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2004 CATALOG SUPPLEMENT TABLE OF CONTENTS

e are excited to present our 2004 Catalog Supplement. This year AIDS/HIV ...... 1 Wwe are including not only information on all 42 films and videos Africa ...... 2 we have released over the past year, but also information on almost all African-American Studies ...... 3 of our releases from the past four years, and 20 classic and still widely Architecture ...... 4 used titles. Art ...... 6 Asia ...... 8 This 2004 Catalog Supplement contains new features and items we would like to call your attention to: Canada ...... 12 Criminal Justice ...... 13 • A section devoted to five films by the great documentary filmmaker Death & Dying ...... 13 and essayist, Chris Marker (see page 22). Environment ...... 14 • The seminal cinema vérite work (in fact the film in which the term Ethics ...... 15 itself was coined) CHRONICLE OF A SUMMER, by Jean Rouch Evolution ...... 18 and Edgar Morin (see page 19). First Run/Icarus Films is proud to Film Studies ...... 19 re-release, with a new digital videomaster, this landmark film. Gay & Lesbian ...... 24 • Timely new films on current developments in the Middle East, in Iraq, Globalization ...... 25 Israel and Palestine, and a survey of the region (see page 45). Historiography ...... 27 • New subject areas in the table of contents, such as Architecture, History (Europe) ...... 28 Death & Dying, Ethics, Photography, and Physics. History (U.S.) ...... 30 • Be on the look-out for price reductions, special offers, and an Immigration ...... 32 increasing number of titles that are now Closed Captioned. Indigenous Peoples ...... 34 Jewish Studies ...... 37 As always, the best way to keep up-to-date on all of our new films, and Latin America ...... 37 to access and search our complete catalog of over 800 titles, is to visit Literature ...... 41 our web site, which is updated monthly. Media & Communication ...... 42 We look forward to working with you this year. Middle East ...... 44 Music ...... 48 Philosophy ...... 49 Photography ...... 50 Physics ...... 51 Politics & Contemporary Issues (U.S.) . . .51 Psychology ...... 53 Religion ...... 55 FIRST RUN / ICARUS FILMS 32 Court Street, 21st Floor Russia & the former Soviet Union ...... 55 Brooklyn, NY 11201 Sociology ...... 56 Women’s Studies ...... 57 TELEPHONE (718) 488 8900 (800) 876 1710 Subject Index ...... 60 FACSIMILE (718) 488 8642 Country Index ...... 63 EMAIL [email protected] Alphabetical Title List ...... 64 WEBSITE www.frif.com Ordering Information ...... INSIDE BACK COVER AIDS/HIV SEARCHING FOR 6000 A DAY - An Account IT’S MY LIFE HAWA’S SECRET of a Catastrophe Foretold A Film by Brian Tilley Directed by Larry Krotz A Film by Philip Brooks Nearly 5 million South Africans are “An interesting introduction to a A National Film Board of Canada Production 6000 A DAY examines how governments, currently infected with HIV. Yet until pointed political issue in South Africa NGO’s and key individuals knowingly recently the South African government and the World, and underscores the Hawa Chelangat supports her five chil- failed to prevent the spread of AIDS. has failed to provide anti-retroviral grass roots activism that continues to dren through commercial sex in a grim The film dissects key moments in the medicine in public hospitals and clinics. be necessary for proper advocacy of shantytown outside Nairobi, Kenya, global response to the epidemic, and in And incredibly, South African President people with HIV/AIDS.” – AIDS Book where she met Frank Plummer, a micro- so doing, reveals an international rift Thabo Mbeki has consistently ques- Review Journal biologist from the University of Manitoba. tioned the link between HIV and AIDS. that has caused untold numbers of deaths. “Powerful, authentic... The film excep- Since 1983 Plummer’s research has Key actors tell the story, including Eric It is in this context that Zackie Achmat, tionally showcases the defense of focused on a local clinic for prostitutes. Sawyer (founder of Act Up New York), the HIV positive acting chairperson of human rights and the necessity of In 1993, he discovered that a small Sandra Thurman (President Clinton’s the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC), global human responsibility to the percentage of the women, like Hawa, AIDS advisor), Mathilde Krim (founder refuses to take anti-retrovirals until world as a whole...” – Václav Havel, don’t become infected with HIV. Plum- of AmFar), France’s former Health they are made available by the govern- President of the Czech Republic mer thought that by studying this small ment in public hospitals. Minister Bernard Kouchner, Peter Piot “Inspiring... The worldwide impact of group of immune women, one might (director of UNAIDS), and others. Filmed over five months, IT’S MY LIFE AIDS, universal health-care issues, and develop a vaccine. Supported by archives and testimonies, follows Zackie as he leads a court Achmat’s heroic stance broaden the While telling the story of an unlikely 6000 A DAY reveals the tragic degree of battle against the multi-national drug appeal of this memorable video.” partnership between Plummer and Hawa, indifference and ignorance with which companies to allow the introduction of – Booklist SEARCHING FOR HAWA’S SECRET docu- the HIV/AIDS epidemic has been treated. cheaper, generic drugs, and takes on ✵Special Award for Human Rights ments the scientific quest to find an the South African government for it’s “Accomplishes the difficult feat of Awareness, 2002 One World AIDS vaccine rather than a cure. confusing policies around HIV/AIDS. Human Rights Film Festival succinctly chronicling the worldwide ✵2002 DoubleTake “A clear and balanced picture of the reaction... or rather the lack thereof, to As a leader in the campaign for afford- science involved that can be understood Documentary Film Festival the AIDS crisis since its discovery, and able treatment, Zackie’s provocative ✵ by audiences in high school or above. position is not one all his friends and 2002 Film Festival, examines the social, political, and African Studies Association The human drama of poverty, disease colleagues support. When he gets ill, economic barriers that have obstructed ✵2002 San Francisco and prostitution are dealt with frankly everyone wants to know why he a concerted worldwide public health Gay & Lesbian Film Festival and without sensationalism so that refuses to take the medicines that response to the epidemic. A well ✵2002 OutFest, Los Angeles viewers get a realistic sense of life in balanced investigation.” – AIDS Book would let him lead a healthier life. Gay & Lesbian Film Festival contemporary Nairobi.” – AIDS Book Review Journal IT’S MY LIFE interweaves personal and Review Journal 72 minutes | color | 2001 “An excellent addition for libraries with public images to provide an intimate Sale/video: was $345 now $248 “Highly Recommended!” – Educational collections on health science, bioethics look at an internationally profiled defi- Rental/video: $100 Media Reviews Online and political action.” – Educational ance campaign and the complexities of ✵2000 AmFar National HIV/AIDS Media Reviews Online its leading figure. Conference ✵ “[Zackie Achmat is] the most significant ✵ 2002 Film Festival, 2001 Film Festival, African Studies Association protest leader in South Africa since African Studies Association ✵ ✵ 2002 Amnesty International Nelson Mandela.” – Pulitzer Prize 2001 Film Festival, National Film Festival Winner Samantha Power, for Women’s Studies Association The New Yorker 55 minutes | color | 2001 cc 47 Minutes | color | 1999 Sale/video: was $345 now $248 Sale/video: was $345 now $248 Rental/video: $75 Rental/video: $75

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SEARCHING FOR HAWA’S SECRET 6000 A DAY - AN ACCOUNT OF A CATASTROPHE FORETOLD IT’S MY LIFE AFRICA END OF THE DIALOGUE MOBUTU, KING OF ZAIRE RED HAT - A Film by Antonia Caccia, Chris Curling, A Three-Part Film by Thierry Michel Where Are You Going? Simon Louvish, Nana Mahomo, Drawing upon 140 hours of rare archival MOBUTU, KING OF ZAIRE is an essential A Film by Emile Adriaan van Rouveroy Vus Make & Rakhetla Tsehlana van Nieuwaal & Maarten van Rouveroy material found in Kinshasa, and 50 historical resource for scholars of the van Nieuwaal This landmark film was one of the first hours of interviews with those once Congo and indeed, of all post-colonial to reveal the horrors of apartheid to the close to Mobutu, this is the definitive Africa. RED HAT is an analysis of the contem- world. Produced in 1970 by black South visual record of the rise and fall of the porary socio-political position of tradi- “Rejects shrill indictment in favor of the African exiles and film students in former ruler of Zaire (the Congo). tional Mossi chiefs in Burkina Faso. London, the film is valuable not only as cumulative revelation of its subject through film and the testimony of In 1956, when French colonies began to a record of apartheid, but also of how Part One - QUEST FOR POWER knowledgeable Mobutu aides and other form parliaments as a precursor to inde- the international community’s attitude (Mobutu’s birth to 1969) qualified individuals. [MOBUTU] is the pendence, tensions built between the towards South Africa was changing. Part One documents his journey from devastating witness that lays bare the chiefs and an emerging civil society. cook’s son, to military journalist, to Watching the film today, one can’t help homicidal, corrupt, vainglorious tyranny After one chief’s failed coup d’état in Secretary of State, and then President. but be struck by how remarkable South of Mobutu Sese Seko.” 1958, years of mistrust between the The film shows Mobutu at the World’s Africa’s transition to democracy has been. – New York Times new government and the chiefs followed. Fair in Brussels in 1958, and meeting “It is a grim catalogue, but irrefutably Patrice Lumumba during negotiations “Previously unseen archive footage The chieftaincy in Burkina Faso survived accurate, set out without slant or emotion; for the Congo’s independence in 1960. interspersed with interviews with colonialism and revolution, but is now as in Resnais’ Night and Fog, it is the survivors of Mobutu’s inner circle... confronted with the growing political Larry Devlin, the region’s CIA chief at absence of emotion which generates makes for great cinematic drama. consciousness of the people. Sidelined the time, tells how Mobutu was seen it... Shattering. An eloquent, angry A rarity.” – Mail & Guardian in the process of decentralization and early on as a replacement for Lumumba. testament.” – Monthly Film Bulletin modernization, the chiefs are often left Devlin describes receiving the order to "A remarkable film! Signposts the most out of the equation. But now, fed up “It is so inconceivable that we easily eliminate Lumumba, which came “from important moments of Mobutu's rule... with marginalized status, many chiefs put out of our minds how one race can the highest authority.” The narrative A film of almost literally fantastic feel the time has come to make a stand. exploit another, not only without ordi- continues with footage of Mobutu’s footage and revealing interviews. nary humanity, but also without any coup, Lumumba in captivity, and the Students should see it... Excellent!" “A fine film which transcends mere foresight for the future that must one ensuing four-year civil war. – Professor David Moore, University politics and moves sensitively into the day come.” – Financial Times (London) of Natal, Durban, for H-SAfrica realm of culture.” – Chris Youé, ✵ Part Two - THE UPPER HAND President, Canadian Association of 2003 Film Festival, “A tremendous documentary on the African Studies Association (1969 to 1988) African Studies folly of power.” – Le Monde ✵ By 1970 Mobutu was the undisputed 1971 Emmy Award “Captures this complex history and ✵ ruler of Zaire, controlling its riches, ✵2001 Film Festival, Golden Dove Award, the political tensions that are spawned 1970 Leipzig Film Festival property and people. Resistance was African Literature Association today by the legacy of colonialism. brutally repressed. This period brought ✵2000 Film Festival, 44 minutes | color | 1970 RED HAT provides food for thought for an economic crisis, to which Mobutu African Studies Association Sale/video: $298 | Rental/video: $75 ✵ African scholars and proponents of responded with ‘Zaireinization.’ 1999 Best Documentary Nominee, International Documentary African rebirth.” – West Africa Review Part Three - THE END OF A REIGN Association ✵2002 Film Festival, ✵ (1988 to 1997) North American Premiere, 1999 African Literature Association New York Film Festival This section documents the emergence ✵2001 Film Festival, of an opposition movement in Kinshasa 3 x 52 minutes | color | 1999 African Studies Association lead by Etienne Tshisekedi, the develop- Sale/video: $490 | Rental/video: $125 47 minutes | color | 2000 ment of the National Conference from Sale/video: $375 | Rental/video: $75 1990 to 1992, and shows the 1996 rebellion lead by Laurent Desire Kabila. The film uses contemporary documen- 2 tary material of all these events.

END OF THE DIALOGUE MOBUTU, KING OF ZAIRE RED HAT - WHERE ARE YOU GOING? AFRICA AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES THE LIFE AND TIMES OF SARA BAARTMAN, FINALLYGOT THE NEWS PUBLIC ENEMY The “Hottentot Venus” Now A Film by Stewart Bird, Rene Lichtman A Film by Jens Meurer A Film by Zola Maseko Closed & Peter Gessner Captioned Produced in Association with the League A film about the revolution- When the 20-year-old Sara Baartman ✵Best Documentary, 1999 of Revolutionary Black Workers aries after the revolution, PUBLIC ENEMY presents four got on a ship that was to take her from FESPACO African Film Festival With a new digital video ✵ former members of the Black Panther Cape Town to London in 1810, she could Best Documentary, 1999 master, we are proud to release Party, the radical black liberation move- not have known that she would become Milan African Film Festival FINALLY GOT THE NEWS, a ✵ ment that confronted racial and the icon of racial inferiority and black 2001 Film Festival, classic record of 1960’s urban America. female sexuality for the next 100 years. African Studies Association economic inequality in the 1960s. ✵2000 Film Festival, American A historical montage traces the early Featuring candid conversations about THE LIFE AND TIMES OF SARA BAART- Anthropological Association days of slavery, through the subsequent revolutionary change with prisoner- MAN is the story of this Khoi Khoi growth and organization of the working 53 minutes | color | 1998 cc turned-playwright Jamal Joseph, musi- woman who was taken from South class, and the crucial role of the black Sale/video: $390 | Rental/video: $75 cian and record producer Nile Rodgers, Africa and exhibited as a freak across worker in the American economy. Also law professor Kathleen Cleaver, and Britain. A court battle waged by aboli- explored is the educational ‘tracking’ founding member Bobby Seale, PUBLIC tionists to free her failed. system, the role of black women in the THE RETURN OF ENEMY examines black America today, In France, she became the object of labor force, and relations between SARA BAARTMAN 25 years after the demise of its most research that formed the bedrock of white and black workers. A Film by Zola Maseko radical advocates, and is a provocative European ideas about black female As it documents the activities of the In a storeroom at Paris’s interpretation of the dark side of the sexuality. After her death, her sexual League of Revolutionary Black Workers Musée de l’Homme, a man American Dream. organs and brain were displayed in the inside and outside the auto factories of carefully wraps a jar in “In the wake of incidents of racially Musée de l’Homme in Paris until as Detroit, FINALLY GOT THE NEWS becomes heavy white paper. Inside is the brain motivated police brutality, the message recently as 1985. a contemporaneous record of a forgotten, of Sara Baartman, which, along with of their movement still resonates.” Using historical drawings, legal docu- but formerly nationally important, black, the rest of her remains, is finally going – Amsterdam News working class organization. ments, and interviews with noted histo- home to South Africa. “A thoughtful, moving primer on the rians, the film deconstructs the political “The League was the most significant This sequel to The Life and Times of Black Panther Party. The film has and scientific assumptions that trans- expression of black radical thought and Sara Baartman continues her story. punchy archival footage of Panther formed one young African woman into a activism in the 1960s. The League took After a long international campaign, her rallies and police brutality, but the heart representation of savage sexuality and the impetus for Black Power and trans- remains are finally repatriated from of the matter lies in informal interviews racial inferiority. lated it into a fighting program focusing France to South Africa for burial. While with the four former Panthers... all who “Poignant, mesmerizing and informative... ” on industrial workers.” – Manning documenting this long overdue event, question whether (they) really made a Marable, Institute for Research in – Neil Parsons, University of Botswana THE RETURN OF SARA BAARTMAN African-American Studies; Professor difference in the course of the civil tackles difficult issues of indigenous “An excellent film... valuable for schol- of History, Columbia University rights struggle.” – The Village Voice rights, and artifact or human remains arly purposes because the issues of ✵2001 Black Panther Film Festival repatriation. “[The League]... was one of the most colonialism, racism, enslavement, ✵2000 Human Rights Watch important radical movements of our scientific racism, and beauty standards 55 minutes | color | 2003 cc Film Festival century.” – Professor Robin D.G. are covered.” – Dr. Miriam Ma’at-Ka- Sale/video: $390*| Rental/video: $75 ✵2000 Juneteenth Film Festival Kelley, New York University Re Monges, California State Univer- *25% Discount if you already own (Minneapolis) sity, for H-AfriLitCine THE LIFE AND TIMES OF SARA BAARTMAN. 55 minutes | color - b&w | 1970 50 minutes | color | 1999 “A telling and quite powerful film. It See page 35 for full description. Sale/video: $298 | Rental/video: $75 Sale/video: was $390 now $375 would be very appropriate for any class Rental/video: $75 in the history of racism or colonial history. And just an hour long, it is perfect for a single classroom showing.” – American Historical Review 3

THE LIFE AND TIMES OF SARA BAARTMAN FINALLY GOT THE NEWS PUBLIC ENEMY AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES ARCHITECTURE THE INTOLERABLE BURDEN BREAKING THE ICE - THE DISCREET CHARM Directed by Chea Prince The Story of OF BUCHAREST Produced by Constance Curry Mary Ann Shadd A Film by Karin Wegsjö A Film by Sylvia Sweeney In the autumn of 1965, share- “Highly Recommended! A powerful oral Bucharest, Romania is a city in which croppers Mae Bertha and history and visual record of how racism BREAKING THE ICE sheds new light on small buildings and shady courtyards Matthew Carter enrolled the affected one family and one town, but the remarkable story of abolitionist, are crowded and dwarfed by gray, youngest eight of their thirteen children with patterns that can be seen through- suffragette and integrationist Mary Ann concrete high-rise complexes built in the public schools of Drew, Mississippi. out the entire nation.” – Educational Shadd, who was the first female news- during Nikolae Ceausescu’s reign. Their decision was in response to a Media Reviews Online paper editor and first black female THE DISCREET CHARM OF BUCHAREST “freedom of choice” plan, designed to ✵2004 John E. O'Connor Film Award, attorney in North America. is a film about the people and buildings comply with the Civil Rights Act of 1964. of this great city. American Historical Association “Beautifully photographed... useful for Given the prevailing attitudes, blacks were ✵ 2004 Assembly, National classes in African American history, civil What is like to live there today? What not expected to choose white schools. Education Association rights issues, and women’s studies.” significance do buildings and architec- This proved true for all but the Carters. ✵2003 School to Prison Conference, – School Library Journal ture have in a person’s life? With the Harvard University Civil Rights THE INTOLERABLE BURDEN places the help of six residents of this great city, Project ✵2001 Film Festival, National Carter’s commitment to obtaining a Women’s Studies Association including 99 year old architect Iulan quality education in context, by examin- 56 minutes | color | 2003 cc Namescu, we approach these questions. ing the conditions of segregation prior Sale/video: $390 | Rental/video: $75 23 minutes | color | 1999 cc Filled with contradictions, this is a city to 1965, the hardships the family faced Sale/video: $225 | Rental/video: $50 that is difficult to grasp. There is some- during desegregation, and the ensuing thing touching and fascinating, a feel- widespread white resistance, which led FUNDI: CAPTAIN OF SOULS - ing (or perhaps a rhythm) that is on the to resegregation. The Story of Ella Baker point of disappearing – or already has. ✵✵✵✵ A Film by Joanne Grant Reverend William White “Editor’s Choice! (Four Stars!) A Film by Fern Levitt Is it nothing more than traces of the Highly Recommended! [This] excellent Affectionately known as past, strata that have not yet been Reverend William Andrew White trav- documentary combines interviews with Fundi (Swahili for “a person scrubbed away, torn down and buried? the now adult children (and, most who passes skills from one eled as a missionary for the African poignantly and eloquently, Mae Bertha generation to another”), Ella Baker was Baptist Churches, was an officer for the THE DISCREET CHARM OF BUCHAREST herself), compelling black-and-white a friend and advisor to the Rev. Martin British Army during WWI, and later was searches gently for these subtle traces, archival footage, and additional commen- Luther King, Jr. FUNDI reveals the the first black man to bring his sermons locating them at the intersection of tary from other activists, the white school instrumental role she played in shaping to radio. heart and home. ✵ secretary, and fellow white students to the American civil rights movement. Combining interviews, archives, and 1998 Festival International de limn a powerful portrait.The film makes Film DaKino (Bucharest) “Powerful... can enrich us immeasur- haunting music, CAPTAIN OF SOULS is it clear that Drew is a microcosm for ✵1998 Amsterdam International ably, adding depth and texture to our a tender eulogy for a man who brought what is happening in many other places.” Documentary Festival understanding of an important part of hope to a forgotten community. – Video Librarian | | our past, inspiring us with examples of “A fine tribute to a civil rights pioneer.” 42 minutes color 1998 “One of the best video histories of the Sale/video: $375 | Rental/video: $75 lives lived fully and purposefully.” – Booklist desegregation era ever produced. – Harvard Educational Review The magisterial clarity with which this ✵ 23 minutes | color | 1999 cc dramatic story... is told keeps the viewer’s 1987 First Prize, Black Filmmakers Sale/video: $225 | Rental/video: $50 Hall of Fame attention throughout. Indispensable... because the actual participants take Two Lengths Available: center stage – one would be hard pressed 63 minutes | color | 1985 to find this caliber of work in any other Sale/video: $490 | Rental/video: $100 single story of this era.” – Professor of 45 minutes | color | 1986 History Dr. Curtis Austin, University Sale/video: $390 | Rental/video: $90 4 of Southern Mississippi.

