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February 16th: FILM (Parkour) by Christopher May
Doors open at 7:30pm (NOTE the later time!), screening begins at 8:00. Admission is $4.
PROGRAM:
Super-8 and 16mm experimental cinema featuring organic and intimate life portraits of traceurs. (Christopher May, 2008-2010, Argentina/Austria/U.S.A.)
1. “Deserted” (triple super-8 projection, sound, 14 min., USA/Austria/Argentina, 2008-2010) “I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses idle details, just as our memory does.” – Jorge Luis Borges
2. “Flo” (single-image super-8 projection, silent, 4.min., Austria, 2009) Slo portrait of Florian Hatwagner featuring: …dirt…spit…shoes…dirt.
..hands…smiling face…
3. “Vienna” (triple super-8 projection, sound, 4 min., Austria, 2009-2010) Portrait of traceurs in their favorite places.
4. “Buenos Aires” (triple super-8 projection, sound/silent, 26 min., Argentina, 2008) Premiered at MALBA – Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires
5. “Colorado Springs” (double 16mm projection, sound, 15 min., USA, 2008-2009) pop…smile…run…jump…melody…chill…rain…sun…color! Filmed with an old military Bell + Howell 16mm camera. Featuring Jimmy & Dan / Pedro, Bryan, Chris
It’s the “Get Ready To Go GREEN” – spring cleaning demo. Come by the Loring-Greenough House on Tuesday Night February 23rd to learn about green cleaning with Casey Williams and Mary Hannon. The night kicks off at 6 pm!
Kathryn Ramey’s films are inspired by the avant-garde filmmaking tradition, ethnographic research, celluloid manipulation and personal inquiry, resulting in a unique and acclaimed body of work. Kathryn teaches film, animation and film history at Emerson College in Boston.
Jonathan Schwartz is a filmmaker and sound designer who currently teaches film studies at Keene State College in Keene, NH. His travelogue film Nothing Is Over Nothing has screened at numerous festivals, including Views from the Avant-Garde (NY), TIE, ICE (Iowa City), EXiS (Seoul)…
PROGRAM:
Jonathan Schwartz Nothing Is Over Nothing, 16mm, 17mins
Kathryn Ramey The Passenger, 16mm, 17mins Yanqui WALKER and the OPTICAL REVOLUTION, 16mm, 33mins
Margaret Fuller and the Transcendentalists An event in celebration of the Margaret Fuller Bicentennial
Hear Reverend Jenny Rankin, of the First Parish of Concord, speak on the life of Margaret Fuller. Fuller was an author, editor, journalist, literary critic, educator, Transcendentalist, and womens’ rights advocate. She helped educate the women of her day by leading a series of Conversations in which women were empowered to read, think and discuss important issues of the day.
Rev. Rankin has been a minister at First Parish of Concord since 1997 and has taught classes on Emerson, Thoreau, Fuller and the Transcendentalists. She has also led a trip to Italy tracing the steps of the Transcendentalists. This event is free and open to the public.
Sponsored by the Jamaica Plain Historical Society in conjunction with the Jamaica Plain Tuesday Club First Tuesday program series.
Tuesday, February 2, 2010 at 7:00 p.m. Loring-Greenough House, 12 South Street, Jamaica Plain.
More on the Margaret Fuller Bicentennial – a full year of celebrations in honor of this extraordinary individual. http://www.margaretfuller.org/
JPHS is honored to be a Community Partner. http://www.jphs.org/
Tuesday Night Club presents the fourth monthly Loring-Greenough screening!
Architecture of the Sun is a live projection duo composed of Brittany Gravely and Jenn Pipp, who met while studying at SMFA and currently live in Boston. They will be joined by long-time musical collaborators, the Glass Shivers.
Opening the show will be a film loop by Julianna Schley, a recent MassArt graduate.
Doors open at 7pm, at which point birthday cake will be served (for Ms. Schley’s birthday). The screening itself begins at 7:30. Admission is $4, free for members.
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