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' ~ ' ~» ~ = _>.# _ » _.;.§;f__T§__ M ,_ af_ _ fl f? _V4 1 LITERARY ERMINE IN MAY.. HALLLLIALLS AND ARRIL ZRRZ Friday & Saturday, April 4-5 RESI-IRREEIRN MI.|SIE RRESENTI Westminster Presbyterian Church *Fri/4, sa:/5 LITERARY: Monday, May 5 @ 8:00 p.m. & UB Poetry/ Rare Books Collection present Westminster Presbyterian Church Peter Br6tzmann's 'Die Like a Trio Poets' Weekend: Dog' & UB Poetry/ Rare Books Collection present Hallwalls' Black-n-Blue Theatre Poets' Weekend@Westminster Presbyterian Church Spirituality & the Ways of the Poem FILM: $5 general admission includes free admission to *Fri/11 Westminster Presbyterian Church, 724 Delaware Avenue STOKED (THE RISE AND FALL OF GATOR)@8 pm Norton/Rogers/Dunmall Trio 2 days :S2o / $10 student *APRIL 11-17 FILM: and the String Trio of N.Y. (with ticket stub) 1 day: S15 / $5 student RUSSIAN HAUNTS:THE BURNING WALL Peter Briitzmann (tenor saxophone, clarinet, taragato) @MARKET ARCADE Westminster Presbyterian Church joins with the Poetry/ Rare Books Collection of SUNY at William Parker (contrabass) *Sat/12 VISUAL ART: Buffalo to present a weekend of readings and discussions on the topic Spirituality and the Hamid Drake (drums) Opening Receptions: IMAGES OF WAR, APPETIZERS, B-LIST of the Poem. This event to uncover the commonalities in the creative Ways two-day hopes 8-11 pm and as well as their in the events of "Music is the Healing Force of the Universe" -Albert Ayler spiritual processes, presence commonplace everyday FILM: life *Sat/19 While Albert Ayler was struggling in New York to make this truth known RUSSIAN HAUNTS:THE LAST BOLSHEVIK through the pure energy of love he into his music, so was @HALLWALLS Senior Pastor Reverend Dr. Tom Yorty will lead the discussions. Other panelists: Elizabeth yearning poured 8pm Peter Brtitzmann, across the ocean, emitting his own energy, undeniably Robinson, author of several books of poems, including the recent Pure Descent; Peter *TUE/22 SLIDE FORUM: drawn from the same source. Br6tzmann's "Die Like a Dog" Trio is an ongoing O'Leary, a Chicago poet whose book on Robert Duncan is entitled Gnostic Contagion; Paula Dolega, Ilania Kaplan, Christopher Stangler @7 pm tribute to the life, music, and death of the great innovator Ayler and is among Barbara Tedlock, author of many studies on shamans and religions of Southwest Indians, *Tue/22 MUSIC: the most powerful, intricate, telepathic, and natural life-affirming expressions including Teachings from the American Earth; classicist and Dante scholar lack Foran; THE UB GRAPHIC SCORE ENSEMBLE of music in the current realm of the so called avant-garde. The @8pm Bernhard Frank, poet and translator of Hebrew poetry; and Ross MacKenzie, poet and the- free-improvised last time this ensemble performed at Hallwalls was an experience of legendary *Thu/24 FILM: ologian. Registration is required but all are welcome. For complete schedule of events or AT HOME AND ASEA MARK STREET -~-~ ~~~~ proportions. to register call 884-9437 or visit { www.westminster-bflo.org 3- presented by at Wheel @8 pm MLISIE Fri FILM: Saturday, june 14 @ 8:00 p.m. Sqiiealiy25 M|.|SIE Saturday, May 10 @ 8:00 p.m. The Trio of New York EXPERIMENTAL FILMS presented by MARK STREET ° String Tuesday, April 22 @ 8:00 p.m. Rozler/Engebretson Hallwalls' Black-n-Blue Theatre at Hallwalls @8 pm Fuchs/ Baczkowski MUSIC: UB Score it V,< _,» a t ' $5 general admission *Sat/26 The Graphic Ensemble Hallwalls' Black-n-Blue Theatre , f. (free with Briitzmann ticket stub) The Billy Bang Quintet -featuring Frank Lowe @8 pm Hallwalls' Black-n-Blue Theatre ,.A,-.: $5 general admission james Emery (acoustic guitar) ` MAY ZIIIIIIZ $4 general admission john Lindberg (contrabass) Rob Thomas r . (violin) 2 FILM: Since its formation in 1977, the String *Fri/ INTER-MEDIA joe Rozler (keyboards, guitars, synthesizer, electronics) Trio of New York (co-founded by violin- LABOR FILM SERIES at HALLWALLS @8 pm Mark Engebretson (saxophones) ist Billy Bang) has been delighting, *Sat/3 FILM: RERI-'RRMANEE Stuart Fuchs (acoustic and electric guitars, electronics) touching and thrilling audiences DISOBBEDIENTI by Oliver Ressler @8:3o pm Thursday, May 15 @ 8:00 P.M. Steve Baczkowski (baritone saxophone, winds, electronics) around the world with its singular *Mon/5 MUSIC: acoustic improvisations and composi- CRASH TEST Peter Br6tzmann's 'Die Like a Dog' Trio @8 pm tions for violin, guitar and bass. Michael Basinski, Don Metz, & john Toth An evening of electro-acoustic improvisations featuring solos, duos, and FILM: Initially conceived as a composer/per- *May 9-15 FREE quartets by a diverse group of Buffalo's prominent musicians. former's collective, the Trio has grown RUSSIAN HAUNTS: RUSSIAN ARK Performing their own original compositions and improvisations, with additional composi- MUSIE in scope and now features a repertoire @MARKET ARCADE tions by Bill Howe & Andrew Topolski. of over sixty stylistically diverse works MUSIC: 16 @ 8:00 *SGI/10 the of the East Buffalo Media whose members Friday, May p.m. made up of the members, Celebrating 25th anniversary Association, " originals by ° Rozler/Engebretson Fuchs/Baczkowski @8 pm Toth, Topolski, and Howe are also all Art on Wheels participating artists, with projects Norton/ Rogers/ Dunmall Trio works commissioned from composers such as Muhal Richard Dave INTER-MEDIA PERFORMANCE: sponsored by Veridian, Eastman Machine, and Niagara University. Event presented in con- fi Hallwalls' Black-n-Blue Theatre Abrams, *Thu/15 Leo Mark CRASH TEST @8 on Douglas, joe Lovano, Smith, pm junction with the Burchfield-Penney Art Center and Art Wheels. I $5 general admission (free with Briitzmann ' ' Helias, Bobby Previte, Marty Ehrlich, MUSIC: , ticket stub) f*Fri/16 and Anthony Davis, and arrangements Norton/ Rogers/ Dunmall Trio @8 pm ' Paul Dunmall (tenor saxophone) of classics by Ellington, Mingus, Monk, I * Sat/24 SPECIAL EVENT: Q Paul Rogers (contrabass) Parker, Coltrane, Powell, Shorter and

