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This week [July 26 - August 3, 2008] in avant garde cinema
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"Last visions before dreaming" by Nicholas Fiorentini
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"Repeat Photography and the Albedo Effect" by Caroline Koebel
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"Grand Central/Central Terminal" by Caroline Koebel
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NEW CALLS FOR ENTRIES:
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OCULI: an experimental film showcase (Wilmington, NC, USA; Deadline: August 21, 2008)
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Rubric (Denver, CO, USA; Deadline: September 25, 2008)
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Images Festival (Toronto, Ontario, CANADA; Deadline: November 14, 2008)
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Boulder International Film Festival (Boulder; Deadline: August 22, 2008)
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Pantheon Xperimental Film & Animation Festival 7.0 (Cyprus; Deadline: July 31, 2008)
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OFF: true-school underground film festival (Lausanne, Switzerland; Deadline: August 01, 2008)
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Renderyard Short Film Festival (London; Deadline: August 21, 2008)
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CPH:DOX (Copenhagen, Denmark; Deadline: August 01, 2008)
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Betting on Shorts (London; Deadline: August 15, 2008)
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International Short Film Festival Winterthur (Winterthur, Switzerland; Deadline: July 31, 2008)
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Juried Show (san francisco; Deadline: July 30, 2008)
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ICE - Iowa City Experimental (Iowa City, IA 52240; Deadline: August 15, 2008)
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Dallas Video Festival (Dallas, Texas, USA; Deadline: August 11, 2008)
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zwergWERK - Oldenburg Shortfilm Days (Oldenburg, Nds., Germany; Deadline: July 31, 2008)
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Reel Venus Film Festival (New York, NY USA; Deadline: July 26, 2008)
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OCULI: an experimental film showcase (Wilmington, NC, USA; Deadline: August 21, 2008)
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Boulder International Film Festival (Boulder; Deadline: August 22, 2008)
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THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMS (SUMMARY):
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* Delineating Borders: the Films of Jesse Lerner [July 26, New York, New York]
* Harlan County Usa/A Fundraiser For Asian Pacific Islander Movement
Building Network [July 26, San Francisco, California]
* Sinbad of Baghdad: Jack Smith's Super8 Films [July 26, Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
* Red Hook Cine Soiree! [July 27, Brooklyn, New York]
* Delineating Borders: the Films of Jesse Lerner [July 27, New York, New York]
* Call For Proposals: Cineworks Media Arts Commission [July 28, Vancouver, British Columbia]
* Call For Submissions: Surrealism In Film [July 31, Calgary, Alberta; CANADA]
* Now the People Have Awoken Exploring Venezuela's Revolution Internet Film
Screening [July 31, Global Screening]
* Art(Core): the Avant Garde and the Cinematic Body [August 2, Toronto, Ontario, Canada]
* The Int'l Fest of Cinema and Technology Experimental Film Showcase [August 2, Washington, DC]
* Joyful Life/žÙ¶ - Global Undergrounds [August 3, San Francisco, California]
Events are sorted by CITY within each DATE.
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SATURDAY, JULY 26, 2008
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7/26
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:30 P.M., 32 Second Ave. (at 2nd Street)
DELINEATING BORDERS: THE FILMS OF JESSE LERNER
DELINEATING BORDERS: THE FILMS OF JESSE LERNER Jesse Lerner is a
filmmaker, writer, curator and professor based in Los Angeles whose
'fake documentaries' fall somewhere between docudramas, essays and
collage. Co-author of the book F IS FOR PHONY (with Alexandra Juhasz,
University of Minnesota Press) and, with Rita Gonzalez, co-creator of
the touring film-series and publication THE MEXPERIMENTAL CINEMA, as a
filmmaker Lerner utilizes found-footage, recovered images, suppressed
narratives and copious research. He employs fiction, native voices and
the historical record to addresses topics such as Mexican-American
cultural relations, mestizaje identity and the geographical/emotional
entanglements inherent in the border. Watching Lerner's refreshingly
inquisitive, expansive films one is reminded time and again that truth
is made, not told. JESSE LERNER WILL BE PRESENT TO HOST THIS
THREE-PROGRAM SURVEY. "Unlike familiar mainstream documentaries in which
titles and an omniscient narrator tell us what to think about the
images, Lerner's films create disparities between image and spoken text
that encourage the viewer's active participation." –Fred Camper, CHICAGO
READER PROGRAM 1: PROGRAM 2: RUINS 1999, 78 minutes, 16mm.
