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Foreign Parts by Paravel and Sniadecki wins two awards at Locarno
FSC-Harvard fellows Verena Paravel and J.P. Sniadecki have been awarded the Pardo for Best First Feature and the Special CINÉ CINÉMA Jury Prize for their vilm Foreign Parts at the 63rd annual Locarno Film Festival.
This international film festival held annually in the city of Locarno, Switzerland is one of the longest running, largest, and most prestigious film festivals in the world, and is well known for discovering new talent.
The Pardo per la migliore opera prima (Leopard for the Best First Feature) Prize is awarded to the best first film screened at the two competitions (Concorso internazionale and Concorso Cineasti del presente.) The Special Jury Prize Ciné Cinéma is for the purchase of the winning film by the French television network Ciné Cinéma to be broadcast on that network.
J.P. Sniadecki's work screened in two festivals
Chaiqian (Demolition) by FSC-Harvard fellow J.P. Sniadecki will be screened in the XIX International Festival of Ethnological Film, taking place in October 14-18, 2010 at the Ethnographic Museum in Belgrade, Serbia. The festival program is available in the beginning of September at www.etnografskimuzej.rs
Demolition will also be screened at the XV Sardinia International Ethnographic Film Festival - SIEFF 2010 - in Nuoro, Italy, 20-25 September 2010.
FSC fellows' works at the Migrating Forms Festival
May 14-23, 2010
Anthology Film Archives, New York
The FSC is well-represented at the upcoming Migrating Forms Festival. Current FSC-Harvard fellows Stephanie Spray and Amie Siegel, former FSC Director Lucien Taylor, 2009-10 FSC-Radcliffe fellow Kamal Aljafari, and 2007-08 FSC-Radcliffe fellow Sharon Lockhart all have screenings at this festival of new work.
SATURDAY, MAY 15
7:45 p.m.
GROUP PROGRAM 3 including:
My Way 1 (10 min., USA 2009) dir. Amie Siegel
My Way 2 (13 min., USA 2009) dir. Amie Siegel
THURSDAY, MAY 20
As Long as There's Breath (57 Min, Nepal/USA 2009) dir. Stephanie Spray
SUNDAY, MAY 23
2:00 p.m.
GROUP PROGRAM 9 including:
The High Trail (7 min., USA 2010) dir. Lucien Castaing-Taylor
3:45 p.m
GROUP PROGRAM 10 including:
Podwórka (30 min., Poland/USA 2009) dir. Sharon Lockhart
5:30 p.m.
Port of Memory (63 min., Palestine 2009)
dir. Kamal Aljafari
Artists in Context screening FSC-Harvard Fellows Verena Paravel and J.P. Sniadecki
Saturday, 8 May 2010 | 6:00 p.m. reception, 7:00 p.m. screening
Foreign Parts
2010, rough cut
Free admission. An informal discussion with Verena Paravel will follow.
Location: Aladdin Auto Service, 162 Alewife Brook Parkway (directly behind the Fresh Pond Cinema in Cambridge -- follow the Big Green Arrows to the back of the cinema)
Foreign Parts documents the changing daily life of a New York City junkyard as the threat of demolition looms.
This in-context screening will feature an artist talk by Mahmood Rezaei-Kamalabad, a Spiritual and Visionary Artist, an inventor, who owns Aladdin autobody-mind-and-soul mechanic.
Production of Foreign Parts has been supported by the Film Study Center at Harvard University and by the LEF Moving Image Fund. This Artists in Context screening is made possible by funding from an anonymous donor and the generous in-kind contributions of Mahmood Rezaei-Kamalabad, owner of Aladdin Auto Service, and by the Harvard Film Study Center.