THE INTOLERABLE BURDEN BREAKING THE ICE - THE DISCREET CHARM OF BUCHAREST THE STORY OF MARY ANN SHADD ARCHITECTURE SOTSGOROD: LIVING WITH THE PAST - IN THE MIND OF LAGOS / KOOLHAAS Cities for Utopia Historic Cairo THE ARCHITECT A Film by Bregtje van der Haak A Film by Anna Abrahams Directed by Maysoon Pachachi A Three Part Series Directed by Tim Clark World famous architect Rem Produced by Elizabeth Fernea Produced by Janne Ryan & Tim Clark After the 1917 Revolution in Russia, Koolhaas (Pritzker Architec- Siberia’s coal and iron became crucial LIVING WITH THE PAST documents a IN THE MIND OF THE ARCHITECT ture Prize) and students from to the Communist plan for a new utopia. unique approach to historic preserva- explores connections between architec- the Harvard Project on the City visit Because huge cities were needed to tion, one that combines social and ture and the human condition, and the Lagos, Nigeria regularly to study the house thousands of workers, well known economic development with monument politics of building structures. The series urban system developing there. For two Western European architects were restoration includes interviews with award-winning years filmmaker Bregtje van der Haak invited to create the workers’ paradises. Across the globe monument preserva- architects Harry Seidler, Richard Leplastrier, followed them. Paul Katsieris, Peter Corrigan, Bernard Some of the last surviving architects tion often means that people are The largest city in Africa, Lagos is Seeber, Phillip Cox, and Sean Godsell. tell the story, including Jan Rutgers displaced, and surrounding neighbor- expected to be the third largest in the hoods are demolished. Not so in Darb world by 2020. Every month thousands (Autonomous International Colony Part 1, KEEPING THE FAITH: al-Ahmar (a central neighborhood in start a new life there, one that is highly Kuzbass), Magarete Schutte-Lihotzky The relationship between architect and Cairo), where efforts are underway to unpredictable, and requires networking (Ernst May group) and Phillipp Tolziner client. Is it the architect’s responsibility simultaneously improve the commu- and improvisation to survive. (Bauhaus Brigade). Others speak to give us what we want, or to lead us nity’s standard of living and rescue through letters, articles and lectures, where we haven’t been before? Fascinated by the city’s energy, and endangered monuments. including Hannes Meyer, Hans Schmidt driven to understand its uncontrolled and Ernst May. Some believed they The film follows several restoration Part 2,THE PUBLIC GOOD: growth, Koolhaas is attempting to learn were making an essential contribution projects in progress in Darb al-Ahmar, With capital on the move from public to from Lagos, rather than trying to change to the workers’ struggle; others were including: the Great Gate of Bab Zuwayla private spending, architects must or build anything. seizing the rare opportunity to apply (1092 A.D.), the Mosque of Emir Qijmas balance the desires of business clients Koolhaas interprets the ‘culture of their design philosophies and spatial al-Ishaqi (1481 A.D.), the Church of the with the obligation to the public good. congestion’ positively. For example, theories to entire cities. Virgin (600 A.D.), and the Walls of traffic jams are such an overwhelming Saladin (11th & 12th centuries A.D.). Part 3, CORRUGATED DREAMS: In 1932, the Party decided it trusted no feature that they have become a key one – certainly not foreign profession- Artistic possibilities of architecture are “RECOMMENDED... Interviews with examined within the practical context marketplace. When the cars stop, the als. The architects were presented with architects, construction workers, develop- trading begins. As Koolhaas puts it, “the a choice: become citizens or leave the of the 21st Century consumer’s needs – ment officials, and shopkeepers illustrate from suburbs to a downtown hotel. ubiquitous traffic jam: lulled in conges- Soviet Union. For the first time, this film how the vitality of the neighborhood is tion, captive to the road’s breadth, and reveals the fate of the architects who being preserved.” – Library Journal “Wonderfully interesting. The issues thriving with entrepreneurial activity.” stayed, as well as those who left and discussed are applicable not just to kept silent for six decades. “Does an excellent job of conveying the architecture, but to any profession that For Koolhaas and his team, Lagos is a neighborhood’s spirit and the dedication case study of a city at the forefront of “Provides a visual context and conveys involves creative problem solving, the of those involved in the restoration.” balance of form and function, and revi- global trend: “Lagos is not catching up something of the chaotic, and even – Archaeology Magazine with us. Rather, we may be catching up inspirational, spirit of time and place.” sions brought on by social needs.” ✵2003 Film Festival, Royal with Lagos.” – Slavic Review – Ballast Quarterly Review Anthropological Institute (UK) “Highly Recommended! Rem Koolhaas ✵ “A masterful job of explaining architec- “Fascinating... Probing... a valuable 2002 Film Festival, African has done it again.” – Educational historical document.” – Archis Literature Association tural concepts... looks at the tension between politics and design.” – The Age Media Reviews Online ✵ ✵2002 Film Festival, World Congress 1995 Amsterdam International ✵ ✵2003 Film Festival, Documentary Festival for Middle Eastern Studies (Germany) Best Documentary, 2000 Victorian Architecture Awards African Studies Association | | 92 minutes | color | 1995 52 minutes color 2001 ✵ ✵2003 Marseille International Sale/video: $390 | Rental/video: $75 2000 Bates Smart Award for Sale/video: $440 | Rental/video: $100 Architecture in the Media Documentary Film Festival Available in Arabic. | | Study Guide Available. 3 x 55 minutes | color | 2000 55 minutes color 2002 Sale/video: $390 | Rental/video: $75 Sale/video: $490 | Rental/video: $150 5

SOTSGOROD: CITIES FOR UTOPIA IN THE MIND OF THE ARCHITECT LAGOS / KOOLHAAS ART LIGHT, DARKNESS, ON SNOW’S FROM THE ASHES: THE PEOPLE’S AND COLOURS WAVELENGTH, 10 Artists PAINTING Directed by Henrik Boëtius, Marie Louise ZOOM OUT A Film by Deborah Shaffer A Film by Chris Granlund Lauridsen & Marie Louise Lefèvre A Film by Teri Wehn-Damisch Produced by Lise Lense-Møller FROM THE ASHES: 10 ARTISTS profiles THE PEOPLE’S PAINTING chronicles ON SNOW’S WAVELENGTH takes us artists who lived in lower Manhattan at New York based avant-garde artists Sir Isaac Newton published his study of the time of the September 11th terrorist Vitaly Komar and Alex Melamid as they the interactions between sunlight and into renowned artist Michael Snow’s world by reversing the slow zoom-in of attack. As they pick up the shattered set out to create a “good” and a “bad” prisms in 1704. But the great poet Goethe pieces of their lives, they struggle to painting using revered tools of capitalism: found a set of colors Newton missed, Wavelength (1967), his highly influen- tial experimental film. redefine the meaning of their art and polls, market research and focus groups. by using Newton’s theory in conjunction how the tragedy has affected their They began by polling a representative with Human visual subjectivity. Wavelength explores a temporal dimen- work’s content. sample of people in the UK, thereby Using the methods of art and science, sion via a continuous, 45-minute zoom in on a photograph. Despite its appar- “Recommended. An emotional glimpse establishing a British preference for Goethe found the colors in the bound- into how a tragedy of gigantic propor- color, landscapes or portraits, abstracts aries between light and darkness, call- ent simplicity, Wavelength had a tremendous impact on the evolution of tion affects a creative mind.” or figurative paintings, and other broad ing it “the light – darkness polarity.” – Library Journal tastes. Then, on their road trip they met Goethe spent more than 40 years on his film as a medium, and became an avant-garde classic, setting a new stan- ✵2002 Sundance Film Festival and interviewed a miner, a tattoo artist, theory, which in its own way summa- ✵ housewives, a designer, an earl and a rizes his thinking, and connects his dard for originality and rigor. 2002 DoubleTake Documentary Film Festival witch. They also canvassed opinions poetry with science. This film borrows the concept of Wave- ✵2002 Film Festival, National from experts such as the Royal Acad- In keeping with Goethe’s method, the length, but inverts the process. As the Women’s Studies Association emy’s Norman Rosenthal and painter filmmakers explore phenomena frame widens, filmed fragments depict Gordon King. Snow’s photography and filmed work, 56 minutes | color | 2001 surrounding human sensory perception. Sale/video: $248 | Rental/video: $75 Called “conceptualism at its most Using striking time-lapse cinematogra- including an interview where he reflects on the medium specific investi- elegant and effective” (New York Times), phy, duplicating Goethe’s and Newton’s the painting and the film are an evoca- experiments on camera, they have gations recurrent in his work: the thin- ness of the image, scale, transparency, FROM THE ASHES: tive and satirical portrait of Britain crafted a stunning, intellectually Epilogue today, and an examination of the tools rewarding film. camera movements, framing, self-refer- ence or autobiography. A Film by Deborah Shaffer of late Twentieth Century capitalism. “Delightful... Ingenious... so well made, A sequel to From The Ashes - “A deliciously tongue-in-cheek, but so precisely narrated, photographed and As the zoom out reveals the installation 10 Artists, the film examines never patronizing, mockery of the British edited... it is a memorable lesson in in its entirety, Michael Snow appears how the events of September taste in visual art. Komar and Melamid very smart thinking and seeing.” “live on the set.” 11th have impacted the artists and their make us think about what art is.” ✵National Film Board of Canada – Leonardo Digital Reviews – The Times (UK) Prize for Creativity, 2002 work throughout the year. “The fluid exchange between aesthetic International Festival of Films While daily routines have been re- “Highly recommended! An effective laboratory experiments and dazzlingly on Art (Montreal) established, the mood is somber as the educational tool to frame a meaningful beautiful photographs... will help view- ✵ 2002 Seattle Underground artists re-evaluate the direction and discussion on art and its place in society.” ers of many ages understand color. 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LIGHT,DARKNESS, AND COLOURS ON SNOW’S WAVELENGTH, ZOOM OUT THE PEOPLE’S PAINTING ART MOKARRAMEH, CRACKS IN THE MASK FANG - An Epic Journey LIVING MEMORY MEMORIES AND A Film by Frances Calvert A Film by Susan Vogel Directed by Susan Vogel Produced by Susan Vogel, Samuel Sidibé, DREAMS Turtleshell masks from the Torres Strait FANG blends documentary Eric Engles & the Musée National du Mali A Film by Ebrahim Mokhtari islands are irreplaceable, yet there are and fiction techniques to none left in the region. So Ephraim Bani, recount an African statue’s Mali is home of the ancient Mokarrameh, a widow in rural Iran, a witty expert on local myths, set out on journey through a century of adventure. African empires, but is now once owned a beloved cow. One day a voyage to the great museums of Europe, The film styles of each historical period one of the ten poorest coun- her children sold the beast. Overcome where his cultural heritage now lies. are used to convey a century of Western tries. Yet, paradoxically, a rich culture by sorrow, she began to paint. attitudes towards African culture. flourishes, and Malian artists are Using film and sound recordings made Mokarrameh made her first painting (a prominent in contemporary Africa. Cut by the Cambridge Anthropological Expe- “Fast, funny and provocative. The film portrait of the cow) on a rock with mud to the beat of Malian music, the film ditions in 1898, Ephraim provides the focuses on the arbitrary nature of cate- and cow dung. She continued to paint offers an alluring mosaic of perspectives. history. But going beyond arguments gories of ‘art’ in Western culture and on any surface she could find until one about art-theft, three avant-garde cura- raises questions about the integrity of The film is constructed in six sketches: of her sons brought her paper and paint tors provide thought-provoking chal- the object and the relationship between Ritual Arts - The energy of the from Tehran. lenges to Western museums. The film museum exhibition and their value on Chiwara ritual dance contrasts with the Now her home overflows with paintings shows how museums decontextualize the art market.” – Professor Jean dwindling audience. in which local legends and memories cultures – the “poetics of detachment” Borgatti, Clark University Culture on Display - As copies of are vividly depicted, perhaps the story – and exclude the very people whose “Thoroughly inventive... his drama explores icons are sold as trinkets, originals of her husband’s other wives, or those ancestors created the objects in the the ways in which African art has been stream into international museums. of other village women, even bitter- first place. appropriated through time and space.” sweet tales such as Mokarrameh’s Style - In Timbuktu a bride prepares for “Reveals a story about museums and – Margaret Mead Film Festival confrontation with her uncle about why her wedding. about objects – about what museums she was sold into marriage at such a 8 minutes | color - b&w | 2001 do and about their rationale for continu- Architecture - The annual restoration young age. Sale/video: $125 | Rental/video: $50 ing to hold such objects, and about the of the great mosque In Djenne. Study Guide Available. “Offers dynamic and credible images of meaning of these objects for Torres Contemporary Artists - Artists in a unique Iranian women in rural contexts. Strait Islanders today... A moving, often dialogue with their heritage. Defiance, humiliation, and pain are poignant representation of issues interwoven with a celebration of the surrounding the return of such collections Music - A Taureg wedding, Mande simple pleasures in life and nature.” to the descendants of their original hunters, and Salif Keita at his club in – Al Jadid, A Review & Record of owners.” – The Contemporary Pacific Bamako. Arab Culture and Arts ✵Audience Award and Honorable LIVING MEMORY exposes tensions in a ✵2002 FilmFest, Middle East Mention, 1997 EthnoFilmFest culture assailed by modernization, Islam Studies Association (Berlin) and global tourism, yet confident that it ✵Grand Prize, 2000 ✵Estonian National Museum Prize will maintain its own distinctive character. Festival of Zanzibar for Best Film, 1998 Pärnu Film “A must-see film! It engages the full ✵Golden Gate Award, 2000 Festival San Francisco Film Festival sweep of Mali’s contemporary artistic 58 minutes | color | 1997 production with an exceptional visual 48 minutes | color | 1999 Sale/video: $390 | Rental/video: $75 and conceptual clarity.” – Mary Jo Sale/video: $375 | Rental/video: $75 Arnoldi, Curator, African Art and Culture, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution

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MOKARRAMEH, MEMORIES AND DREAMS FANG - AN EPIC JOURNEY LIVING MEMORY ART ASIA SWING IN BEIJING OLD MEN WHERE IS GRANDMA THROUGH THE A Film by by Shui-Bo Wang A Film by Lina Yang ZHENG’S HOMELAND? CONSUL’S EYE SWING IN BEIJING presents a sweep- In 1996, Lina Yang moved to Beijing’s A Film by Zhong-yi Ban A Film by Jorge Amat ing overview of the thriving art scene in Qing Ta district, where a group of During WWII thousands of Korean and Auguste François, a French Consul in this rapidly changing city. Footage of retirees gathered every day at the curb- Chinese women were forced to serve China from 1896 to 1905, witnessed some films, plays, paintings and installations side. Finding them beautiful, Yang spent Japanese soldiers as ‘comfort women.’ of the region’s great events of the time. reveal the undercurrents and politics two years creating an expressive docu- One such woman was Grandma Zheng With free-access inside cities, he behind the arts. ment about what occurs among men Shunyi, who at the age of 17 was tricked filmed sketches of street life – from the when their life’s work is over. into leaving her town in Korea, and Artists, filmmakers, and musicians vendors selling their wares, to the local taken to the Hunan Province in China. share their views on censorship and Through the simplicity of their daily ear-cleaners and flea-pickers – with freedom of speech, loss of traditional routine, we observe the psychological When Japan surrendered, Grandma one of the first movie cameras (lent by values and culture, lack of government aches that accompany old age, and Zheng was released from ‘service.’ Left the Lumiere brothers). funding, and the mixed blessing of witness the solace that can be found in homeless on the streets of Hankou François also filmed the outlying coun- Western recognition. tradition and companionship. Town in Hunan, she was forced to beg tryside while on official assignments, for food. Eventually she met Wang “Well-integrated... a powerful impres- “Extraordinary! An artistic tour-de-force. once finding himself in the midst of a Lichao, a soldier of the Kuomintang, sion of a varied, radical, and seemingly Powerful. Poignant. Honest. An violent revolt in Tibet, where the indige- and fell in love. They soon married and vibrant arts underground. The film is outstanding film that should be experi- nous Lolo fought the Chinese. valuable in that it takes viewers to enced by different audiences including built a family, living peacefully with places that even well-connected the children of aging persons, health- their children and grandchildren. But Culled from François’ writings, rare Chinese and foreigners would be care providers, counselors, spiritual she never forgot Korea. archival photographs, and even rarer films, THROUGH THE CONSUL’S EYE is unlikely to visit. A surprising, provoca- leaders, community members, students, When China and Korea normalized rela- a remarkable portrait of China on the tive, and stimulating look at this poten- and older persons themselves, whether tions, Zheng was allowed to visit her brink of a new age. tially influential subculture.” as... a discussion stimulator for classes birthplace. Although torn to leave her – Patrick Dowdey, Wesleyan Univer- exploring the realities of aging, [or] as a Chinese village, she was overjoyed to “Striking, compelling, charming, extra- sity, Curator of the Mansfield Free- training film for volunteers and others be in her homeland again. She died ordinary! The magnificent collection of man Center for East Asian Studies who care deeply about the elders eight months later, her last wish being François’ photographs and films… hold within their families and within their “Wonderful... an incessantly interesting to return to her Chinese family. Despite ethnographic and historical interest… communities. OLD MEN is at once a look at these vital issues. Of great her wishes her ashes have not yet been and may be of benefit to historians of work of art and an ethnographic portrait value to American university students.” returned to China. film in addition to researchers inter- worthy of close attention – no matter ested in the study of colonialism or the – Ballast Quarterly Review “Recommended for academic areas in one’s country or stage in life.” history of modern China.” – Journal of ✵ Women’s Studies, World War II History 2002 Film Festival, Association – James T. Sykes, The Gerontologist Film & History for Asian Studies ✵ and Asian Studies.” – Educational ✵Editor’s Choice, 2001 Film Festival, Association Media Reviews Online “An exciting trove of rare early photog- Giant Robot Magazine for Asian Studies raphy [and] an excellent collection of ✵ ✵2001 Film Festival, National Award of Excellence, 2000 still and movie photography.” Two Lengths Available: Women’s Studies Association Yamagata Documentary Film – Professor David D. Buck, 73 minutes | color | 2000 Festival (Japan) ✵2001 Film Festival, University of Wisconsin, for the Sale/video: $440 | Rental/video: $100 ✵ Association for Asian Studies Golden Dove of Peace, 2000 Asian Educational Media Service Leipzig Documentary Film Festival 54 minutes | color | 2000 89 minutes | color | 2000 ✵ Sale/video: $390 | Rental/video: $75 (Germany) Sale/video: $440 | Rental/video: $100 2002 Film Festival, ✵Scam Prize, 1999 Cinema du Reel Association for Asian Studies (France) 50 minutes | color - b&w | 1999 94 minutes | color | 1999 Sale/video: $390 | Rental/video: $75 Sale/video: $440 | Rental/video: $100