Counterfeiting is a practice with broad and devious implications, from
the simplest fake objects to entire histories shaped as facsimile. The
provocative RUINS takes the forger's art and applies it to the
appropriation of (in this case Mexican) culture. Stitching together
newsreel snippets, travelogia and stagy rants, Lerner tackles early
colonial misconceptions and distortions of Mexican culture. Focusing on
Brigido Lara, a master forger whose 'pre-Columbian' objects have been
(unwittingly) displayed in major museums throughout the U.S. and Europe,
Lerner charts the process that severs Mayan and Aztec archaeological
objects from their origins and re-contextualizes them as art within the
confines of museum walls. What distinguishes the real from the fake?
–Saturday, July 26 at 7:30.
7/26
San Francisco, California: Artists Television Access
http://www.atasite.org/
8m, 992 Valencia Street
HARLAN COUNTY USA/A FUNDRAISER FOR ASIAN PACIFIC ISLANDER MOVEMENT
BUILDING NETWORK
Saturday, July 26, 2008. 8PM $6-$50 HARLAN COUNTY USA a fundraiser for
Asian Pacific Islander Movement Building Network Barbara Kopple's
Academy Award–winning *Harlan County USA* unflinchingly documents a
grueling coal miners' strike in a small Kentucky town. With
unprecedented access, Kopple and her crew captured the miners' sometimes
violent struggles with strikebreakers, local police, and company thugs.
Featuring a haunting soundtrack—with legendary country and bluegrass
artists Hazel Dickens, Merle Travis, Sarah Gunning, and Florence
Reece—the film is a heartbreaking record of the thirteen-month struggle
between a community fighting to survive and a corporation dedicated to
the bottom line.
7/26
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Pleasure Dome
http://www.pdome.org/
9pm, 401 Richmond St. West Courtyard
SINBAD OF BAGHDAD: JACK SMITH'S SUPER8 FILMS
Jerry Tartaglia, filmmaker, archivist and co-director of the Plaster
Foundation — a non-profit foundation dedicated to restoring Jack Smith's
films, papers and artwork — brings to Pleasure Dome a programme of
Super8 movies by the legendary director/performance artist/
photographer/underground genius who died of AIDS in 1989. Tartaglia will
discuss his role in preserving Smith's film legacy, and will also
introduce the programme. It will feature the North American premiere of
the recently restored Jack Smith Super8 Films (presented on video,
1975-85, 40 min.) and Sinbad of Baghdad (Super8 on video, 1978, 29 min.)
— both are edited-in-camera reels documenting film-performances by Smith
on the Sahara Sands at Coney Island. Other works to be screened include
I Was a Male Yvonne DeCarlo (16mm, 1968-70, 30 min.) starring Smith
himself, which takes its title from one of his live performances "I Was
a Male Yvonne DeCarlo for the Lucky Landlord Underground" staged in the
early 1980s. Shot mainly during the late 1960s and edited a decade or
more later, I Was a Male Yvonne DeCarlo is one of several films and
slide shows that feature the filmmaker as a mock celebrity. It opens
with the excerpt from No President originally called "Marsh Gas of
Flatulandia" — several minutes of black and white footage of steam
escaping from manholes which segues to an interior scene of various
creatures emerging from dry ice vapours — then shifts to show the
filmmaker, clad in a leopard-skin jump suit, attended by a nurse as he
sits amidst the detritus of his duplex loft on Grand and Greene streets
in Manhattan. Finally, Song For Rent (16mm, 1968-69, 5 min.) showcases
Smith playing his alter ego Rose Courtyard, sitting in a wheelchair in
her apartment, deeply moved by God Bless America.
