February
27, 2008,
Wednesday, 7:00PM
Location: Coolidge Corner Theatre - Movie House II
Balagan & the Harvard Film Study Center presents:
Santiago by
João Moreira Salles (Director in person)
João Salles is one of Brazil's foremost documentary filmmakers. In 1992 he began shooting a film about Santiago, the butler in his childhood home who left an indelible mark upon the family and had written over 60,000 pages of stories about the people and things that surrounded him. Salles did not finish the film for 13 years until Santiago's death rekindled Salles determination for a conclusion.
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March 19, 2008, Wednesday at 8PM
Location: Carpenter Center for Visual Art-Harvard University - 24 Quincy St. Cambridge, MA
Balagan, Mass College of Art Film Society and the Harvard Film Study Center presents:
Peggy and Fred in Hell by Leslie Thornton (Director in person)
Peggy And Fred In Hell is one of the strangest cinematic artifacts of the last 20 years, revealing the abuses of history and innocence in the face of catastrophe, as it chronicles two small children journeying through a post-apocalyptic landscape to create their own world. Breaking genre restrictions, Thornton uses improvisation, planted quotes, archival footage and formless timeframes to confront the viewer's preconceptions of cause and effect.
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March 27, 2008, Thursday, 5:30PM
Location: Museum of Fine Arts Boston- 640 Huntington Ave., Boston
Balagan & the Muesum of Fine Arts presents:
Selections of Shorts from the Black Maria Film Festival
Since 1981, the annual Black Maria Film and Video Festival, an international juried competition and award tour, has been fulfilling its mission to advocate exhibit and reward cutting edge works from independent film and videomakers. The festival is known for its national public exhibition program, which features a variety of bold contemporary works drawn from the annual collection of 50 award winning films and videos. Balagan is delighted to again co-present the Boston leg of the festival with the Museum of Fine Arts.
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March 30, 2008, Sunday, 5:00PM
Location: Coolidge Corner Theatre
Balagan presents:
Unidentified Vietnam No.18 & other films by By Lin+Lam (Directors in person)
Since 2001, Lana Lin and H. Lan Thao Lam have been researching an archive of South Vietnamese propaganda films at the Library of Congress. Unidentified Vietnam No. 18 is a successor to the seventeen films in the collection labeled only as "Unidentified Vietnam, #1-17". Lin + Lam's personal, experimental film examines the contested relationship between Vietnam and the US, between history and propaganda, between democracy and nation building.
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Upcoming:
Leonard Retel Helmrich's Shape pf the Moon and Eye of the Day
Saul Levine's Dreams and Apparations of Mark Lapore
Ken Brown's 1960's Psychedelic Cinema with Live Musicians