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SWING IN BEIJING OLD MEN WHERE IS GRANDMA ZHENG’S HOMELAND? ASIA DAM/AGE - AMARTYA SEN: WAR AND PEACE A Film with Arundhati Roy A Life Reexamined A Film by Anand Patwardhan A Film by Aradhana Seth A Film by Suman Ghosh Filmed over three years in India, “A tour de force, beautifully shot and DAM/AGE traces Booker Prize In 1998, Amartya Sen became Pakistan, Japan and the United States, often darkly funny and much more rivet- winner Arundhati Roy’s the first Asian to win the WAR AND PEACE documents the epic, ing than the dry subject matter might campaign against India’s Nobel Prize in Economics. international struggle for peace in the suggest.” – The Guardian face of global militarism. Narmada dam, which led to her conviction Not an adulatory exposition, A LIFE “So important one could justify its for criminal contempt. As the film traces REEXAMINED is a trenchant analysis Triggered by macabre scenes of jubilation requirement as part of the education of the events, Roy meditates on her fame, the of the assumptions behind his Nobel that greeted nuclear testing on the all high school students and undergrad- responsibility it places on her as a writer, winning Social Choice Theory. Indian sub-continent, the film is framed uates in America. The power of the film a political thinker, and as a citizen. A Master of Trinity College at Cambridge, by the 1948 murder of Mahatma Gandhi. derives from its brilliant cinematogra- The film weaves together the issues that and a professor at Harvard, Sen’s research For the filmmaker, whose family embraced phy and narration, its juxtaposition of lie at the heart of politics today: from has ranged over a number of fields in non-violent Gandhian values, the sub- points of view and its total honesty.” the consequences of development and economics and philosophy, a breadth continent’s trajectory towards unabashed – Professor Blair Kling, University of globalization to the urgent need for state reflected by his numerous books including militarism is explored with sorrow, though Illinois, for AEMS News and Reviews the film captures stories of resistance accountability and the freedom of speech. Poverty and Famines: An Essay on Enti- “[A] solemn, stirring perspective on the tlement and Deprivation (1981) and along the way. For Roy, the story of the Narmada competitive chauvinism between India Development as Freedom (1999). Valley is not just the story of modern Amongst these stories is a visit to the and Pakistan, which manifests itself in India, but of what is happening in the The film is framed by a conversation “enemy country” Pakistan, where Indian the nuclear arms race between them. world today: “Who counts, who doesn’t, between Sen and his student (and delegates are showered by affection by With the controversy surrounding possi- what matters, what doesn’t, what counts fellow economist) Professor Kaushik Pakistanis, peace activists and ordinary ble weapons of mass destruction in as a cost, what doesn’t, what counts as Basu, and interspersed with commentary citizens, who declare, “Hate is the Iraq, there might not be a better time collateral damage, what doesn’t.” from Kenneth J. Arrow (1972 Nobel in creation of politicians.” than the present for this documentary. Economics), who laid the foundation for Because Mr. Patwardhan is so measured “Cleverly constructed... rather amazing WAR AND PEACE moves on to analyze the Social Choice Theory, Ashim Dasgupta in making his impressive, unrelenting in the way it winds a range of related the human cost of ‘National Security.’ (Finance Minister of West Bengal), Paul case, [The film] is all the more disturbing. issues – India’s nuclear standoff with From the plight of residents living near Samuelson (1970 Nobel in Economics), [The film] has a riveting intelligence all Pakistan, the corruption of the World a nuclear test site, and the effects of Timothy Scanlon (Philosophy, Harvard its own and earns its epic title.” Bank and the Indian people’s uprising uranium mining on local populations, University), other eminent experts, and, – Elvis Mitchell, New York Times against their displacement by the it becomes clear that there is no such of course, Sen’s mother, Amita. ✵ government’s failed dam projects, to thing as the “peaceful Atom.” 2003 Film Festival, Association for Asian Studies name a few – around the buildup of “Superb, well-edited, and thoughtful... The film slips seamlessly from its analysis ✵ tension in the days before Roy’s lucidly explains for the viewer the essen- International Film Critics Award of homemade jingoism to focus on the (FIPRESCI), 2002 Sydney sentencing.” – Metro Active tial nature of some of Sen’s contributions foreign policy example of the United International Film Festival and the social and personal context, “An urgent and vital film... Inspiring... States. The unofficial U.S. doctrine of ✵International Jury Prize, 2002 and background in which he made them.” [A] bold accomplishment.” ‘Might Makes Right’ is well emulated Mumbai International Film Festival – Professor Pranab Bardhan, Univer- – The Guardian (UK) by aspiring Third World elites. sity of California, Editor of Journal of 136 minutes | color | 2002 ✵Women’s Achievement Award, Development Economics As we enter the 21st century, enemies Sale/video: $490 | Rental/video: $150 2003 OneWorld Media Awards are being re-invented, economies are ✵2003 Amnesty International “A compelling portrayal of Sen’s intel- inextricably tied to the production and Anand Patwardhan is India’s leading Film Festival lectual accomplishments as well as of sale of weapons, and war has become documentary filmmaker, and we are the world that shaped and inspired him. proud to have distributed all of his films 50 minutes | color | 2002 perennial. Memories of Gandhi seem This is an important film.” – Professor like a mirage, created by our thirst for for 25 years. For biographical information Sale/video: $390 | Rental/video: $75 about Anand Patwardhan as well as Arvind Rajagopal, New York University peace, and our distance from it. complete descriptions of all of his films, 56 minutes | color | 2003 visit our web site at www.frif.com. Sale/video: $390 | Rental/video: $75 9

DAM/AGE - A FILM WITH ARUNDHATI ROY AMARTYA SEN: A LIFE REEXAMINED WAR AND PEACE ASIA KUMAR TALKIES NO SILENCE IN HEART OF THE COUNTRY HELLFIRE A Film by Pankaj Rishi Kumar THIS COURT Directed by Leonard Kamerling A Film by John Junkerman & Education Advisor William Parrett John Dower Kumar Talkies is the only cinema in A Film by Elisabeth Dubreuil Shinichi Yasutomo, principal of an Haunted by memories of Kalpi, a small town in northern India. A revolutionary institution started by a elementary school in Kanayama, Japan, post-war Hiroshima, Iri and The dilapidated theater doesn’t have disciple of Gandhi is thriving in Gujurat, is a man driven by his passion for learn- Toshi Maruki began a series any hits or flops. Every day people India. Known as the Open Court, it was ing, and vision for educating the heart of monumental paintings depicting come, irrespective of what the film is. created shortly after Indian indepen- as well as the mind. HEART OF THE what they had seen. The Hiroshima dence as an alternative to the usually KUMAR TALKIES juxtaposes the reality COUNTRY follows Yasutomo, his staff, Murals are renowned around the world. corrupt local police and courts. of Kalpi with the world of romance on students, and their families over the HELLFIRE traces the development of the the screen. Cinema conveys the urban The court operates as an open forum course of an entire school year. artists’ profound vision, and demon- imagination to Kapli, while existing where anyone – of any caste – can take Parents and elders of this once impov- strates the power of art to render visi- simultaneously as a medium in which the floor, air his or her grievance, and erished town embrace Yasutomo’s ble and meaningful what still seems people expect their local experiences to be assured of a just resolution. Over- vision, but not without wary glances to unimaginable. be displayed. seen by a small tribunal, the entire the past. This small community, bound community is involved in implementing “One of the world’s most powerful and KUMAR TALKIES also looks at how together by love for its children, is also the judgment. sustained expressions of the effect of emerging technologies undermine exist- defined by its journey through the the atomic bomb.” – New York Times ing modes, both traditional and modern. NO SILENCE IN THIS COURT tells the cultural upheavals of postwar Japan. And the film goes beyond Kalpi, to look history of this unusual court, and docu- Beyond intimate observations of every- 58 minutes | color | 1986 at the status of film in India, especially ments its impact on the community via day life, HEART OF THE COUNTRY takes Sale/video: $390 | Rental/video: $100 the relationship between Bollywood the proceedings of actual cases, and viewers into the world of Japanese and its audience. with interviews of participants, values. The school, the family and the villagers, and the Court’s founder, Hari- JAPAN DREAMING “A remarkable exposition of cinema as community are bound together in a self- vallabh Parikh. A Film by Sue Clayton an entertainment device in India. This is perpetuating relationship based upon documentary film at its best, telling a “Delightful... Successfully tells the story obligation, mutual responsibility and trust. JAPAN DREAMING takes us through variety of stories in ways that are both of this alternative justice system, while several high tech projects in Japan “The visual impact, the characters, the recognizable and counterintuitive, giving a view of Indian village life. It which encourage scientific creativity, calm pace and cumulative experience of entertaining and poignant.” also gives much needed attention to the and make technology more humane. We the children, the school and teachers, – Politics & Culture condition of the adivasis, presenting learn about: microbes that eat toxic Yasutomo and the community are their lives in a sensitive yet honest way. waste and self-cleaning computerized “A tapestry woven from the threads of terrific.” – Professor Merry White, A fine film.” – Professor Karl J. Schmidt, buildings that switch off lights when Indian cinematic history, the worldwide Boston University, Author of Missouri Southern State College, for empty. The film also visits “new age” rise of television, and one town’s struggle The Japanese Educational Challenge to survive – a feat that is simultaneously the Asian Educational Media Service cities (Lunar City, Alice Underground ✵2001 Award of Commendation, thoughtful, funny and heartbreaking.” ✵2002 Film Festival, Association for City) that emphasize serenity and Society for Visual Anthropology – Hawaii Film Festival Asian Studies ✵ harmony. Could they be the blueprint for 2000 Film Festival, Association the world’s future cities? ✵2001 Film Festival, Association 52 minutes | color | 2001 for Asian Studies for Asian Studies Sale/video: $390 | Rental/video: $75 ✵Golden Apple Award, 1998 National “An interesting look at Japanese plan- ✵2001 Film Festival, Society for Educational Media Network ners stretching their minds and Cinema Studies resources to answer the same ques- Two Lengths Available: tions that concern all of us.” 76 minutes | color | 1998 92 minutes | color | 1997 Sale/video: $440 | Rental/video: $100 Sale/video: $440 | Rental/video: $100 – Association for Asian Studies 58 minutes | color | 1997 58 minutes | color | 1991 Sale/video: $390 | Rental/video: $75 Sale/video: $390 | Rental/video: $75

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KUMAR TALKIES NO SILENCE IN THIS COURT HEART OF THE COUNTRY ASIA PYONGYANG DIARIES THE WILD EAST - S21: The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine A Film by Solrun Hoaas Portrait of an Urban Nomad Directed by Rithy Panh A Film by Michael Haslund-Christensen Produced by Cati Couteau PYONGYANG DIARIES is the account of a personal encounter with the closed THE WILD EAST is an ethno- The Cambodian genocide of “Filled with reproachful ghosts, [this] society of North Korea. While the official graphic rendering of contem- 1975-1979 claimed almost personal doc draws on the testimony of line in North Korea fosters uniformity, porary life in Ulaan Bataar, a 2 million lives. Pol Pot’s Khmer victims and perpetrators, as well as the nationalism, and self-reliance, this film city at the crossroads of nomadic Rouge combined extremist ideology, bureaucratic records. The movie is presents the underlying inconsistencies. culture and modernity, communism and ethnic animosity, and a disregard for life unforgettable; in its modest way, it’s as The film begins with the death of global capitalism. Through the daily to produce murder on a massive scale. horrific an exposure to evil as ‘Shoah.’” struggles of two young men, Jenya and – J. Hoberman, The Village Voice revered leader Kim Il Sung, and memo- Thousands of people died inside Khmer Sasha, the film reveals a society in the rials about his life and his victory over Rouge interrogation centers. The most “Imaginative and disorienting... Panh’s midst of a radical transformation. Japanese colonial rule. The film exam- famous, codenamed S-21, was located film excavates new levels of horror, ines how art is used to bolster confi- “There are powerful, atmospheric in a Phnom Penh high school. Over capturing the grueling tension that dence during difficult times, such as the pictures in this slice of cinema verité 17,000 prisoners were interrogated, existed between jailer and jailed. transition from Kim Il Sung’s govern- about harsh reality in a poverty- tortured, and executed there – only Through its force and honesty, Panh’s ment to that of his son Kim Jong Il. stricken, technologically backward seven survived. documentary may help the healing nation. A spontaneously fascinating begin.” – MSNBC Online While Hoaas was completing the film, For S21, filmmaker Rithy Panh accompa- experience.” – The Berlin Telegraph North Korea’s worsening famine became nies S21’s official painter Vann Nath, “Highly Recommended. Panh illumi- world news. It is with a keen aware- “Beautifully told... the film invites us one other survivor, former prison nates what Cambodia is going through ness of the crisis that she frames this to get close to ordinary people, people guards, a doctor, and a photographer as in its attempts to come to terms with portrait of a relatively unknown culture. who are otherwise remote from our they return for the first time to excavate its past and to build a just future. “An excellent audiovisual aid for teach- world and daily consciousness.” the past. The singularity of the film lies ...It should be of value to those inter- ers at nearly all grade levels. Present[s] – U.N. Magazine in a confrontation between Nath, who ested in political science, genocide, wants to understand what happened, modern Southeast Asian history, and voices and images of North Koreans – “A series of fascinating and highly and the jailers, who seem stupefied as human rights.” – Educational Media both in North Korea and in South Korea expressive tableaux from distant they try to explain themselves. Reviews Online – that often remain absent from Mongolia. The film depicts the classical courses on East Asia.” – Journal of struggle between tradition and moder- Although holding the Khmer Rouge ✵François Chalais Prize, 2003 Asian Studies nity, yet avoids moralizing.” accountable is important, where does Cannes Film Festival ✵Grand Jury Prize, 2003 “An interesting piece of work [and] a – The Jutland Post (Denmark) one draw the line? Panh would like to see the highest-ranking Khmer Rouge Copenhagen Film Festival more accurate depiction of the people “A combination of the main character’s ✵ put on trial. But he knows that, ulti- FIPRESCI Prize, 2003 Leipzig of North Korea. [The film] makes it boyish charm and the crisp soundtrack’s mately, it won’t bring his parents back Film Festival possible... to get a glimpse of a country discrete cool jazzy muzak endows the ✵ to life. What is more urgent is to help North American Premiere, that previously was only imagined.” film with a light-hearted subtlety and 2003 New York Film Festival Cambodians work on their personal – Korean Quarterly rare ease more reminiscent of early memories; “It is a question of who we 105 minutes | color | 2002 ✵ Jarmusch than classic documentary.” 1999 Film Festival, Association are, where we come from, how we Sale/video: $440 | Rental/video: $125 for Asian Studies – Information (Denmark) explain ourselves to our children.” 52 minutes | color | 1998 ✵2003 MoMA Documentary Fortnight “Essential viewing, a potent, scrupu- Sale/video: $390 | Rental/video: $75 54 minutes | color | 2002 lously constructed act of witness, and a Sale/video: $390 | Rental/video: $75 step toward reconciliation with an unfathomable past.” – New York Film Festival

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PYONGYANG DIARIES THE WILD EAST - S21:THE KHMER ROUGE KILLING MACHINE PORTRAIT OF AN URBAN NOMAD ASIA CANADA SHADOW PLAY- Indonesia’s GAO RANG (Grilled Rice) JUST WATCH ME: THIN ICE Years of Living Dangerously A Film by Claude Grunspan Trudeau and the Directed by Laurence Green A Film by Chris Hilton A National Film Board of Canada More than any conflict in history, the 70’s Generation Production September 30, 1965. Six senior Indone- Vietnam War was heavily documented Directed by Catherine Annau A National Film Board of Canada Called the most gifted satirist in Amer- sian generals were brutally murdered by on film. But the small band of North Production ica, Bruce McCall made his name in the officers supposedly under control of the Vietnamese and NLF cameramen has pages of National Lampoon and Esquire Indonesian Communist Party. General been forgotten, although they founded It wasn’t easy growing up under the before becoming a favorite of Vanity Suharto put down the supposed ‘coup’ Vietnamese cinema. elegant politician Pierre Elliot Trudeau. JUST WATCH ME introduces us to eight Fair and The New Yorker. THIN ICE twenty-four hours later. GAO RANG tells the story of these people from across Canada who did – chronicles his lifelong odyssey – from cameramen/soldiers. In their own In the weeks that followed, Suharto’s Anglos and Francophones, separatists his 1940’s childhood in small town words, they describe their experiences powers extended to control of the and federalists, idealists and realists. Canada to his present day success as a filming in combat, first against the press, which (under the tutelage of They are the Trudeau generation – New York artist – writing, drawing and French and later the Americans. British spies) spread stories of commu- Canadians who grew up during the 70’s. laughing his way out of the despair of his nist women mutilating the generals. Today, much of the footage these dysfunctional family and into the dreamy This cutting edge documentary travels Soon a nationwide purge was on. cameramen and their comrades shot is zeppelins that drift through his mind. across the country from the snowdrifts disappearing. Their history (and part of Six months after the murder of the of Iqaluit to the towers of Calgary. It is Based on his sardonic memoir, the film ours) is being “recycled” for a few bits generals, with hundreds of thousands of a national love story – a story of the blends archival material, home movies of silver. alleged Communists and their support- birth of post-modern Canada that takes and interviews to recreate the story of ers dead, General Suharto deposed “Compelling... has significant value for us into the heart of an era and the every Canadian who’s ever heard the siren President Sukarno and began a dictator- scholars. A self-reflexive glimpse into hearts of the people who will shape song of the great country to the south. ship that would last until 1998. the minds of characters important to Canada’s future – the Trudeau generation. “To be Canadian and funny is difficult the development of a nascent Viet- Through recently declassified documents, “Without beating the drums too heavily, enough. To do it with the style and wit namese film industry. There is Uncle Ho interviews with liberated Indonesians, the history they piece together is a of Bruce McCall is remarkable.” with the troops fighting against the government officials, and journalists, political success story with Mr. Trudeau – Lorne Michaels, Executive French, footage of anti-aircraft gunners, SHADOW PLAY offers a startling new the (not unblemished) hero.“ Producer, Saturday Night Live interpretation of the events that shaped the image of an American warplane – The New York Times “Charming, dryly ironic, told in a bold modern Indonesian history, and changed falling from the sky, the pilots parachut- style, THIN ICE is a rich, rewarding the destiny of Southeast Asia. ing down into the hands of their “[A] superb documentary... A worthy and captors, dive-bombers at the DMZ, the highly watchable account of a not-too- story of growing older and wiser.” “In terms of the numbers killed, the resulting destruction of B-52 raids on distant time when government was actu- – John Doyle, Globe and Mail anti-communist massacres in Indonesia Hanoi, and women warrior-farmers with ally inspirational.” – Library Journal 57 minutes | color | 2000 cc rank as one of the worst mass murders rifles strapped to their backs ready to ✵ Sale/video: $285 | Rental/video: $75 of the 20th Century... far more signifi- Best Canadian First Feature Film, shoot at the warplanes overhead.“ cant than many other events that have 1999 Toronto International – Professor Jack Harris, Hobart and Film Festival received much more publicity.” – CIA William Smith Colleges, for the ✵Best Feature Documentary, 2000 Directorate of Intelligence (1968) Asian Educational Media Service Genie Awards (Canada) ✵ “Groundbreaking... presents new evidence ✵2003 Notable Video for Adults, 2001 Film Festival, Association for that international anti-Communist forces, American Library Association Canadian Studies Conference including the U.S., helped bring down ✵2002 Film Festival, Association for 76 minutes | color | 1999 cc the Sukarno regime.” – Asian Pages Asian Studies Sale/video: was $440 now $375 ✵ Rental/video: $100 2003 Film Festival, Association 52 minutes | color - b&w | 2000 for Asian Studies Sale/video: $390 | Rental/video: $75 55 minutes | color | 2002 cc Sale/video: $390 | Rental/video: $75 12