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SUNDAY, JULY 27, 2008
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7/27
Brooklyn, New York: BWAC
http://homepage.newschool.edu/~schlemoj/screenings.html
2PM, 499 Van Brunt Street, Red Hook
RED HOOK CINE SOIREE!
Guest Programmer Joel Schlemowitz presents a salon of experimental and
underground films from cine-artists Jimmy Kinder, zaza m., Caryn Cline,
Fabio Roberti (Directart Productions Ltd.), Kelly Fancher, Jennifer
MacMillan, Bradley Eros, Sheri Wills, Jennifer Matotek, Seth Mitter,
Florens Fanciulli, and Donna Cameron. A summer afternoon and short works
of avant-garde cinema? Our agenda is to program our soiree attuned to
the enchantment of the season of Mid-Summer Nights' Dreams, to indulge
ourselves in the hazy and lazy segment of the calendar, to enlighten
ourselves lightly and sprightly, to work Puckish mischief on the screen,
to take respite from the oppressive sun in the magic lantern parlor by
the sea. Expect red wine and soft cheese, possibly sangria, and 1920s
foxtrots on the Victrola! Screening room is on the first floor,
accessible to all. . . . . http://www.bwac.org/directions
7/27
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:30 P.M., 32 Second Ave. (at 2nd Street)
DELINEATING BORDERS: THE FILMS OF JESSE LERNER
DELINEATING BORDERS: THE FILMS OF JESSE LERNER Jesse Lerner is a
filmmaker, writer, curator and professor based in Los Angeles whose
'fake documentaries' fall somewhere between docudramas, essays and
collage. Co-author of the book F IS FOR PHONY (with Alexandra Juhasz,
University of Minnesota Press) and, with Rita Gonzalez, co-creator of
the touring film-series and publication THE MEXPERIMENTAL CINEMA, as a
filmmaker Lerner utilizes found-footage, recovered images, suppressed
narratives and copious research. He employs fiction, native voices and
the historical record to addresses topics such as Mexican-American
cultural relations, mestizaje identity and the geographical/emotional
entanglements inherent in the border. Watching Lerner's refreshingly
inquisitive, expansive films one is reminded time and again that truth
is made, not told. JESSE LERNER WILL BE PRESENT TO HOST THIS
THREE-PROGRAM SURVEY. "Unlike familiar mainstream documentaries in which
titles and an omniscient narrator tell us what to think about the
images, Lerner's films create disparities between image and spoken text
that encourage the viewer's active participation." –Fred Camper, CHICAGO
READER PROGRAM 3: MAGNAVOZ 2006, 25 minutes, 16mm. An experimental
adaptation of Xavier Icaza's speculative rant on the future of
post-revolutionary Mexico. Fusing noisy broadcasts from atop volcanoes,
raucous bacchanalia at popular watering holes, and apocalyptic,
hyper-nationalistic pronouncements, it is a timely and prescient
meditation, though it was written more than eighty years ago. T.S.H.
2004, 6 minutes, 16mm. Based on the Estridentista poem by Luis
Quintanilla (a.k.a. Kyn Taniya). The Estridentistas were a vanguard
group similar to and influenced by the more familiar Dadaists and
Futurists, who shared with these other radical art movements the
rejection of tradition in favor of estrangement and fragmentation. Like
the Russian Constructivists, they saw their art as part of a larger
project of sweeping social transformation, the building of a new,
industrial, egalitarian society. T.S.H. is an homage to a poorly-tuned
radio, and finds transcendence, excitement and beauty in the ether. THE
AMERICAN EGYPT 2001, 57 minutes, 16mm. This film revisits the first
socialist government of the Americas, created during the Mexican
Revolution on the Yucatan peninsula (1915-24). Attempts to secede in the
19th century suggest Yucatan was, like Texas and California, only
imperfectly attached to the Estados Unidos Mexicanos. Lerner revisits
the Revolution that arrived late, but which ultimately took on a much
more radical form, one resembling the early days of the Soviet Union.
