February
22, 2007,
Thursday, 7:30PM
Big
Balagan: Local Filmmakers - Films from Emerson
A program of films by filmmakers who teach at Emerson
College: Kathryn Ramey, Robert Todd, Pierre
Desr and John Gianvito.
March
8, 2007,
Thursday, 7:30PM
and 9:30PM
Director's
Eye: Lynne Sachs and Mark Street (in
person)
April
5, 2007,
Thursday,
8:00PM,
at the Museum of Fine Arts
The
recent selection from the Black Maria Film Festival
Location:
Museum
of Fine Arts (MFA), 640 Huntington Ave., Boston
This
year's Black Maria selection spans from poetic visual
lyricism (Leighton Pierce, Robert Todd, John
Warren) to animated mythical stories (Stacey
Stears, Eric Patrick, Karen
Aqua/Ken Field)
to at times controversial first person accounts from
different parts of the world (Sergey Litovetz
- Russia, Diego Quemada-Diez - East Africa, Dan Monceaux
- Australia, Jay Rosenblatt - USA). Local
filmmakers John Warren. Karen
Aqua and Ken Field, Robert Todd are expected
to be in person.
April
19, 2007,
Thursday, 7:30PM
Film as a
Subversive Art - Part IV
(introduced
by John Gianvito)
Round
four of films from 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. The program features
"Our
Lady of the Turks"
by the late Italian avant-garde theater director,
actor, and filmmaker Carmelo Bene.
"...the most hallucinatory and original masterpiece
yet created by Bene; an explosion of neo-expressionism
(with surrealist overtones) unequaled on the contemporary
screen. Inspired exasperated madness of this possessed
moralist carries him beyond rage into black humor
and grotesque, burlesque, aimed at the dead weight
of a reactionary cultural matrix". - Amos
Vogel
May 10, 2007,
Thursday ,
7:30PM
Choreographing
Cinema: Part 3
Yet another re-iteration of films that pay specific
attention to movement in cinema. Following two programs
featured as part of the "Ideas in Motion"
series of the Boston Cyberarts Festival 2005, "Choreographing
Cinema: Part 3" features films wherein choreography
of the camera, composition of the mis-en-scene, or
editing techniques provoke viewers to react not only
at psychological but also at the kinesthetic level.