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Fall
2002
September
12, Thursday, 8PM
Family Stories
Intimacy, kinship, gatherings, meals, marriage,
holidays, childhood, grandma, divorce, abuse,
dis-functionality, pain... Films of the "Family
Stories" construct a collective PORTRAIT
of the family of humans. All of us will be able
to find some familiar lines in it.
September
26,
Thursday,
8PM
Crime and Punishment
Continuing the theme of the last season's Victory
Day show, the films in this program ruminate
upon the human condition in the current world
of wars and conflicts. Among the filmmakers
featured: Robert Todd, and others.
October
10,
Thursday,
8PM
Director's Eye:
Jem Cohen (not
confirmed but being hoped for)
Our guest from New York, Jem Cohen, has been
working in 16mm, Super 8, and video for over
15 years. His work has been a mixture of documentary,
narrative, and experimental genres, coalescing
into a unique blend all his own ("Instrument",
"Benjamin Smoke", and others). Aside
from his own projects, Cohen has shot and directed
five videos for R.E.M., as well as background
films for two of their world tours. He has also
made pieces for Jonathan Richman, Butthole Surfers,
Flat Duo Jets, and Elliot Smith, Patti Smith
among others. Jem has won dozens of awards including
Rockefeller Grant and Guggenheim Fellowship.
October
24, Thursday,
8PM
Through
Mystery and Magic
In the best traditions of the early avant-garde
cinema (Georges Melies, Fritz Lang) and American
Underground movement of the 60's (Stan VanDerBeek,
Kenneth Anger), this collection of works glorifies
theatricality, intensity of sets and decor,
masks, make-up and costumes of the exalted characters,
intricate illusionary experiments, magic and
supernatural within the multi-layered experimental
narratives.
November
7, Thursday,
8PM
Expanded Genre of
Documentary
Following the steps of Robert Flaherty, Chris
Marker, Joris Ivens and others, the filmmakers
of this program step beyond the traditional
conventions of the documentary genre and create
poetic visual essays turn the reality
into poetry but at the same time preserve ingenuity
of the subject of their explorations.
November
21, Thursday,
8PM
Arabian
Nights
Balagan
continues introducing Boston audience to the
experimental films and videos from around the
world. This program features experimental films
and videos by the filmmakers from the Arabic
countries.
November
22-23, Friday
- Saturday
Technological
Challenges: Video
Balagan is collaborating with Video
Space to put together a program of the
Technologically Challenging works on
video by the local artists. The program will be
playing on the monitor as a loop at the National
Conference of the Association of Moving Image
Archive. Location:
The Boston Park Plaza Hotel
December 5, Thursday,
8PM
TBA
December
18,
Wednesday,
8PM
BIG BALAGAN: "Film
As a Subversive Art"
In 1974, Amos Vogel, the founder of the Cinema
16 in New York, New York Film Festival and Lincoln
Center Film Department, published a book "Film
as a Subversive Art". 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."
For the BIG BALAGAN, we combined a program of
rare films from France, Holland, Austria and
the United States that are mentioned in Amos
Vogel's book as well as works by contemporary
"subversive" filmmakers. The panel
discussion with guests and local film professors
is to follow.
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