- SREEIAL EVENT Kevin Norton others. KINO POLSKIE V FUNDRAISER 6 11 pm 5,,,, (drums) ' ° Saturday, May 24, 6 - 11 p.m. Q , Kevin Norton is a dynamic composer and per- For over two decades, the Trio has KINO POLSKIE V FUNDRAISER 'I cussionist who has performed his music inter- been one of the most active touring

' at Hallwalls nationally for almost twenty years now. He is ensembles of its kind and has per- '

- ' 'fi "' in a formed hundreds of concerts engaged bringing wider pallet of sounds through- ° $15 advance, $20 at the door Friday May 2 and Saturday May 3 at 7 p m and to and new music. He has released six as a leader out the world. Hailed critics world- Hallwalls' KINO POLSKIE V series will be revived this fall with the fifth festival of Polish rhythms jazz recordings by Hallwalls Black n Blue Theatre and has worked and recorded extensively with jazz legend Anthony Braxton. wide, jazzTimes raved, "No individual films in Buffalo. join us for a special evening of food, music, drinks, raffles, and film Norton has with countless other creative musicians worldwide or ensemble has done more to demys- of Buffalo of Media a of filmmaker Slawomir performed University Department screenings, including preview Grunberg's documentary-in- chamber and to realize its innovators such as Mark Bern Burton tify jazz, IMMIG RANT GAMBLE: The Green Card Your this including Dresser, james Emery, Nix, Presentation Paul Vanouse progress Lottery. generous support during for sensuousness Study by Greene, Milt Hinton, Fred Frith, Chadbourne,and jemeel Moondoc. potential warmth, fundraiser will ensure that KINO POLSKIE V will the best new work Polish film- Eugene bring by and beauty... than the String Trio of This solid new trio features major European heavyweight improvisers Paul makers and media artists of Polish descent to Buffalo. New York." Dunmall, and Paul Rogers who will be making their first Buffalo appearance. FILM VISUAL AUT HALLWALLS at the Market Arcade Film & Arts Center UN THE BAlU.|ALLS= Markm Film & Reminder: Hallwalls members can see ALL FILMS at Appetizers

