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Join us for Film Night on Tuesday, May 29, at 7pm.
Suggested donation: $5 (free for members).
SALAAM ISFAHAN (GOOD MORNING, ISFAHAN)
Documentary by Sanaz Azari Belgium 2010, 58 min
Grand Prix du Public 2010 Festival International de Cinema de Nyon
A resident of Brussels, Sanaz Azari returned to her native Iran, armed with a photo camera, a video camera, and two tripods. Stopping passersby to ask if they would be willing to pose for a photo, she engages them in conversation and all the while the video camera is rolling. Coincidentally Sanaz started shooting the film just as the fraught recent elections in Iran were beginning to unfold. Gradually the politics and the events surrounding the election begin to creep into the conversations. So while SALAAM ISFAHAN presents glimpses into the lives of the people it includes, the movie at a point takes an unexpected turn, and becomes a unique document of this historic election.
Preceded by… ZWISCHEN WELTEN (IN-BETWEEN WORLDS)
Experimental documentary by Doro Carl Germany 2009, 17 min
The film allows access to female immigrants’ lives in-between cultures. Their biographies are diverse: they range from women being born in Germany, women who moved to Germany as migrant workers or as war fugitives, or ethnic German patriates living in Hamburg. Like SALAAM ISFAHAN this film treats the mostly standardized technique of interviews with a remarkable new cinematic approach.
Join us for our April Film Night at Loring-Greenough House! Tuesday, April 24, 2012 at 7pm.
OLD AND NEW AND OLD…
Since January 2012 Dagmar Kamlah volunteers - in co-operation with Polina Marshakova - as programmer for our Tuesday Club film nights. This month she introduces her own work as filmmaker to the audience of the Loring-Greenough-House. The program entails her last film made in Germany and the first she realized in the US during her process of acclimatization to this country. The gap between OLD and NEW is also an issue in the earlier film, which deals with the short life span of technological progress.
BRAVE OLD WORLD D 2000, 15 min, engl. subtitles, found footage film
EDP at work anno 1970 – the tip of the iceberg of the late industrial revolution. Electronic dinosaurs sort mountains of punchcards and define scores for white, grey and blue collar workers. Punchcard operators pushing to be programmers… Only the apprentices seem to be not yet entirely in the ban of monster computers. Historic 16mm footage is taken from an educational TV program for school children. The soundtrack points into the future.
BLUE JAY TERRITORY USA 2009, 65 min, engl. version
When I came to live in Boston, I was anxious to quickly lose my foreign eyes. I started videotaping my everyday life. Americans wouldn’t bother to look at colorful water hydrants or trash barrels dancing in the streets after being emptied. Or a garbage disposal in the kitchen sink. And a whole new animal kingdom! Being an amateur birder I was fascinated by all the new species. My first approach was like an environmental research, scanning the differences. With time passing the issue got more complex. As a 50 year old with personal and professional ties I had left quite a bit behind. Immigration means identity loss at first and if you are lucky, you find a new one. I procrastinated, stayed biased. I had a nice home, but outside I remained a foreigner.
Join us April 17, 7-9pm! Bring your latest craft projects to the house! Join us for wine and snacks. Suggested donation: $5, free for members.
E-mail Courtney at cfkarp@loring-greenough.org for more information.
Join your neighbors for a fun night of food and cards. All are welcome; suggested donation: $5 (free for members).
Join us March 27 at 7pm for the Tuesday Night Club’s monthly Film Night! Suggested donation: $5.00, free for members. We’ll watch three short films:
NORA by Alla Kovgan (from Boston) and David Hinton (USA 2008, 35 min)
“Nora” is based on true stories of the dancer Nora Chipaumire, who was born in Zimbabwe in 1965. In the film, Nora returns to the landscape of her childhood and takes a journey through some vivid memories of her youth. Using performance and dance, she brings her history to life in a swiftly-moving poem of sound and image. The result is a film about family dramas, difficult love affairs and militant politics, which moves back and forth between the comic and the tragic, the joyful and the mournful. It is a film about a girl who is constantly embattled – struggling against all kinds of intimidation and violence – but who slowly gathers strength, pride and independence.
Shot entirely on location in Southern Africa, “Nora” includes a multitude of local performers and dancers of all ages, from young schoolchildren to ancient grandmothers, and much of the music is specially composed by a legend of Zimbabwean music – Thomas Mapfumo.
READY by Eva Heldmann, Germany 2004 (2008 re-edit), 6:30 min
This experimental documentary intercuts a ballroom dancing competition in Francistown, Botswana, the Mogwana Dancers in Gaborone, Botswana, and more.
AND a surprise short film about human & animal life in a small village in Hungary.
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