Margaret Mead Film & Video Festival American Museum of Natural History Central Park West at 79th Street New York, NY 10024

Margaret Mead Film & Video Festival is the longest-running showcase for international documentaries in the U.S.

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Opening Night Film • 2005 Highlights Bride Kidnapping in Kyrgyzstan • Science & Cinema Thursday, November 3 • Reel New Orleans 7:00 pm Program F1 • Russian Stories • Middle East on Screen Closing Night Film • Marriage & Divorce • New Media/New Forms Awake Zion Sunday, November 6 + many other programs 8:15 pm Program F18

Margaret Mead Film & Video Festival November 3 –6 & 12–13, 2005 Festival Highlights Ken Ken Heyman

IN THE SPIRIT OF MARGARET MEAD: Opening Night Film Closing Night Film AN AWARD TO KEN HEYMAN Bride Kidnapping in Kyrgyzstan Awake Zion Ken Heyman, a distinguished photographer, is the seventh Thursday, November 3, 7:00 pm Program F1 Sunday, November 6, 8:15 pm Program F18 recipient of this award, which was created by the Institute Petr Lom. 2004. 51 min. Monica Haim. 2005. 60 min. (Kyrgyzstan) NY Premiere (Jamaica/Israel/U.S.) NY Premiere for Intercultural Studies in 1988. Heyman collaborated Arranged marriages are a traditional custom in Have you ever wondered why Jews and Rastafarians share with Margaret Mead on two books: Family (1965) and World many societies. In rural Kyrgyzstan, bride kidnapping is the same Star of David and references to Zion? Awake Enough (1975). Many of his photographs were exhibited a practice that continues despite its illegal status. Zion is a story about unsuspecting cultural convergences. at the AMNH and in Washington, D.C., during the Mead This film offers unprecedented access to four women’s Through music, interviews, history, and performance, stories, documenting their abductions in harrowing this film investigates the symbols, laws, culture, and themes centennial. The award will be presented on the opening detail — from their tearful protests to their physical shared by two communities that might appear to be on night of the festival by Mead’s daughter, Mary Catherine restraint, to the tense negotiations between the respective opposite ends of the spiritual spectrum. Discussion with Bateson, cultural anthropologist and president of the families.While some of the marriages conclude happily director, followed by performance. or peacefully, others do not, and this sensitively crafted film Institute. The Institute was founded by Margaret Mead in portrays complicated notions about the nature of love 1944 and was housed for many years in the Museum. and marriage. Discussion with director.