IVUIII - iviAFAc for only $4.50, ALL THE TIME! 12 to g April May 24, 2003 g rl* '-" Please don't forget to take your Hallwalls membership l.D. when visiting ~ Opening Saturday, April 12, 8-11 pm MAFAC. Free is available in the lot across the street from parking parking Appetizers is an exhibition of undergrad artwork organized by SVA the cinema. (Students of Visual Arts), University at Buffalo & juried by Claire

° - Schneider, Associate Curator, Albright-Knox Art Gallery and john

I IIUSSIAN HAUNTS= THE HEIIMITAEE. THE UIALL., A Massier, Visual Arts Curator, Hallwalls. Appetizers follows a similar

. . Massier A scenario devised in 2002, where Hallwalls' curator john AND FILM TE. 4 I was invited by the SVA to jury BANG, the inaugural exhibition effort by the SVA, which exhibited at UB's student gallery. This ° one week at MAFAC! April 11-17, only ~ year, at the invitation of Hallwalls, SVA will be mounting

THE BURNING WALL ~ its second on the barwalls. Appetizers, juried undergrad by Hava Kohav Beller 4.1; (2002, 115 min., in English and German with

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b Q A dozen years after the of East "_V_ collapse W I L""" '. ' _Ve MAIN EALLEIIY 8- IIIUJEET RDBMS! Germany and the fall of the Berlin Wall, Beller investigates the profoundly contem- B-LIST onisijiiroi _ porary dilemma of individual resistance and Desire I Brooklyn, Angst within a totalitarian state. The Stasi, the Meredith Allen, joe Amrhein, Mike Ballou, Michael Buckland, Beth Campbell secret that over 100,000 agents (many of them ordinary citizens), police employed Fritz Chesnut, jennifer Dalton, Charley Friedman, Michelle Hines, Christopher assembled files on one third of the population. Former dissidents tell Kafkaesque sto- Richards Michael Standard & Poor, Stern ries of psychological warfare they endured, while former Stasi agents candidly detail johnson, Guy Smit, Smith, joshua their techniques for destroying the lives oftheir opponents. THE BURNING WALL had its Co-curated by David Kramer and john Massier world premiere at the Berlin Film Festival, 2002, its US premiered at Film Forum in NYC April 12 to May 24, 2003 last and won the Best Award at the Hollywood Film Festival in year, Documentary Opening Saturday, April 12, 8-11 pm October 2002. B-LIST is a diverse collection of contemporaiy works

' g Qi: §' " fs all culled from the densely-packed artists' community ' F ° 19 at 8 p.m. - J Saturday, April '-- in the ,gggifiiiggg-,;. 0 of Brooklyn, NY, centered primarily neighbor- . at Hallwalls! *`Jr£"¢»ii' I ,_ < One-night only screening §'1i<;:-,; ~ as , j"'" ~ hood of Williamsburg. B-LIST takes its initial point Chris Marker THE LAST BOLSHEVIK by ' D of an about the cur- ' ' departure open-ended question '= "f= f ?' , (1993,115 min., video) a ,fx S rent state ofthe Brooklyn scene, particularly now, ' , $6 Students/seniors, members general, $5 $4 ' few years past its heady zenith of media attention, Cl ._. = Based on the life and work of the Russian director 23 ' when Brooklyn attracted its most intense attention as " Alexander Medvedkin (1900-1989), THE LAST BOL- NY if 3 an alternative to the longtime art neighborhoods SHEVIK is a tribute from one filmmaker to great L in Chelsea and Soho. B-LIST accepts that post-hype _ This film the If another. captures commitment, energy, does not translate into post-relevant and seeks to illusions and disillusions of a but never naive Bolshevik. From struggles, believing explore some of the prevalent themes and concerns Medvedkin's classic satire and the 'film train' which he directed in the 1934 HAPPINESS, of those artists living and working in a highly-ener- 2 19305, to his sardonic comedies and bitter war newsreels, Chris Marker draws a panora- that nonetheless remains forever in 5 gized community " gawwnu-i®%§Mi§iI1S5i|&°It- ma of the and moral universe of a life and a it #rl an artistic, political, country, bringing right B in the shadow of a bigger art beast, perennially visible own Russia. An intricate work with vast lev- up to date with his vision of contemporary i§n f ' 1- across the East River. ~ just ~ \ ,_ Wk' I l els and THE l_AST BOLSHEVIK is also a distillation ofthe art and beliefs of Marker, ;.' » ; `s AJ* ' 'riic 1 N layers, 2' led co-curators David These curatorial »~ mg; "s;;.;.L!,f L_ parameters one of the documentarians of all time. " greatest I ` f _"; , 'T Kramer, a longtime NY artist, and Hallwalls' curator john Massier to consider, for lack of a better term, the

