability to foretell a person’s future simply by touching their hand. This ability is given its severest test when Smith shakes the hand of ruthless political candidate Greg Stillson (Martin Sheen) -- and suddenly has a flash-forward to a nuclear holocaust.

Naked Lunch

dir. David Cronenberg, Canada, 1991, 35mm, 115 min.

In this adaptation of William S. Burroughs’ hallucinatory, Naked Lunch, a part-time exterminator and full-time drug addict named Bill Lee (Peter Weller) plunges into the nightmarish Interzone, a netherworld of sinister cabals and giant talking bugs. Naked Lunch mingles aspects of Burroughs’ novel with incidents from the writer’s own life, resulting in an evocative paranoid fantasy and a self-reflexive investigation into the mysteries of the creative process. $10 IHP Members; $15 General Admission

Naked Lunch

Saturday, February 14 at 2pm Family Matinee: It Came From Outer Space

Saturday, February 14 at 7pm The Janus Collection

dir. Steven Spielberg, USA , 1982, DCP, 115 min.

dir. František Vlácil, Czechoslovakia, 1967, 35mm, b/w, Czech and German w/ English subtitles, 165 min.

E.T. (the ExtraTerrestrial)

Director Steven Spielberg’s heartwarming masterpiece is one of the brightest stars in motion picture history. Filled with unparalleled magic and imagination, E.T. follows the moving story of a lost little alien who befriends a 10-year-old, Elliot. Come and experience all the mystery and fun of their unforgettable adventure in the beloved movie that captivated audiences around the world. Free to IHP Members; $5 Adults + Children

Marketa Lazarova

In its native land, František Vlácil’s Marketa Lazarová has been hailed as the greatest Czech film ever made; for many U.S. viewers, it will be a revelation. Based on a novel by Vladislav Vancura, this stirring and poetic depiction of a feud between two rival medieval clans is a fierce, epic, and meticulously designed evocation of the clashes between Christianity and paganism, humankind and nature, love and violence. Vlácil’s approach was to re-create the textures and mentalities of a long-ago way of life, rather than to make a conventional historical drama, and the result is dazzling. With its inventive widescreen cinematography, editing, and sound design, Marketa Lazarová is an experimental action film.

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Wednesday, February 18 at 7pm

PHS Philadelphia Flower Show Film Competition Finalist Screening The magic of the movies will move from silver screen to living color when the 2015 PHS Philadelphia Flower Show, the longest-running and largest flower show in the U.S. invites everyone to “Celebrate the Movies.” The 2015 Flower Show will celebrate classic films, recent hits, sneak peeks of tomorrow’s blockbusters, AND our local filmmmakers’ vision of beauty. The Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, in conjunction with the PHS Philadelphia Flower Show and the Greater Philadelphia Film Office, sponsored a short film competition with the theme, “What is Beauty?” “Beauty” is defined in many ways, and PHS reached out for surprising and original approaches to the theme. Submissions have come in from universities, professional groups, and the filmmaking community at large. The winners which will be screened during the 2015 Philadelphia Flower Show, Feb. 28 to March 8, and will be viewed by more than 230,000 visitors. But first, we will be hosting preview screenings of the finalists around the region through the month of February. Come on out and vote for your favorite!

Thursday, February 19 at 7pm City of signs

Muri Romani

dir. Jon Jost, USA, 1999-2000, digital, 80 min.

Muri Romani is a somewhat radical type of documentary. In appearance, it is utter simplicity. For example, the image of a patch of wall in Rome, today. As one watches, the wall seems to change, invisibly, without technical means. The sound is a collage of street sounds: motorinos, bells, people talking, trams, and sirens -- the daily sounds of central Rome.

Friday, February 20 at 6pm

15th Annual Lunar New Year Celebration IHP residents and guests come together to celebrate the “Year of the Sheep” at our annual lunar new year festival! Join us to welcome in the “Year of the Sheep” with a traditional Lion Dance, musical performances, and a sampling of great traditional food. This event has become an annual tradition at International House Philadelphia where residents and guests alike celebrate the night together. This event is open to IHP residents and the general public. $5 for Residents; $8 for IHP Members + Alumni; $12 General Admission

Saturday, February 21 at 5pm Canyon Cinema’s Long Form Films

Landscape Suicide

dir. James Benning, USA, 1986, 16mm, 95 mins.