SHADOW PLAY - INDONESIA’S YEARS OF LIVING DANGEROUSLY GAO RANG (GRILLED RICE) JUST WATCH ME: TRUDEAU AND THE 70’S GENERATION CRIMINAL JUSTICE DEATH & DYING FACING THE DEMONS PROFITS OF Elisabeth Kübler-Ross Directed by Aviva Ziegler PUNISHMENT FACING DEATH Produced by Dee Cameron Directed by Catherine Scott A Film by Stefan Haupt Restorative justice is gaining attention Produced by Pat Fiske as a method of healing and reconcilia- Elisabeth Kübler-Ross devoted “Elisabeth Kübler-Ross has been widely ‘Tough-on-crime’ legislation has resulted tion. Conferences such as the one docu- her life to death and dying recognized as one of the foremost in massive prison overcrowding. To offset mented in this film can help criminals and achieved world fame in authorities in the field of death, dying this crisis, state governments have confront the enormity of their actions, the process. She has done much to de- and transition for over 20 years. It contracted out the management and perhaps preventing them from relapsing stigmatize dying, and has drawn attention might well be said that she invented liability of prisoners to multinational on the outside. For victims and their to the treatment of the terminally ill. this field as an area of legitimate corporations. In this era of “Zero Toler- families, it can help end the ordeal. Today the physician lives in seclusion in discourse in the medical community. ance,” PROFITS OF PUNISHMENT explores the Arizona desert, on the verge of the Her now-classic first book, ‘On Death FACING THE DEMONS takes us through a relationship between government and transition she researched so passionately. and Dying,’ is today considered the the entire restorative justice process, business that affects every American. master text on the subject, and is Born in Zurich in 1926 as a 2-pound capturing on film the emotionally required reading in most major medical Seemingly recession proof, companies triplet, she studied medicine in defiance charged confrontation between a and nursing schools and graduate such as Wackenhut Corrections have of her parents’ wishes and struggled for murderer and his victim’s family. schools of psychiatry and theology.” seen record rises in their stock prices. recognition as a psychiatrist in the – Health World Online “Powerful and deeply moving. A very We visit Wackenhut’s Lockhart Work United States. In 1969 she achieved vivid rendering of the complexities and Facility, where the cheap production of international fame through her work “A marvelous look at the forces that pain flowing out of a real crime when circuit boards forced a local company to with terminally ill patients in Chicago shaped Elizabeth Kübler-Ross and her put through the lens of a restorative lay off its entire workforce. and her book On Death and Dying. This life’s work... The strength of this film justice effort. Very, very highly recom- The film contrasts this unusual world of initial success was followed by countless lies in its honesty. The viewer is privy to mended.” – Educational Media business with prisoner’s real life experi- workshops and lecture tours around the the admirers as well as the detractors, Reviews Online ences, revealing the human cost of this world, and the establishment of a healing the strengths of Dr. Ross as well as her ✵Best Film, 2000 Western Psychological brave new world. Through interviews center in Virginia, which was destroyed foibles and with a balanced presenta- Association Conference with corrections officers, prisoners, and by arsonists in 1994. Since that time, tion is then left to draw her own 58 minutes | color | 1999 prison entrepreneurs, PROFITS OF Elisabeth Kübler-Ross has suffered a conclusions about this important Sale/video: $390 | Rental/video: $75 PUNISHMENT looks at what happens to series of strokes. Today she lives alone teacher in the arena of death and dying.” justice when money is made out of the outside Phoenix, Arizona. – Journal of Psychosocial Oncology BLUE END deprivation of liberty. Conversations with Elisabeth Kübler-Ross “A fine documentary that captures the A Film by Kaspar Kasics “One of the best, most thought provoking in Arizona form the core of the film. essence of Dr. Kübler-Ross – life and Joseph Jernigan was executed in Texas videos I have seen related to corrections.” She looks back on her life, describes work.” – Ingrid H. Shafer, Professor of in 1993. After the lethal injection, his – Kevin E. Courtright, Criminal her childhood and her work, and explains Philosophy and Religion, University corpse was given to scientists Victor Justice Policy Review how she herself faces aging and of Science and Arts of Oklahoma Spitzer and Michael Ackerman, frozen impending death. Interviews with her “Highly Recommended. Well structured Two Lengths Available: in blue gelatin, planed off (over a period sisters, friends and colleagues, as well cc and well paced... gives the viewer 57 minutes | color | 2002 of four months) millimeter-by-millimeter, as extensive archival material provide a Sale/video: $248 | Rental/video: $75 and then photographed. Jernigan was disturbing insight into prison privatization, comprehensive look into the life and | | then “reborn” on the Internet as the and other profit making enterprises in the work of this extraordinary woman. 98 minutes color 2002 Sale/video: $298 | Rental/video: $100 first completely digitized human being. American penal system.” – Educational Media Reviews Online “Masterful! Draws us the rich and “An effective critique of the intersection highly active life of [Kübler-Ross] in a ✵2002 Human Rights Watch of medical and legal ethics, the justice highly tense, touching and entertaining Film Festival system, and technology. Intriguing, informa- way.” – In Munich (Germany) 52 minutes | color | 2001 tive, and overall smart.” – Janus Head “Draws with subtle melancholy a picture Sale/video: $390 | Rental/video: $75 85 minutes | color | 2000 of Elisabeth Kübler-Ross. Highly recom- Sale/video: $440 | Rental/video: $100 mended!” – Kleine Zeitung (Austria) 13

BLUE END PROFITS OF PUNISHMENT Elisabeth Kübler-Ross:FACING DEATH ENVIRONMENT CHOROPAMPA - The Price of Gold THE COW JUMPED TRINKETS & BEADS A Film by Ernesto Cabellos & Stephanie Boyd OVER THE MOON A Film by Christopher Walker This is the story of an Andean In cinéma vérité style, illustrated by A Film by Christopher Walker After twenty years of devas- paradise lost. On June 2nd, archival footage, CHOROPAMPA THE COW JUMPED OVER THE MOON tating pollution by oil compa- 2000 at the Yanacocha gold- exposes the global gold trade’s nasty documents the interactions between nies in the Amazon basin of mine in the Peruvian Andes, 151 kilo- underbelly, and makes it clear that the the tradition-based knowledge of West Ecuador, Dallas-based MAXUS promises grams of liquid mercury spilled over a village was sacrificed to American busi- African nomads and the technological to be the first company that will protect 25-mile long area, contaminating three ness interests. The story is a poignant knowledge of U.S. agencies like NASA. the rainforest and respect the people mountain villages, including reminder of the real cost of gold. who live there. Choropampa. The environmental cata- For centuries the Fulani have followed “A great teaching tool.” – Peter Woicke, TRINKETS & BEADS tells the story of strophe turned this quiet village into a traditional migration routes in search of President of the International Finance how MAXUS set out to convince the hotbed of civil resistance. pasture – from the edge of the Sahara Corporation of the World Bank to the Niger River delta. But now, both Huaorani to allow drilling on their land. The mine, jointly owned by a Peruvian “It’s in the capturing of events and competition from rice-farmers and drought The story starts in 1957 with the Huao- company, the World Bank, and the personal conflicts that CHOROPAMPA have caused a lack of pasture and rani massacre of five American mission- Newmont Mining Corp of Colorado, delivers its strongest punch. [The film] water, threatening the herd’s existence. aries, moving through the evangeliza- insists the problem was quickly asks larger questions about corporate tion of the tribe, pollution of Huaorani resolved, while villagers tell a starkly This film shows how in Dakar, Senegal, and government responsibility in Third lands by Texaco and Shell, and manipu- different story. Nearly two years later, scientists download images that indi- World regions rich in natural resources lation of Huaorani leaders by MAXUS. more than 900 people continue to suffer cate sources of water and pasture from but poor in material wealth.” – Variety Now the Huaorani leader, Moi, is trying the debilitating effects of mercury NASA and NOAA satellites, and present to unite the tribe to force MAXUS off poisoning, and proper medical care has “Impressive... captures all the subtlety this knowledge to the Fulani. their lands. not been provided. and contradictions of power relations in As it surveys this innovative relation- the Andes. Recommended to anyone The story of how the Huaorani are Villagers liken the mine owning foreign- ship, the film poses important questions interested in globalization or the spirited attempting to survive in the Petroleum ers to modern-day conquistadors, evok- about the nature of knowledge and ways in which common people resist it.” Age on their own terms exposes one of ing the impoverished region’s troubled, technology, autonomy against confor- the best-hidden consequences of our – Mary Van Buren, Professor of mity, localization versus globalization. historical relationship with gold. Anthropology, Colorado State University relentless drive to “develop” the world. “Foreigners have been coming and “Highly Recommended... a wonderful “Upsetting and finally, infuriating... taking our gold and Peru remains as “Grabs you with its dramatic photography instance of how technology can assist a fine work.” – Peter Matthiessen, poor as ever,” recalls a farmer. and narrative urgency.” – Toronto Star in efforts to save the environment, Author of At Play In The Fields Of ✵ But when the young Lot Saavedra is 2003 Film Festival, Latin American climate, and diversity of the world in The Lord Studies Association elected mayor the town finds new which we live.” – Educational Media ✵ ✵2002 Amsterdam International Reviews Online 1998 Award of Merit in Film, hope. Saavedra promises to win health Latin American Studies Association Documentary Festival ✵ care and fair compensation for the 2001 Film Festival, ✵Best Cultural Survival Film, 1998 victims, and takes on corrupt politi- Two Lengths Available: African Literature Association Telluride Mountainfilm Festival ✵ cians, company officials, and shady 52 minutes | color | 2002 2000 Film Festival, ✵Gold Apple, 1997 National medical experts. Months of tense, frus- Sale/video: $390 | Rental/video: $75 African Studies Association Educational Media Network ✵ trated talks culminate in the dramatic | | Public Prize, 2000 Festival de 75 minutes color 2002 52 minutes | color | 1996 blockade of the mine’s vehicles, but | Pastoralisme et Grands Espaces Sale/video: $440 Rental/video: $100 Sale/video: $390 | Rental/video: $75 cracks in the community threaten to (France) ✵ undermine the villagers’ resolve. 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CHOROPAMPA - THE PRICE OF GOLD THE COW JUMPED OVER THE MOON TRINKETS & BEADS ETHICS DEATH ON REQUEST THE VANISHING LINE THE ABORTION PILL A CHILD’S CENTURY A Film by Maarten Nederhorst A Film by Maren Monsen A Film by Marion Lipschutz & OF WAR Rose Rosenblatt This astonishing documen- When does life become a fate A Film by Shelley Saywell Narrated by Christopher Plummer tary records Cees de Joode, worse than death? In this age Opponents call it the ‘Death Pill.’ a Dutch man suffering from of medical “miracles,” an Supporters call it the ‘moral property of From the perspective of children, Lou Gehrig’s Disease, as he, his wife increasing number of doctors, patients women.’ THE ABORTION PILL docu- A CHILD’S CENTURY OF WAR takes Antoinette, and his doctor choose and their families are being forced to ments the decade-long battle to bring the viewer on a journey through the euthanasia to end his torment. deal with this troubling, complex question. RU486 to the United States. past century, the bloodiest in history, In 1993, it became obvious that the THE VANISHING LINE, a contemplative The film offers an intense, first hand a period in which war has increasingly illness would swiftly take Cees’ life. film by Stanford University professor and look at the issues and people that have targeted the young. Already in a wheelchair, his legs and physician Maren Monsen, explores the fueled the continuing controversy Three contemporary conflicts are the feet paralyzed, unable to move his right timeless implications of this contemporary surrounding RU486, while showing how heart of the film. We hear the stories shoulder or arm, and almost incapable dilemma. Combining poetic imagery, a potent mix of business, politics and of the abducted, raped and amputated of speaking, Cees started a journal using documentary footage, and soul-searching ethics kept this drug out of the U.S. for children of Sierra Leone, the words of his personal computer. He let his doctor commentary, Monsen evokes a provocative close to ten years. children growing up on Martyr Street in know, as his body degenerated further, vocabulary for her exploration of death. “Well-balanced portrait of this long- Hebron (the most dangerous street in he wished to choose his time to die. THE VANISHING LINE is one physician’s time debate, including clips with the the West Bank), and those of orphans DEATH ON REQUEST then chronicles exploration of how to care for the dying, pill’s inventor, the executive director of from the two recent Chechen wars. The the period after which Cees made this and looks at the choices – the right Operation Rescue, former FDA director film intercuts these accounts with diary decision, the many visits his doctor paid balance of technology, compassion and David Kessler, and the president of the entries of children in the past, estab- on him and Antoinette, and the actual care – needed to treat what has no cure. Population Council, which now holds lishing parallels between historical and administration of the lethal injection. the drug’s patent.” – Video Librarian contemporary conflicts. “Marries the clear-eyed directedness of “Strongly recommended... A discreet, science to the raw honesty and fluid “THE ABORTION PILL provides a By looking at the way today’s wars tasteful, but unflinching look at the reality visual vocabulary of the arts.“ thoughtful overview of the latest battle- indoctrinate children, it is also an eye of [euthanasia].” – Video Librarian – Philadelphia Weekly ground in this continuing American to the future. As we listen, their conflict.” – Time Out New York unflinching stories throw a disturbing “An essential document in the debate “Highly recommended!” – Educational light on the human condition at the on euthanasia.” – The Guardian Media Reviews Online “This documentary should help women beginning of the new century. make an informed choice.” ✵Silver Apple Winner, 1997 “Compelling… Maren Monsen brings a – Allan Rosenfield, MD, Columbia “Highly Recommended. This is a strong National Educational Media unique perspective to this polished and powerful film.” – Educational Network Competition School of Public Health production.” – Booklist Media Reviews Online ✵Freddie Award Winner, 1996 56 minutes | color | 1997 International Health & Medical “A highly articulate documentary tech- Sale/video: $245 | Rental/video: $75 “You must not miss this documentary, Films Competition nique laced with imaginative use of pop as tough as it is to watch... A genius culture images and sounds... creates a 57 minutes | color | 1994 work of staggering heartbreak.” vivid and illuminating revelation of how Sale/video: was $285 now $225 – The Toronto Star those who are dying might be better Rental/video: $75 ✵2003 Notable Video for Adults, served.” – The Hollywood Reporter American Library Association ✵Education Program of the ✵ See page 13 for FACING DEATH, the 2002 Nominee, Best Documentary, Year Award, National Hospice new film about Elisabeth Kübler-Ross. International Documentary Organization, (1998) Association ✵Award of Excellence, 1998 | | Nashville Independent Film Festival 90 minutes color 2001 Sale/video: $248 | Rental/video: $75 52 minutes | color | 1998 Sale/video: $225 | Rental/video: $75 15

THE VANISHING LINE THE ABORTION PILL A CHILD’S CENTURY OF WAR ETHICS BONHOEFFER INVESTIGATION WITNESS TO WAR A Film by Martin Doblmeier OF A FLAME - A Film by Deborah Shaffer & David Goodman “If your opponent has a conscience, As filmmaker Martin Doblmeier explains, A Documentary Portrait then follow Gandhi and nonviolence. “Bonhoeffer is one of the great examples of the Catonsville Nine WITNESS TO WAR is the But if your enemy has no conscience of moral courage in the face of conflict, A Film by Lynne Sachs Academy Award winning like Hitler, then follow Bonhoeffer.” I believe part of the reason the film is story of Dr. Charlie Clements – Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. getting attention now is because many “Our apologies, good friends, for the who, as a pilot in Vietnam, seemed of the issues Bonhoeffer faced – the fracture of good order, the burning of headed for a distinguished Air Force Dietrich Bonhoeffer was the young role of the church in the modern world, paper instead of children, the angering career until he refused further combat German theologian who raised one of national loyalty and personal conscience, of the orderlies in the front parlor of the missions. Stripped of his military iden- the first clear voices of resistance to what the call to being a “peacemaker” charnel house... The time is past when tity, Clements dedicated his life to non- Adolf Hitler. really means – are issues we continue good men can remain silent, when violence and healing, ultimately to find An acclaimed preacher, pacifist and to struggle with today.” obedience can segregate men from himself tending wounded behind rebel author, Bonhoeffer came to the famed public risk, when the poor can die with- lines in El Salvador. “A noteworthy film. Few viewers can Abyssinian Baptist Church in Harlem on out defense.” – The Catonsville Nine see [it] without being profoundly “Fascinating.” – Booklist a teaching fellowship. When Bonhoeffer On May 17, 1968 nine people walked into moved! – Journal of Lutheran Ethics ✵1986 Academy Award Winner, returned to Germany in 1932 he had a a Catonsville, Maryland draft board office, new awareness of racial prejudice. He “Mesmerizing... unearths the workings Best Short Documentary grabbed hundreds of selective service ✵ challenged his church to stand with the of this remarkable man’s mind [and] Blue Ribbon Winner, 1985 records and burnt them with homemade American Film Festival Jews in their time of need, and eventu- performs the difficult task of providing napalm. The publicity and news coverage ally joined his family in the plots to kill key biographical information about from the ensuing trial helped to galvanize an 30 minutes | color | 1985 | Hitler. His books, Cost of Discipleship, Bonhoeffer while also focusing on his increasingly disillusioned American public. Sale/video: $225 Rental/video: $60 Letters and Papers from Prison, and shifting religious and political beliefs.” Ethics, were written during the struggle – Chicago Tribune Long unseen archival footage interwoven and are considered classics in the world with interviews with Daniel and Philip I AM BECOME DEATH - “A touching narrative on the nature of of religion and ethics. Berrigan, Howard Zinn, and others raises They Made the Bomb faith.” – The New York Times essential questions about civil disobedience A Film by Arthur MacCaig The film features interviews with family “An informative and complex portrait of and citizenship that are as meaningful and members, friends, students and associ- After four years, a budget of $2.2 billion, one of the 20th century’s most interest- controversial today as they were in 1968. ates who knew Bonhoeffer personally. and a work force of over 100,000, The ing figures. The film beautifully reveals It also features interviews with “To those who think that everything in a Manhattan Project produced the ulti- the conflict between Bonhoeffer’s inter- outstanding historians and theologians society and its culture must move in lock mate weapon – the atomic bomb. Only pretation of Christ’s words and life, and including Archbishop Desmond Tutu. step at times of crisis, INVESTIGATION a handful of scientists on the project the path of resistance to Hitler that he Extensive research both in Europe and OF A FLAME might seem to be off- were aware of its implications. This felt compelled to follow... The film the US yielded extraordinary archival message. But the film is in essence documentary is about those people, touches on interesting aspects of footage, including a speech by Hitler patriotic... saluting U.S. democracy as it cloistered away from 1943 to 1945 at Bonhoeffer’s life and work... and the list praying for God’s blessing on him and pays homage to the U.S. tradition of Los Alamos, New Mexico: a place that of interviewees is impressive. “ the German people. Also incorporated dissent.” – The Baltimore Sun officially did not exist. – EthicsDaily.com are never-before seen personal and “Excellent and Highly Recommended! “Excellent. The best of any of the docu- 90 minutes | color | 2003 family photographs, including the only Contributes to a better understanding mentaries produced on the subject.” Sale/video: was $348 now $298 known moving footage of Dietrich. of the non-declared war era.” – Harold M. 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BONHOEFFER INVESTIGATION OF A FLAME - I AM BECOME DEATH - A DOCUMENTARY PORTRAIT OF THE CATONSVILLE NINE THEY MADE THE BOMB ETHICS JUSTICE AND THE GENERALS STATES OF TERROR HUMAN WEAPON A Film by Gail Pellett Directed by Arthur Mac Caig Directed by Ilan Ziv Produced by Ilan Ziv & Serge Gordey The murder of four missionaries in Building on this, another historic case is Between 1983 and 1987, the Spanish El Salvador has become a landmark test preparing for trial. Known as the and French governments sponsored an HUMAN WEAPON is the first in-depth case for the American legal system. Romagoza case, it is brought by four unprecedented wave of terrorist activity history of suicide bombing. Through its coverage of this and Salvadorans who are seeking damages intended to suppress the Basque In Iran, the film looks at the “Basiji.” another case, JUSTICE AND THE for the tortures inflicted on them by Separatist movement (ETA). GENERALS reveals the complexities Salvadoran security forces during the In Lebanon, interviews with Hezbollah, During this period the Spanish govern- behind El Salvador’s civil war abuses, years 1979 to 1983. a former CIA agent, and a martyr’s ment, with the assistance of the French and the formidable hurdles facing those family explore the 1983 attacks at the As it offers unique insight into a new authorities, directed the Anti-Terrorist seeking justice under the Torture Victim U.S. Embassy and Marine barracks chapter in international human rights Liberation Group (GAL) to target suspected Protection Act. law, JUSTICE AND THE GENERALS also members of ETA. The ensuing series of In Sri Lanka, the film looks at the Tamil In the late 1980s, the bodies of Catholic maps the confusion and barbarism at the shootings, bombings and kidnappings Tigers. nuns Ita Ford, Maura Clarke, Dorothy tragic heart of a conflict whose wounds, left 27 people dead and over 30 seriously In Israel and Palestine, the film traces Kazel and lay missionary Jean Donovan two decades later, are far from healed. injured in the French Basque Country. the strategy of targeting civilians with were exhumed from a crude grave. “It is incredibly encouraging to see a Through rare archival footage and inter- interviews of failed bombers, doctors, An investigation led to the conviction film that accurately depicts so many of views with government officials, prose- psychiatrists, and leaders of Hamas. of five Salvadoran National Guardsmen. the issues involved in securing justice cutors, journalists, and the families of But who was behind the murders? In the United States, with author Robert and accountability, whether at a state, victims, STATES OF TERROR conducts Jay Lifton, the film explores some of the It was clear to Bill Ford, brother of Ita, regional or international level.” a methodical investigation into the GAL. historical ramifications of suicide bombing. that the Guardsmen were only trigger- – Dr. Kelly Dawn Askin, Director of The film concludes with the extraordinary Rather than presenting suicide bombing men. With the Lawyers Committee for the International Criminal Justice trials of high-ranking Spanish officials, as a local phenomenon in a particular Human Rights, Ford set out to discover Institute, Washington, D.C. which implicated everyone from Cabinet conflict, HUMAN WEAPON strives to who had ordered, directed, and covered Ministers to the Prime Minister of Spain “A complex story, elegantly conveyed understand the historical development, up the murders. in a state-sanctioned campaign of terrorism. through the lives of people closely and how its use has unleashed a new In the 1990’s declassified U.S. govern- connected to the facts of the case. It is As it documents the activities of the GAL, form of warfare, with an impact we’ve ment records revealed that the State particularly strong in highlighting the the film raises disturbing questions that yet to grasp. Department had withheld information strengths – and weaknesses – of using many governments, including our own, “✵✵✵✵ (4 Stars!). Chilling and incriminating high levels of the courts to redress the massive violations must face. Should democratic govern- instructive.” – David Sterritt, Christian Salvadoran military. This allowed Ford of rights that occur in repressive regimes. ments sanction murder? Can we fight Science Monitor and other relatives to sue two generals, The film invites discussion at a dozen terror with terror? José Guillermo García and Eugenio levels.” – Professor Peter Rosenblum, “A gripping and important documentary.” “More than a film, a real investigation. Vides Casanova. In an unusual legal Harvard Law School Human Rights – Stephen Holden, The New York Times Explosive.” – Le Figaro move, the case is being decided in Program “Highly Recommended! An excellent American civil court under the Torture “A great film-document... succeeds in ✵2003 Award of Merit in Film, introduction to this currently prevalent Victim Protection Act, which provides unraveling the threads of a complex Latin American Studies Association form of warfare.” – Educational Media recourse to victims of torture or extraju- history.” – Le Monde ✵2002 Amnesty International Reviews Online dicial killings anywhere in the world. Film Festival 59 minutes | color | 2000 ✵2002 FilmFest, Middle East | 86 minutes | color | 2002 Sale/video: $390 Rental/video: $75 Studies Association Sale/video: $398 | Rental/video: $100 ✵2002 Prix Europa, Study Guide Available. Special Commendation 55 minutes | color | 2002 cc Sale/video: $390 | Rental/video: $75