The Yucatan hosted Mexico's first feminist congress, and it was here
that Carlos Martínez directed the country's first feature-length fiction
film. Mixing found-footage, reenactments, landscapes and a host of vivid
primary sources, THE AMERICAN EGYPT explores incidents in the early
history of globalization through the connections that link social
revolution, silent cinema and the suffragette movement. Total running
time: ca. 90 minutes. –Sunday, July 27 at 7:30.
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MONDAY, JULY 28, 2008
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7/28
Vancouver, British Columbia: Cineworks Independent Filmmakers Society
http://www.cineworks.ca
10:00am, 300-1131 Howe Street
CALL FOR PROPOSALS: CINEWORKS MEDIA ARTS COMMISSION
CINEWORKS MEDIA ARTS COMMISSION Cineworks Independent Filmmakers Society
would like to invite Canadian mid-career and established artists to
submit proposals for an exhibition exploring the dynamic screen of
contemporary cinema. Expanded cinema, new-media and experimental works
will be given preference. Gilles Deleuze, in his Cinema 1, poses the
question "what is cinema?" This investigation has been complicated by
our modern condition of the increased rate at which we receive and
filter information everyday; the proliferation of screens–personal,
portable and public; commercial cinema and advertising; and invisible
networks of data transmission. The screen has moved out of the theatre
and become a fluid entity. How have the temporal and spatial differences
of viewing moving images in the theatre, gallery, at home or in the
urban environment affected our experience of cinema? Cineworks is
seeking proposals for works that will delve into our relationship with
dynamic screens, analyzing their psychological and practical
consequences on film production and consumption. According to Deleuze,
the cinematic eye allows us to see and think in new ways. How has
contemporary cinema shaped our perceptions? Considering that we
constantly encounter screens in our mediated culture, how is it that we
interact with them? What is cinema becoming? This commission will allow
an artist or artist team (up to three people) to research, develop and
exhibit a media arts project for the 2009/2010 programming year. The
budget will include all costs associated with, but not limited to:
research, production, technician support, travel related to the
production, rentals of equipment and facilities, project materials,
artist fees, installation and documentation. This submission will be the
basis of Cineworks's application to the Canada Council for the Arts for
a commissioning grant. Please see the Media Arts Commissioning Program
link at http://www.canadacouncil.ca/mediaarts/ for budget stipulations
et cetera or email (address suppressed) This commission is dependent on
funding. Applicants must demonstrate that they have basic training in
media arts and, if applicable, indicate that they will employ support
from experienced technicians working in independent media arts as part
of the commission. Artists and artist teams are encouraged to submit
proposals (with specific sites in mind). Submissions should include the
following: Contact info: name, address, telephone and email Artist
statement and proposal detailing the project's connection to the call
(max. 1000 words) A proposed budget outlining the materials, equipment
and support required. A current C.V. Examples of previous work on CD or
DVD (please include a SASE if you want this material returned) with
basic project descriptions (media, title and year of production) A
timeline for research, production and presentation of work (this
programming is for 2009/2010) Cineworks Independent Filmmakers Society
was established in 1980 by independent filmmakers and artists working in
film. The organization has evolved to embrace a broad spectrum of media
arts practices while maintaining a commitment to support artists
interested in utilizing celluloid and exploring the cinematic
experience. Submissions can be sent by post only to the following
address: Media-Arts Commission Cineworks Independent Filmmakers Society
300-1131 Howe Street Vancouver, BC V6Z 2L7 The postmark deadline for
submitting materials is July 28, 2008. Questions can be directed to
Alicia Munro, Programs Assistant, at email suppressed
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THURSDAY, JULY 31, 2008
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7/31
Calgary, Alberta; CANADA: Calgary Society of Independent Filmmakers
http://www.csif.org
5:00pm (postmarked), CSIF Programming Committee Bldg. J2, 2711 Battleford Ave. SW T3E 7L4
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: SURREALISM IN FILM
Call for Submissions: Surrealism in Film The Calgary Society of
Independent Filmmakers (CSIF) is looking for media works that deal with
the theme of Surrealism. In celebration of the 80th anniversary of Luis
Buneul and Salvador Dali's Un Chien Andalou, the CSIF is looking for
works that explore the topic of Surrealism in their content or style.