Curated and hosted by professor and film scholar Irina Leimbacher / Q&A’s after each program “[T]he murderers in James Benning’s Landscape Suicide are a paranoiac teenage girl and a taciturn Wisconsin farmer. The reconstructive narratives take the viewer through the slants of minds in disturbance, through the ambiguities that surround any act of violence. Both Bernadette Protti, who killed a more popular classmate with a kitchen knife, and Edward Gein, who shot a storekeeper’s wife and then took her body home and cut it up, provide exemplars of ‘I couldn’t stop.’ The homicides allow Benning to deal in emotion that is external to him (yet deeply felt), while imbuing his trademark ‘still’ images of roads, trucks, billboards, buildings and trees with newly charged meaning. ... As strong as Benning’s photography is, it’s the talking head sequences that prove most chilling. The power of Rhonda Bell’s portrayal of Protti is such that there are moments when we’re convinced she’s the real killer. So, too, with Elion Sucher’s Gein, who looks like he’s been struck between the eyes with a heavy object, his head so caved-in by dementia.There is no actual violence here - save the disembowelment of a deer - but Landscape Suicide leaves you feeling like a witness nonetheless.” - Katherine Dieckman, The Village Voice

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Saturday, February 21 at 8pm Canyon Cinema’s Long Form Films

Tuesday, February 24 at 7pm Reelblack

Step Across the Border

Right On!

“In Step Across the Border, two forms of artistic expression, improvised music and cinema direct, are interrelated. In both forms it is the moment that counts, the intuitive sense for what is happening in a space. Music and film come into existence out of an intense perception of the moment, not from the transformation of a preordained plan. In improvisation the plan is revealed only at the end. One finds it. The other connection concerns the work method: the film team as band. Much as musicians communicate via the music, our work, too, was realized within a very small and flexible team of equals. What mattered was exchange. And movement. Sometimes we started filming in the middle of the night, responding to a new idea that had arisen only minutes before. We had a fundamental feeling for what we wanted to do, for what kind of film this should be. And we followed that feeling.” — Nicolas Humbert and Werner Penzel

Described as “a conspiracy of ritual, street theater, soul music, and cinema,” Right On! is a pioneering concert film, a compelling record of radical Black sentiment in 1960s America, and a precursor of the hip-hop revolution in musical culture. Shot guerilla-style on the streets and rooftops of lower Manhattan, it features the original Last Poets performing 28 numbers adapted from their legendary Concept-East Poetry appearance at New York’s Paperback Theater in 1969. Opening almost simultaneously with Melvin Van Peebles’s Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song, Right On! was described by its producer as “the first ‘totally black film,’” making “no concession in language and symbolism to white audiences.” The film has rarely screened over the past 30 years, and this is the premiere run of MoMA’s new restoration, made from the recently recovered 35mm negative. This restoration was undertaken by The Museum of Modern Art with support from the Celeste Bartos Fund for Film Preservation and Paul Newman (San Francisco).

dir. Nicolas Humbert/Werner Penzel, USA, 1990, 35mm, 90 mins. b&w

With musicians: Fred Frith, Joey Baron, Ciro Battista, Iva Bitova, Tom Cora, Jean Derome, Pavel Fajt, Eitetsu Hayashi, Tim Hodgkinson, Arto Lindsay, Rene Lussier, Haco, Kevin Norton, Bob Ostertag, Zeena Parkins, Lawrence Wright, John Zorn, and many others. And: Robert Frank, Julia Judge, Jonas Mekas, Ted Milton, John Spacely, Yasushi Utsonomiya, Tom Walker.

dir. Herbert Danska, USA, 1970, 78 min.

$5 Reelblack + IHP Members; $8 Students + Seniors; $10 General Admission

Thursday, February 26 at 7pm Archive Fever! 6.0

Friday, February 27 at 7pm Babette Mangolte: Camera Studies

dir. Davy Chou, France/Cambodia, 2011, digital, Khmer, French w/ English subtitles, 96 min.

dir. Yvonne Rainer, US, 1972, 16mm, b/w, 90 min.

Golden Slumbers

Between the early 1960s and 1975, Cambodia was home to a vibrant film industry that produced more than 400 features. When the Khmer Rouge seized control of the country, they halted production, demolishing the industry along with most of the rest of the country’s cultural life. Cinemas were closed, prints destroyed, and the filmmakers, actors, and screenwriters who were not able to flee the country were slaughtered. Davy Chou’s Golden Slumbers resurrects this cinema’s heyday. Though very few of the films from this period have remained intact, Chou uses the soundtracks, advertisements, posters and lobby cards to recreate his subjects’ shared memories of a golden era.