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JUSTICE AND THE GENERALS STATES OF TERROR HUMAN WEAPON ETHICS EVOLUTION GACACA, LIVING TOGETHER AGAIN IN RWANDA? TED’S EVOLUTION COINCIDENCE IN Directed by Anne Aghion Directed by Lou Petho PARADISE Produced by Philip Brooks, Laurent Bocahut & Anne Aghion Produced by David Noakes & A Film by Matthias Von Gunten Lou Petho “The film captures quite precisely much The film crew was present when the Charles Darwin started a COINCIDENCE IN PARADISE is of what is most compelling and unset- nearly 1,000 Rwandans were gathered revolution when he published a comprehensive portrayal of tling about Rwanda’s quest for justice for the first of a series of open-air his evolutionary theory which, the international, multidisci- after genocide and, more: it captures “Pre-Gacaca” hearings. Amidst a people since then, has become the accepted plinary effort to explain why our ances- the feel of Rwanda, the landscape, the renowned for their reserve, Anne Aghion scientific doctrine. But now scientist tors evolved when and where they did. texture of the place, the rhythm of spent six weeks recording the intertwin- Ted Steele is stirring things up. The film presents some of the most influ- speech and movement, the weird bril- ing stories of survivors and prisoners, ential scholars working today, including liance of colors amid the gloom of the and their visions of the future. Ted’s research challenges the Weis- Kamoya Kimeu (the most successful fossil spirit.” – Philip Gourevitch, Author of mann Barrier, and gives new life to one “The most nuanced and intelligent film hunter), Paleontologist Dr. Meave Leakey, We wish to inform you that tomorrow of the most discredited theories in the I have seen to date on Rwanda after Paleontologist Tim White of Berkeley, we will be killed with our families, history of science. His proposition is the genocide: it depicts both the pain of John Gurche (an anthropologist known Stories from Rwanda based on the work of Jean Baptiste de the past and the complexity of trying to Lamarck, published some 50 years for sculptures of early man), and Pale- In 1994, decades of ethnic scapegoating establish justice and move towards before The Origin of Species. Ted is ontologist Elisabeth Vrba, who studies culminated in the wholesale slaughter reconciliation. Beautiful, sad, but ulti- convinced that we can pass on genetic the probable environmental conditions of the Rwanda’s Tutsi minority, along mately perhaps hopeful, the film never improvements, such as stronger immu- that existed when Homo sapiens emerged. with many moderate Hutus. Vast preaches but rather educates in a nity, to our children. From desert gorges to laboratories and numbers of ordinary citizens became profound way.” – Professor Alison des to the sculptor’s studio, COINCIDENCE killers – some willingly and some by Forges, State University of New Encouraged by the great science IN PARADISE frames the latest discov- force. More than 800,000 lives were York/Buffalo, Author, Leave None to philosopher Karl Popper, Ted launched eries that may answer the question – taken, and the country was left in a Tell the Story: Genocide in Rwanda his first book in 1979. Since then, he what exactly was it that initiated our state of devastation. and his collaborators have battled the “An excellent pedagogical tool... It lets scientific establishment to have their species’ birth? Under a new government, Rwanda is Rwandans speak about the challenges research accepted, and their own “Excellent! Adeptly introduces the wide rebuilding its infrastructure, but its most of rebuilding a life, a sense of commu- universities for academic freedom, a range of evidence that contributes to an difficult task is to reconcile the Hutu nity, and a system of justice after atro- basic tenet of academia. improved understanding of our origins. and Tutsi. GACACA, LIVING TOGETHER cious violence [and] avoids the pitfalls The conversational style that is AGAIN IN RWANDA? follows the first so many documentaries fall into.” Has Ted devoted a lifetime to pursuing achieved through direct interaction with steps in a bold experiment: the Gacaca – Peter Uvin, Director of the Institute a false dream or is he about to change the researchers in their working environ- (Ga-CHA-cha) Tribunals. for Human Security, Tufts University, what we know about life on earth? The ments makes this film... an interesting Author, Aiding Violence, the Devel- stakes are high: many careers, and no The Tribunals represent a remarkable opment Enterprise in Rwanda less than our understanding of evolu- and highly accessible film that will democratization of justice for a people tion, are on the line. satisfy educators and students alike.” accustomed to dictatorial authority, and ✵2003 Film Festival, – Journal of Human Evolution offer a voice, perhaps a therapeutic African Studies Association “An entertaining documentary that “Succeeds admirably in its exploration of catharsis, to survivors. However, the unfolds like a detective story. The 55 minutes | color | 2002 the evolutionary roots of humans [and system is fraught with potential pitfalls: science is explained simply... And it Sale/video: $390 | Rental/video: $75 does] an excellent job of communicating minimally trained judges will be raises the important question of who the excitement of scientific research. assigned complex cases, false accusa- pays for risky research.” A thoughtful, meditative treatment of tions or confessions are possible, – Sydney Morning Herald human evolution.” revenge or fear of revenge will affect ✵ Winner, 2003 BANFF Rockie – Palaeontologia Electronica testimonies, inconsistent application of Award, Popular Science and the law, etc. Natural History Category ✵2000 Award of Excellence, Society for Visual Anthropology 55 minutes | color | 2002 88 minutes | color | 1999 18 Sale/video: $390 | Rental/video: $75 Sale/video: $440 | Rental/video: $125

GACACA, LIVING TOGETHER AGAIN IN RWANDA?TED’S EVOLUTION COINCIDENCE IN PARADISE EVOLUTION FILM STUDIES THE ORIGIN OF LIFE: FROM THE EAST (D’Est) CHRONICLE OF A SUMMER (Chronique d’un été) What Science Has to Say A Film by Chantal Akerman A Film by Jean Rouch & Edgar Morin Directed by Lucio Morettini Paris. The summer of 1960. More than 40 years later, CHRONICLE OF Scientific Advisor & Writer: FROM THE EAST retraces a Pier Luigi Luisi, PhD journey from the end of While war rages in Algeria A SUMMER remains as ambitious and summer to deepest winter, and the Congo struggles for powerful as the day it was first released. How did pre-biotic molecules organize independence, ethnographic filmmaker from East Germany, across Poland and “The film that invented cinéma vérité themselves into complex structures, and Jean Rouch and sociologist Edgar Morin the Baltics, to Moscow. It is a voyage and cinema-direct is as provocative then “life”? After a general historical send two women out into the streets of Chantal Akerman wanted to make now as it was forty years ago. Today introduction, this film discovers what the city to interview passersby. shortly after the collapse of the Soviet we take the walking camera, portable answers contemporary science has. bloc, reconstructing her impressions in “Are you happy, sir?” From this simple sync-sound, and filming the intimacies After presenting the basic nature of a documentary bordering fiction. starting question, the inner lives of the of everyday life for-granted; in CHRONI- proteins, amino acids, and nucleic acids By filming “everything that touched characters are revealed. They include CLE OF A SUMMER you can see the (RNA and DNA), THE ORIGIN OF LIFE: me,” Akerman sifts through and fixes Marceline, a Holocaust survivor; filmic birth of these techniques. And explains the two most significant experi- upon sounds and images as she follows Angelo, who works grueling shifts in a see workers, deportees, Africans, intel- mental approaches to the question of how the thread of this subjective crossing. Renault factory; Landry, a student from lectuals, students, and people on the complex macromolecules, and possibly Without dialogue or commentary, FROM the Ivory Coast; and Marilou, a young, street live the Parisian life in the primordial cellular boundaries, arose. THE EAST is a cinematographic elegy. beautiful, deeply depressed Italian summer of 1960.” – Steven Feld, Editor, immigrant. As the film progresses, the Ciné-Ethnography, by Jean Rouch The first approach is usually called the “One of Akerman’s best films.” light opening scenes give way to inti- “RNA World,” which bases the origin of – Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader “I think the reason why CHRONICLE OF mate revelations and hotly contested life on RNA. A SUMMER still works today, and is an “Her camera shows flat landscapes and political arguments. important film, is that Rouch and Morin The second approach is known as ribbons of city streets, modulated by CHRONICLE OF A SUMMER is a true made a cinéma vérité documentary “compartmentalist,” as it identifies the the change of seasons, by the succes- landmark in film history. Rouch and which tries to include the truth of ‘fiction.’” closed compartment that constitutes a sion of day and night. The East is a Morin were among the first filmmakers – Ellen Freyer, Author, Chronicle of a cell as the fundamental structure that space of muffled sounds, traversed by to use hand held sync sound 16mm Summer - Ten Years After, in Lewis led to the origin of life. This encom- the footsteps of passers-by, sporadically equipment. They also coined the term Jacob (ed.), The Documentary Tradition passes the “autopoietic” hypothesis. pieced by music, laughter and strange cinéma vérité to describe their interjections. It is an epidermal space: “The key cinéma-vérité film.” THE ORIGIN OF LIFE looks at the approach, although their practice, plac- the camera slides over appearances – Brian Winston, Author, Claiming strengths of each approach, and at ing people in situations and provoking (‘like a caress’, says Akerman)… The the Real what each still can’t explain. responses, differs from what later came East, no longer monolithically imper- ✵Serpent of Gold (Best Science to be called vérité. Their groundbreak- “What this film engages is humanity sonal, is shown as both familiar and Film), 2001 Filmobidos Science ing cinematography (featuring camera- itself.” – Roland Barthes completely strange. This is a haunting Film Festival (Spain) man Raoul Coutard) and use of the and, quite literally, extraordinary film.” “A seminal work!” – Jonathan Rosenbaum, urban landscape deeply affected the 43 minutes | color | 2000 – San Francisco Film Festival Chicago Reader Sale/video: $375 | Rental/video: $75 French New Wave and subsequent “If this isn’t a masterpiece, tear the documentary filmmaking. The film’s ✵2003 Film Festival, American word from your dictionary.” – The Nation self-reflexive structure, in which Rouch Anthropological Association ✵Fipresci Award, 1961 ✵One of the 10 Best Films of the and Morin screen the film for the partic- Cannes Film Festival 1990s, J. Hoberman, Artforum ipants for their critique, is still, amaz- ingly, contemporary. 85 minutes | b&w | 1961 110 minutes | color | 1993 Sale/video: $440 | Rental/video: $125 Sale/video: $440 | Rental/video: $125

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FROM THE EAST (D’EST) CHRONICLE OF A SUMMER (CHRONIQUE D’UN ÉTÉ) FILM STUDIES CINEMA, OF OUR TIME Produced by Janine Bazine & André S. Labarthe CHANTAL AKERMAN BY ROBERT BRESSON - JOHN CASSAVETES CHANTAL AKERMAN Without A Trace Directed by André S. Labarthe Produced for French television, Written and Directed by Directed by François Weyergans John Cassavetes, the father of Ameri- this series evolved from Cinéastes Chantal Akerman Robert Bresson (1901-1999) was one can independent film, made several de Notre Temps, an earlier series of When asked to participate in the of cinema’s great artists. Completing influential films including Shadows, original documentaries made during Cinema, of Our Time series, Chantal 13 feature films in a career that spanned The Killing of a Chinese Bookie and the sixties and seventies, which Akerman jokingly suggested herself as more than four decades, Bresson A Woman Under the Influence. This profiled dozens of the world’s subject matter. She envisioned a film directed masterpieces such as A Man installment of the Cinema, of Our Time consisting solely of excerpts from her series, JOHN CASSAVETES, was shot in great filmmakers of that era. Escaped, Pickpocket, Diary of a Country films, but when pressed by the producers Priest, and The Trial of Joan of Arc. Los Angeles in 1965, while his film to include footage of herself, Akerman Faces is being edited, and continues in While never a popular success, Bresson The eight films now available from grudgingly agreed. Paris in 1968. Cinema, Of Our Time (see pages won the support of prominent critics The first part opens with Akerman read- such as Andre Bazin, Susan Sontag and When we meet Cassavetes he has 20 - 21, and ONE DAY IN THE LIFE ing from a text directly to the camera, Richard Roud. Many directors – from made three films: Shadows, and two OF ANDREI ARSENEVICH on page 23) describing the problems she encountered Godard to Tarkovsky, from Fassbinder to disastrous Hollywood projects. Faces can be purchased as a series (see making this film. What emerges from Scorsese – have cited him as a major was Cassavetes’ response to his Holly- below), or individually. this mise-en-scene is a funny, often influence on their work. wood experience. personal, and always thoughtful confes- As Cassavetes drives his convertible sion from this perceptive filmmaker. Filmed mostly in his country home in Many of these luminaries are no 1965, incorporating clips from several through the Hollywood canyons, he longer with us, but now, as part of Part two lets Akerman’s films speak for of his films, and with a new introduc- discusses Faces and the Los Angeles her, taking clips from her extensive Cinema, Of Our Time, they return, tion by Weyergans today, WITHOUT A industry, and at his home (where Faces filmography and linking them until they was filmed), we meet the crew and see joined by their successors. It is TRACE is a unique historical record that form a new film, offering glimpses of provides unparalleled insight into the the start of editing. fascinating for film historians, or several other works – forays into exper- work and ideas of Robert Bresson. Three years later in Paris, Cassavetes for anyone who just plain loves imental film, comedic shorts, musicals, “In a face-to-face interview with Bres- is no longer the same man, rather more movies, to view these directors in narrative features. son, the viewer gets an insight on the mature and introspective. With Gena the light of the rich history of the “One of the finest filmmakers working director’s style of filmmaking, his Rowlands looking on, he discusses world cinema that preceded them; anywhere... an excellent introduction to philosophy and other pleasantries American society, and contrasts a history that was, and is, so her work. A Must-See.” – Jonathan such as his living conditions in Paris. Shadows, a film about adolescence eloquently chronicled in this Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader A number of excellent film clips... round and hope, with Faces, a film about middle age and disenchantment. unique series of films. “Recommended. If viewers can put out this important film.” – Historical aside their notions of what a documen- Media Review “Recommended! Echoes the cinema tary about a filmmaker is supposed to “Recommended. Robert Bresson is the verite style of Cassavetes’ films them- Discounts available if multiple episodes do, they will find that [the film] offers most under-rated of the major French selves by allowing Cassavetes to speak are purchased! Please inquire for details. an illuminating introduction to Aker- film directors. A valuable addition to openly about himself, work and passion man’s work.” – Educational Media comprehensive college film collections.” for an emotionally charged cinema that Reviews Online – Educational Media Reviews Online seeks to visualize the spark among ✵ human beings.” – Educational Media 1997 San Francisco International 64 minutes | b&w | 1994 Reviews Online Film Festival Sale/video: $390 | Rental/video: $75 64 minutes | color | 1996 50 minutes | b&w | 1998 Sale/video: $390 | Rental/video: $75 Sale/video: $375 | Rental/video: $75

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ERIC ROHMER: HHH - A Portrait of AKI KAURISMÄKI THE NEW WAVE With Supporting Evidence Hou Hsiao-hsien Directed by Guy Girard BY ITSELF Directed by André S. Labarthe Directed by Olivier Assayas Produced by AMIP Directed by Robert Valey & André S. Labarthe Rummaging through his files and note- The acclaimed filmmaker of Flowers of Renowned filmmaker Aki books for the spark that inspired a Shanghai, Hou Hsiao-hsien has been Kaurismäki, creator of The Probably the most important post-war particular film, comparing successive called “the figure of the decade” by critics Man Without a Past (Grand film movement, “la Nouvelle Vague” accounts of the same script, projecting such as J. Hoberman and Amy Taubin, Prix du Jury, 2002 Cannes Film Festival) revitalized cinema all over the world. and acclaimed films such as Ariel, screen tests on his office wall, in short and is considered by many to be the After Henri Langlois (co-founder of Leningrad Cowboys Go America, and substantiating what he says at every greatest Taiwanese filmmaker of all time. Cinémathèque Française) provides the Drifting Clouds, is the subject of AKI turn, Eric Rohmer opens up in this introduction, all of the most important Examining the questions of identity and KAURISMÄKI, the latest release from revealing documentary portrait. directors are here, including Claude “native land,” Hou Hsiao-hsien returns the Cinema, of Our Time series. A patriarch of the French New Wave, to the setting of his youth to talk to Chabrol, Jacques Démy, Jean-Luc Eric Rohmer was editor of Cahiers du childhood friends and discuss his films, The younger member of Finland’s most Godard, Jacques Rivette, Jean Rouch, Cinema, and is the director of such classic which are inseparably linked with the prolific and irreverent filmmaking team, François Truffaut, and Agnès Varda. Kaurismäki, together with older brother films as Claire’s Knee, Chloe in the recent history of Taiwan, and to his own After the huge initial successes of 1959 Mika, virtually invented “The New Afternoon and My Night at Maud’s. For evolution. and 1960 (The 400 Blows, Hiroshima over five decades, Rohmer has created Finnish Cinema.” “The 21st century belongs to Asia, and Mon Amour, Breathless), the movement sumptuous, eloquent films that explore Hou is its historian, its prophet, and its Since 1981, Kaurismäki has made was struggling by 1964. Truffaut, Rivette the terrain between love and morality, poet laureate.” – Jonathan Rosenbaum, twenty-two films, many of which are and Godard all discuss the “failure” of producing witty meditations on human Chicago Reader excerpted in this documentary. One of the New Wave. tenderness and the wondrousness of life. the fastest-working filmmakers in the Beginning and ending with Godard “Highly Recommended!” – Educational world, Kaurismäki is a cinematic crafts- Rohmer elaborates on the technical, directing a sequence from Band of Media Reviews Online man. He works within a strict economic philosophical and aesthetic aspects of Outsiders, THE NEW WAVE BY ITSELF framework, which he orchestrates, where film and filmmaking, while aligning and “This is extremely valuable information is a priceless record of the time, place nothing can be wasted. This is the price distancing himself from his contemporaries, that should interest not only critics and and people that invented modern cinema. Jean-Luc Godard, Jacques Rivette, fans of Hou’s films, but also film historians he pays for remaining independent. “Highly Recommended! The interviews Claude Chabrol and Francois Truffaut. who wish to trace the development of Everything he observes, the sets, the Taiwanese cinema or find patterns are lucid and helpful... elaborating on “Highly Recommended! An excellent people he meets and loves, sooner or shared by independent filmmaking with the ideas that typified the movement. insight into Rohmer the man and later end up in one of his films. That’s distinctive regional or national identities.” The filmmakers return several times to Rohmer the auteur [and] a unique look why a walk through Kaurismäki’s universe – Professor Gang Gary Xu, University the notions of inventiveness, at a director who makes his own films resembles a walk in Kaurismäki’s films. of Illinois at Urbana, for the Asian amateurism, improvisation, serendipity, his own way, without compromise... ” Educational Media Service “Aki Kaurismäki – Finnish auteur, dead- realism, the documentary impulse, and – Educational Media Reviews Online pan provocateur, renowned boozician, rule-breaking that informed so much of ✵2003 Film Festival, Association last of the red-hot existential their work... When talk turns to the fail- 116 minutes | color | 1994 for Asian Studies Sale/video: $440 | Rental/video: $125 modernists... is a cunning intelligence ures... the interviewees are, again, 91 minutes | color | 1996 interrogating the empathic rhythms of objective and well-spoken, pointing to Sale/video: $440 | Rental/video: $100 moviewatching by way of Job tragedy the technical incompetence, pretension, and comatose vaudeville. He has been and unrelenting pessimism that some- rashly underappreciated, then and times dogged the movement.” now.” – The Village Voice – Educational Media Reviews Online 53 minutes | color | 2001 57 minutes | color | 1995 Sale/video: $390 | Rental/video: $75 Sale/video: $390 | Rental/video: $75 21