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V May 9-15, only The works 5: ' gg/ _° ,Q,,.,,f,,,.,,,: "simultaneity of aspiration and failure. 3 "I~ na in B-LIST all hover around this thematic Q 5" represented ` m I ~' I :. RUSSIAN ARK Q. construct: works imbued either or i ,. formally conceptu- M :rf I ""-"' :- craven Alexander Sokurov as with de If 5 " by 9 ally packed energy, aspiration, joie

I ,f ' .E *F *f - own with , its 2 .f in Russian with subti- vivre...while often undercutting buoyancy _"' M (2002, 96 min.), 5 ,A g A,g..,_ ` 5

' . a self-conscious demeanor of failure. And tles. Invisible to around tgjj potential him, I __ _

& V .A everyone ' I ' ' a ,, while the works are often __.-~ filmmaker finds him- 9 intensely self-deprecating, X, 9 contemporary ` a tired fatalism > self in the Hermitage in St. Petersburg, the overall tone of B-LIST evades

, toward an accessible visu- back in the early 1700'S. He meets a _. possibility, largely through al often drawn from culture and a cynical French diplomat from the 19th , vocabularly popular humor. the Century and the two become accomplices in an extraordinaly time-traveling journey persistent strain of unrelenting Ultimately, in B-LIST describe a common of through Russia's turbulent past. RUSSIAN ARK's baroque details and haunting pace are works language in a on the broad all the more mesmerizing when one considers that this entire work was shot in just one human emotions and sensibilities, residing deeply-humanist perspective take onto digital video after several painstaking months of choreography and planning. sensibilities of desire and angst, longing and potential failure. works in documents No film, no cuts, no precedent. Representing painting, drawing, video, sculpture, signage, performance " and photography, the title B-LlST" is functionally apt to the theme, but is admittedly tongue- in-cheek and, thereby, somewhat misleading. The situation and circumstance of being a "Brooklyn artist" creates a de-facto b-list by virtue of comparison (to Manhattan), but the designation, while factually and conceptually true, represents only one slice of a prodigous FILM Brooklyn scene. Additional for B-LIST has been Plus Ultra and l ° support generously provided by Pierogi 2000, 1 11 at 8 xg _ g Friday, April p.m. I Roebling Hall galleries, all located in Brooklyn, NY. sl STOKED (THE RISE AND FALL OF GATOR) -3. ' r `- » 2 I (2002, 85 min., video) ~'1° I in director

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, "1 ' . i _$<. ,,V. HELEN STICKLER at Hallwalls f 22, ' Tuesday, April 7:00 pm `f; , members -1~ $6 general, $5 students/seniors, $4 kit! , Admission is Free f- l¥»°~ f STOKED, which premiered at Sundance in january this Paula Q is a of skate Mark Dolega legend . .».._..., * _ year, cautionary biography "Gator" A and rival of icons Hawk, Ilania , 1 f Rogowski. peer Tony Kaplan Lance and Steve the charismatic

