January
23, 2003, 7:30PM
The end
of innocence
In
our ongoing efforts to present the community
with alternative visions and voices about the
State of our Nation and the World, this program
reflects upon current predicaments from political,
historical, artistic and humanitarian perspectives.
Among Filmmakers featured are Craig Baldwin,
LEV, Peter Watkins, Bruce Spangler, James Schneider.
February
13, 2003, 7:30PM
Objectifying
the Body: Exploring Modern day myths Aphrodite
and Adonis
Super
Models, tummy tucks, diet scams, breast implants,
face lifts, washboard ads, silky skin, Super-white
teeth, body art and body piercing. Why are we
so obsessed with how we look on the outside?
See another side of the coin tonight with "Hard
Fat" and several other eye opening experimental
films and videos about body image.
February
27, 2003, 7:30PM
"Fool's
Paradise: Trance and Enchantment in Visionary
Film" curated by Pelle Lowe
Starting
this spring, Balagan will regularly invite local
filmmakers to realize their curatorial dreams
with our new series "Filmmaker's Pick".
To kick off the new series, local filmmaker
Pelle Lowe presents "Fool's Paradise",
an evening of trance-cinema, films that mine
the liminal space between illusion and mystery,
history and nightmare, terror and delight; "heaven,
blazing into the head."
March
10 , 2003, 7:30PM
"Language
is a virus..." (William Burroughs)
Relationships between the
language and mind, between geometric figures
or patterns of letters on screen and their meaning
as well as mystery, inventiveness, misunderstanding,
subtlety, emotion... The works in this program
explore the power of human language in cognitive,
artistic, and visual sense.
March
27 , 2003, 7:30PM
Director's
Eye: Phil Solomon
April
10 , 2003, 7:30PM
TBA
April 27 , 2003, 7:30PM
Experimental
films by Arab Women Filmmakers
Balagan
continues to explore experimental tradition
from different parts of the world and welcomes
a program of shorts by Arab Women filmmakers.
The programs is curated by Hisham Bizri,
a Lebanese film and video artist and currently
an artist in residence at the Center for the
Advanced Visual Studies at MIT.
May
8, 2003, 7:30PM
"Film
as a Subversive Art"
This
program is inspired by the book "Film
as a Subversive Art" written in
1974 by Amos Vogel, the founder of the
Cinema 16 in New York, New York Film Festival
and Lincoln Center Film Department, published
a book Reviewing over 500 films (many of which
are banned and rarely seen), Amos Vogel ruminates
upon "how the aesthetic, sexual and ideological
subversives use film medium to manipulate our
conscious and unconscious, demystify visual
taboos, destroy dated cinematic forms, undermine
existing value systems and institutions."