HHH - A PORTRAIT OF HOU HSIAO-HSIEN AKI KAURISMÄKI THE NEW WAVE BY ITSELF FILM STUDIES CHRIS MARKER “If ever there was a filmmaker to A BIENTÔT, J’ESPÈRE A GRIN WITHOUT A CAT come up with a Theory of Every- (Be Seeing You) A Film by Chris Marker thing, it’s Marker.” – Time Out Directed by Mario Marret & A GRIN WITHOUT A CAT is Chris “This rugged oak of an essay-film, Chris Marker Produced by SLON Marker’s magnum opus: a 3-hour whose gnarls trace the growth and Born Christian François Bouche- overview of the success and failure of withering of decades of leftist politics, Villeneuve on July 29, 1921 in From 1967 to 1976 Chris the left during the 1960s and 70s. is now playing for the first time in the Marker was a member of Neuilly-sur-Seine, France, Marker brilliantly interweaves footage United States…This is dense, complex, SLON. One of several groups from the Vietnam War and the protests allusive filmmaking, encyclopedic in Chris Marker is a cinematic that emerged in those years in which against it, May ‘68 in Paris, the Soviet ambition, profound in understanding, essayist and audio-visual poet. filmmakers, militants, and others came invasion of Czechoslovakia, Salvador playful enough in form to make you After the Second World War, together on a cooperative, parallel Allende and the coup in Chile, Che smile sometimes at the tricks of history.” Marker began as a writer, publish- basis, SLON was based on the idea that Guevara and Regis Debray in Bolivia, – Stuart Klawans, The Nation ing his first book in 1949. In the cinema should not be thought of solely the Shah of Iran, Fidel Castro, et alia. ✵✵✵✵ in terms of commerce. “ 4 Stars. Monumental! 1950s he turned to documentary “That valiant, incomparable master- Fierce, glaring and unforgettable! filmmaking. Among his classic 1967 was also the year of an important filmmaker Chris Marker has chosen to Delirious, angry, pointed, quasi-halluci- strike at Rhodiaceta, a textile plant works from this period: Letter from revisit GRIN WITHOUT A CAT, giving us natory survey of the rise and reeling of owned by the Rhone-Poulenc trust in still more of this magnificent film essay. the Left, with a trajectory arcing from Siberia, Cuba Si!, Le Joli Mai, and Besançon, France. The strike was More is, happily, more, as the energy Castro to Allende. A film of great La Jetée. In the ‘60s and ‘70s he unusual because workers refused to and optimism and tragedy of decades of solemnity and enormous mischief, a was actively involved with SLON, disassociate the industrial conflict from political activism are rendered with that prankster in black cloth, a wave good- a filmmaking collective dedicated a larger social agenda. mental restlessness and ingenious bye with a rippling red handkerchief.” to activist production. Marker So it was only natural that Chris pathos typical of Marker’s great films.” – Newsday – Susan Sontag reemerged to make films under his Marker, with other members of SLON, “✵✵✵✵ 4 Stars. This towering docu- own name again in 1977 with Le would visit Besançon to film. “This is a movie about the world at war mentary spans the world in its overview Fond de l’air est rouge (English The film’s most important moments are with itself, and the result is riveting, of the war between left-wing radicalism title: A Grin Without A Cat). composed of conversations with work- sublime and unforgettable.” and right-wing conservativism during – Chicago Tribune the troubled ‘60s and ‘70s era. Completed Creatively reworking his life as if ers and their wives, who believe the in 1993 from material first assembled in working class is increasingly at the “Fascinating! Extraordinary material! editing one of his own films, 1977, it reconfirms Marker as one of mercy of a system that gives them no A work of extraordinary journalism, but Marker in the ‘80s and ‘90s made the most serious-minded and artistically power, a system that would like them to also a work of deft and subtle poetry, several films on other filmmakers. gifted filmmakers in France, or anywhere remain powerless. And so it was that visual (in the rhyming of gestures and else.” – Christian Science Monitor Now concentrating on video and their local demands grew into questions shapes across images and sequences) computer-controlled imagery, after about the larger political system. as much as verbal. Mr. Marker is a 180 minutes | color | 1977-1993 over 50 years of engaged and The strikers eventually returned to work great spectator as well as a great film- Sale/video: $490 | Rental/video: $150 creative work, Chris Marker is one with few gains, but had developed a maker.” – New York Times of the most innovative and influen- sense of their power, which helped lay tial filmmakers. the groundwork for May ‘68, when France was rocked by revolutionary protests. Completed and shown that “The most poetic and original year, A BIENTOT J’ESPERE is a docu- of documentarists.” ment of the moment everything was – Derek Malcolm, The Guardian called into question. 39 minutes | b&w | 1968 22 Sale/video: $375 | Rental/video: $100

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THE LAST BOLSHEVIK ONE DAY IN THE LIFE OF REMEMBRANCE OF THINGS TO COME A Film by Chris Marker ANDREI ARSENEVICH A Film by Yannick Bellon & Chris Marker A Film by Chris Marker Based on the life and work of the REMEMBRANCE OF THINGS A small masterpiece of montage, Alexander Medvedkin, THE LAST One of the greatest filmmakers of the TO COME, the latest “cine- REMEMBRANCE OF THINGS TO COME BOLSHEVIK is an archeological expedition 20th century, and certainly the most essay” of Chris Marker, is is from moment to moment reminiscent into film history, and a reflection on art important post-War Russian filmmaker, dense and demanding, a splendid of Resnais, Ivens, even Kubrick, but in and politics in the former Soviet Union. Andrei Tarkovsky achieved mythic reminder that his nimble, capacious its deployment of still photographs mind has lost none of its agility, poetry, (as in La Jetée), its theme of history From Medvedkin’s classic 1934 satire status with visionary masterpieces like and power. Ostensibly a portrait of and memory, its subject-skipping Happiness, to the ‘film train’ which he Andrei Rublev, Solaris and Stalker. His photographer Denise Bellon, focusing montage and rapid shuttle of wit and directed in the 1930s, and to his bitter stylistic idiosyncrasies – minimal plots, on the two decades between 1935 and philosophy, REMEMBRANCE is pure, war newsreels, Chris Marker draws a fragmented narrative, long takes – have 1955, the film leaps and backtracks, marvelous Marker. (Description written panorama of the artistic, political, and become staples of the modern art film. Marker-style, from subject to subject, by James Quandt, Senior Programmer, moral universe of a life and a country, His confrontations with the Soviet from a family portrait of Bellon and her Cinematheque Ontario) brought up to date with his own vision government and his eventual exile only two daughters, Loleh and Yannick (the of Russia today. contributed to his mystique. “The most unforgettable film of any latter co-authored the film), to a wide- length you will see this year. Mr. Marker’s “The most haunting, corrosive, and Through close readings of his films – ranging history of surrealism, of the city own intrigue with impatience – his fleet thoughtful exploration of the train including rare scenes from his student of Paris, of French cinema and the birth films dance by in an instant, while wreck we called the 20th century.” film (Hemingway’s The Killers) and an of the cinémathèque, of Europe, the using the music of pauses and silence – Howard Hampton, Artforum unknown production of Boris Goudonov National Front, the Second World War to convey an almost inscrutable density – Chris Marker attempts to locate and Spanish Civil War, and postwar “One of the major essays of Chris – is a marvel when married to an Tarkovsky in his work. Personal anecdotes politics and culture. Marker – which automatically makes pepper the film – from Tarkovsky’s admiring biography.” – Elvis Mitchell, this one of the key works of our time... prophetic meeting with Boris Pasternak Full of Marker jokes (a great one about The New York Times More profoundly, this is about the artists and cats), word play to his encounter with the KGB in Paris “An ingenious use of still photographs. history of Soviet cinema and the Soviet (Citroen/citron), filmic homages (Musi- (he thought they were coming to kill him). Marker and Bellon not only prompt us Union itself… Eloquent and mordantly dora makes a memorable appearance), to re-imagine the past, but to rethink witty in its poetic writing, beautiful and With behind-the-scenes footage of peculiar art history, a consideration of what the past means, and grasp that often painterly in its images, this is as Tarkovsky commanding his entire crew, the 1952 Olympics, and astounding our futures are always with us, in moving and as provocative in many and candid moments with his friends segues from French colonialism in embryo.” – LA Weekly respects as Marker’s Sans soleil (1982), and family (Tarkovsky bedridden but still Africa to women in the Maghreb, to a which places it very high indeed. Not to editing his final film), this is a loving Jewish wedding and gypsy culture in “A dazzling montage of images.” be missed.” – Jonathan Rosenbaum, portrait of the monumental filmmaker. Europe, to Mein Kampf and the Nazi – Los Angeles Times ✵✵✵✵ Chicago Reader “ (4 stars). A masterpiece! death camps (Birkenau, Auschwitz), the “A razor-sharp, aphoristic turn of 116 minutes | color | 1993 The best single piece of Tarkovsky criti- film opens with Dali and ends with mind… Though it’s ultimately address- Sale/video: $440 | Rental/video: $100 cism I know of, clarifying the overall Mompou, traversing in its short time a ing the tragedy of the 20th Century, this coherence of his oeuvre while leaving world of thought, feeling, and history. slender little film is a joy.” all the mysteries of his films intact.” – Nathan Lee, The New York Sun – Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader 42 minutes | b&w | 2001 Sale/video: $390 | Rental/video: $125 “Brilliant... The most sustained and heartfelt tribute one filmmaker has paid another.” – J. Hoberman, Village Voice 55 minutes | color | 1999 Sale/video: $390 | Rental/video: $100 23

THE LAST BOLSHEVIK ONE DAY IN THE LIFE OF ANDREI ARSENEVICH REMEMBRANCE OF THINGS TO COME GAY & LESBIAN VENUS BOYZ EVERYTHING MUST OSAKA STORY ...BUT I WAS A GIRL A Film by Gabriel Baur COME TO LIGHT A Film by Toichi Nakata A Film by Toni Boumans VENUS BOYZ is a new docu- A Film by Mpumi Njinge & Paulo Alberton After three years abroad, Toichi Nakata ... BUT I WAS A GIRL tells the remarkable A Co-Production of The Gay and mentary about Drag Kings, Lesbian Archives of South Africa, returned to Osaka to film his family, story of Frieda Belinfante (1905-1995), women who, after assuming & the Out in Africa Gay and Lesbian exposing schisms and hidden fault-lines. the first female conductor to have her male alter egos, parody male arche- Film Festival own symphony orchestra, first in Holland His father, a Korean immigrant, cannot types and subvert masculine power and later in Orange County, California. EVERYTHING MUST COME TO LIGHT reconcile his heritage with his wife’s strategies while exploring concepts of tells the unusual stories of three family, his mother is preoccupied with her Controversial because of her sexuality, male eroticism. The film also profiles dynamic, lesbian sangomas (traditional social position, his brother is torn between she showed a remarkable will in every- transgendered men who’ve transformed healers) in Soweto, South Africa. the family business and a religious sect, thing she did. Born in a family of musi- their bodies through surgery or and his sister has opted out altogether. cians in Amsterdam, she joined the hormones as they elaborate on meta- These articulate, sympathetic women resistance during WW II. After the war morphosis as existential necessity. share their stories willingly. After leav- The filmmaker himself is not exempt. she moved to the U.S. where she ing their husbands, two of the women Should he return to Japan and fulfill the What motivates them? What defines resumed her musical career in Holly- were visited by their dominant male traditional role of an eldest son? Or gender? This eye-opening film wood, forming her own orchestra with ancestors, who instructed them to take should he ‘come out’ to his family and approaches these and related questions Hollywood musicians. wives. They explored their sexuality as choose his own way forward? while it surveys this little-known world. Belinfante’s sister Renee, her students, a result of this commandment, and “Fragile though startlingly direct... Dense “Mesmerizing! Challenges just about friends, and Belinfante herself tell the became intimate with other women. and moving, OSAKA STORY frames everything you always thought you story. These interviews are illustrated The relationship between the sangomas personal desire within cultural constraints.” knew about what it means to be a boy by the places where she lived, archive and their ancestors, the roles the – Amy Taubin, Sight and Sound or a girl.” – Time Out material of her orchestra performing, ancestors play in sangoma healing “Critics’ Choice! What makes his film and by some of her most beautiful music. “Quietly resplendent... carefully powers, and the role they play in shap- so compelling is the tension between composed and structured. An utterly “Fascinating... Awe inspiring.” ing sangoma sexuality are focal points the fraught emotions at work and the fascinating, beautifully crafted explo- – Educational Media Reviews Online in this documentary. traditional Japanese reserve used to ration of the world of drag kings... “A fascinating documentary. [The film] express them... The film sheds light on “Riveting... A screen gem.” – Sojourner discoursing on the nature of gender, provides excellent opportunities for the relationships between Japanese performance, empowerment and social “Frieda Belinfante was a highly remark- discovery and dialogue around southern husbands and wives, parents and chil- role-playing.“ – Variety able woman, and the special thing dren, and Japanese and Koreans, but African culture and history and around about this calm, historical documentary “Drag King culture... has to do with its concerns and appeal are universal.” intersections between gender and by Toni Baumans is the absence of any reinventing and rescripting, to some – Time Out lesbianism, sex roles, and current politics.” superficial sentiment.” – NRC extent, gender norms. That’s what I – Feminist Collections Quarterly ✵Prix du Bibliotheque, 1995 Handelsblad (The Netherlands) think Drag King culture is really good ✵ Cinema du Reel 2002 Film Festival, ✵2000 Film Festival, National at, really good for.” – Professor Judith ✵Gold Hugo Winner, 1994 African Studies Association Women’s Studies Association Halberstam, University of California Chicago Film Festival 25 minutes | color | 2002 ✵1999 Outfest, the Los Angeles at San Diego, for Gender Theorist ✵Special Jury Prize Winner, 1994 Sale/video: $225 | Rental/video: $60 Gay & Lesbian Film Festival ✵2004 Film Festival, Society for Vancouver Film Festival 69 minutes | color | 1998 Cinema & Media Studies 84 minutes | color | 1994 Sale/video: $390 | Rental/video: $75 ✵Best Film, Semaine de la Critique, Sale/video: $440 | Rental/video: $100 2001 Locarno Film Festival ✵2002 San Francisco Gay & Lesbian Film Festival 104 minutes | color | 2001 Sale/video: $348 | Rental/video: $125

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VENUS BOYZ EVERYTHING MUST COME TO LIGHT ...BUT I WAS A GIRL GLOBALIZATION DIAMONDS AND RUST FOR MAN MUST WORK, WORKING WOMEN OF CHAIN OF LOVE A Film by Adi Barash & Ruth Shatz OR THE END OF WORK THE WORLD A Film by Marije Meerman On a ship moored off the coast of Directed by Jean-Claude Bürger A Film by Marie France Collard The demand for domestic help is A National Film Board of Canada Namibia, diamond mining goes on Production Focusing on Levi Strauss & Co., increasing in the West, because in around the clock, but the process is WORKING WOMEN OF THE WORLD many families both parents work. One fraught with racial tension. In the global economy, we are moving follows the relocation of garment consequence is migration: growing from a mass labor force to an elite numbers of women in the developing The filmmakers received permission from production from developed to developing corps concentrated in the knowledge world are leaving their own children to De Beers to film, but the result – fraying countries, where low wages are the sector. Will this result in an economic take care of kids in the West. tempers, racist attitudes, a deteriorating rule and employee rights are nonexistent. apartheid in which a third of humanity vessel and front office indifference – Philippine women are well regarded by is made redundant? The film introduces us to women like hardly flatters the company. Yanti, a 26-year-old Indonesian who employers in the West. They speak Filmed in the United States, Canada, English, are Catholic, and according to Unobtrusively and without commentary, works ten hours a day, six days a week, France and Mexico, the film shows how many, are caring, intelligent, and compliant. DIAMONDS AND RUST takes us into for $60 a month. In contrast the film living and working conditions are dete- Or, as Rhacel Parrenas, PhD (author of the daily life of an international crew also presents the stories of her western riorating for many people. We also hear Global Servants) remarks, “The Filipino working in the service of a faceless counterparts. Maria Therese, a former from experts such as author Vivianne nanny is the Mercedes Benz amongst conglomerate that controls not only the union rep at a Levis factory in Yser La Forrester (The Economic Horror); econo- the international [caregivers].” ship but the surrounding waters as Basse, France. In interviews, describes mist Jeremy Rifkin (The End of Work); well. As they battle each other and the the work, the wage structure, and her “An excellent documentary for anyone sociologist Ricardo Petrella; Ignacio rusty ship’s failing mechanisms, the negotiations with management after trying to understand the current Ramonet (editor-in-chief of Le Monde men are drawn into contemplation of the closure announcement. processes of globalization. Overall, this diplomatique); and Jacques Attali, the their situation and its dubious rewards. is an excellent and timely documentary former president of the European Bank Behind the new gospel of free trade are that focuses on important gender “Fascinating! Compelling... for anyone for Reconstruction and Development. the real lives of women. Filmed in aspects of work in the global economy.” who wants movies to mean something.” Indonesia, the Philippines, Turkey, They have no illusions – they think the – Professor Gale Summerfield, – Daily News France, and Belgium, WORKING 21st century is getting off to a very bad WOMEN OF THE WORLD puts these University of Illinois, for the Asian “Superior! An insightful documentary.” start. women’s stories into the larger history Educational Media Service’s ‘News – Time Out New York and Reviews’ “Highly Recommended! Rarely does a and development of globalization. “Fascinating and powerful... a classic documentary less than an hour in length “Recommended. Informative... The viewer “Recommended! An important and inside, vérité look at the way we have give such a full, practical and theoreti- will learn of the conditions which plague timely topic.” – Educational Media divided the world.” – DOX Magazine cal treatment of a complex subject as these women daily: low wages, strenuous Reviews Online this film has. The arguments and “One of the year’s must see films! schedules, ambiguous contracts, and ✵2003 Award of Excellence, evidence presented by speakers are An engrossing and brilliantly insightful the constant threat of job loss.” Society for Visual Anthropology taken to the next progressive step by production... Excellent.” – Film Threat – Educational Media Reviews Online ✵2003 Film Festival, National each following speaker. Its breadth of Women’s Studies Association ✵2001 International SCAM Prize, ✵2003 Film Festival, Association treatment of this timely topic earns it ✵2003 Film Festival, Association Cinema du Reel Film Festival top marks. Superb.” – Educational for Asian Studies (Paris) ✵ for Asian Studies Media Reviews Online 2002 One World Human Rights ✵2001 Golden Gate Award, Film Festival (Prague) 50 minutes | color | 2001 San Francisco International 52 minutes | color | 2001 cc Sale/video: $390 | Rental/video: $75 53 minutes | color | 2000 Film Festival Sale/video: $390 | Rental/video: $75 Sale/video: $390 | Rental/video: $75 ✵2002 Film Festival, African Literature Association 73 minutes | color | 2001 Sale/video: $440 | Rental/video: $100

