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Screening: In My Father's Country
Director Tom Murray, and Director of Photography, FSC-Radcliffe fellow Leonard Retel Helmrich, in person
Friday, April 23, 4:00 p.m.
Main Lecture Hall, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts (HFA)
24 Quincy St., Cambridge
Free and open to the public
Sponsored by the Film Study Center
Director's description:
In remote North East Arnhem Land, Australia, a small homeland community is fighting for its future. Looking to the nearby mining towns and mission settlements, the community elders can see their culture in decline and abuse. They are worried that families may be forced by the government to leave the safety of their ancestral lands, and accept a future without the foundations of their culture. This is the story of a family struggling to mediate the demands of a richly complex traditional culture and a globalised 21st century world, while hoping to raise their kids with the dignity, insight, and self-respect necessary to succeed in both.
Featuring a post-screening discussion with:
Director Tom Murray
Director of Photography, and FSC-Radcliffe fellow, Leonard Retel Helmrich
 www.inmyfatherscountry.com
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Film Study Center Audiovideo Festival at ArtsFirst
Sunday, May 2, 2010, noon – 6 p.m.
Main Lecture Hall, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts
24 Quincy St., Cambridge
Free and open to the public
This is the second annual festival of works by our current and former fellows.
The screening program is as follows:
12:00 pm
The Trap (La Trappe) (19 min.) Lina Verchery
Re:Visit Series, Untitled #4 (27 min.) Verena Paravel
Kapsis (8 min.) Edgar Barroso, Aryo Danusiri, and Yen-Ting Cho
1:30 pm
The Yellow Bank (19 min.) J.P. Sniadecki
Little Deaths (12 min.) Ruth Lingford
The Town Dock (23 min.) Melissa Davenport
3:15 pm
Film Study Center audio program
Blue Sky, White River (60 min.) Stephanie Spray, GSAS
4:30 pm
Film Study Center Radcliffe program
Balconies (8 min.) Kamal Aljafari
Floating Weeds (70 min.) Hyun kyung Kim
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Screening: FSC-Fulton fellow David MacDougall
Director in person
Harvard Film Archive
One of the leading figures in visual anthropology and the FSC's 2009-10 Robert Fulton Fellow, David MacDougall has made pioneering ethnographic films around the world. Recent years have seen MacDougall drawn to India as a dominant focus and placing special emphasis on institutions for children and the experience of those growing up in them.
Sunday, April 11, 7:00 p.m.
Gandhi's Children
Directed by David MacDougall, Appearing in Person
India/Australia 2008, video, color, 185 min. English and Hindi with English subtitles
An epic documentary chronicle that examines life in a New Delhi shelter for homeless boys.
Monday, April 12, 7:00 p.m.
With Morning Hearts
Directed by David MacDougall, Appearing in Person
India/Australia 2001, video, color, 110 min.
Part of the "Doon School Project" a series of films shot at an elite boarding school over the course of three years, With Morning Hearts offers memorable slices of life, as the boys’ complex personalities emerge from their rituals of rivalry, friendship, cruelty and generosity.
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Screening: FSC-Radcliffe fellow Kamal Aljafari
Director in person
Harvard Film Archive
The haunting films of Kamal Aljafari (b. 1972) mix documentary, fiction and personal memoir to render complex portraits of the Palestinian communities in Ramleh and Jaffa, now part of Israel. While providing a rare look at the everyday lives of Palestinian Israelis, the films are more than simply sociopolitical treatises of often-overlooked communities and neighborhoods in danger of dissolving. Aljafari instead astutely balances fiction and nonfiction to capture the fragile rhythms of lives lived in a kind of permanent displacement and the strange limbo of neighborhoods subtly yet inexorably transforming. Although the Ramleh and Jaffa depicted in Aljafari’s films have managed to avoid the raw hardships of life in the occupied territories, they cannot avoid the paradoxes of the occupation itself, filed as they are with lives and buildings frozen in time even as they are part of the Israeli present. Pointedly political, Aljafari’s films wonderfully embed their ideology into a cinematic poetry graced by light humor. [courtesy Harvard Film Archive]
*April 9, 7:00 p.m.
Port of Memory (2009)
Germany/France/UAE 2009, 35mm, color, 62 min. Arabic and Hebrew with English subtitles. Followed by discussion with director in person.
The Roof (2006)
Germany 2006, video, color, 61 min. Arabic and Hebrew with English subtitles
Reception to follow in main lobby.
* Please note that the order of the screenings and discussion has changed.
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Heide Hagebölling -- Carpenter Center Lecture
Media Scenography: Creative Approaches in Intermedia and Public Art
Thursday, April 1, 6:00 p.m.
Carpenter Center Lecture Hall
This lecture is co-sponsored by the CCVA and the FSC.
Media scenography — the visual and acoustic creation of events, performances and environments — can be considered an interdisciplinary approach that transcends the boundaries of theater, opera, music, dance, and public space. It has become a genre in itself, with considerable impact not only on the aesthetics and creative expression of contemporary art but also on media culture on a global scale.
Heide Hagebölling
is a professor at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne, Germany, which she co-founded with Manfred Eisenbeis in 1988. She teaches video, interactive media and scenography, and established the field of interactive dramaturgies. Since the 1980s her academic and artistic work focuses on the interrelationship of art, design, new media, and culture. Hagebölling considers her approach and teaching as an open process of artistic research, creative development and a synthesis of various fields such as theatre, music, architecture and media.
More information at the Carpenter Center website
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Screenings and Award Ceremony
for FSC's McMillan-Stewart Fellow ABDELLATIF KECHICHE
Director in person.