2010-11 Fellows Announced
The Film Study Center is proud to announce the fellows for the 2010-11 academic year:
Film Study Center-Harvard Fellows:
- Felicity Aulino, Graduate Student, Anthropology
- Edgar Barroso, Graduate Student, Department of Music
- Sharon Harper, Faculty, VES
- John Hulsey, Graduate Student, VES
- Ruth Lingford, Faculty, VES
- Robb Moss, Faculty, VES
- Verena Paravel, Research Associate, Anthropology
- Maxim Pozdorovkin, Graduate Student, Slavic Languages and Literatures
- Amie Siegel, Faculty, VES
- Stephanie Spray, Graduate Student, Anthropology
Film Study Center-Radcliffe Fellows:
- Irene Lusztig
- David Redmon
We offer congratulations to our incoming fellows and look forward to their projects in the upcoming year.
FSC-Radcliffe fellow Leonard Retel Hemrich, with puppeteer Agus Nur Amal, both in person at Goethe-Institut
Monday, April 26, 7:00 p.m.
Promised Paradise
2006, video, 52 min
Banned in Indonesia, Promised Paradise (2006) follows the quest of an Indonesian puppeteer to meet three men convicted of the 2002 nightclub bombings in Bali. Along the way, director Leonard Retel Helmrich shows the puppeteer’s unique method of exploring the issue of terrorism through puppet shows, featuring – among other things – a dancing Osama Bin Laden doll and a shadow-play attack on the World Trade Center.
For this very special event, the main character of this film, the puppeteer Agus Nur Amal, from Indonesia, will be present along with director Leonard Retel Helmrich. Agus Nur Amal will also give a special performance both before and after the film.
Location: Goethe-Institut, 170 Beacon Street, Boston, MA 02116
FSC-Radcliffe fellow Kamal Aljafari, upcoming screenings
Kamal Aljafari's new film Port of Memory screened at the Cinema du Reel International Competition, Centre Pompidou, Paris. It is the recipient of The Louis Marcorelles Award, given by the Culturesfrance Jury.
April 1
Port of Memory will open the Images Festival in Toronto in April 1st.
April 9, 7 PM
Screenings of both Port of Memory and The Roof at the Harvard Film Archive
April 14-16
Screenings and visiting artist engagement at Haverford College and Pen University
May 7-8
Screenings with attendance at the Barbican Center, London
Recent screenings include:
Feb. 24-25 screenings of The Roof and Port of Memory and visiting artist engagement at the New School NYC
Mar. 4-15 screenings with attendance at Anthology Film Archives, Cinema Project Oregon Portland, UC Berkley, UC Santa Cruz, California Collage of the Arts SF, Vancouver Cinematheque
"Sweetgrass" Screenings in Cambridge
Friday, March 5, 7 PM
at the Harvard Film Archive, 24 Quincy St., Cambridge
April 2-9
Kendall Square Landmark Theatre, Cambridge
A highly-acclaimed new film by former FSC Director Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Ilisa Barbash with the filmmakers in person.
Shape of the Moon at the MassArt Film Society
Massachusetts College of Art Film Dept. Screening RM 1
8:00PM Wednesday, February 17th
FSC-Radcliffe fellow Leonard Retel Helmrich has a screening at the MassArt Film Society on Wednesday, Feb. 17. (Originally scheduled for Feb. 10 but cancelled due to snow.)
Shape of the Moon (Stand van de maan)
by Leonard Retel Helmrich
Frame by Frame: Animated at Harvard
Jan 28–Feb 14: Frame by Frame: Animated at Harvard
Former FSC fellows included are Jan Lenica (Landscape), Steve Subotnick (Glass Crow), Lorelei Pepi (Happy and Gay), Tim Szetela (Romaji), and Ruth Lingford (Little Deaths). There's a wonderful review of this exhibition in the Boston Globe.
"Herskovits at the Heart of Blackness" on PBS
February 2 on PBS: an FSC-sponsored film by former fellow Vincent Brown.
More information about this project is on the PBS link, or on our fellows page.
