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Fall 2006

September 14, 2006, Thursday, 7:30PM
Aftermath, aftershock, Afterthoughts, After death, after…
All the films in tonight’s opening program explore the post-experiential in different ways. Employing an array of cinematic strategies from documentary to reenactment and even animation, these filmmakers ask the question of how to comprehend the incomprehensible and how to represent catastrophe, war, and death in ways that can be both humorous and powerfully moving.

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October 5, 2006, Thursday, 7:30PM (Premiere) ** ADDITIONAL 9:30PM show just added **
Avenge but One of My Two Eyes by Avi Mograbi (in person)
Balagan is thrilled to present the Boston Premiere of Israeli filmmaker Avi Mograbi's powerful documentary AVENGE BUT ONE OF MY TWO EYES. Inspired by the legendary myths of Samson and Massada, Avenge is a wry, provocative and mournful documentary on present-day Israel that ponders the relationship between the Jewish struggle for freedom and the Palestinian resistance - a struggle played out most dramatically in the two intifadas, the second of which is still ongoing.
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October 19
A BALGAN DOUBLE FEATURE NIGHT!

October 19,
2006, Thursday, 7:30PM

War by Jake MaHaffy (in person)
“This is the world after the end of a world... acre by acre, fence by fence, the war was lost.” WAR is a simple film portrait of four characters looking for work in the abandoned lands of rural America. Shooting alone for almost five years on a hand-cranked movie camera without a producer, crew, actors or a budget, we assembled an unconventional narrative out of these character studies, attempting in limited means to reveal the drama of a disintegrating society. - Jake Mahaffy

October 19, 2006, Thursday, 9:30PM (Premiere)
Who is Bozo Texino? by Bill Daniel (in person)
Freight rider and van tramp, Bill Daniel is back on tour screening his 16-years-in-the-making, documentary film, "Who is Bozo Texino?" --- the secret history of hobo graffiti. This gritty black and white documentary--shot entirely on film-- tells the mostly-factual account of the epic quest and unlikely discovery of railroading's most mysterious artist.
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October 26, 2006 , Thursday, 7:30PM (Premiere)
The Life and Work of J.X. Williams + Peep Show Curated film scholar Noel Lawrence (in person)
We present a major film discovery, a significant film by an obscure director J.X. Williams. His notorious tirade against the Chicago Syndicate comes to the screen for the first time after nearly 40 years in limbo. Produced in
Copenhagen in 1965, PEEP SHOW chronicles a secret history of the Kennedy administration, revealing a mafia plot to addict Frank Sinatra to heroin. Film scholar, curator, and archivist Noel Lawrence will give a detailed
introduction on the making of the film and the colorful life of its director, including excerpts from Mr. Williams
forthcoming memoir "The Big Footnote".
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November 12, 2006, Sunday, 10:30AM
(Museum of Fine Arts)
Description of A Struggle by Chris Marker
The State of Israel was but twelve-years-old when the great cinema essayist Chris Marker (La jetée and Sans soleil) completed this hypnotic documentary. It went on to win the Golden Bear at the 1961 Berlin Film Festival. Images of a young country whose future lies ahead and the narrator’s meditative voice-over posit an existential struggle for identity that is relevant today.

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November 16, 2006, Thursday, 7:30PM (Premiere)
The Films of Jackie Goss (in person)
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November 30, 2006 , Thursday, 7:30PM (Premiere)
The films of Jesse Lerner (in person)

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December 14 2006, Thursday, 7:30PM
TBA