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FOR MAN MUST WORK, WORKING WOMEN OF THE WORLD CHAIN OF LOVE OR THE END OF WORK GLOBALIZATION PROFIT AND NOTHING BUT! OUR FRIENDS AT ADVERTISING A Film by Raoul Peck THE BANK MISSIONARIES Who said the global economy serves “Superb! A complete and thought A Film by Peter Chappell A Film by Chris Hilton & Gauthier Flaunder mankind? What is this world where the provoking analysis of the current global Often criticized and confronted with wealthiest two percent of the population economic system... Raoul Peck has numerous setbacks, the World Bank is In Papua New Guinea broadcast media in the richest countries control every- produced an excellent work, which facing a difficult period, particularly in reaches only 25% of the population, so thing? A world where the economy is serves as a valuable tool for any and all Africa. Filmed over 18 months, with advertisers must reach the market some law, where this law of the strongest is who question the validity of capitalism unprecedented access to the highest other way. They hire small theater groups imposed on the rest of humanity? Why as a satisfactory global economic levels, OUR FRIENDS AT THE BANK to travel the remote highlands performing do we accept this cynical and immoral system.” – Economic Justice News looks at the relationship between the soap operas devised around advertising state of being? These are the questions “ Engages us, provokes us, seizes us.. Bank and Uganda. messages for a variety of products. PROFIT AND NOTHING BUT! asks. To make these ideas, abstract and The Bank considers Uganda, which The actors are conscious of the side Capitalism has succeeded in convincing immaterial notions, like globalization, survived Idi Amin and years of civil war effects of the consumer revolution. But, in us that it is the only morality we need. live cinematically, Raoul Peck has made with relatively high rates of economic an echo of the former cargo cults, the It has even convinced its opponents a fine formal work. A breath of fresh growth, a “model case.” But there are advertising agency boss who employs that their failure lies within the normal air!” – Le Monde serious disagreements about develop- them drops in periodically by plane to scheme of things. “A sophisticated film! Economically and ment policy. The Ugandan government keep them from straying from the fold, and Raoul Peck contrasts this heavily docu- politically provocative! Peck provides a favors investment in “hard infrastruc- gives them pep talks about new products mented illumination of the capitalist new pedagogy for the teaching of ture” such as roads, while the Bank and the worthiness of their mission. system with the devastating reality in economics. I highly recommend it to argues for prioritizing education. ADVERTISING MISSIONARIES observes his native land, Haiti – “a country that those who want to reach their students; Finally, and contentiously, OUR FRIENDS the impact advertisements have on a doesn’t exist, where intellectual discus- to those who are sensitive to other AT THE BANK shows how accepting aid previously “untouched” village in the sion has become a luxury.” The film’s cultures; to those who are concerned from these world agencies requires the remote Yaluba valley. We see the stark images of the lives of the damned with the environment.” – Union for implementation of often devastating village before, during and after first on earth provide a striking backdrop for Radical Political Economics Newsletter ultra-liberal economic practices. contact by the new missionaries, and talk of ‘triumphant capitalism.’ ✵ what happens as a result of their visit. 2002 Film Festival, “A triumph, full of insights and shrewd African Literature Association Born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, raised and observations about the relationship “An illuminating snapshot of a nascent ✵2002 Human Rights Watch educated in Zaire, New York, France and between Uganda and the World Bank, consumer economy [and] an invigorat- Film Festival Germany, Raoul Peck is an internationally making it essential viewing for anyone ing, often humorous, and sometimes ✵2001 Margaret Mead Film Festival acclaimed filmmaker. His work has interested in aid and development.” sobering film.” – Video Librarian screened worldwide, and has earned | | 52 minutes color 2001 – Michael Holman, Africa Editor, “A classic among ethnographic films... him numerous awards, including the Sale/video: $390 | Rental/video: $75 Financial Times The strength of this production lies in distinguished Lifetime Achievement Award its ability to raise…critical issues from the Human Rights Watch. Lumumba, “An ideal enhancement to any course having to do with the encounter of his most recent film, was an interna- that seeks to help students understand subsistence village life with the tional critical and audience favorite. the institutional framework of the world in which they live.” – International complexities of a hegemonic consumer PROFIT AND NOTHING BUT! is both a Teaching Resources for Business ethos.” – Pacific Studies pertinent and impertinent exploration of ✵ ✵1997 Margaret Mead Film Festival the profit motive and its consequences Library Prize, 1998 Cinéma du Réel (Paris) on our day to day lives, our history, and 52 minutes | color | 1996 our outlook for the future. 90 minutes | color | 1997 Sale/video: $390 | Rental/video: $75 Sale/video: $248 | Rental/video: $85

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PROFIT AND NOTHING BUT! OUR FRIENDS AT THE BANK ADVERTISING MISSIONARIES HISTORIOGRAPHY TANGO OF SLAVES EPOCA FAMILY NAME THE HOLOCAUST A Film by Ilan Ziv A Film by Andreas Hoessli & A Film by Macky Alston EXPERIENCE Isabella Huser Filmmaker Ilan Ziv wanted to give his Growing up in Durham, North A Film by Oeke Hoogendijk How is history created? What does or two daughters meaningful images from Carolina, Macky Alston never How do we keep the memory does not enter our memory? By recreat- their family history, but was frustrated questioned why all the other of the Holocaust alive? This is ing a variety of heterogeneous histori- by popular imagery of the Holocaust, Alstons in his elementary school were the central question in THE cal fragments – the making of the which has been transformed into a black. Now, after twenty-five years, he HOLOCAUST EXPERIENCE, which moves atomic bomb, military trials at the end motion picture drama... So Ziv and his unravels the mystery. between the sober ruins of Auschwitz- father went to Warsaw on a journey of World War II, the workings of the lie From New York to Alabama, at family Birkenau, and the noisy, hyper-realistic that became a meditative essay about detector, the discovery of the concentra- reunions, picnics, housing projects, museums of America. history, memory, and their preservation tion camp Majdanek, an interview with churches, graveyards, and back to the in imagery. a sniper during the war in former In the State Auschwitz-Birkenau Yugoslavia – this new meditative docu- original Alston plantation, Alston asks Museum, a battle is being fought with After failed attempt to find artifacts mentary by film essayists Andreas questions and digs up clues. The people time. One by one, the concrete poles from his father’s life, TANGO OF Hoessli and Isabella Huser resembles he meets vary in age, race, class, and that surrounded the prisoners are being SLAVES explores the only traces of the nothing less than a new history. outlook, but they all share one thing: restored: five thousand poles with past that remain; photographs and the family name. And they all have barbed wire. But other places, where EPOCA points to different examples of footage produced by German soldiers, stories to tell. great horrors took place, are overgrown the appropriation of history. For exam- private individuals, or Ministry of Propa- with weeds. And there is another ple, in the former Soviet Union, victims “The best American film of the year to ganda professionals. dilemma: where does the camp end and of the Holocaust were recognized only date... surpasses pretty much every the ordinary world start? What should Alternating between his father’s story and as belonging to the more general cate- documentary on race ever shown on be preserved, and what shouldn’t? a critical reading of the images that did gory of “Victims of the anti-fascist American TV.” – Godfrey Cheshire, survive, TANGO OF SLAVES raises troubling Russian warriors,” which hides if not New York Press While Auschwitz wrestles with its questions about our ability to transmit denies the specificity of their experiences. “A genealogical detective story... mortality, the virtual Auschwitz in historical memories to future generations. American museums is all the rage. Visi- Images, documents, and texts all collide Absorbing... Bold... Moving.” ✵✵✵ tors to the Museum of Tolerance in Los “ [Three Stars] A superb medita- with each other, forming a history quilt. – Stephen Holden, The New York Times tion on the meanings of history and Angeles can, at the end of their Holo- One should not trust these images, or “A real-life mystery story of buried mechanical representations of reality. caust day, enter a mock gas chamber. believe the re-staging, argue the direc- family roots and well-kept secrets. This It is a hugely ambitious, honestly The Americans also use authentic mate- tors, authentic historiography neither powerful and quite remarkable docu- emotional film, a personal attempt to rial. The United States Holocaust exists nor should it. mentary is highly recommended for high come to grips with the largest themes, Memorial Museum in Washington D.C. school and college students.” which entirely succeeds.” – The Times “A rigorous, lovingly crafted meditation even imported the hair of people who on the elusiveness – and illusory – – Multicultural Perspectives were gassed at Auschwitz-Birkenau, but “A vivid demonstration of how memories nature of truth in the historical record.” ✵Freedom of Expression Award, the exhibition faced moral objections. are unavailable to the viewer, to the – Ken Eisner, Variety 1997 Sundance Film Festival This documentary investigates how the historian, even to the survivor, who accepts ✵1997 Open Palm Award ✵2002 Berlin Film Festival the perpetrator’s staging of the ghetto’s (Best First Feature), IFP Gotham memory of the Holocaust is kept alive ✵2002 Amsterdam International life as “true.” A fascinating exercise in ✵Grand Jury Prize, 1997 Bermuda on both sides of the Atlantic. Both Documentary Festival human effort and human impotence are evaluating historical documents.” ✵ International Film Festival – American Historical Review 2002 Vancouver International tangible, as this history is “preserved” Film Festival Two Lengths Available: for future generations. 111 minutes | color | 1994 89 minutes | color | 1997 93 minutes | color | 2002 Sale/video: $375 | Rental/video: $100 Sale/video: $440 | Rental/video: $100 50 minutes | color | 2002 Sale/video: $440 | Rental/video: $100 Sale/video: $375 | Rental/video: $75 60 minutes | color | 1997 Sale/video: $390 | Rental/video: $75

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EPOCA FAMILY NAME THE HOLOCAUST EXPERIENCE HISTORY (EUROPE) LA COMMUNE (Paris, 1871) IF THE WALLS FORGING IDENTITY A Film by Peter Watkins COULD SPEAK A Film by Jacques Falck Peter Watkins’ decades-long project of the social and political reforms. The A Film by Daniela Zanzotto Through the story of Adolfo Kaminsky, contestation reaches a magnificent telling of this story rests primarily on With its drab apartment build- FORGING IDENTITY provides a rare apotheosis with this hugely ambitious depicting the people of the Commune, ings, La Muette – located in glimpse into a century of underground film about the Paris Commune. The and those who suppressed them. the Paris suburb of Drancy – resistance movements. story, based on thorough historical For Watkins, to make a film is to ques- looks like a typical public housing Kaminsky joined the French Resistance research, leads to an inevitable reflec- tion his own work as a filmmaker. LA complex. But in front of one of the at the age of 17. Trained in the art of tion about the present. COMMUNE represents an uncompro- buildings a railway car stands as a grim forgery, he quickly became the central After France’s defeat at the end of the mising challenge to modern media and reminder that La Muette served as one figure in a network that provided false Franco-Prussian War, the revolutionary a penetrating critique. of the first concentration camps of papers to Jews throughout occupied fervor in Paris changed to civil war. World War II – a camp run by the “A thought-provoking and moving tribute Paris. By the end the war, his forgeries Commoners seized power and estab- collaborationist Vichy regime. to the desire for a better world. The film’s had helped thousands escape persecution. lished the Paris Commune, a power unconventional approach to history Between 1941 and 1944, 67,000 Jews, After the war, working with the clan- separate from the one legally enforced provides a unique and rewarding glimpse Gypsies and “foreigners” were deported destine International Emigration by the state, which forced an inevitable into a process of great interest to histo- from Drancy to death camps. Only 2,000 Network, he helped Holocaust survivors confrontation between established and rians: that of collective, revolutionary survived. reach Palestine. In the 1950s, he joined insurgent authorities. action... The insight the film provides IF THE WALLS COULD SPEAK juxtaposes the fight for the liberation of Algeria, Watkins, using techniques he developed into the process of social change invites the testimonies of those interned at creating forgeries for members of the for Culloden and The War Game, forces reflection both on the state of the world Drancy with the stories of current resi- National Liberation Front. Later, he us to confront the notion of a safe, today and on the process of historical dents. For some, La Muette simply assisted underground movements in objective reading of the past. His is a change on part of the viewer... A valuable offered a good place to live after the war. Latin America. deliberate challenge to the existing teaching tool.” – H-France Reviews For a younger generation – many of Adolfo Kaminsky, now nearly 75, surrounds notions of documentary film, and a “An intellectually challenging and North African origin – the past is history. himself with faded photographs, chem- challenge to the concepts of ‘neutrality’ tremendously moving experience, as But they share a bond with the Jewish istry equipment, and old forgery tools. and ‘objectivity’ so beloved by the mass history replayed among its contemporary internees: a sense of exile in France. His time is now occupied with trying to media today. ruins. LA COMMUNE is meant to evoke “It’s a gem, very moving, wholly convincing” track down some of his old friends – Not intended as an apologia on behalf the unfamiliar sensation of revolutionary – Nicholas Fraser, Independents many of whom have passed away, or of the Paris Commune, it does attempt euphoria, or living (and dying) in a sacred Commissioning Group, BBC have established normal lives, and don’t to show that the Commune, for all its time.” – J. Hoberman, Village Voice want to be found. human frailty, its internal conflicts, and “What stands out is the quality of the “Stunning. Peter Watkins’s approach to “Highly Recommended! Powerful... its blundering, was an event of major oral testimonies... and their accounts history is to make its representation beautifully shot... a poignant story, importance, not least because of the which blend personal and collective coincide with reflection on it, to film, nostalgic and extremely moving, yet way in which its leaders sought direct memories. The film is an important together with the re-enactment, the narrated in a cool, methodical manner involvement with the community and to contribution to the cultivation of anti- idea – what history means for us today. strangely not at odds with the subject understand its needs. racist memory.” – Jim House, As you watch LA COMMUNE, it University of Leeds matter.” – Educational Media A journalist for Versailles Television becomes impossible and senseless to Reviews Online broadcasts the official view of events, distinguish between present and repre- 52 minutes | color | 1998 52 minutes | color | 1999 while Commune Television provides the sentation. The film becomes a lucid Sale/video: $285 | Rental/video: $75 Sale/video: was $375 now $285 rebel perspectives. On a stage-like set, dream: history as reinvented by and for Rental/video: $75 more than 200 actors interpret charac- the living.” – Boston Phoenix ters of the Commune, especially the ✵Best Film of the Year, J. Hoberman, Popincourt neighborhood in the XIth Village Voice 2002 Critics Poll arrondissement. Having researched their characters intensely, they voice their 345 minutes | b&w | 2000 28 | own thoughts and feelings concerning Sale/video: $490 Rental/video: $150

LA COMMUNE (PARIS, 1871) LA COMMUNE (PARIS, 1871) FORGING IDENTITY HISTORY (EUROPE) DIAMONDS IN WAR AND PEACE DROWNING BY MOTHER (Mutter) THE DARK IN IRELAND BULLETS A Film by Miklós Gimes A Film by Olivia Carrescia A Film by Arthur Mac Caig A Film by Philip Brooks & Alan Hayling MOTHER tells the remarkable From a traditional village to the city of WAR AND PEACE IN IRELAND retraces On October 17, 1961, 30,000 Algerian story of Lucy Gimes, who fled Bucharest, DIAMONDS IN THE DARK the conflict in Northern Ireland from French citizens filled Paris to protest an Hungary with her six-year old tells the stories of ten Romanian women. 1968 through 1998, from the civil rights 8:30 pm curfew, imposed in response to son after the 1956 Soviet invasion, We hear and see how they lived under movement of the late 60’s, the outbreak terrorist attacks by Algerian nationalists. while her husband was executed by the the old regime, and how they are of a costly war in 1969, the birth of a Stalinist regime, accused of being a Terrorism sponsored by the Front de confronting the post-communist era. peace process in the early 1990’s (that leading “counter-revolutionary.” Libération Nationale (pro-Algerian inde- ultimately led to the IRA cease fires of This is the story of women who have pendence) and the Organisation Armée Lucy escaped being deported to 1994 and 1997), and to the ensuing been hidden behind a wall of silence – Secrète (committed to keeping Algeria Auschwitz during WWII, and after the negotiations that offer the first chance from the West and from each other – French) had killed dozens of policemen, war committed herself to the commu- for peace in over a generation to the for 40 years. provoking what Interior Minister Roger nist movement. She married journalist people of Northern Ireland. Frey called a “just anger.” Miklos Gimes, whose “party line” “Fascinating! DIAMONDS IN THE DARK The complexity of this conflict is career was taking off. But after a is not the story of any one person, but Thus, the demonstrators were met by a explored through archival footage and personal political change, Miklos of the women of Romania. Viewers see massive police force, and beaten, shot, portraits of political leaders, including became a leader of the Hungarian revolt. their individual and collective strength even drowned in the Seine. Thousands John Hume (moderate nationalist as they tell stories of life both before were taken to detention centers, where Since the end of the Cold War, Lucy SDLP); Gerry Adams (Sinn Fein); John and after the communist era and the there were more killings. It is estimated returns to Hungary regularly, where Taylor (Ulster Unionist Party); David Ceausescu regime. An interesting look 200 Algerians died that day. Miklos now has a prestigious reputation Ervine, (Progressive Unionist Party); into a country and a culture.” as political martyr. However, she is Albert Reynolds (former Prime Minister Policemen, demonstrators, and journal- – Voice of Youth Advocates confronted with the former lover of her of the Irish Republic); Tony Blair; and ists who witnessed the events speak on husband, who claims to be his widow. “Highly recommended for Women’s Bill Clinton. camera for the first time. These At the same time Lucy is forced to clear Studies, Eastern European Studies, accounts are juxtaposed with clips from The point of view of the “ordinary” up unpleasant questions about her role Sociology, and Political Science.” the French press, which supported the people on both sides of the conflict is during the Stalinist period. – Educational Media Reviews Online official lie that only a few people had also an essential part of the film. For died in the demonstration. At a ripe old age, Lucy Gimes must “An insightful study of the devastation these people the Irish Question is rewrite her life story. For her son, the wrought by the Ceausescu regime and hardly an academic issue; it is a ques- DROWNING BY BULLETS exposes the filmmaker, however, it opens up an the problems faced in the period of tion of life or death. massacre and cover-up of what was entirely new world: the magic and the transformation. Illuminate[s] textures of undoubtedly one of the darkest nights “An in-depth and moving retrospective burden of the past. human experience... A courageous film in the history of France. of some thirty years of war.” – Le Monde “One of the best documentaries I have [that] reveals the diamonds who ✵2003 FilmFest, Middle East seen this year, an insightful and powerful provided the real source of illumination Two Lengths Available: Studies Association reminder of the human costs of tyranny, in the darkness.” – Joel Marrant, PhD, 52 minutes | color | 1998 ✵2003 Conference, French Colonial Linfield College Sale/video: $390 | Rental/video: $75 History Society but also a surprisingly witty and plain- spoken film about the unexpected 88 minutes | color | 1998 ✵Fipa d’Or, 1993 Documentaires de 60 minutes | color | 1999 ways that politics can strain personal Sale/video: $390 | Rental/video: $75 Sale/video: $440 | Rental/video: $100 Création (France) ✵1993 Amnesty International Award relationships.” – George Robinson, The Jewish Week 52 minutes | color - b&w | 1992 Sale/video: $390 | Rental/video: $75 95 minutes | color | 2002 Sale/video: $398 | Rental/video: $100

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DIAMONDS IN THE DARK DROWNING BY BULLETS MOTHER (MUTTER) HISTORY (U.S.) AN EMPIRE OF REASON AN INJURY TO ONE THE UPRISING OF ‘34 A Film by Muffie Meyer & Ellen Hovde A Film by Travis Wilkerson A Film by George Stoney, Judith Helfand & Susanne Rostock What if television had covered the rati- AN INJURY TO ONE provides AN INJURY TO ONE is a unique fication of the U.S. Constitution? AN a corrective glimpse of a film/video hybrid that combines The forgotten General Strike EMPIRE OF REASON provides one imag- volatile moment in early 20th painterly images, incisive writing, and a of 1934 was a massive action inative possibility. century American history: the rise and bold graphic sensibility to produce an by hundreds of thousands of fall of Butte, Montana. Specifically, it articulate example of the aesthetic and Southern cotton mill workers. Their As Walter Cronkite anchors the CTN chronicles the mysterious death of political possibilities offered by film- remarkable grassroots organizing chal- (Continental Television Network) nightly Frank Little. Much of the extant making in the digital age. lenged a system that had shaped life in news, he reports on the heated battle evidence is inscribed upon the land- cotton mill communities for decades. between the Federalists, who would ratify “An astonishing document: part art and scape of Butte and its surroundings. the document and form the United States, part speculative inquiry, buzzing with Sixty years later, the uprising of ‘34 is Thus, a connection is drawn between and anti-Federalists, who prefer to remain ambition and dedication. Takes us from spoken of only in whispers, if at all. the unsolved murder of Little, and the affiliated, but autonomous states. the 19th century to the eve of the 21st, attempted murder of the town itself. “Breathes new life into history, ethnog- from Butte as land of frontier promise Alexander Hamilton, co-author of the raphy, and documentary... a model for Butte’s history was entirely shaped by to Butte as land of death and environ- Constitution, and Melancton Smith the future of American social history.” its exploitation by the Anaconda Mining mental destruction. Stirring, must-see collide on William F. Buckley Jr.’s – Professor Faye Ginsburg, Company, which, at the height of WWI, stuff.” – Austin Chronicle “Firing Line.” Passionate arguments New York University extracted ten percent of the world’s over a Bill of Rights are broadcast on “The most exciting documentary of the ✵ copper there. Indifference to safety Gold Apple, 1995 National “The Donohue Show.” season. Passionate, persuasive, and Educational Film and Video Festival (mortality rates were higher than in the beautifully designed… A model of ✵Outstanding Use of Oral History AN EMPIRE OF REASON demonstrates trenches of Europe) led to Little’s arrival. coherent political filmmaking as in a Nonprint Format, 1995 that the issues of that time – fear of a In August 1917, Little was abducted by convincing in its liberalism as its Oral History Association big central government, federal income still-unknown assailants who hung him formalism.” – The New York Sun tax, civil rights – are not dissimilar to 87 minutes | color - b&w | 1995 from a railroad bridge. Pinned to his today’s. At stake then was what “Wilkerson’s austere technique radically Sale/video: $490 | Rental/video: $100 chest was a note that read 3’-7’-77”, remains at stake today – the meaning responds to the paucity of contempora- dimensions of a Montana grave. Eight of democracy. neous documentary accounts, perform- thousand people attended his funeral, THE WOBBLIES ing a powerful act of historical archae- A Film by Deborah Shaffer & “A super way to learn about our history.” the largest in Butte’s history. ology and reclaiming for the working Stewart Bird – Newsday The murder provides AN INJURY TO class its status as subject, not a foot- From 1905 to WW1, the “AN EMPIRE OF REASON teaches as it ONE with a taut narrative, but it isn’t note, of historical events. Wilkerson Industrial Workers of the entertains, and is pitched so that a the only story. Butte’s history is bound makes these ghostly historical agents World traveled from coast to wide range of ages and educational with the destruction of the environ- palpable and vocal, asserting the rele- coast organizing unskilled workers into levels can learn from it.” ment, the rise of McCarthyism, and vance of their story to struggles of “One Big Union.” THE WOBBLIES inte- – Atlanta Journal & Constitution even the birth of the detective novel. today and tomorrow.” grates period music, photographs, Former Pinkerton detective Dashiell – Sundance Film Festival “You’ll never have more fun learning.” newsreel footage, and contemporary Hammett was rumored to have been – Daily News ✵2004 Film Festival, Society for interviews with remaining IWW members. involved in the murder, and later Cinema & Media Studies 58 minutes | color | 1988 depicted it in Red Harvest. ✵Narrative Integrity Award, 2003 “This is the best film I have ever used Sale/video: $285 | Rental/video: $75 Ann Arbor Film Festival in a history class and the best historical ✵2003 Sundance Film Festival film I have ever seen. Bravo!” ✵Gold Prize, 2002 – Lora D. Garrison, Rutgers University Big Muddy Film Festival ✵Red Ribbon, 1980 53 minutes | color - b&w | 2002 American Film Festival Sale/video: $390 | Rental/video: $125 89 minutes | color | 1979 | 30 Sale/video: $490 Rental/video: $150