Science & Cinema I: Science on TV Russian Stories which uses cell phones to provide access to the visual stories; Friday, November 4, 6:30 pm Program F2 Sunday, November 6, 1:45 pm Program F19 and Gabriela Richard’s Unraveled/Recoiled, an interactive Science on TV showcases two pioneering television shows This year, the Margaret Mead Film & Video Festival documentary and installation that delves into the personal, from the 1950s that brought the resources of science hosts guests from Russia in a special partnership with political, and cultural meanings of black hair texture and and natural history museums into the national spotlight. CEC ArtsLink, an international arts service organization style within and outside the black community What in the World? (1951-1955) was an archeology quiz that encourages and supports exchange of artists and show hosted by Froelich Rainey, director of the University cultural managers between the United States and Central Middle East On Screen of Pennsylvania Museum. Each week, museum scientists Europe, Russia and Eurasia. Through the Open World The Mead Festival looks beyond the latest headlines to and occasional guest panelists were presented with artifacts Cultural Leaders Program, a unique nonpartisan initiative showcase five unique documentaries with a focus on the from the collection and had to deduce their origin and of the U.S.Congress designed to build mutual understanding Middle East. As diverse as they are topical, these films function. Adventure (1953-1956), presented by CBS-TV and between the United States and Russia, CEC ArtsLink share an interest in love and the intricacies of family. Dennis AMNH, offered more than 100 live broadcasts from the brings documentary filmmakers Sergey Bosenko, Wait, O’Rourke chronicles an unusual Afghani love story in halls of the Museum. The series introduced the American Ivan Golovney, Tiny Katerina, and Alina Rudnitskaya, Land Mines: A Love Story (F17, F26), while Kings and Extras: public to scientists working in anthropology, archaeology, Amazons, and film specialist Antonina Udalova, Message Digging for a Palestinian Image (F15) seeks answers to paleontology, ichthyology, and astronomy, and showcased to Man International Documentary, Short & Animated questions surrounding a lost film archive.* Two Israeli films the excitement and risks of live television. Many of the Films Festival, to New York to participate in, this year’s give us contrasting takes on familial attachments. Naomi’s episodes were hosted by leading figures, such as Charles Mead Festival. Corset (F14) portrays an intimate father-daughter relationship Collingwood, Robert Northshield, and Mike Wallace. Special through their own film collaboration, while in Sentenced guests will reminisce about the series. New Media/New Forms to Marriage (F16), Anat Zuria documents the astonishingly Saturday, November 5, 6:00 pm Program F13 anachronistic process of Orthodox Jewish divorce in Israel. Science & Cinema II: From Natural History Many media makers are creating exciting and adventurous Finally,in the world premiere of States of UnBelonging (F9,F27), to the Unconscious projects that exploit the possibilities of the internet and Lynne Sachs movingly articulates her feelings, as a filmmaker and mother, about the Israel-Palestine conflict, Sunday, November 6, 4:00 pm Program F20 other new media and challenge conventional documentary through her profile of an Israeli filmmaker and mother This multifaceted program explores the aesthetic forms. This program features several projects that explore who was killed in the violence. relationship between cinema and science film as it new technologies, offering viewers a more participatory is expressed in contemporary media — from computer and site-oriented experience of reality and cultures. Featured *The screening of Kings and Extras is co-presented with ArteEast, animation to staged natural history cinema and projects include: Liz Canner’s digital public art projects, in partnership with the CinemaEast Film Festival, which takes place photography,from experimental documentaries to projects Bridges and Symphony of a City, in which her subjects wear at the Quad Cinema, November 4-10. seeking to convey the phenomenon of psychological small cameras to project their points of view; Stephanie states. (See Science & Cinema II for titles) Owen’s location-based portrait of East Harlem, DIALelbarrio, Festival Schedule LeFrak Theater Kaufmann Theater Linder Theater

Thursday, Nov 3 7:00 pm Program F1 Bride Kidnapping in Kyrgyzstan 51 min. Opening Night Film

Friday, Nov 4 6:30 pm Program F2 8:30 pm Program F3 6:45 pm Program F4 8:45 pm Program F5 SCIENCE & CINEMA I Children of the Decree 52 min. Animated Visions Al Otro Lado (To the Other Side) Science on TV (excerpts) (multiple titles) 70 min.

Saturday, Nov 5 12:00 pm Program F6 4:30 pm Program F8 1:00 pm Program F11 6:00 pm Program F13 Dinosaurs on Film (excerpts) Children of Beslan 60 min. Nalini by Day, Nancy by Night New Media/New Forms 26 min. (multiple projects) 1:45 pm Program F7 6:30 pm Program F9 The Concrete Revolution Darwin’s Nightmare 107 min. States of UnBelonging 63 min. 8:00 pm Program F14 62 min. Lormen 4 min. 8:30 pm Program F10 3:15 pm Program F12 Naomi’s Corset 57 min. Sisters in Law 104 min. Home 85 min.

