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SUMMARY:Margaret Mead Film & Video Festival's Kathy Brew Presents: "Ryan\," "Nalini by Day\, Nancy by Night\," "Phantom Limb"
DESCRIPTION:Margaret Mead Film and Video Festival co-director Kathy Brew visits The Sanctuary For Independent Media to present a selection of shorts. \n\n\n\nRyan is a 2004 Oscar®-winning animated short by Chris Landreth\, produced by the National Film Board of Canada. It is a biography of Ryan Larkin\, former animator for the NFB. Larkin was in his heyday one of the many genius animators who worked for the NFB; his 1968 animated short Walking was nominated for an Oscar\, losing to Disney cartoon It’s Tough to Be a Bird. However\, addictions to alcohol and cocaine cost him his job with the NFB and eventually left him homeless\, begging for spare change on the streets of Montreal. The short consists of Landreth interviewing Larkin at a Montreal homeless shelter. The short is notable for its deeply odd style of 3-D animation. The people appearing in the short\, namely Larkin\, Landreth\, and some of Larkin’s old acquaintances\, are represented by highly stylized\, mangled versions of themselves\, with pieces missing from each of them as means of representing emotional and artistic trauma. \n\n\n\nNalini by Day\, Nancy by Night (2005) is an insightful documentary by filmmaker Sonali Gulati which explores complex issues of globalization\, capitalism and identity through a witty and personal account of her journey into India’s call centers. Gulati\, herself an Indian immigrant living in the US\, explores the fascinating ramifications of outsourcing telephone service jobs to India—including how native telemarketers take on Western names and accents to take calls from the US\, UK and Australia. A fresh juxtaposition of animation\, archival footage\, live action shots and narrative work highlight the filmmaker’s presence and reveal the performative aspects of her subjects. With fascinating observations on how call centers affect the Indian culture and economy\, Nalini by Day\, Nancy by Night raises important questions about the complicated consequences of globalization.   \n\n\n\nPhantom Limb (2005) director Jay Rosenblatt states: “The death of my seven-year-old brother when I was nine remains a painful and haunting memory. My parents did not know how to cope with the loss of their child and the entire family experienced indescribable pain. Phantom Limb uses this personal story as a point of departure. Whether it is a loss through death or divorce\, the stages of grieving are the same. Individuals often go through denial\, anger\, bargaining\, depression and\, ultimately\, some kind of acceptance\, in order to heal. The film is loosely structured according to these stages. Interspersed throughout this poetic documentary are interviews with a cemetery owner\, a phantom limb patient and an author of a book about evidence for life after death. Phantom Limb reminds viewers that while grief is painful and isolating\, it is a reminder to each of us that life is impermanent.”
URL:https://archive.mediasanctuary.org/event/margaret-mead-film-video-festival-with-kathy-brew-ryan-nalini-by-day-nancy-by-night-phantom-limb/
LOCATION:The Sanctuary\, 3361 6th Ave\, Troy\, 12180\, United States
CATEGORIES:Screening,Speaker
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SUMMARY:Margaret Mead Film & Video Festival: "Bride Kidnapping in Kyrgyzstan\," "Children of the Decree"
DESCRIPTION:Bride Kidnapping in Kyrgyzstan (Petr Lom\, 2005) is the first film to document the custom of bride kidnapping\, an ancient marriage tradition in Kyrgyzstan\, a former Soviet Republic in Central Asia. When a Kyrgyz man decides to marry\, he often abducts the woman he has chosen. Typically\, he and several friends hire a car\, stake out his bride-to-be’s movements\, snatch her off the street\, and take her to the groom’s family home. A delegation is then sent to her family. The abducted woman is held until someone from her family arrives to determine whether they will accept the “proposal” and she will agree to marry her kidnapper. Bride Kidnapping documents in harrowing detail four such abductions\, from the violent seizures on city streets and the tearful protests of the women\, who are physically restrained and persuaded to accept their fate by the women of the groom’s family\, to the often tense negotiations between the respective families\, and either the eventual acquiescence or continued refusal of the young women. \n\n\n\nChildren of the Decree (Florin Iepan\, 2004): “Procreation is the social duty of all fertile women\,” was the political thinking during the 1960s and 1970s in Romania. In 1966\, Ceaucescu issued Decree 770\, in which he forbade abortion for all women unless they were over forty or were already taking care of four children. All forms of contraception were totally banned. The New Romanian Man was born. By 1969\, the country had a million babies more than the previous average. Thousands of kindergartens were built overnight. Romanian society was rapidly changing. By using archival footage and excerpts from old fiction films as well as by interviewing famous persons from that time\, the Iepan revives the period of tremendous oppression. Many deaths were caused by the mere fact that women\, including wives of secret Romanian agents\, famous TV presenters and actresses\, had to undergo illegal abortions. Many women were jailed for having abortions done to them. Some died by using awkward abortion methods\, like injecting mustard or lemon juice into the uterus. Sex life was no fun anymore. Nevertheless\, Romania had a demographic boom and hosted a world conference on population in 1974.
