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Our marquee event this week is Thursday's MY FIRST FILM: A Live Cinema Presentation by filmmaker Zia Anger (pictured). Through a performance that includes real-time google searches and live video editing, Anger probes and dissects her “abandoned” works to re-imagine the relationship between the audience, the filmmaker, the movie theater and cinema, and erases the line between a filmmaker's corporeal body and their body of work. It opened at the Metrograph in NYC last month to rave reviews, including from Richard Brody at The New Yorker: “[Anger] makes vastly imaginative and politically trenchant connections between the place of women in the independent-filmmaking world and in the world at large, and the connection between her personal choices in both realms.” Buy your tickets now!
We'll also have Academy Award-winning filmmaker Cynthia Wade here on Wednesday with her documentary GRIT. The film documents one of the largest environmental disasters in recent history, when a tsunami of mud buried sixteen villages in East Java, Indonesia due to drilling for natural gas. Ten years later, a young political activist is attempting to bring justice to her village.
We're also screening two new Contemporary World Cinema films this week! Argentinian drama ROJO screens Tuesday and Friday, with a post-screening discussion on Tuesday with Ithaca College professors Camilo Malagón (Modern Languages & Literatures) and Jonathan Ablard (History, co-director of Latin American Studies at IC).
And closing out the week is DIAMANTINO, a whacked-out camp journey from Portugal. We'll let Guy Lodge from Variety take it away: “Part loopily queer sci-fi thriller, part faux-naive political rallying cry, glued together with candyfloss clouds of romantic reverie, it's a film best seen with as little forewarning as possible: To go in blind is to be carried along by its irrational tumble of events as blissfully and buoyantly as its empty-headed soccer-star protagonist.”
That's it from us! We're closed for Fall Break, Oct 12–15, but join us after the break for the kick-off to our Francophone Film Festival, featuring a reception on Thursday, October 17 at 5:30pm, sponsored by the Dept of Romance Studies.