Sunday, Nov 6 1:30 pm Program F15 5:45 pm Program F17 1:45 pm Program F19 6:30 pm Program F21 Music Palace 9 min. Land Mines: A Love Story RUSSIAN DOCS The Moon and the Son 28 min. Kings and Extras: Digging for 73 min. Amazons 20 min. Phantom Limb 28 min. a Palestinian Image 62 min. Tiny Katerina 24 min. Vault Keys 6 min. 8:15 pm Program F18 Wait 40 min. 3:45 pm Program F16 Awake Zion 60 min. Sentenced to Marriage 65 min. Closing Night Film 4:00 pm Program F20 SCIENCE & CINEMA II From Natural History to the Unconscious (multiple titles)

Saturday, Nov 12 12:30 pm Program F22 4:00 pm Program F24 12:45 pm Program F25 2:30 pm Program F26 Children of the Decree 52 min. Animated Visions Home 85 min. Land Mines: A Love Story (multiple titles) 73 min. 2:00 pm Program F23 Awake Zion 60 min. 4:00 pm Program F27 States of UnBelonging 63 min.

Sunday, Nov 13 12:30 pm Program F28 3:45 pm Program F30 Bride Kidnapping in Kyrgyzstan Reel New Orleans 51 min. (excerpts) 2:00 pm Program F29 Original Child Bomb 57 min.

Ticket Information

To Order To Order To Order Ticket Prices Margaret Mead Films are shown in a number By Phone On-site Purchase General Public $9 of different program formats, Call 212.769.5200 Mid-October – November 13 Members/Students/Senior Citizens $8 Film & Video Festival ranging from a single full- Monday – Friday, 9 am – 5 pm Tickets may be purchased during All screenings are held length movie to multiple short Have your credit card, member- Museum hours at the Advance Opening Night film and reception with filmmakers $40 at the American Museum films. Ticket prices are per ship category,and program codes Group Sales desk in the Theodore (F31) limited to 50 program. Tickets may be ready when you call. American Roosevelt Rotunda/Central Park of Natural History. purchased in advance for Express, Visa, MasterCard, West at 79th Street entrance, Friend of the Festival $99 any program on the Festival and Discover are accepted. and at the Rose Center for Earth Enter on 77th Street between (F32) The Friend of the Festival package includes: schedule. Each program is A service charge applies. and Space/81st Street entrance. Columbus Avenue and identified by a program code. No service charge. •12 tickets –your choice of programs; On Line Please refer to the program •please specify program codes Central Park West. Visit www.amnh.org/mead to November 3-6 & 12-13 code when ordering tickets. purchase tickets online. Tickets may be purchased ONLY •Invitation to the Opening Night film Please note: A service charge applies. at the 77th Street entrance, •and reception for one Tickets are not refundable. between Central Park West and Programs subject to change. Columbus Avenue. No service charge. Alphabetical Listing

Friday, November 4 An aspiring corrido composer Central and East L.A., Al Otro Lado Al Otro Lado 8:45pm, Program F5 from the drug capital of Mexico explores the complex world (To the Other Side) Discussion with director faces two choices to better his of drug smuggling, illegal Natalia Almada. 2005. 70 min. life: to traffic drugs or to cross immigration, and the corrido (Mexico/U.S) the border illegally into the music that chronicles it all. United States. From Sinaloa, Mexico, to the streets of South Co-presenter: Cinema Tropical

Sunday, November 6 A cinematic portrait of a men. The inside story of these Amazons 1:45pm, Program F19 strange urban phenomenon: urban Amazons is shown Alina Rudnitskaya. 2003. Discussion with director female equestrians who make through the eyes of a rookie 20 min. (Russia) U.S. Premiere a living by riding horses in team member. With Tiny Katerina and Wait the city streets and adamantly oppose the inclusion of Co-presenter: CEC ArtsLink

Friday, November 4 This highly unique program Irra Verbitsky, 2004, 4 min. (U.S.); Animated 6:45pm, Program F4 of nonfiction shorts features Coming to New York, Robert Visions Discussion with directors work that combines animation Castillo, 2004, 4 min. (U.S.); (various titles) with documentary, underscoring Mouse Heaven, Kenneth Anger, Saturday, November 12 the constructed and personal 2004, 10 min. (U.S.); and repeat 4:00pm, Program F24 nature of reality. screenings of The Moon and the Son, John Canemaker, 2004, Featured titles: 28 min. (U.S.) and Doubled Up, The Academy Award-winning Samantha Moore, 2004, 6 min. Ryan, Chris Landreth, 2004, (U.K.) U.S. Premiere. 14 min. (Canada); Flashbacks from My Past: Starry Night, Co-presenter: ASIFA-East