Independent Lens | PBS
HERSKOVITS AT THE HEART OF BLACKNESS examines the life and work of the Jewish-American anthropologist, Melville Herskovits, whose writings challenged prevailing notions of race and culture.
DDR/DDR at Harvard Film Archive
(US 2008, HD, color, 135 min.)
Directed by Amie Siegel, appearing in person
7:00 PM, Saturday, February 20th
Harvard Film Archive
This work was supported by the Film Study Center.
Amie Siegel was the 2007-08 FSC-Fulton fellow.
"Lunch Break" by Sharon Lockhart at USC faculty exhibition
November 21, 2009 – January 18, 2010
LUNCH BREAK is programmed at the University of Southern California, in the Faculty Sharon Lockhart – solo exhibition: Lunch Break at Secession.
LUNCH BREAK was created with the support of the FSC
during Lockhart's FSC-Radcliffe fellowship in 2007-08.
Robert Gardner at the Harvard Film Archive
7:00pm , Friday 4 December 2009
Robert Gardner, in person, will present a program entitled
Fragments from a Few Forsaken Films:
"An evening of films that might have been. I will try to explain why they were undertaken and why they were abandoned. It could be a lesson in how (or why not...) to make films." - R.G.
Robert Gardner was the Director of the Film Study Center from 1957 until 1997. He is a prolific and renowned filmmaker, whose best-known works include "Dead Birds" (1964), "Rivers of Sand" (1974), and "Forest of Bliss" (1985). This year he released a book of photographs entitled "Human Documents: Eight Photographers" in which he introduces the work of photographers with whom he has worked under the auspices of the Film Study Center, and whose images achieve the status of what Gardner calls "human documents": visual evidence that testifies to our shared humanity.
Kapsis by Barroso, Vázquez, Danusiri, and Cho, is selected for several festivals.
Kapsis is a collaboration by composer and FSC-Harvard fellow Edgar Barroso, poet Juan de Dios Vázquez, filmmaker Aryo Danusiri, and designer Yen-Ting Cho. Congratulations to these four on this animated work being selected for four festivals:
- LA Reel Film Festival, Dec. 30, 2009 (2nd Place, Experimental Film)
- International Film Festival Ireland
- Festivus Film Festival, Denver, January 14 - 17, 2010
- da Vinci Film Festival, Corvalis, Oregon, March 12-14, 2010
Short films by Rebecca Meyers and Amie Seigel in Views from the Avant-Garde at the 2009 New York Film Festival
Former fellows Rebecca Meyers and Amie Seigel have their short films featured in the 13th Annual Views from the Avant-Garde on
October 2 - 4, 2009 at the New York Film Festival. night side by
Rebecca Meyers (2009, 4.28m) screens on Saturday, October 3. My Way 1 by
Amie Siegel (2009, 9.25m) screens on Sunday, October, 4. Tickets are available on the Schedule page.
Sweetgrass by Lucien Castaing-Taylor & Ilisa Barbash at the 2009 New York Film Festival
Former FSC Director Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Ilisa Barbash's new film screens at
Alice Tully Hall on Sept 26th, 2009 as part of the New York Film Festival.
According to the New York Times, "...with great attention to beauty, this observational documentary focuses on Montana sheepherders who run their flocks up mountains in the summer to graze, grindingly difficult work that only looks romantic." Read the full article at http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/25/movies/25festival.html which includes "Festival Films to Admire", a narrated slideshow with clips from the film.
Sweetgrass
Ilisa Barbash, Lucien Castaing-Taylor, USA, 2009, 105m
This breathtaking chronicle follows an ever-surprising group of modern-day cowboys as they lead an enormous herd of sheep up and then down the slopes of the Beartooth Mountains in Montana on their way to market.
Festival information at www.filmlinc.com/nyff/nyff.html
Film information at sweetgrassthemovie.com
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FOREIGN PARTS by Verena Paravel
and JP Sniadecki, USA/France
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