All works should use film either in the production and/or post
production stage. No entry fee is required and all works accepted will
be paid screening fees. Deadline is July 31, 08. For more information
contact: Melody Jacobson at email suppressed or (403) 205 4747;
www.csif.org Appel pour Soumissions: L'Surrealisme en Film Le Calgary
Society of Independent Filmmakers (CSIF) invite des soumissions en "arts
media" sur le theme du surrealisme pour explorer l'evolution de ce
mouvement artistique. Tous les traveaux soumisent doivent avoir un
element de film soit en production ou postproduction. Le CSIF pave des
frais d'artistes pour toutes les pieces selectionnees pour projection et
fournit un environment professionel pour la presentation des pieces "Art
media". Envoyez vous soumissions avant le 31 Juliet, 2008. Pour plus
d'informations, contacter Melody Jacobson au: email suppressed ou
(403) 205 4747; www.csif.org Llamado a inscripciones: Surrealismo en
Pelicula La Sociedad de Cineastas Independientes de Calgary (CSIF por su
sigla en ingles) esta buscando trabajos de media relacionados con el
tema del Surrealismo. En celebracion del 80vo aniversario de la obra Un
Chien Andalou de Luis Buneul y Salvador Dali la CSIF esta buscando
trabajos que exploren el tema del Surrealismo en su propio contenido y
estilo. Pelicula debe haber sido usada en todos los trabajos en las
etapas de produccion y/o post-produccion. No hay tarifa de inscripcion y
los trabajos seleccionados tendran pago de exhibicion. La fecha limite
de inscripcion es Julio 31 del 2008. Para mayor informacion contacte a
Melody Jacobson email suppressed o 1 (403) 205 4747; www.csif.org
7/31
Global Screening: Renderyard
http://www.renderyard.com
72 Hours, Internet
NOW THE PEOPLE HAVE AWOKEN EXPLORING VENEZUELA'S REVOLUTION INTERNET FILM
SCREENING
Venezuela's new assertiveness has brought it to the centre of
international controversy: to some it has been stolen by populist
dictator, while for others, it is the centre of a continent-wide
democratic revolution. There is much at stake. Venezuela sits atop the
largest oil reserves in the world, which are being used to foment a new
order. President Hugo Chávez, who survived a military coup in 2002, has
supported a number of controversial social programs that have pushed
Venezuela onto the United States government, and media, enemy radar.
What makes Venezuela tick? Who is behind the movement and what does it
seek? Filmed through the 2006 presidential elections, this is a
documentary about the people building a new Venezuela. Watch this
amazing documentary in full during an exclusive 3 day screening only
with Renderyard from the 31st July - 2nd Aug in association with Rethos
and the Alternative Channel. To find out more and watch the film please
go to ur web site at www.renderyard.com
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SATURDAY, AUGUST 2, 2008
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8/2
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Pleasure Dome
http://www.pdome.org/
9pm, 401 Richmond St. West Courtyard
ART(CORE): THE AVANT GARDE AND THE CINEMATIC BODY
M.M. Serra, legendary filmmaker, curator and director of the New
York-based Film-makers' Cooperative curates a gender- and
sexuality-bending film programme of older and recent works drawn from
the collection of the Coop. "This two-hour programme explores the
explicit body in the experimental film genre. Reflecting three major
trends within the NYC scene, the programme starts in the mid-1960s with
Classics of the Underground, which influenced the filmmakers of the
Cinema of Transgression, which is followed by films of Alternative Queer
culture. All of the works reflect the views of filmmakers who broke the
taboos and censorship of the mainstream popular culture of the United
States. Opening the program is Double Your Pleasure (2002) by M.M.