Awake Zion Sunday, November 6 Have you ever wondered why cultural convergences. Through two communities that might 8:15pm, Program F18 Jews and Rastafarians share music, interviews, history, appear to be on opposite ends of Monica Haim. 2005. 60 min. Discussion with director, the same Star of David and and performance, this film the spiritual spectrum. (Jamaica/Israel/U.S.) followed by performance references to Zion? Awake Zion investigates the symbols, laws, NY Premiere Co-presenter: Heeb Magazine Saturday, November 12 is a story about unsuspecting culture, and themes shared by 2:00pm, Program F23 Discussion with director

Closing Night Film

Thursday, November 3 Arranged marriages are a illegal status. This film offers protests to their physical conclude happily or peacefully, Bride 7:00pm, Program F1 traditional custom in many unprecedented access to four restraint, to the tense others do not, and this sensitively Kidnapping in Discussion with director societies. In rural Kyrgyzstan, women’s stories, documenting negotiations between the crafted film portrays complicated bride kidnapping is a practice their abductions in harrowing respective families. While notions about the nature of Sunday, November 13 Kyrgyzstan that continues despite its detail – from their tearful some of the marriages love and marriage. 12:30pm, Program F28 Petr Lom. 2004. 51 min. (Kyrgyzstan) NY Premiere Co-presenter: CEC ArtsLink

Opening Night Film Saturday, November 5 Bridges, a digital public art and dialogue. For the project, Co-presenter: RES Magazine Bridges 6:00pm, Program F13 project, was created in response a native leader and a leader (New Media/New Forms) Discussion with artist to tensions between Native within the police department Liz Canner. 2004. Americans and police officers each donned wear-cams as With DIALelbarrio, Symphony of (Canada) in Saskatoon, Canada, in an they lived and filmed each a City, and Unraveled/Uncoiled attempt to create deeper other’s lives for a day. intercultural understanding

Saturday, November 5 On September 1, 2004, a group in a sweltering gymnasium, that killed some 350 people – Children 4:30pm, Program F8 of heavily armed rebel extremists denied food and water,and forced half of them children. In this of Beslan Discussion with Dr. Lisa Aronson, stormed into School No. 1 in to keep their hands over their film, the youngest survivors of Clinical Child Psychologist, and Beslan, Russia. For three days, heads.The harrowing siege ended Beslan tell their story. Ewa Ewart & Leslie Woodhead. 2005. 60 min. Dr. Nina L. Khrushcheva, The World more than a thousand children on September 3rd with a series (Russia) Festival Premiere Policy Institute, The New School and adults were held hostage of explosions and a hail of gunfire Co-presenter: HBO

Friday, November 4 By the mid-60s, the feminist This film interweaves state Children 8:30pm, Program F3 movement in the West was propaganda, documentary, and advancing women’s reproductive feature films with the candid of the Decree Saturday, November 12 rights, but in Romania under testimony of public figures, Florin Iepan. 2004. 52 min. 12:30pm, Program F22 (Romania) NY Premiere the Ceausescu regime, women’s gynecologists, and back-street reproductive rights were abortionists to highlight the being managed by the state. devastating consequences for Decree 770 criminalized women and their families. contraception and abortion for women under the age Co-presenter: of 40 unless they were already Planned Parenthood Federation of raising at least four children. America, International Division

Saturday, November 5 Out with the old, in with where streets and soul are workers, who reveal their The Concrete 1:00pm, Program F11 the new. The Beijing landscape being rebuilt in preparation hopes and dreams for their is transforming daily. This for the 2008 Olympics. The personal futures and that Revolution With Nalini by Day, Nancy by Night beautifully shot film is the female director, originally from of China in the 21st century. Xiaolu Guo. 2004. 62 min. (China) NY Premiere director’s meditation on one of a rural village, conducts candid the largest cities in the world, interviews with male construction Co-presenter: Asian Cinevision