URL:https://archive.mediasanctuary.org/event/margaret-mead-film-video-festival-bride-kidnapping-in-kyrgyzstan-children-of-the-decree/
LOCATION:The Sanctuary\, 3361 6th Ave\, Troy\, 12180\, United States
CATEGORIES:Screening
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SUMMARY:Margaret Mead Film & Video Festival: "Home\," with Filmmakers Jeffrey Togman and Pierre Defendini
DESCRIPTION:Home (2005) will be presented by director Jeffrey Togman and cinematographer Pierre Defendini. On a gang-controlled\, dead end street\, Sheree Farmer is raising her six children alone. With the help of Mary Abernathy\, a former fashion industry executive turned community activist\, Sheree struggles to buy her first home and escape her violent and drug-infested Newark neighborhood. Home follows these two exceptional women in an intimate story that speaks to the future of America’s cities. The film had its world premiere at the SilverDocs AFI/Discovery Channel Documentary Festival (now AFI Docs)\, where it won a Special Jury Recognition Award. The documentary was an official selection of the Margaret Mead Film Festival. The New York Times called Home a “marvelously revealing documentary about the psychology of poverty.” Jeffrey M. Togman is an American filmmaker and political scientist and a long-time member of the faculty at Seton Hall University\, where he is associate professor of political science and film. Home was co-produced and filmed by Pierre Defendini.
URL:https://archive.mediasanctuary.org/event/margaret-mead-film-video-festival-home-with-filmmakers-jeffrey-togman-and-pierre-defendini/
LOCATION:The Sanctuary\, 3361 6th Ave\, Troy\, 12180\, United States
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SUMMARY:Margaret Mead Film & Video Festival: "Land Mines: A Love Story"
DESCRIPTION:Dennis O’Rourke’s latest documentary Land Mines: A Love Story (2004) is part observational and part essay – driven by a polemic that is both angry and subtle\, and a damning portrayal of the human costs of war. Land Mines is a compelling anti-war film set in Afghanistan\, a country that has become synonymous with conflict. It is also a story of romance and a celebration of life\, hope and love. The film tells the story of Habiba and Shah. Shah\, a former Mujaheddin soldier and land mine victim\, works as a cobbler on the pavements of the ruined city of Kabul. One day\, he noticed a pretty Tajik girl who had only one leg\, and he began to court her. Amidst the chaos and violence\, and despite all the obstacles of tradition and religion\, Shah and Habiba were able to marry. O’Rourke has received numerous awards for his filmmaking including the Director’s Prize for Extraordinary Achievement at the Sundance Film Festival. His films include the award-winning Cunnamulla and The Good Woman of Bangkok.
URL:https://archive.mediasanctuary.org/event/margaret-mead-film-video-festival-land-mines-a-love-story/
LOCATION:The Sanctuary\, 3361 6th Ave\, Troy\, 12180\, United States
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SUMMARY:Steve Kurtz of the Critical Arts Ensemble Speaking on “Art and Discipline”
DESCRIPTION:This lecture was built upon the following premises: first\, any action within the cultural landscape performed from a minoritarian position will be perceived by authority as contestational act; and second\, once challenged any or all of a variety of disciplinary agents will be sent to restabilize the discourses of the status quo through the managing or silencing of resistant cultural production. Steve Kurtz is a founding member of Critical Art Ensemble (CAE). CAE is a collective of tactical media practitioners of various specializations\, including computer graphics and web design\, wetware\, film/video\, photography\, text art\, book art\, and performance. Formed in 1987\, CAE’s focus has been on the exploration of the intersections between art\, critical theory\, technology\, and political activism. The collective has performed and produced a wide variety of projects for an international audience at diverse venues ranging from the street\, to the museum\, to the Internet. Critical Art Ensemble has also written five books\, and has just released its sixth work Marching Plague: Germ Warfare and Global Public Health. Kurtz is an Associate Professor of Art at SUNY\, Buffalo.
URL:https://archive.mediasanctuary.org/event/steve-kurtz-of-the-critical-arts-ensemble-speaking-on-art-and-discipline/
LOCATION:The Sanctuary\, 3361 6th Ave\, Troy\, 12180\, United States
CATEGORIES:Speaker
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SUMMARY:Prison Activist Robina Courtin and "Chasing Buddha"
DESCRIPTION:Chasing Buddha (2000) is a documentary by acclaimed Austrian filmmaker Amiel Courtin-Wilson about Robina Courtin\, an Australian ex-Catholic\, ex-political activist and feminist who has been a Buddhist nun since 1978. Teaching Buddhism around the world\, she shatters the stereotype of a Buddhist nun\, her intense and direct style leaving an indelible impression on everyone she meets. In the heart of America’s bible belt\, Robina visits Kentucky State Penitentiary\, guiding death row inmates and others on the path to enlightenment. Determined to harness their minds and deal with their violent crimes\, they inspire Robina to work even harder at her own rigorous spiritual practice. Courtin-Wilson’s uncompromising films have screened at festivals including Sundance (Chasing Buddha)\, Cannes (Cicada\, 2009) and the Venice Film Festival (Hail\, 2011).
URL:https://archive.mediasanctuary.org/event/prison-activist-robina-courtin-and-chasing-buddha/
LOCATION:The Sanctuary\, 3361 6th Ave\, Troy\, 12180\, United States
CATEGORIES:Screening,Speaker
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