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In February 2004, after 30 years of my life in SoHo, I made a decision to leave SoHo
and move to Greenpoint, Brooklyn. This video is about what it feels like to leave a
place in which one has spent more time than any other place, and which was also
the place of my family life. I am somewhere else now. It’s about beginning of growing roots in a new place, new home, with new friends, new thoughts,
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still/here is a meditation on the vast landscape of ruins and vacant lots that constitute the north side of St. Louis, an area populated almost exclusively by working class and working poor African Americans. On a basic level, the film constructs a documentary record of the blight and decay of that part of the city. For the most part, still/here is not an overt assessment of social injustices but the politics of class and race within American society are integral to the film. In still/here, the ruins are emblematic of an unimaginable absence at the core of much of the African Diaspora’s experience in North America. From the countless Africans lost in the Middle Passage to the lost future generation of unborn descendant of those that perished during the voyage, to the loss of family and loved ones that were sold away during slavery, absence has been and continues to be a fundamental feature of the African-American experience.Read More »
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A documentary on Madison Square Garden. Filmed in 1997 and prevented from public screening by the operators of Madison Square Garden.Read More »
In 2066, a survivor of an enigmatic cult recounts his country’s traumatic history and the events leading to the rise and fall of the cult. Through his reminiscence, ghosts from 2014 and before appear as witnesses. Part dream documentary, part city symphony, this film traces the lineage of oppression as inscribed in Singapore’s landscape and collective unconscious.Read More »
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In 2013, former Chadian dictator Hissein Habré’s arrest in Senegal marked the end of a long combat for the survivors of his regime. Accompanied by the Chairman of the Association of the Victims of the Hissein Habré Regime, Mahamat Saleh Haroun goes to meet those who survived this tragedy and who still bear the scars of the horror in their flesh and in their souls. Through their courage and determination, the victims accomplish an unprecedented feat in the history of Africa: that of bringing a Head of State to trial.Read More »
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Dominique Cabrera is a french film maker who was born in Algeria. After Algeria gained independence from France, the European-descended people had to leave the country. It was 1962 when Dominique was 4 or 5 years old.
Tonight, at Harvard Visual and Environmental Studies Center’s artist talk series, she started by telling this early childhood experience and how it had shaped her experience of feeling exiled all life and the feeling of a lost country. She showed clips of her movies for the audiences to get a feel.Read More »
Exploring the life-affirming process of creating and interpreting a work of performance art, this film chronicles one of the most powerful and influential dances of the late 20th century. Renowned dancer and choreographer Bill T. Jones had lost his partner in life and onstage, Arnie Zane, when D-Man in the Waters premiered in New York City in 1989. The AIDS pandemic was exacting a terrible cost, especially among creatives, but remained largely taboo until Jones openly and unapologetically addressed it through that work. A new generation of student dancers tasked with interpreting the piece and led by Rosalynde LeBlanc—an original member of the Jones/Zane Company and codirector of the film—comes to understand responsibility through dance, recognizing that shared struggle is at the core of any living community. Can You Bring It integrates the standard elements of talking heads, archival footage, and performance documentation with rehearsal videos for the revival. (Rosalynde LeBlanc and Tom Hurwitz, 2020, 93 minutes)Read More »
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Made by Adolfas Mekas and Pola Chapelle, the film is about childhood memories and life’s harships and the durability of families. In 1971, after a twenty-seven year absence, Adolfas and his brother Jonas returned to their birthplace in Lithuania. They had left Lithuania as young men, destined for a German labor camp. now they came home, Adolfas with his wife, the singer Pola Chapelle, and in the long northern summer days they sang and walked across golden fields and feasted at crowded tables with family and friends. There are flowers for the dead and for the living in this film; it is full of flowers and songs.Read More »
Library Synopsis
A personal consideration of the Korean cinema by director Jang Sun-Woo, looking at it’s history of outside influence and censorship. Includes film extracts from: MR PARK (Yu Hyun-Mok) , FINE WINDY DAYS (Lee Jang-Ho), DECLARATION OF FOOLS (Lee Jang-Ho), MANDALA (Im Kwon-Tack) and WHITE BADGE (Chung Ji-Young).Read More »