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Spring 2003

January 23, 2003, 7:30PM
The end of innocence
In our ongoing efforts to present the community with alternative visions and voices about the State of our Nation and the World, this program reflects upon current predicaments from political, historical, artistic and humanitarian perspectives. Among Filmmakers featured are Craig Baldwin, LEV, Peter Watkins, Bruce Spangler, James Schneider.

February 13, 2003, 7:30PM
Objectifying the Body: Exploring Modern day myths Aphrodite and Adonis
Super Models, tummy tucks, diet scams, breast implants, face lifts, washboard ads, silky skin, Super-white teeth, body art and body piercing. Why are we so obsessed with how we look on the outside? See another side of the coin tonight with "Hard Fat" and several other eye opening experimental films and videos about body image.

February 27, 2003, 7:30PM
"Fool's Paradise: Trance and Enchantment in Visionary Film" curated by Pelle Lowe
Starting this spring, Balagan will regularly invite local filmmakers to realize their curatorial dreams with our new series "Filmmaker's Pick". To kick off the new series, local filmmaker Pelle Lowe presents "Fool's Paradise", an evening of trance-cinema, films that mine the liminal space between illusion and mystery, history and nightmare, terror and delight; "heaven, blazing into the head."

March 10 , 2003, 7:30PM
"Language is a virus..." (William Burroughs)
Relationships between the language and mind, between geometric figures or patterns of letters on screen and their meaning as well as mystery, inventiveness, misunderstanding, subtlety, emotion... The works in this program explore the power of human language in cognitive, artistic, and visual sense.

March 27 , 2003, 7:30PM
Director's Eye: Phil Solomon

April 10 , 2003, 7:30PM
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April 27 , 2003, 7:30PM
Experimental films by Arab Women Filmmakers
Balagan continues to explore experimental tradition from different parts of the world and welcomes a program of shorts by Arab Women filmmakers. The programs is curated by Hisham Bizri, a Lebanese film and video artist and currently an artist in residence at the Center for the Advanced Visual Studies at MIT.

May 8, 2003, 7:30PM
"Film as a Subversive Art"
This program is inspired by 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, published a book 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."