Saturday, November 5 During the 1960s, when the ensue. Through compelling the global, economic, and Darwin’s 1:45pm, Program F7 freshwater fish commonly cinematography and stirring political interests at play in one Nightmare Post-screening discussion with known as the Nile perch was interviews and encounters of Africa’s most beautiful and Melanie Stiassny, Curator of introduced into Lake Victoria, with fishermen, street children, fertile regions. Hubert Sauper. 2004. 107 min. (France/Austria/Belgium/ Ichthyology, AMNH, and others Tanzania, no one could have prostitutes, Russian pilots, Tanzania) imagined the crushing ecological and E.U.commissioners,this story Co-presenter: and social disaster that would reveals, in nightmarish detail, African Film Festival

Saturday, November 5 This location-based multimedia to images,music,and videos that DIALelbarrio 6:00pm, Program F13 story of East Harlem makes the tell its history to those using MMS- (New Media/New Forms) Discussion with artist history and culture of Spanish capable (multimedia) cell phones. Stephanie Owen (with students Harlem accessible by cell phone With Bridges, Symphony of from the Parsons School of by providing ubiquitous access Co-presenter: RES Magazine a City, and Unraveled/Recoiled Design). 2005. Mobile media project. (U.S.)

Saturday, November 5 This program explores the often Allegro Non Troppo, Fantasia, Arts, and Carl Mehling, AMNH Co-presenter: ASIFA-East Dinosaurs 12:00pm, Program F6 (free) entertaining misrepresentation Jurassic Park, and more. With Division of Paleontology. A book- on Film Discussion with John Canemaker of dinosaurs on film with John Canemaker, animation signing with John Canemaker, (excerpts) and Carl Mehling visuals and clips from classic historian and Director of the celebrating the newly reissued animations and science fiction, Animation Program at New York release of his book, Winsor McCay: including Gertie the Dinosaur, University Tisch School of the His Life and Art, will follow.

Saturday, November 5 Since the shortage of affordable mother of six living in a struggling to achieve the American dream, Home 3:15pm, Program F12 housing ranks as one of New York neighborhood in Newark, faces is an intimate and touching Jeffrey M. Togman. 2005. 85 min. Saturday, November 12 City’s largest and most complex the challenges of buying her first commentary on race, class, and (U.S.) NY Premiere 12:45pm, Program F25 issues, this story-driven home with the help of a fashion the future of America’s cities. Discussions with director documentary arrives at the right industry executive turned social moment. Sheree Farmer, a single worker.Her story,as she attempts Co-presenter: ACORN Housing Sunday, November 6 The films of the Palestine director Azza El-Hassan follows A special co-presentation with the Kings & Extras: 1:30pm, Program F15 Liberation Organization Media contradictory and confusing CinemaEast Film Festival, which Unit, which were supposed to clues as to the whereabouts of takes place at the Quad Cinema, Digging for With Music Palace represent a self-determined the lost archive. Though Azza’s November 4-10. El Hassan will be a Palestinian image of Palestinian reality, search for the lost films leads participating on a panel on Image “disappeared” during the Israeli her down various dead ends, independent documentary film invasion of Beirut in 1982. In she is confronted with new production in the Middle East on Azza El Hassan. 2004. 62 min. this “road movie” from Palestine clues and starts to construct Saturday, November 5 at NYU’s (Palestine/Germany) to Jordan, Syria, and Lebanon, her own story. Silver Center. www.arteeast.org

Sunday, November 6 From the maker of Mead Festival ends meet. Part observational Land Mines: 5:45pm, Program F17 favorites – Cannibal Tours and film and part essay, Land Mines Cunnamulla – comes a film about is an anti-war film set in a A Love Story Saturday, November 12 Afghanistan,land mines,survival, country whose name has become Dennis O’Rourke. 2004. 73 min. 2:30 pm, Program F26 and love. It chronicles the love synonymous with conflict. (Afghanistan) U.S. Premiere Discussion with Dennis Nurkse, story of Habiba and Shah, two author and activist, and land-mine victims living together Co-presenter: Megan Burke, program manager in Kabul struggling to make Adopt-a-Minefield Campaign of Adopt-a-Minefield