Lives of Performers

After spending nearly a decade redefining modern dance, including co-founding New York’s Judson Dance Theater in 1962, dancer and choreographer Yvonne Rainer transitioned to filmmaking in the late 1960s. Her first feature length film Lives of Performers combines fiction and non-fiction in a fractured story of romantic entanglements. Originally part of a dance performance choreographed by Rainer, Lives of Performers eschews narrative convention preferring instead to conceal rather than reveal. The basic components of filmmaking are upended through the juxtaposition of sound/image, stillness/movement, and rehearsal/performance, making Lives of Performers a logical extension of Rainer’s pioneering dance and choreography of the previous decade. Free Admission

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Saturday, February 28 at 2pm Family Matinee

Tuesday, March 3 at 7pm Scribe Producers’ Forum

dir. Wolfgang Peterson, West Germany/USA, 1984, digital, 102 min.

dir. Carl Dean, Tia Lessin, USA, 2013, 86 min.

Never Ending Story

When 10-year-old Bastian opens the mysterious, ornately bound book entitled, The Never Ending Story, he never imagines he will be transported into its amazing world of Fantasia, and become the hero of its even more amazing tale. Now you can go there too in this magical film full of astonishing creatures, directed by Wolfgang Petersen (The Perfect Storm). Free to IHP Members; $5 Adults + Children

Citizen Koch

When the U.S. Supreme Court’s Citizens United ruling opened the floodgates for unlimited political spending, it’s now easier than ever to buy an election. But what happens when the voters realize that the billionaires and corporations doing the buying do not have the people’s best interests at heart? Alternately terrifying and wickedly funny, Citizen Koch asks a defining question: will big money destroy not only the Republican Party, but our democracy itself? The film follows a citizen uprising to recall Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker as it collides with the Tea Party aligned “Americans for Prosperity,” a special interest group founded and lavishly financed by two of the world’s richest men: David and Charles Koch. As told through the eyes of three Republican state employees and working-class voters – a teacher, a prison guard, and a nurse – who suddenly find their party taking direct aim at them, we watch as they become torn between loyalty to the GOP, and the realization that their own party has made them the enemy. $5 Scribe + IHP Members; $7 Students + Seniors; $10 General Admission

Wednesday, March 4 at 6pm

International Women’s Day 2015: Global Migrant Rights & Justice Join us for performances, refreshments and discussion celebrating local and global initiatives advocating for the rights of migrant women and their families. Speakers will explore the intersection of immigrant rights, women’s rights & children’s rights and the impact of immigration policies and enforcement in the U.S. and abroad. This is a One Book, One Philadelphia community program and encourages reading and discussion around a single book. This year’s selection, Orphan Train, by Christina Baker Kline, explores children’s courage & adaptability, and the power of family. Sponsored by Penn’s South Asia Center, Middle East Center, Center for East Asian Studies, Africa Center, United Nations Association of Greater Philadelphia, and International House Philadelphia.

Wednesday, March 4 at 7pm Penn Humanities Forum Screenings New Black Cinematography: Films of Bradford Young

Mississippi Damned

dir. Tina Mabry, USA, 2009, DCP, 120 min.

‘Taking place in 1986 and 1998 and based on a true story, three poor, black kids in rural Mississippi reap the consequences of their family’s cycle of abuse, addiction, and violence. They independently struggle to escape their circumstances and must decide whether to confront what’s plagued their family for generations or succumb to the same crippling fate, forever damned in Mississippi. Bitterly honest and profoundly subtle, writer/director Tina Mabry successfully captures growing up in a world where possibilities and opportunities seem to die in the face of the suffocating reality of physical and sexual abuse, obsession, and a myriad of destructive compulsions.’—Morgan’s Mark Free admission

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Thursday, March 5 at 7pm Motion Pictures

Othello

dir. Orson Welles, USA/Italy/Morocco/France, 1952, DCP, b/w, 93 min.

The moor Othello, a well-esteemed Venetian general, and the beautiful Desdemona, senator Brabantio’s daughter, hold secret nuptials in Venice. At the far end of the church, two men stand in the background: there is Iago, Othello’s officer, who hides an immeasurable hatred for him, and Roderigo, madly in love with Desdemona. After their union, Othello leaves to fight the Turkish fleet, and then meets up with his wife in Cyprus, where he is appointed governor. The deceitful Iago is determined to tear apart the newlyweds’ bliss by manipulating their entourage.

