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Spring 2007

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.