Saturday, November 5 A delicately filmed study of Co-presenter: Lormen 8:00pm, Program F14 one married couple’s hands-on Disabilities Network of NYC Julia Daschner. 2004. 4 min. conversation. Because they With Naomi’s Corset (Germany) NY Premiere are both hearing and visually challenged, they communicate using “Lormen,” a tactile hand alphabet.

Friday, November 4 An autobiographical hand-drawn noted actors Eli Wallach and immigrant’s troubled life and The Moon 6:30pm, Program F2 animated film that explores the John Turturro in the roles of the devastating consequences difficult emotional terrain of father and son, The Moon and of his actions on his family. and the Son Sunday, November 6 father/son relationships as seen the Son combines memory, John Canemaker. 2004. 28 min. 6:30pm, Program F21 (U.S.) through the filmmaker’s own fact, conjecture, home movies, Discussions with director; Saturday, November 12 turbulent relationship with his photos, snapshots, and more Co-presenters: AIVF (11/6) and 4:00pm, Program F24 father. Featuring the voices of to tell the story of an Italian ASIFA-East (11/4 & 11/12)

Sunday, November 6 A documentary short that follows close its doors for good, they Co-presenter: Asian Cinevision Music Palace 1:30pm, Program F15 the three unique caretakers of attempt to grasp the reasons Eric Lin. 2005. 9 min. Discussion with director the only remaining Chinatown as to why this cultural institution (U.S.) movie theater in the U.S. In is now obsolete. With Kings and Extras: Digging the last days before they must for a Palestinian Image

Saturday, November 5 This experimental documentary names and accents to service Co-presenter: Asian Cinevision Nalini by Day, 1:00pm, Program F11 looks at the outsourcing of the telephone- support industry Nancy by Night Discussion with director American jobs to India. Told from of the U.S.The film incorporates the perspective of an Indian animation, live action, and Sonali Gulati. 2005. 26 min. With The Concrete Revolution (India/U.S.) NY Premiere immigrant, the film journeys into archival footage to explore the India’s call centers, where complexities of globalization, telemarketers acquire American capitalism, and identity.

Saturday, November 5 Ten-year-old Naomi Allon must help soothe her many anxieties. also battles for control of the Co-presenter: Naomi’s 8:00pm, Program F14 wear a corset 23 hours a day Despite her father’s attempts to film itself. All this dissolves when Disabilities Network of NYC to counter the severe curvature present loving, artistic images Naomi enters the hospital for Corset With Lormen of her spine, caused by Williams of his daughter, Naomi must a crucial operation and neither Gérard Allon. 2004. 57 min. (Israel) U.S. Premiere syndrome, a rare genetic face the unstinting eye of the father nor daughter can predict condition. She and her father, an camera. As she rages against what will emerge on the artist, decide to make a film to the restrictions of her life, she other side.

Sunday, November 13 Inspired by Thomas Merton’s footage, photographs, drawings, Co-presenter: Original 2:00pm, Program F29 poem of the same name, Original and the testimonies of both Nuclear Age Peace Foundation Child Bomb Discussion with co-producers, Child Bomb artfully and chillingly victims and bombers. In an age Holly Becker and Ayana Osada, illustrates the human cost of of political rhetoric surrounding Carey Schonegevel. 2004. 57 min. (U.S.) and Michael Coffey, NAPF nuclear weapons. The bombings “security” and “weapons of mass of Hiroshima and Nagasaki are destruction,” this film is a wake- depicted through declassified up call and an invitation to action. Sunday, November 6 Experimental filmmaker Jay reflections on grief and emotional with the psychological, Phantom Limb 6:30pm, Program F21 Rosenblatt uses the phenomenon loss into chapters that refer to underscoring the impermanence Jay Rosenblatt. 2005. 28 min. of “phantom limb syndrome” various stages of mourning. that we all face. With The Moon and the Son (U.S.) as a metaphor to explore Blending family photos with and Vault Keys his feelings about the death archival footage and interviews, Co-presenter: of his younger brother forty the film merges the personal Association of Independent years ago. The film transposes with the universal, and the Video & Filmmakers