_ Mountain, Caballero, _ x ' Christopher Stangler _ ...T Y Gator rose to wealth and stardom, but when in 9 styles shifted his life started to fall STOKED _I skating apart. .,. delves into 80s youth pop culture, exploring its dark

in the calamitous crash of one director Helen ' consequences young punk. Visiting t. _ Paula _ Dolega ,r Stickler lives in New York City, where she works as an independent documentary pro- ducer and freelance commercial director. Her past commercial clients include MTV & MTV2, the Kaiser Family Foundation, Vans, Coke, and Paramount Pictures. In addition, Helen has written, directed, and produced two award-winning short films: QUEEN

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in as - ~ BIG _ Some events include shows and informative such "Illustration and lectures, _ __ gallery ._,,, 25 ' °Friday, April at8p.m. ` which featured the of Mike Gelen, Russ Benfanti and Scott 1 Technology" distinguished panel ,,- =r. EXPERIMENTAL FILMS by MARK Swales. The Alan Cober Memorial lecture the at Buffalo and series, sponsored by University STREET I »=-. Brainstorm, the talents of Sue Coe, Barbara Nessim and Garlan, pro- ~. brought together Iudy . _ presented in person at Hallwalls

BIG members and others exposure to three talents. ' viding unique . 2 $6 general, $5 students/seniors, $4 For their exhibition Images of War, BIG addresses the notion that living together in spring Hallwalls/Squeaky Wheel members one world only seems to give us reasons to tear ourselves and each other apart. We seem to film- _ Brooklyn-based experimental .~, i j to live to another And where does it all lead? Between the victories and _ 2. fight fight yet day. ` I is i " _ if' maker Mark Street has shown his

of and For of BIG _ defeats countless broken ideals. _ '_ lay images people, places Images War, " - -t_ _f,.-?5~Z» >»¢`m ';b;-' _ s'»;~'~".¢-ff: Elms at venues * many ~ internationally ~ confronts these in a series of works told. _ _ _ big symbolically forceful, - question graphically 1 Museum E, and festivals including the of Modern Film is Art, Anthology .I g Archives, Film Millennium, the San

MLISIE I - ~ » ~ ~ ~ ~ Francisco Cinematheque, Ann Arbor Saturday April 26 @ 8 oo p m Film Rotterdam Film Festival and the Sundance Film Festival. Festival, Mark is Assistant The Billy Bang Quintet -featuring Frank Professor of Visual Arts at the University of Maryland Baltimore County. Lowe Hallwalls' Black-n-Blue Theatre Film Program (72 min.): $12 general, $8 members/students/seniors ° WINTERWHEAT (8 min., 16mm, 1989), made by bleaching, scratching and painting on the of an film Billy Bang (violin) directly emulsion educational about the farming cycle. `t ° ~ ECHO ANTHEM and to . features hand tinted _ (8 min., 16mm, 1991) painted footage .QQ Frank Lowe (tenor saxophone) is _ I' iitl Andrew Bemkey (piano) suggest a skewed, tattered version of North American nationalism. The film invites the :_- viewer to be at once soothed and the of the flag. =- Todd Nicholson (bass) repulsed by seething display ° BLUE MOVIE A of culled ~ (5 min., 16mm, 1994). smattering repeated performances ~, Nakatani A Tatsuya (drums, percussion) from old porno films and hand painted. On the soundtrack Anais Nin declares: "but W \ while I'm this I feel I'm not I doing living." 0 MISSING SOMETHING SOMEWHERE (17 min.,16mm, 1992), textured celebration of Born Billy Walker on September zo, 1947 in Mobile, Alabama, Billy studied violin as a young- that which can't be apprehended, or burdened with specific meaning. Three visual ster growing up in New York's South Bronx. In the early 6o's he abandoned the violin for per- chapters appear, each with its own rhythm, each suggesting a different sense of place. cussion, getting into Afro-Cuban rhythms. Drafted to Vietnam, he had a political awakening ° SWEEP (7 min., 16mm, 1998). A day like any other: Brooklyn beckons so they dart and returned to America to throw himself into the anti-war movement. When he began to out into it. Daughter and father traipse from playground to subway and back home play music again in 1971 he experimented with saxophones, but came back to the violin, rec- again. ognizing that this was where his technical facility lay. Bang became known as an associate ° SLIDING OFF THE EDGE OF THE WORLD, (7 min., 16mm, zooo). A stab at depicting of Sam Rivers and Frank Lowe, playing was an essential component of the celebrated Loft fatherhood. scene. In the early 7O'S he formed his own group, The Survival Ensemble, and in 1977 co- ° GUIDING FICTIONS, (5 min., 16mm, zooz), an experimental piece that premiered at founded the String Trio Of New York. Associations with Sun Ra, Don Cherry, Marilyn Crispell "Views from the Avant-Garde 2oo2" at Lincoln Center, New York City. and james Blood Ulmer were also productive. Like other musicians of his generation, Bang ~ FULTON FISH MARKET (15 min., 16mm, 2003, sound by Guy Yarden). WORLD PRE- refuses categories; from elegant free jazz and austere art music to playing on Bootsy Collin's MIERE! The Fulton Fish Market explodes with movement, sound and color in the very comeback. His violin playing is astonishingly versatile, encompassing the lyricism of classi- early hours of the workweek. cal playing, a considerable rhythmic sense, and a flair for the dramatic that makes his solos consistently rewarding. His new quintet features long-time collaborator Frank Lowe and Mark Street's visit and presentations are co-sponsored by Squeaky Wheel, University some of the brightest young musicians on the NYC scene. of Buffalo's Department of Media Study, CEPA Gallery, and the Experimental Television Center.

