October
13, 2007,
Saturday, 7:30PM FREE SHOW!
Location: Carpenter Center -Harvard University - 24 Quincy St. Cambridge, MA
Balagan and Mass Art Film Society present: Special Event!
Colen Fitzgibbon Retrospective: Your Basic Film
With special guests Coleen Fitzgibbon, Saul Levine, Scott MacDonald, Sandra Gibson & Luis Recoder in attendance
Balagan is delighted to bring a special retrospective screening to Boston of the works of Coleen Fitzgibbon. Fitzgibbon was active as an experimental film and video artist under the pseudonym "Colen Fitzgibbon" between the years 1973-1980. A student of Owen Land (aka "George Landow") and Stan Brakhage during her years as a film/video student at Art Institute of Chicago (1971-73), she later attended the Whitney Museum of American Art's Independent Study Program under Ron Clark (1973-74), studying with international artists such as Michael Snow, Yvonne Rainer, Vito Acconci, Donald Judd, and Dennis Oppenheim. Between the years 1973-1976 Fitzgibbon made some of her most rigorous experimental work to date on 16mm and super 8 film, screening at numerous international film festivals and museums, including EXPRMNTL 5 at Knokke-Heist in Belgium, Institute of Contemporary Art in London, Anthology Film Archives, Collective For Living Cinema, and Millennium Film Workshop in New York. Thanks to the caring and meticulous preservation work of Sandra Gibson and Luis Recoder, Balagan is thrilled to be able to bring Coleen's films back to the screen and into the contemporary dialogue of American avant-garde film history.
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October 26 and 27th, 2007, at the ICA Boston
Balagan and ICA Boston present: Boston area Premiere!
Czech Dream by Filip Remunda (Czech Republic)
CZECH DREAM documents the largest consumer hoax the Czech Republic has ever seen. Filip Remunda and Vit Klusak, two of Eastern Europe's most promising young documentary filmmakers, set out to explore the psychological and manipulative powers of consumerism by creating an ad campaign for something that didn't exist. CZECH DREAM - the Hypermarket for a better life!
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November 5, 2007 (Monday) at the Coolidge Corner Theatre 7:30 & 9:30PM
Balagan and the Harvard Film Study Center present:
Promised Paradise by Leonard Helmrich (Indonesia/Netherlands)
Artist in Attendance for Boston Premiere!
The Jakarta-based Indonesian puppeteer and troubadour Agus Nur Amal travels to Bali to call to account the people who were responsible for the bomb attack on a nightclub there on 12 October 2002. Like in his theatre shows, humour is his main weapon.
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November 29, 2007 (Thursday) at the Coolidge Corner Theatre 7:30PM
Balagan presents: Strange Culture by
Lynn Hershman Leeson
Guest speaker to be announced
" Strange Culture is an important heads-up to what is going on in our country right now in the name of national security, and a brilliant statement on artistic freedom and the dangers it faces. This film should be seen, should be discussed and is an important document on our times."-- Film Threat
"Hershman Leeson is as interested in reinventing the doc form as she is in publicizing Kurtz's case...The director not only breaks the fourth wall, she reduces it to plaster dust...Hershman Leeson gets it. And so will viewers of Strange Culture. "-- Variety