Sunday, November 13 When Hurricane Katrina hit the will be forever changed. The Ticket proceeds will be donated Reel New 3:45pm, Program F30 Gulf Coast region at the end of Mead Festival hosts an evening to the New Orleans Musicians Orleans Discussion with Andrew Kolker, August, it was the worst natural of films and film excerpts on Clinic (NOMC), which provides (excerpts) Louis Alvarez, and others disaster in modern U.S. history. the communities and cultures health services for musicians. For For years, independent film- of the Big Easy, from the 1970s the complete lineup and special makers have been documenting to recent, never-before-seen guests: www.amnh.org/mead and celebrating the vibrancy material. Excerpts from classic and diversity of New Orleans, films, including Les Blank’s Co-presenter: capturing its sights and sounds. Always for Pleasure; Louis Center for New American Media Whatever the ultimate effect of Alvarez and Andrew Kolker’s the storm on the culture of the Yeah, You Rite!, and others will Crescent City, it’s clear that it be included.

Friday, November 4 What in the World? Adventure Science & 6:30pm, Program F2 Robert Forrest, producer. 1951-55. Perry Wolff, producer/writer; History’s television series, from the AMNH’s collection were Cinema I: Discussion with key members of 25 min. (U.S.) Excerpts from Bernard Birnbaum, supervisor including a segment on Mayan used to play a score created by Science on TV the series: Perry Wolff, Bernard episodes with guest panelists of film/film editor; Jac Venza, architecture with Frank Lloyd Samuel Barber, noted composer (excerpts) Birnbaum, and Jac Venza Vincent Price,actor and avid art production designer/associate Wright and another on the “music and Pulitzer Prize winner. collector, and celebrated sculptor producer. 1953-56. 40 min. (U.S.) of primitive instruments,” in Jacques Lipchitz. Excerpts from CBS-TV’s and which African, Asian, Indonesian, Co-presenter: the American Museum of Natural and Melanesian instruments Orphan Film Symposium

Sunday, November 6 This program spans nearly a Chalmers,including Burning at (U.K.), U.S. Premiere; and two Science & 4:00pm, Program F20 century of science and cinema the Stake, 2003, 4 min., Squish, titles presented by Zoe Beloff, Cinema II: Discussion with directors and features computer animation, 2003, 2 min., and Crawl Space, Case History of a Multiple From Natural History photography, experimental 2004, 10 min., along with Personality, Dr. C.C.Wholey, 1923, to the Unconscious documentary, and a stereoscopic photos from her book, American 13 min.; and Charming Augustine, film excerpt. Cockroach, 2004; Locomotion Zoe Beloff, 7 min., excerpt (multiple titles) in Water, Hanna Rose Shell, from a 40-minute stereoscopic Featured titles: 2005, 13 min. (Italy/U.S.), U.S. film in progress. Moss Reproduction, Arlene Premiere; While Darwin Sleeps, Ducao, 2004, 2 min. (U.S.), U.S. Paul Bush, 2004, 5 min. (U.K.), Co-presenter: Premiere; The American NY Premiere; Doubled Up, New York Stereoscopic Society Cockroach Project, Catherine Samantha Moore, 2004, 6 min.

Sunday, November 6 This film exposes the Kafkaesque Jewish law. For two years Zuria Co-presenter: Sentenced to 3:45pm, Program F16 process of divorce for women followed the struggles of Ma’yan: The Jewish Women’s Marriage in Israel, where secular law does Tamara, Michelle, and Rachel, Project of the JCC not exist and divorce is dealt three young Israeli women Anat Zuria. 2004. 65 min. (Israel) NY Premiere with according to archaic and doing everything humanly fundamentalist Orthodox possible to obtain a divorce.