Born in Tunisia and raised in France, where he continues to live and work, Abdellatif Kechiche (b. 1960) is the recipient of the eleventh Genvieve McMillan-Reba Stewart Fellowship in Distinguished Filmmaking, established by a generous gift from Genevieve McMillan in memory of her late friend, Reba Stewart, in support of outstanding filmmakers, particularly of francophone African origin.
In honor of this occasion, the Harvard Film Archive presents a retrospective of his three features which all focus on the lives of France’s Arab communities. While mainstream French cinema typically associates this community with criminality and drugs, arranged marriages and fundamentalist Islam, Kechiche instead devotes himself to patiently detailing the daily life of the richly diverse communities made up by French Arabs, from teenagers in the Parisian suburbs’ gritty apartment blocks to multigenerational families in the country’s lush South.
Friday, March 26, 7:00 p.m.
Games of Love and Chance (L’esquive), 2004, 117 min.
Director in person
Free Screening and Award Ceremony, with Reception to Follow
Saturday, March 27, 7:00 p.m.
The Secret of the Grain (La graine et le mulet), 2007, 151 min.
Director in person
Special Event Tickets $12 | Free for HFA Members and Harvard ID Holders
Sunday, March 28, 7:00 p.m.
La faute à Voltaire, 2000, 130 min.
Director in person
Special Event Tickets $12 | Free for HFA Members and Harvard ID Holders
Location: Harvard Film Archive
Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Main Lecture Hall
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Abdellatif Kechiche
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BORED IN HEAVEN
Thursday, March 11th, 2010. 7:00 p.m.
Tsai Auditorium, *CGIS South (S010), 1730 Cambridge st., Cambridge.
Director and Writer in attendance.
The documentary film BORED IN HEAVEN follows the ritual celebrations of the
Chinese New Year in rural Putian (Fujian Province, China) where the God of
Theater, who finds himself bored in heaven, descends to earth only to find
himself exiled to the stage forever, animating everything from large-scale
processions and Taoist rituals to spirit possessions and ritual opera.
Followed by panel discussion and Q&A with director, Ken Dean, scriptwriter, Cora Dean and Professor James Robson, department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University. Moderated by Lina Verchery, Harvard Divinity School and Film Study Center-Harvard Fellow.
Co-sponsored by the Harvard Fairbank Center, the Film Study Center at Harvard, Harvard Divinity School and the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations.
ARTAVAZD PELESHIAN on 35mm
Sunday, March 7, 2010
2:00 p.m. l Harvard Film Archive, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts
24 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA
Suggested donation: $5
Among films featured are: Beginning 10min, 1967; We 30min, 1969; Inhabitants 10min, 1970; Seasons 29min, 1975; Our Century 50min, 1982
Discovered to the world by the French filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard who became his first and most ardent supporter, Armenian Filmmaker Artavazd Peleshian is considered as one of the most important filmmakers of our time. He received the Scam Prize for Television for his whole work in 2000. Artavazd Peleshian is also an inventor of “distance montage”.
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Karel Vachek in person: two screenings
The Film Study Center is pleased to welcome Karel Vachek, a groundbreaking Czech filmmaker whose works mix cinema verité, improvisation, and staged scenes into a fascinating perspective on the political and intellectual history of the Czech Republic.
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
7:00 p.m. l Main Lecture Hall, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts
Záviš, the Prince of Pornofolk Under the Influence of Griffith’s 'Intolerance' and Tati’s 'Mr. Hulot’s Holiday', or The Foundation and Doom of Czechoslovakia [1918 – 1992] (35mm, 147 min.)
Director in person.
Free and open to the public.
Synopsis
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
1:00 pm l Main Lecture Hall, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts
Elective Affinities (35mm, 85 min.)
Director in person. Discussion in conjunction with VES and Anthropology documentary filmmaking classes.
Free and open to the public.
Synopsis
Sponsored by the Film Study Center at Harvard, the Department of Visual and Environmental Studies, the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, the Literature and Culture Seminar at the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, and Balagan Film Series.
This presentation is part of a touring series curated by Irena Kovarova and Alice Lovejoy, and produced by Radim Procházka Productions with the support of The Czech Republic State Fund for Support and Development of Cinematography.
 
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Záviš, the Prince of Pornofolk under the Influence of Griffith’s 'Intolerance' and Tati’s 'Mr. Hulot’s Holiday', or The Foundation and Doom of Czechoslovakia [1918 – 1992]
Directed by Karel Vachek
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Audio documentary by Harvard students, directed by Sharon Lockhart, at the Harvard Film Archive
Sound Safari: Bath, Maine (50 min)
Saturday, September 19, 2009
5:00 PM l Harvard Film Archive, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts
With director Sharon Lockhart and recordists Alex Berman, John Hulsey, Lisa Jing, and Stephanie Spray in person
This audio documentary was created under the direction of Sharon Lockhart, a 2007-08 FSC-Radcliffe Fellow, as she led a group of Harvard students to Bath, Maine, for two days of location recording and composing in March of 2008. The work is presented in conjunction with Lockhart's visit to the Harvard Film Archive for two evenings of screenings, including Lunch Break and Exit, which were also realized with the support of the FSC.
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Sound Safari: Bath, Maine
Directed by Sharon Lockhart
Recordings by Harvard students
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Peabody Museum reception and book signing for
Robert Gardner's Human Documents: Eight Photographers
Presented by the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology
11 Divinity Ave., Cambridge
5–7 PM on Thursday, September 17, 2009
Free and open to the public
Event information is available at http://www.peabody.harvard.edu/node/531
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