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.