Serra, an homage to Andy Warhol's Kiss, followed by the rarely screened,
double-screen projection "happening" of Barbara Rubin's Christmas on
Earth. Rubin's 1963 film premiered at Warhol's Factory, then titled
Cocks and Cunts with the Velvet Underground performing live. Central to
the programme is the recently restored Fuses (1967) by Carolee
Schneemann, an exquisitely erotic portrait of love-making with
Schneemann, James Tenney and their cat Kitch. A camp masterpiece by
George Kuchar titled Hold Me While I'm Naked (1966) inspired the films
of John Waters. Transgressive works by Tessa Hughes-Freeland and
Scot-Free reflect the East Village club culture. Tessa Hughes-Freeland's
Baby Doll (1982) is a docu-portrait of dancers in The Baby Doll
strippers club. Scot-Free's Strange Love (1996) is a portrait of a jaded
Lower East Side couple starring Nick Zedd, writer of the Transgressive
Manifesto. Art(core) concludes with three short films embracing
alternative sexualities: Peggy Ahwesh's Color of Love (1994), James
Fotopoulos's Drowning (2000) and the fantastic animation of Martha
Colburn's Spiders in Love: An Arachnogasmic Musical (1999). All films on
the programme are explicit and embrace an alternative perspective on
gender and sexuality." (M.M. Serra)
8/2
Washington, DC: The Int'l Fest of Cinema and Technology
http://www.ifct.org
5pm-11:30pm, 1054 31st St NW
THE INT'L FEST OF CINEMA AND TECHNOLOGY EXPERIMENTAL FILM SHOWCASE
The International Fest of Cinema and Technology (IFCT) announces an
upcoming film festival event at the Museum of Contemporary Art (*MOCA
DC) on August 2nd. This festival will screen short films from filmmakers
around the world and focuses on screening experimental works including
Experimental Documentary, Experimental narratives, Experimental music
videos,Experimental animation and thrillers. Tickets are $6, $3
students. The Museum of Contemporary Art is located at 1054 31st St NW,
Canal Square.
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SUNDAY, AUGUST 3, 2008
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8/3
San Francisco, California: Artists Television Access
http://www.atasite.org/
8pm, 992 Valencia Street (at 21st)
JOYFUL LIFE/žÙ¶ - GLOBAL UNDERGROUNDS
A documentary by Anita Wen-Shin Chang (in person) Lo-Sheng (Joyful Life)
leprosy colony was established in 1930 on the Sinjuang hillside in the
outskirts of Taipei, Taiwan's capital. As many as 1,100 patients lived
in Lo-Sheng. In 1954, Lo-Sheng's isolation policy, which severely
restricted residentsí civil liberties, was finally lifted. As a
result, leprosy patients had the choice to remain, to leave, or to
self-admit, which deeply transformed the community. In 2002, more than
one-third of Lo-Sheng was destroyed due to subway construction and other
pending urban development projects. As a result, more than half of the
300 remaining residents moved into the newly constructed hospital
nearby. Due to resident, student and human rights activism, plans for
total destruction have stopped. At this point, the sanatorium remains
despite continued pressures from the government, private interests and
local civilians to excavate. Conceived as a collaboration among the
residents of Lo-Sheng, a Taiwanese-American filmmaker, documentary
students, and cultural workers, JOYFUL LIFE presents diverse
perspectives of Lo-Sheng residents in the midst of their activism to
preserve Lo-Sheng and not be moved to a nearby hospital. Filmmaker-lead
workshops prepare residents for their own storytelling and filming -
creating an intimate portrait of a historically marginalized community
and their inspiring determination to protect what they call their home.
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