Friday, March 6 at 7:30pm Intercultural Journeys

Liberian Women’s Chorus for Change “How can songs help a community work through hardship?” That’s what the Liberian Women’s Chorus for Change will ask you to consider as they take the stage in the fourth concert in the Songs for Peace season. The Liberian Women’s Chorus for Change was formed by four women who met up once again in Philadelphia following the tumultuous civil wars in Liberia that forced them to leave their homes. Well-known recording artists and performers in Liberia, the women came together here through an initiative of the Philadelphia Folklore Project. With major support from the Pew Center for Arts and Heritage, the Chorus is committed to inspiring awareness and dialogue about domestic violence and other contemporary problems facing Liberian and other African immigrant communities in the Philadelphia region. Chorus members Fatu Gayflor, Marie Nyenabo, Zaye Tete, and Tokay Tomah will present a variety of traditional and newly-composed songs with drum accompaniment. Performance done in recognition of International Women’s Day (March 8). $8 Students; $10 IHP Members; $15 General Admission

Saturday, March 7 at 2pm All Around this World

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

March 7, 8, 21, & 22

Israeli Film Festival Now in its 2015 season, the Israeli Film Festival of Philadelphia marks its 19th year. The Israeli Film Festival of Philadelphia is a celebration of Israeli culture, with the aim of enriching the American vision of Israeli culture and society through film. Each season, a slate of feature films and documentaries are selected to provide a diverse and impartial reflection of Israel.

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Thursday, March 12 at 7pm City of signs

Europa ‘51

dir. Roberto Rossellini, Italy, 1952, DCP, b/w, Italian w/ English subtitles, 109 min.

Introduction by Claudia Consolati, PhD Lecturer in Cinema Studies, University of Pennsylvania Ingrid Bergman plays a wealthy, self-absorbed Rome socialite racked by guilt over the shocking death of her young son. As a way of dealing with her grief and finding meaning in her life, she decides to devote her time and money to the city’s poor and sick. Her newfound, single-minded activism leads to conflicts with her husband and questions about her sanity. The intense, often overlooked Europe ’51 was, according to Rossellini, a retelling of his own The Flowers of St. Francis from a female perspective. This unabashedly political but sensitively conducted investigation of modern sainthood was the director’s favorite of his films.

Friday, March 13 at 7pm Exhumed Films Presents Slasher Movie Madness!

HACK-O-LANTERN (U.S. theatrical premiere!)

dir. Jag Mundhra, USA, 1988, 35mm, 87 min.

Hack-O-Lanter is a timeless cautionary tale that contains an important lesson for children: shun your grandparents, because they are probably Satanists. Ubiquitous genre character actor Hy Pike plays a demonic old man who lures his young grandson Tommy into the world of Satanic cultism. Exhumed Films is pleased to present the FIRST EVER U.S. theatrical screening of this forgotten gem. Featuring insane musical sequences, impressive gore set pieces, and gratuitous nudity, Hack-O-Lanter is not to be missed.

HALLOWEEN 4: THE RETURN OF MICHAEL MYERS

dir. Dwight H. Little, USA, 1988, 35mm, 88 min.

Silent stalker Michael Myers returns to terrorize the hapless residents of Haddonfield, IL 10 years after his original killing spree.

DON’T GO IN THE WOODS dir. James Bryan, USA, 1981, 35mm, 82 min.

We will be honest with you: Don’t Go in the Woods has a bit of a mixed reputation. By mixed, we mean that some people hate it, while other people really hate it. Young campers trek through the mountains, while someone is slaughtering tourists in the dense forest. $15 IHP Members; $20 General Admission

Saturday, March 14 at 2pm Family Matinee: Amazing Adventures

Kiki’s Delivery Service

dir. Hayao Miyazaki, Japan, 1989, 35mm, 102 min.

