MARCH 4 - APRIL 26, 1999
FREE Mondays* 7:30pm Howe Library
13 East South Street, Hanover, NH
Info: 603-542-1254 posn@cyberportal.net
Series Sponsors: The Main Street Museum of Art & 60 Minute Photo
Series Schedule:
*SPECIAL EVENT THURSDAY 7:30PM
MARCH 4th: GRACE PALEY AND THE PEOPLES' WAR
Grace Paley in person to discuss her Vietnamese experience of 30 years ago.
Limited Seating begins at 7:15pm. First come- First seated. No Reservations!
At the height of the Vietnam War, American pacifist and writer Grace Paley
traveled into the "heart of darkness" with the Newsreel Collective.
In
North Vietnam, the group found a dedicated, almost primitive people
fighting America's high-tech muscle. The film, a unique document
confiscated by the U.S. government, reveals a sympathetic portrait of a
people holding their own amidst the chaos of war.
Peoples' War by Newsreel Collective: John Douglas, Robert Kramer, Norman
Frichter (1969, USA/North Vietnam, 40 mins); No Game by Newsreel
Collective: Marvin Fishman (1968, USA, 17 mins)
MARCH 15th: LOST HUMAN REMAINS
Jay Rosenblatt's Human Remains (1998) indirectly asks us to confront the
nature of evil. Like an archaeologist, the filmmaker sifts intimate and
mundane details of the 20th century's most infamous men - Hitler,
Mussolini, Stalin, Franco, and Mao - into a haunting look at the private
lives of individuals who changed the face of history. Home movie fetishist
Zoe Beloff documents everyday life on New York's Lower East Side from
multiple cinematic perspectives including Jack Zelig's 1940s 8mm amateur
home movies, 8mm footage shot by Hispanic children, and Beloff"s own 16mm
and 8mm footage of the neighborhood.
Human Remains by Jay Rosenblatt (1998, USA, 30 mins); Lost by Zoe Beloff
(1997, USA, 50 mins)
MARCH 29th: AMERICAN VISIONS BY BRUCE BAILLIE & BRUCE POSNER
Two lyrical classics of American home-movie-making. Baillie's potent essay
on the state of the nation is as urgent and relevant today as it was upon
its release in the mid-Sixties. Local filmmaker Posner lets loose on life
in the Upper Valley in a "psychotic exhaustive study of wilderness-type
suburbia."
Quixote by Bruce Baillie (1964-65, USA, 45 mins); Monadnock: The First
Symphony by Bruce Posner (1987, USA, 40 mins)
APRIL 12th: WIM WENDERS: A TRICK OF THE LIGHT
In cooperation with Goethe-Institut Boston & Inter Nationes
Wim Wenders marks the centennial of cinema with this loving tribute to
German film pioneers Max, Eugen, and Emil Skladanowsky. Shot at 18 frames
per second with a vintage hand-cranked camera, Wenders' movie recreates the
lives of these three acrobats/jugglers/inventors who screened eight film
loops in Berlin in 1895 - six weeks before the Lumiére Brothers first
public screening in Paris.
A Trick of the Light: Die Gebruder Skladanowsky by Wim Wenders with Udo
Kier (1996, Germany, 80 mins, German with English subtitles)
APRIL 26th: INNOCENT AUTEURS: FRED MCCLEOD & ARCHIE STEWART
In cooperation with Northeast Historic Films & Orgone Cinema
Home movies have long been recognized as cultural artifacts intimately
describing their respective times. Of more recent acclaim are home movies
as fine art - objects radiating aesthetic beauty and joy. Two exquisite
examples of both art and history are embodied in the 1930-1970s 16mm
Kodachrome sound home movies of Fred McCleod and Archie Stewart. Both of
whom filmed the things in life which they loved.
Films by Fred McCleod approx. 20 mins; Films by Archie Stewart approx. 20
mins; plus EV635A.WIIC.72 by Greg Pierce & M. Jonhson