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Our March meeting has been canceled. Join us again April 17, 7-9pm! Every third Tuesday of the month, 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. The second Tuesday of every month (from 7:00 – 9:00pm) is Game Night—a Night of Whist! Join your neighbors for a fun night of food and cards. All are welcome; suggested donation: $5 (free for members). Dates: November 8 December 13 January 10 No Game Night in February March 13 April 10
Join us Tuesday, March 6 at 7pm for our March “For Your Information” night, co-sponsored by the JP Historical Society. We will be screening the short film The Conservation of Matter: The Rise and Fall of Boston’s Elevated Subway with filmmaker, Tim Wright. This award-winning film traces the fate of the 100,000 tons of steel from the Boston Elevated Subway (demolished and removed from Washington Street in 1987) and then shipped eight thousand miles to be melted and re-formed into steel bars. Those products then cross the ocean again, where they are ultimately re-fabricated into a remarkable new structure in a surprising location. Workers, historians preachers, politicians, artists, riders, architects, astrophysicists and street people on two continents address the significance of the process as it unfolds. The piece gives a powerful sense of how architectural structures colonize the consciousnesses of both those who build them and those who live among them. Tim Wright will be on hand to answer questions about his film. Direction, Editing: Tim Wright Winner: Editing Award, 1996 New England Film/Video Festival Winner: Audience Choice and Judge’s Grand Prize, 1997 U.S. Super 8mm Film/Video Festival 30 minutes, color. Suggested donation: $5.00, free for members. Email Courtney at cfkarp@loring-greenough.org for more information. May 1945… Five women are serving sentences on a small island on Lake Ladoga in northern Russia, to which they were exiled from occupied territories together with their children, aged from one to three, who were fathered by German soldiers. May 9 brings happy news that the war is over but it also brings sad news that the women will have to go to labor camps and their children will be placed into orphanages. One of the guards has pity for the young mothers. The next morning, he takes them and the kids to the mainland in a fishing boat, hoping to hide them in thick woods. His major, whose family perished in a Nazi death camp, knows about the plot but lets them go, risking being brought before a military tribunal. The finale offers fragile hope that the women will have at least some chance of a better future. What can be more dreadful for a mother than the prospect of being separated from her child. In orphanages, little kids who could not give their full names were often registered under other names, so chances of being found by their parents after the war were bleak. Asked by the Voice of Russia correspondent whose opinion she valued most, Vera Glagoleva said:“It was important to show the film to war veterans. They were deeply moved by the story, and their opinion mattered much to me. There were others, for example, one influential movie maker, a woman, who said that it was a controversial film and veterans may not like it. Some say it’s good for schoolchildren to watch this film as it will teach them to sympathize with and be kind to other people. As there are no archive documents confirming the events described in “One War”, the author relied on eye-witness accounts and reminiscences. Yet, the film is surprisingly true-to-life. Vera Glagoleva: “You know, it’s all those little things that make the film look realistic – the bead necklace one of the girls tries on, . . . → Read More: Film Night: One War (Tuesday, Febrary 28) Tuesday Club Film Night January 24, 2012 at 7 pm at the Loring Greenough House 12 South St, Jamaica Plain presents LADIES AND GENTLEMEN OVER 65 Rarely screened in the U.S., this charming documentary follows a group of seniors as they learn to perform modern dance. Uplifting and candid, we watch non-professionals as they struggle with the rigors of training, reflect on the realities of aging, and courageously take on new challenges. They could all have been sitting at home enjoying their pensions, but instead they answered a small ad: “Wanted: Ladies and Gentlemen over 65”. The renowned Wuppertal choreographer, Pina Bausch, was putting on a new production of her dance piece “Kontakthof”. This time with elderly amateurs. The film accompanies these people with a full professional life behind them. They must use their energy and life experience to cross boundaries and break conventions. German Film Critics award for “Best Documentary” in 2004 Directed by Lilo Mangelsdorff Germany 2002, 70 min, English subtitles Cinetrix GmbH/NDR/ARTE production
A review by RONNIE SCHEIB (Variety 3/1/2004): In 1998, an ad appeared in the Wuppertal, Germany, newspaper inviting seniors with no previous acting or dancing experience to audition for parts in Pina Bausch’s revival of her 1978 performance-piece “Contact Zone.” What happened to the 26 people who responded to the ad and were ultimately chosen to participate is the subject of “Ladies and Gentlemen Over 65,” Lilo Mangelsdorff’s expertly crafted docu. (…) Although Mangelsdorff and her crew arrived on the scene some two years after the play had been mounted, she deftly retraces the process of putting the production together. Bausch’s avant-garde choreography, involving sequences of oddball calisthenics, creates a jolt of surprise when the parts finally come together, the tramp of feet and adjustment of camera-angle transforming the simple gestures into an arcane and somehow provocative language. Bausch has directed several of her pieces on video, and her Wuppertal Dance Theater (which nearly obliterates the line between “dance” and “theater”) is the subject of numerous documentaries, including one by Chantal Akerman (“One Day, Pina Asked for…”). Her most famous appearance is undoubtedly . . . → Read More: Film Night: LADIES AND GENTLEMEN OVER 65 (Tuesday, January 24) |
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