From the legendary Hayao Miyazaki comes the beloved story of a resourceful young witch who uses her broom to create a delivery service, only to lose her gift of flight in a moment of self-doubt. It is tradition for all young witches to leave their families on the night of a full moon and set out into the wide world to learn their craft. When that night comes for Kiki, she embarks on her life journey with her chatty black cat, Jiji, landing the next morning in a sea-side village, where a bakery owner hires her to make deliveries. Rarely has the animator’s art been so brilliantly rendered as in this delightfully imaginative film – a beautiful and timeless story of a young girl finding her way in the world. Free to IHP Members; $5 Adults + Children

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Saturday, March 14 at 7pm The Janus Collection

Tuesday, March 17 at 6pm Culture & Cuisine: Holland

dir. Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Germany, 1970, 35mm, b/w, German w/ English subtitles, 80 min.

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American Soldier

The German-born American GI, Ricky (Karl Scheydt), returns to Munich from Vietnam and is promptly hired as a contract killer. Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s experimental noir is a subversive, self-reflexive gangster movie full of unexpected asides and stylistic flourishes, and features an audaciously bonkers final shot, as well as memorable turns from many of the director’s rotating gallery of players.

Noord Eet Café

Go Dutch on St. Patrick’s Day! Time, price, menu, and full program to be confirmed. Join us for dinner and explore the wonderful diversity and culinary treasures in Philadelphia as we visit an ethnic restaurant for an authentic experience. A special menu is prepared, and a short overview of the food and culture of the region is presented. Bring your friends and enjoy new tastes from around the world!

Wednesday, March 18 at 7pm Penn Humanities Forum Screenings New Black Cinematography: Films of Bradford Young

Middle of Nowhere

dir. Ava DuVernay, USA, 2014, digital, 97 min.

‘How do you maintain a marriage — and your own identity — when your husband has been sentenced to prison for eight years? That is the dilemma facing Ruby, the protagonist [who] makes big sacrifices, giving up medical school to focus on her efforts to free her man and maintain her marriage….A powerful portrait of a strong woman contending with conflicting feelings of love, guilt, and inconvenient desire.’—Los Angeles Film Festival. Ava DuVernay was the first African American woman to win Best Director at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival for this film. Preceded by:

The Door

dir. Ava DuVernay, USA, 2013, digital, 9 min.

This short film commissioned by the fashion brand Miu Miu showcases ‘the transformative power of feminine bonds, and a symbolic story of life change….Clothing [is] a symbol of renewal, each change of costume charting our heroine’s emergence from a chrysalis of sadness. In the final scenes, she takes off her ring, pulls on long, black leather gloves, and walks, transformed by the emotive power of the clothing, through the door. The Door stars Gabrielle Union, Alfre Woodard, Emayatzy Corinealdi, Adepero Oduye, and singer-songwriter Goapele.’—Miu Miu Free admission

Thursday, March 19 at 7pm Motion Pictures

Monty Python’s Meaning of Life

dirs. Terry Jones, Terry Gilliam, UK, 1983, 35mm, 112 min.

The Meaning of Life is without a doubt the most tasteless of the Monty Python feature films; it also happens to be one of the funniest. Life’s questions are “answered” in a series of outrageous vignettes, beginning with a pre-credits sequence at a staid London insurance company which transforms before our eyes into a pirate ship. One of our favorite bits involve the National Health doctors who try to claim a healthy liver from a stillliving donor, pointing out that there’s nothing in his contract preventing this. And of course, there’s the scene with the world’s most voracious glutton, who brings the art of vomiting to new heights before his spectacular demise. Be warned: though hilarious, this may be the grossest bit of comedy filmmaking ever conceived – there aren’t enough words in the world to describe it in detail!

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Friday, March 20 at 7pm Babette Mangolte: Camera Studies

Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles dir. Chantal Akerman, Belgium/France, 1975, 35mm, 201 min.

A singular work in film history, Chantal Akerman’s Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles meticulously details, with a sense of impending doom, the daily routine of a middleaged widow—whose chores include making the beds, cooking dinner for her son, and turning the occasional trick. In its enormous spareness, Akerman’s film seems simple, but it encompasses an entire world. Whether seen as an exacting character study or one of cinema’s most hypnotic and complete depictions of space and time, Jeanne Dielman is an astonishing, compelling movie experiment, one that has been analyzed and argued over for decades. Free Admission

Thursday, March 26 at 7pm Selections from the Human Rights Watch International Film Festival

Friday, March 27 at 7pm Selections from the Human Rights Watch International Film Festival

dirs. Alessandra Zeka, Holen Sabrina Kahn, USA, 2014, digital, 65 min.

dir. Cynthia Hill, USA, 2013, digital, 81 min.

