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Films
at the Latchis Theatre are on Sat. and Sun. at 4:15pm
http://brattleboro.com/latchis/theatre/movielistings.cfm
For
directions to any of the venues click
here.
Week Two 3/6 -
3/10
Student Films:
A selection of short films
by New England high school and college students. Films include Carrie
Sterr's Losing Sleep, Danica Mills' Double, Zandor's
Ball by Diedre Sage, The Vagina Conspiracy by Alexis Halloway,,
Abbey Nova's Portrait of Four Dancers, and The Voice of Rachel
Sullivan by Brittany Borjeson, and Maia Bissette's Girl on
Fire.
Anna from Benin by Monique Mbeka Phoba 2000 45min. Germany/Benin,
This beautiful documentary
focuses on 17 year old Anna's struggles as an independent teenager with
a domineering father in Central Africa and as an African teenager in
France without the protection of her 30 siblings and her five mothers.
A rare view of the lives of girls in Africa at the beginning of a new
century.
Girls Still Dream by Ateyyat El Abnoud 1995 24min. Egypt
An engrossing documentary
by an award-winning director, portraying the challenges facing girls
in a country where young Egyptian women still struggle for such basic
human rights as education and the avoidance of compulsory marriage.
Girls Still Dream highlights the cultural clash between traditional
values and young women's growing self-awareness in the developing world.
Youth Directed
by Ali Bilail , Samia Chala and Muriel Aboulrouss 2001 26min. Lebanon
The stories of
four young women facing issues of independence and empowerment in Algeria,
Egypt, and Lebanon.
Xich-lo(Cyclo)
Director: M. Trinh Nguyen 1995, 20min. USA
While on a ritual
pedicab (cyclo) ride through Ho Chi Minh City, a Vietnamese American
woman weighs personal revolution and tribe-quest against her father's
role in the Vietnam war, displacement and bonds of humanity. Nguyen
relates a fresh perspective about the war through imaginative imagery,
8mm home movies and lucid commentary on a family legacy haunted by death
and destruction.
Between the Lines:
Asian American Women's Poetry by Yunah Hong 2001 60min. USA
The first feature
documentary on Asian American poets ever produced, Hong delights us
with rhymes on memory, homeland, activism, aesthetics and identity written
by sixteen Asian American poets. Beautifully shot, this emotive piece
guides us directly to these under-represented poets' hearts. It is a
sophisticated merging of Asian-American history and identity that walks
the line between experimental video and documentary film.
We Are Not Who
You Think We Are--Dir. by Tracy Huling, Robin Smith, & Marjorie Berman,
1993, 13min. United States
Women inmates in
the Bedford Hills Correctional Center in Westchester, NY, talk candidly
about growing up with family violence, sexual abuse, drugs, and alcohol.
The women you meet provide poignant insight into patterns of violence
and crime that cycle from generation to generation.
900 Women--A film by Laleh Khadivi 2000 72 min. USA
Interviewing women
in a correctional facility in Louisiana, filmmaker Khadivi delivers
a striking, sensitive portrait of life in this deceptively peaceful
atmosphere. Six women - a grandmother, a young high school student,
a pregnant woman, a recovering heroin addict, a prison guard, and the
only woman on death row - were brave enough to share their stories of
life, frustrations and hopes. - Produced by Academy Award-nominated
filmmaker Jonathan Stack (The Farm).
The Perfumed Garden by Yamina Benguigui 2000, 52 min. Algeria/France
An exploration
of the myths and realities of sensuality and sexuality in Arab society,
a world of taboos and of erotic literature. Through interviews with
men and women of all ages, classes, and sexual orientation, the film
lifts a corner of the veil that usually shrouds discussion of this subject
in the Arab world.
Filming Desire: A Journey Through Women's Film Dir. by Marie Mandy
2000 60min. France
In this bold documentary
Ms. Mandy, asks many of the leading women film directors(i.e. Agnes
Varda, Catherine Breillat, and Jane Campion) to answer the question:
How do women directors film love, desire, and especially, sexuality?
Through the use of their own powerful film clips, the directors discuss
the sexual politics of cinematographic choice and their role in depicting
women's body, voice, and language.
Joan Mitchell: Portrait of an Abstract Artist 1992 58min. USA
A moving and imaginative
portrait of a complex, dynamic woman, the film blends images of Mitchell's
art with interviews with one of the only women amongst New York's Abstract
Expressionists. An elegant documentary about a pioneering woman artist.
Repeat performance by popular acclaim!
Take it From Me by Rachel Clift 2001, 35min. USA
Local filmmaker
Rachel Clift has fashioned an affecting look at three women artists
currently working in Boston - a painter, a dancer, and a singer/songwriter.
Through footage of the artists at work, and interviews, Ms. Clift weaves
a lyrical homage to women's creativity.
The Circle by Jafar Panahi 2001 90min. Iran (subtitled)
A hard hitting,
courageous film, banned in its native Iran for its unsparing telling
of women's stories, "The Circle" has won great praise as a
work of art and a social statement. Made by the acclaimed director of
"The White Balloon" and "The Mirror", "The Circle"
opens with a family's outraged disappointment in the birth of a daughter.
It goes emotionally downhill from there, and then loops back to complete
"the circle," a motif that structures the entire film. Along
the way, in an elaborate narrative and metaphoric structure that imaginatively
intertwines its various components, we are introduced to various women
who are being oppressed by the structure that rules their lives. In
this environment, even the tiniest gesture of resistance to authority,
such as smoking a cigarette, attains the status of a revolutionary act.
This is a film that, should it ever be released in Iran, actually has
a chance to change the lives of millions of oppressed human beings.
http://www.iranian.com/Arts/2000/September/Circle/index.html
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This
week's Special Events
(at the Hooker Dunham)
3/9
3pm
Readings and stories from Asian- American Women
3/10
3pm
Filmmaker Rachel Clift and artists from her film will be present
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Questions/ More Information: Email: wff@sover.net
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