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Spring 2006

February 2, 2006, Thursday, 7:30PM (in person)
Director's Eye: Deborah Stratman
For the second time, Balagan welcomes Deborah Stratman ("Kings of the Sky", Spring 2005) who will be in person to present three of her films "the BLVD" (1999), "On The Various Nature of Things" (1995), "How Among the Frozen Words" (2005).

February 16, 2006, Thursday, 7:30PM
Tribute to Teiji Ito: Composer of Avante-Garde Films
Balagan celebrates Teiji Ito, a visionary composer, whose scores accompanied numerous Avante-Garde Films. Besided Maya Deren's "Meshes in the Afternoon" and "The Very Eye Of Night" Teiji Ito scored Charles Boultenhouse's HANDWRITTEN (1959, 9 minutes, 16mm) and DIONYSUS (1964, 26 minutes, 16mm), Marie Menken's DWIGHTIANA (1959, 4 minutes, 16mm) and BAGATELLE FOR WILLARD MAAS (1967, 5 minutes, 16mm), ARABESQUE FOR KENNETH ANGER (1967, 4 min.,16mm), MOONPLAY (1967, 5 minutes, 16mm), Willard Maas' ORGIA (1967, 12 minutes, 16mm), Ben Hayeem FLORA (1965, 6 minutes, 16mm), Ben Hayeem's Flora and several other films.

March 1, 2006, Wednesday, 7:30PM
Richard Broadman: Mission Hill And The Miracle Of Boston (in collaboration with Coolidge Corner Theatre and Photographic Resource Center )
In celebration of the Photographic Resource Center's recent exhibition, "Document: Contemporary Social Documentary Work from Greater Boston", Balagan co-presents a rarely-seen classic of documentary cinema, and a stunning vision of Boston history as it unfolds. Documentarian Richard Broadman's 1978 film traces the history of the Mission Hill area of Roxbury through interviews with residents old and new. In the 1970s urban renewal and a public housing project (from which Mission Hill earned it's now-standard moniker) were forcing changes on the then largely Irish Catholic neighborhood. This chronicle of racial conflict, when a new poor population butted heads with the old residents of the neighborhood, is a stunning reverse look at today's issues in the same neighborhood - where college students and young professionals are moving in and ever-soaring rents are pushing out the poor.

March 24, 2006, Firday, 8:00PM, at Revolving Museum in Lowell
Balagan on Tour in Lowell: What is Avant-Garde Film?
Location: Revolving Museum, 22 Shattuck Street, Lowell, MA 01852, http://www.revolvingmuseum.org/contact/index.html
Balagan collborates with Revolving Museum in Lowell to present three pilot programs of avante-garde films.

March 28, 2006, Tuesday, 7:30PM
Local Premiere: "Lunch with Fela" by Abraham Ravett

April 13, 2006, Thursday, 8:00PM, at the Museum of Fine Arts
The recent selection from the Black Maria Film Festival (in collaboration with Faith Quilt Project)
Location: Museum of Fine Arts (MFA), 640 Huntington Ave., Boston
Balagan collborates with Faith Quilt Project (http://www.faithquilts.org/) and Museum of Fine Arts to present a touring program of the award-winning shorts from the Black Maria Film & Video Festival. This particular selection of shorts from the Black Maria Film Festival conveys different approaches to exploring subject of faith on film. Diversity of genres, film forms. and content are fascinating. Filmmakers include: Sam Green (San Fransisco), Ivan Golovnev (Moscow, Russia), Sara Jane Lapp (Virginia), and others.

April 23, 2006, SUNDAY, 8:15PM at the Somerville Theatre with the IFFB
"The Paino Tuner of Earthquakes" directed by the Brothers Quay
Balagan is pleased to co-sponsor this new Quay Brothers live-action feature in partnership with the Independent Film Festival of Boston (running April 19-24)

May 1, 2006, Monday, 7:30PM
Big Balagan: Recent Works from Boston Filmmakers
Balagan celebrates recent works from New England filmmakers: Alfred Guzzetti, Louise Bourque, Dan Sousa, Rebecca Meyers, David Baeumler, Joe Gibbons, Lorelei Pepi, Robert Todd and others.

June 30, 2006, Firday, 8:00PM, at Revolving Museum in Lowell
Balagan on Tour in Lowell: Food For Thought
Location: Revolving Museum, 22 Shattuck Street, Lowell, MA 01852, http://www.revolvingmuseum.org/contact/index.html
Balagan collborates with Revolving Museum in Lowell to present three pilot programs of avante-garde films.

August 4, 2006, Firday, 8:00PM, at Revolving Museum in Lowell
Balagan on Tour in Lowell: Art and Politics through Film
Location: Revolving Museum, 22 Shattuck Street, Lowell, MA 01852, http://www.revolvingmuseum.org/contact/index.html
Balagan collborates with Revolving Museum in Lowell to present three pilot programs of avante-garde films.