A Quiet Inquisition

At a public hospital in Nicaragua, OBGYN Dr. Carla Cerrato must choose between following a law that bans all abortions and endangers her patients or taking a risk and providing the care that she knows can save a woman’s life. In 2007, Dr. Cerrato’s daily routine took a detour. The newly elected government of Daniel Ortega, a former Marxist revolutionary who converted to Catholicism to win votes, overturned a 130-yearold law protecting therapeutic abortion. The new law entirely prohibits abortion, even in cases of rape, incest, or when a woman’s life is at stake. As Carla and her colleagues navigate this dangerous dilemma, the impact of this law emerges – illuminating the tangible reality of prohibition against the backdrop of a political, religious, and historically complex national identity. The emotional core of the story – the experiences and situations of the young women and girls who are seeking care – illustrate the ethical implications of one doctor’s response.

Private Violence

Private Violence explores a simple but deeply disturbing fact of American life: the most dangerous place for a woman in America is her own home. Every day in the US, at least four women are murdered by abusive (and often, ex) partners. Through the eyes of two survivors— Deanna Walters, a mother who seeks justice for the crimes committed against her at the hands of her estranged husband, and Kit Gruelle, an advocate who seeks justice for all women—we bear witness to the complex realities of intimate partner violence. Private Violence begins to shape powerful, new questions that hold the potential to change our society: “Why does he abuse?”, “Why do we turn away?”, “How do we begin to build a future without domestic violence?”

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Saturday, March 28 at 2pm Family Matinee: Amazing Adventures

Ernest & Celestine

dirs. Aubier, Patar, Renner, France, 2012, DCP, 80 min.

Deep below snowy, cobblestone streets, tucked away in networks of winding subterranean tunnels, lives a civilization of hardworking mice, terrified of the bears that live above ground. Unlike her fellow mice, Celestine is an artist and a dreamer – and when she nearly ends up as breakfast for ursine troubadour Ernest, the two form an unlikely bond. But it isn’t long before their friendship is put on trial by their respective bear-fearing and miceeating communities. Based on the classic Belgian book series by Gabrielle Vincent, Ernest & Celestine won France’s César Award for Best Animated Feature, and has been nominated for Best Animated Feature at the 86th Academy Awards® Free to IHP Members; $5 Adults + Children

Saturday, March 28 at 7pm Selections from the Human Rights Watch International Film Festival

Sepideh - Reaching for the Stars

dir. Berit Madsen, Denmark/Iran/Germany/Norway/ Sweden, 2013, digital, 88 min.

Sepideh is a young Iranian woman who dares to dream of a future as an astronaut. At night, she stares up at the universe. At home, full of hope and longing, she watches recordings of the first female Iranian in space, Anousheh Ansari. When her father died suddenly six years earlier, Sepideh discovered that she could feel closer to him by watching the stars. And so her dream was born. But not everyone appreciates her boundless ambition. After all, becoming an astronaut is not exactly a normal goal for a girl in Iran. Her mother and uncle are worried about the emancipated young woman. She doesn’t want to learn to cook, hardly ever visits her family, and doesn’t seem to be thinking about marriage at all. As we follow Sepideh, it becomes clear just how at odds her dreams are with her current reality and the expectations of those around her.

Tuesday, March 31 at 7pm Babette Mangolte: Camera Studies

The Sky on Location

dir. Babette Mangolte, US, 1983, 16mm, 78 min.

“Is it possible to confront nature with a real purity of vision? The Sky on Location is a personal meditation on the landscape of the American West that tracks the ruling conception in nature in the 19th and 20th centuries from the pioneers through the instamatic tourists, at the same time that it obsessively follows the four seasons. The elemental vicissitudes of the weather, the exact moment of the day, the color of the light and the soil and the trees form an acute visual record of the constantly changing mood of the landscape. The film successfully attempts, with quiet, passionate, almost single-minded firmness, to confront us as nakedly as possible with our cultural inability to see nature whole, without preconceptions.” - Ernest Larsen “The landscape is not seen in its postcard-ish grandeur as captured in the photographs of Ansel Adams, nor through its shapes as in paintings by Cezanne or Constable, but rather the film captures the mood of the landscape as in a Turner painting. The film attempts to construct a geography of the land from North to South, East to West and season-to-season through colors instead of maps.” – Babette Mangolte Free Admission

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

Babette Mangolte in Conversation Special guests TBA

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. Free Admission

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