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__-1 _ gy MI:-'i *~+~-gi;-;¢~%-1.i, $6 general, $5 students/seniors, $4 members I WORKING WOMEN OF THE WORLD if ,. ., , MM Ns ' ` . ...~a_ I I >sf6* { 'I n "'?r .oi Video by Marie France Collard (zooo, 53 min.) 4; --»-- _._ on Levi Strauss & WORKING WOMEN OF THE _ Co., so Focusing ' ' gg-if WORLD follows the relocation of garment production from » Western countries to nations such as Indonesia, the " ""`"" ' § - , . a _ -J; >1'é:;:.:~°;»"" Philippines, and Turkey, where low wages are the rule and FILM employee rights are nonexistent. Any protest is met with immediate intimidation and ' ' 3 at 8:30 p.m. at Hallwalls is Saturday, May increased surveillance until the offender quits. WORKING WOMEN OF THEWORLD also pres-

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S ~ the and WORKING WOMEN OF THE WORLD these , Video Oliver Ressler (2002, 54 min.), Philippines, Turkey, France, Belgium, puts i by women's stories into the larger history and development of globalization. 5 = in italian with subtitles ,_ i the Buffalo Labor Studies of Cornell Industrial and The Disobbedienti movement from the Co-sponsored by Program University's ,_ _ emerged "" Labor Relations School. _ Tute Bianche during the demonstrations ; i-3, 'i_,, against the G8 summit in Genoa in july 2001. ` AND 'i' "" '"'-i The "Tute Bianche" were the white-clad Italian

' ' ' CHAIN OF LOVE V " '-"" .s activists who used their bodies in direct acts M Video Meerman and demonstrations as of civil disobedience. The Tute Bianche first _ Mariie (2001, 5o min.) weapons appeared A by

-= in in in the midst of a social in which the "mass who had \ The demand for domestic help is increasing in the West, Italy 1994 setting laborer,"

because in many families both parents must work for eco- played a central role in the 197os in production and in labor struggles, was gradually -=- . in the transition to means of , nomic survival. One consequence is migration: escalating replaced precarious post-Fordist production. By forcing j -= numbers of women in the Third World are leaving their the closing of detention camps through specially developed acts of dismantling the _i s___s .,_, ii/ Tute Bianche became involved in conditions and . ,ia own children to take care of kids in the West. Women from protests against precarious working ==~ »P~.- f'*=@~'3"'@f " "i*'~¢=?~ the Philippines are well regarded by prospective employ- the immigrants' struggle for freedom ofmovement. At the G8 summit in Genoa the Tute ers in the United States and Europe. They speak English, are Catholic, and according to Bianche decided to take off their trademark white overalls and blend in with the mul- of The from the Tute Bianche to the many, are caring, intelligent, and compliant. CHAIN OF LOVE is a film about the Philippines' titude 3oo,ooo demonstrators. transition second largest export product - maternal love - and how this export affects the women Disobbedienti, also marked a development from "civil disobedience" to "social dis- involved, their families in the Philippines, and families in the West. obedience." Sponsored by the University of Buffalo's Department of Media Study. \.» .v. L vsuasv PAID BUFFALO NY PERMIT NO. 731

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