Saturday, November 5 "Men are going to get the them from domestic violence. women can help to make an Sisters in Law 8:30pm, Program F10 message now." The lawyers and From the maker of Divorce Iranian impact on individual lives as Kim Longinotto & Florence Ayisi. judges in one small courthouse Style and Gaea Girls comes this well as traditional world-views. 2005. 104 min. in Kumba, Cameroon are helping latest project celebrating dynamic (Cameroon) NYC Premiere to transform women’s and women in non-traditional roles. Co-presenter: children’s lives by protecting A testament to how a few strong African Film Festival

Saturday, November 5 Through an exchange of largest moments of life, they filmmaking — a visual Co-presenter: New York States of 6:30pm, Program F9 personal letters and images, respond to the killing of Israeli investigation into the fraught Women in Film & Television Sachs and her Israeli friend, filmmaker Revital Ohayon, a yet revealing dynamic UnBelonging Saturday, November 12 Nir Zats, create a cine-essay on mother living on a kibbutz between a society at war and Lynne Sachs. 2005. 63 min. 4:00pm, Program F27 the violence of the Middle East. near the West Bank. States of the individuals who struggle (U.S./Israel) World Premiere Discussions with director Beginning with war and its UnBelonging is a meditation to express themselves in that impact on the smallest and on war, land, the bible and destructive milieu. Saturday, November 5 A public cyberart documentary a multimillionaire, were Co-presenter: RES Magazine Symphony 6:00pm, Program F13 that is designed to create nominated by more than fifty of a City Discussion with artist dialogue and reflection about community groups in Boston (New Media/New Forms) housing and community- to wear tiny video cameras on With Bridges, DIALelbarrio, building. Dynamic individuals, their heads and to document Liz Canner & John Ewing. 2003. and Unraveled/Recoiled Cyberdocumentary (U.S.) from a homeless person to their lives for a day.

Sunday, November 6 Katerina, a little Khanty girl creatures. Gradually, she comes Co-presenter: CEC ArtsLink Tiny Katerina 1:45pm, Program F19 from northwestern Siberia, to grips with the mysteries Ivan Golovnev. 2004. 24 min. Discussion with director observes and tries to make sense of life until something totally (Russia) U.S. Premiere of the world around her. She unknown arrives – an oil field not With Amazons and Wait begins to recognize the voices far from the cattle camp where of people,animals,and all other she lives.

Saturday, November 5 This interactive documentary installation creates an inviting Co-presenter: RES Magazine Unraveled/ 6:00pm, Program F13 and installation delves into the space where black women’s Recoiled Discussion with artist personal, political, and cultural personal narratives can be shared (New Media/New Forms) meanings of black hair texture through touch, and users With Bridges, DIALelbarrio, and styles within and outside can obtain a level of personal Gabriela Richard. 2005. and Symphony of a City the black community. The intimacy with the subjects. Interactive documentary (U.S.)

Sunday, November 6 In 1992, Leo Wang asked his son, mundane becomes a poignant Vault Keys 6:30pm, Program F21 Harvey, to videotape him at comment on the passage of time Harvey Wang. 2005. 6 min. Discussion with director home explaining his finances and in this short gem. (U.S.) World Premiere important papers so that his With The Moon and the Son children would know what to do Co-presenter: Association of and Vault Keys when he died. The seemingly Independent Video & Filmmakers

Sunday, November 6 A poignant story about a relationship with her family, Wait 1:45pm, Program F19 seven-year-old girl who has been but when she finally encounters Sergey Bosenko. 2004. 40 min. Discussion with director abandoned by her alcoholic her mother she realizes (Russia) U.S. premiere mother. Now living in an that her home may be lost With Amazons and orphanage, the little girl seems to her forever. Tiny Katerina wiser than her parents. She desperately tries to rebuild her Co-presenter: CEC ArtsLink

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