AN INJURY TO ONE THE UPRISING OF ‘34 THE WOBBLIES HISTORY (U.S.) LAST SUMMER GHOSTS OF ATTICA CUL DE SAC WON’T HAPPEN Directed by Brad Lichtenstein A Suburban War Story Produced by David Van Taylor & Brad Lichtenstein A Film by Peter Gessner & Tom Hurwitz A Film by Garrett Scott Narrated by Susan Sarandon Shot in 1968, one year after the Summer In May 1995, Shawn Nelson emerged Attica. Like Watergate and Vietnam, it offers the definitive account of Amer- of Love, LAST SUMMER WON’T HAPPEN from an mine shaft he had dug beneath is an icon of recent history. Gov. Rocke- ica’s most violent prison rebellion, its is a sympathetic critique of the anti-war his backyard in search for gold. An feller’s order to end the riot resulted in suppression, the torture, and the cover- movement in New York City. As the film ex-soldier addicted to amphetamines, a nine-minute, 1600-bullet assault that up that followed. traces the development of a group of he stole a tank from the National Guard took the lives of 10 guards and 29 activists on the Lower East Side, we see “✵✵✵✵(Four Stars). Highly Recom- and rampaged through the residential inmates. But the struggle for justice has their growth from isolated, alienated mended! Well-edited and loaded with streets of his Clairemont, California endured for three decades. individuals to a politically empowered revealing photographs and cogent neighborhood. This documentary features extensive commentary... this is an exceptional community. CUL DE SAC looks beneath this appar- interviews with Attica survivors, includ- piece of filmmaking.” – Video Librarian Filmed between the protests at the ently minor news story to reveal the ing former inmate Frank “Black” Smith. Pentagon and the demonstrations at the “One of [the] best documentaries in political, economic and social context The inmates, who respected his level Democratic Convention in Chicago, it quite a while. Absolutely chilling.” that ties Nelson’s life to the larger story head and imposing size, appointed him includes portraits of Abbie Hoffman, – New York Daily News of a working class community in decline. Chief of Security. After the prison was editor Paul Krassner, folksinger Phil retaken, Black was singled out by the “Highly Recommended! A hard-hitting “Thoughtful, unpredictable, and grip- Ochs and anarchist Tom “Osha” Neuman. guards, who tortured him for hours with documentary... This film is masterful in ping… More important, it’s a brilliant “While LAST SUMMER WON’T HAPPEN cigarettes, Russian roulette, and threats its portrayal of the fear, raw emotion, cultural and political essay, packed with is ostensibly about life in New York’s of castration. and lingering pain of Attica survivors. It insights into grass-roots attitudes about East Village, its essential concern is presents brutal, graphic detail of an violence and war.” Also interviewed is former guard Mike with young revolutionists who find the event indicative of a turbulent time in – Christian Science Monitor Smith, who, then a 22-year-old husband hippies a useful symbol of revolt America’s history.” – Educational and father, was taken hostage and “Highly Recommended. The film has against capitalism, materialism, and Media Reviews Online subsequently wounded by police fire. relevance to many other communities technology. It is a fascinating film, trou- Recently he has a new role: that of “Unsparing... ‘Ghosts’ is timely for more across the country [that] are affected by bling and troubled, and its jumble of political agitator. He is currently lobby- than historical reasons” the end of the Cold War and the shut- styles encompasses the lyrical, pseudo- ing for compensation and an apology – New York Times ting down of defense bases and plants. dramatic, didactic and auto-critical... it from New York State. ✵2002 Dupont-Columbia University An interesting and provocative portrayal is born of an uncertainty about new of the life of one individual, as well as ways of organizing life and art.” Elizabeth Fink, who has devoted her Award for Journalistic Excellence ✵Editor’s Choice, Video Librarian the effect on an entire community.” – Joseph Morgenstern, Newsweek entire career to the surviving inmates, (May-June 2002) – Educational Media Reviews Online heading the inmates’ decades-long “A useful counter-balance... to the ✵2002 CINE Gold Eagle ✵ legal battles against New York State, 2003 Film Festival, Society for sentimental view of hippies given by is also interviewed. Other interviews 90 minutes | color | 2001 Cinema Studies the commercial cinema... ” ✵ include those with New York Times Sale/video: $440 | Rental/video: $100 2002 Flaherty Film Seminar – The Daily Telegraph columnist Tom Wicker, Congressman 56 minutes | color | 2001 cc ✵1968 New York International Herman Badillo, Assemblyman Arthur Eve, Sale/video: $390 | Rental/video: $75 Film Festival and civil rights lawyer William Kunstler. ✵1969 Festival dei Popoli (Florence, Italy) Using exclusive, newly uncovered video ✵Cineprobe Series, New York of the assault, interviews with eyewit- Museum of Modern Art (1970) nesses who’ve never spoken before on- camera, and footage of inmates and 58 minutes | color | 1968 hostages throughout their battles Sale/video: $390 | Rental/video: $75 against the state, GHOSTS OF ATTICA

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LAST SUMMER WON’T HAPPEN GHOSTS OF ATTICA CUL DE SAC A SUBURBAN WAR STORY IMMIGRATION FAMILY SECRET LETTERS FROM HOME ONCE REMOVED FROM OPIUM TO A Film by Pola Rapaport Directed by Colleen Leung A Film by Julie Mallozzi CHRYSANTHEMUMS With Pierre Rasulescu-Banu A National Film Board of Canada A Film by PeÅ Holmquist & Production Born in the Midwest to an Italian father Suzanne Khardalian 25 years after her father’s death, film- and a Chinese mother, Julie Mallozzi LETTERS FROM HOME is a rich explo- maker Pola Rapaport receives a letter has always been fascinated by her Once known for cultivating opium in ration of heritage, family and the mean- from Romania containing a startling Chinese heritage, but has had little their stronghold – the “Golden Triangle” ing of home. The film chronicles the revelation. “I am looking for the trace of connection to it. Triggered by a chance in the borderland of Thailand, Laos and journey of filmmaker Colleen Leung as Ionel Rapaport’s family,” it reads. This encounter with an uncle that she’s Burma – they were the Hmong, and one she delves into a startling family secret. letter inspires her to meet the brother never known of, Julie decides to of their leaders was the charismatic she never knew she had. Like an Her grandfather, a Chinese immigrant explore her family’s past by visiting her Lao-Tong. archaeologist sifting through the past, who became a successful businessman relatives in China. At the height of the Vietnam War, in she uncovers secrets about her late and raised a large family, was also a Through conversations with relatives 1969, PeÅ Holmquist traveled to South father’s life. husband and father to a second family and family friends she learns of a East Asia to make a film on Lao-Tong in China. He supported his overseas wife Using scenes of the dramatic reunion, mystery surrounding the political and the Hmong people. FROM OPIUM and children his entire life, but kept family letters, and startlingly beautiful murder of her grandmother’s brother, Fei TO CHRYSANTHEMUMS documents them a secret from his grandchildren. images of Paris, Romania and New Gong. An outspoken political scientist, Holmquist’s return 30 years later. York, FAMILY SECRET asks us to exam- Leung travels to China to unravel an Gong was murdered by the Chinese With new material filmed in Thailand, ine what has been hidden from us, as even more astonishing story. Photographs, Nationalists. His story became immor- Laos, and the United States, and incor- well as what we have been hiding from letters and poignant memories of rela- talized as a paradigm of the Chinese porating scenes from the 1969 docu- our loved ones for all these years. tives on both sides of the ocean illumi- revolutionary hero. But the further Julie mentary, the film shows how much has nate the economic and political circum- investigates, the more she discovers “Breaks your heart but at the same time changed, and what has happened to the stances surrounding a man with two discrepancies in the varying accounts, it puts our hearts in communication Hmong in Thailand, Laos, and in the wives living a continent apart. and soon realizes the tangled web between with one another, in a very human, United States. meaningful way.” – Albert Maysles ✵2003 Film Festival, Association history, memory, and propaganda. “Highly recommended! Tells the story of (Director of Gimme Shelter & for Asian Studies “Very inspiring... subtle, serious, thought- the Hmong in Thailand, Laos and the Grey Gardens) ✵Honorable Mention, 2002 ful. It looks at complex, even messy, U.S., the challenges of breaking from Columbus International Film & personal and historical events without “Weird, whacked-out and wonderfully the opium economy in Asia and the Video Festival trying to resolve them.” – Ross McElwee surreal... as if Kafka had reappeared hopes of maintaining a survivable cc (Director of Sherman’s March and after a long and pleasant sleep and 45 minutes | color | 2001 Hmong culture within the radically Sale/video: $345 | Rental/video: $75 Time Indefinite) announced his arrival by email. Rapa- different social fabric of America. The port’s father’s last words are alone “Highly recommended. What start[s] out film itself is technically excellent in all worth the price of admission.” as a search for personal history, becomes aspects, the cinematography simply – Kevin Rafferty (Director of Atomic Cafe) a more universal history. an excellent outstanding.” – Educational Media ✵Grand Prize, Best Documentary, classroom resource in many.” Reviews Online Societe Civile des Auteurs – Educational Media Reviews Online ✵2002 Film Festival, Association Multimedia (2001) ✵First Place Media Award, for Asian Studies 58 minutes | color - b&w | 2000 The National Council on Family ✵2000 Amsterdam International Sale/video: $285 | Rental/video: $75 Relations (2000) Documentary Festival ✵2000 Toronto International 52 minutes | color | 2000 Film Festival Sale/video: $390 | Rental/video: $75 75 minutes | color | 2000 Sale/video: $440 | Rental/video: $100

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LETTERS FROM HOME ONCE REMOVED FROM OPIUM TO CHRYSANTHEMUMS IMMIGRATION SPLIT DECISION TAXI TO TIMBUKTU FROM THE OTHER SIDE A Film by Marcy Garriot Directed by Christopher Walker A Film by Chantal Akerman Produced by Faction Films Gabriel Jesus Sandoval Chavez was five Sometimes poor people, in an attempt “Stunning. As human testimony... FROM when he came to Chicago from Mexico. Alpha, a cabby in New York, comes to survive, risk their lives and leave THE OTHER SIDE is unforgettably force- By the age of 16 he had developed into from the poorest region of Mali. Since everything behind to live elsewhere. ful. Its strongest features? The silences a promising amateur boxer but, in the drought of 1973, the village men But they’re not wanted elsewhere. And into which the witnesses fall, the volumes September of 1990, Jesus accompanied have gone abroad to earn enough to if they are wanted it’s for their labor, to of empty space that haunt Akerman’s gang members on an armed robbery. He keep the women and children alive. do jobs that no one wants to do. Some frames, the deathly voids into which too was convicted and sent to prison. In New York and Tokyo, they earn will pay for others to do those jobs, but many immigrants have disappeared.” not much. – Stuart Klawans, The Nation After his release, Chavez rose through double of what they would in other the professional boxing ranks to cities. But not everyone can go to In FROM THE OTHER SIDE, elsewhere is “A spare, painterly and scrupulously become a contender for the World Japan. “In the past,” says Alpha, “we the United States and the poor are unsentimental look at the plight of ille- Super-Featherweight belt. Then the U.S. went abroad to keep the village alive. mostly Mexicans. Renowned filmmaker gal Mexican immigrants massed at the government enacted two immigration But today we are finding that abroad is Chantal Akerman shifts her focus United States border. Both eerily beauti- laws that ordered the immediate depor- ‘closed’. And if ‘abroad’ is closed, then between the border towns of Agua ful and filled with a quiet compassion.” tation of all non-U.S. citizens with a we are all closed.” Prieta, Sonora, where people from all – Dave Kehr, New York Times over Mexico wait in limbo before cross- conviction. “Enlightening! A powerful resonance.” “Chilling... stunningly composed... ing over, and neighboring Douglas, Living in Mexico, Jesus finds that he – Time Out Akerman, in a few deft interviews, Arizona, a town ringed by mountains must now struggle for acceptance in ✵ shows the hypocrisy and paranoia 2001 Film Festival, African and desert plains. the land of his birth. In Mexico he is Literature Association involved in U.S. immigration policy and viewed as an outsider – a Chicano with For years, immigrants passed through its failure to acknowledge the economic 51 minutes | color | 1994 an American accent. Forced to reestab- San Diego. But now the INS, using dependence of the U.S. on undocumented Sale/video: $285 | Rental/video: $75 lish his boxing reputation Jesus begins cutting edge technologies developed laborers.” – Amy Taubin, Film Comment during the Vietnam War and perfected training under the bleachers of a local “Sensitive portraiture and investigative for the Gulf War, has managed to quell gym, hoping against hope to get a shot REFUGEES IN OUR journalism. Akerman’s respectful, the flow of illegals there. This leaves at the title. BACKYARD inquisitive distance from her subjects only the mountains and deserts of “Students identify greatly with the A Film by Georges Nahitchevansky & recalls some of Walker Evans’ Arizona for those desperate enough to struggle… His determination, resilience Helena Pollack Sultan photographs.” – Chicago Reader try their luck. and sincere “turn-around” from street Since the early 1980s, over millions of ✵2003 Award of Merit in Film, The film opens with a series of interviews punk to world-class fighter and citizen Salvadorans, Guatemalans, and Latin American Studies Association with Mexicans in Agua Prieta, many of resonates with all students, not just the Nicaraguans have fled countries shaken ✵2002 Cannes Film Festival Mexican-American students.” whom have family members that have by violent civil wars and acute | | – Todd Lakin, Chair of Foreign perished while crossing the border. 99 minutes color 2002 economic crises. This film thoroughly | In another interview, a local sheriff in Sale/video: $440 Rental/video: $125 Languages, Richard J. Daley College investigates the impact of civil strife on Arizona comments on the government’s Two versions available: Central America, and the enormous crackdown as “a bad strategy and a bad 75 minutes | color | 2000 obstacles its people face as they plan,” calling the elevated death toll Sale/video: was $440 now $298 attempt to escape into the United States. Rental/video: $100 “a calculated consequence.” “Undoubtedly the best documentary The INS calculated that the hardship 60 minutes | color | 2001 available on the migration of Salvadorans, and danger, the cold and the heat in Sale/video: was $390 now $248 Guatemalans, and Nicaraguans.” Arizona, would stop the crossings, but Rental/video: $75 – Multicultural Education you can’t stop someone who’s hungry. 58 minutes | color | 1990 Sale/video: $390 | Rental/video: $75

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SPLIT DECISION REFUGEES IN OUR BACKYARD FROM THE OTHER SIDE INDIGENOUS PEOPLES BUSH MECHANICS MABO - THOMSON OF MADARRPA FUNERAL A Four Part Series by David Batty Life of an Island Man ARNHEM LAND AT GURKA’WUY A Film by Trevor Graham Produced by an Aboriginal production A Film by John Moore A Film by Ian Dunlop company, this series follows the travels Eddie Koiki Mabo was born on Murray In 1933, after Aboriginals killed five In 1976 Dundiwuy Wanambi, a leader of of aboriginal car mechanics as they are Island in the Torres Strait, but lived Japanese fishermen and three white the Marrakulu clan, invited filmmaker presented with a series of challenges. most of his life in exile on mainland men on the coast of Arnhem Land, Ian Dunlop to come to Gurka’wuy on Australia. Only after his death did the anthropologist Donald Thomson volun- Trial Bay in the Gulf of Carpentaria, PART 1: GOOD MOTORCAR island wholeheartedly welcome him teered to go there. To prevent a race Australia. While Dunlop was there, a The Bush Mechanics form a rock band home. By then the island and Eddie war, he proposed a scientific study of baby boy died. At the urging of the and drive to their first paying gig. As Mabo had changed the legal and politi- the Yolngu culture, for the development Madarrpa men, the child’s father agreed they bounce along, they occasionally cal landscape of Australia. of intelligent policies. to let the funeral be filmed. meet Jupurrula, the magic mechanic who helps them with his bush ingenuity. On June 3, 1992, after a ten-year legal Thomson’s 1937 report to the Australian Mortuary rites of the Yolngu in Arnhem battle, and five months after Eddie government argued for the protection of Land are extremely complex. With the PART 2: PAYBACK Mabo died of cancer at aged 55, the Aboriginal culture. He focused on the help of Dundiwuy Wanambi and Dr. In Alice Springs to collect their nephew High Court of Australia upheld his claim importance of the Aboriginal relation- Nancy Williams, Dunlop highlights the Walter from jail, our heroes have their that Murray Islanders held “Native ships to the land, and their complex religious connections that link people of own brush with the cops, and Walter Title” to three islands on the eastern social and economic structures. But his different clans to their various lands. fringe of the Torres Strait. This ended opinions won few supporters, and his must still face Aboriginal law. “An excellent example of both the way the theory of “terra nullius,” or land report was ignored. Aborigines handle emotions at the PART 3:THE CHASE belonging to no one at the time of Thomson continued his fight for Aborig- death of a member of their society and Four soccer players become stranded white settlement. inal rights until his death in 1970. His how at the same time such a ceremony when the team bus leaves, so they Aboriginal and Islander communities legacy is a collection of over 10,000 presents a blueprint of the very fabric “borrow” their rival coach’s car. The across Australia greeted the Mabo photographs and 7,000 artifacts that of Aboriginal society. [Dunlop’s’] Bush Mechanics are enlisted to them. judgment with jubilation. The legal document traditional Aboriginal life in commentaries and the intertitles are fiction that Australia was empty when PART 4:THE RAINMAKERS extraordinary detail. The Thomson sober but indispensable to contextualize it discovered by white people had been With the country in the grip of severe Collection, housed in the Museum what would otherwise be inaccessible laid to rest. After more than 200 years, drought, the Bush Mechanics are Victoria in Melbourne, is considered material. Tailor-made for teaching. European law had to recognize pre- summoned by the rainmaker Jungala to one of the most significant ethno- Highly Recommended.” – Pacific Arts existing indigenous law. graphic collections in the world. search for rainmaking pearl shells. 88 minutes | color | 1979 “A moving and personal story... Combining magic realism and a distinctive “This exceptional video-story of his Sale/video: was $440 now $348 The strength of the film lies in the Rental/video: $100 indigenous humor, BUSH MECHANICS legacy offers lessons for still-shaping portrayal of Eddie Koiki Mabo, [who] provides unique insight into both policies that affect indigenous cultures challenged the myths of invasion and contemporary and traditional Aboriginal and peoples around the world.” MADARRPA FUNERAL AT GURKA’ WUY colonization through Australia’s own culture. – Teaching Tolerance is part of the YIRKALLA FILM PROJECT, legal system and won.” a film series by Ian Dunlop. In 1970 he “Highly recommended... wonderfully “Outrageously inventive, hilarious, – The Contemporary Pacific started a long-term project with the Yolngu deeply spiritual and very human... done.” – Educational Media Reviews of Yirrkala. Eventually twenty-two films ✵Best Documentary, 1997 Online were edited; five of which are now available. sometimes it’s hard to know where real- Australian Film Institute Awards ✵ For more information about this series, ity ends and dreams begin.” – Inpress ✵Best Documentary, 1997 2001 Award of Commendation, Society for Visual Anthropology please visit www.frif.com. ✵2001 Margaret Mead Film Festival Sydney Film Festival ✵1998 Margaret Mead Film Festival 55 minutes | color | 2000 4 x 25 minutes | color | 2001 (New York) Sale/video: $390 | Rental/video: $75 Sale/video: $398 | Rental/video: $100 87 minutes | color | 1997 Sale/video: was $440 now $375 Rental/video: $100 34

BUSH MECHANICS THOMSON OF ARNHEM LAND MADARRPA FUNERAL AT GURKA’WUY INDIGENOUS PEOPLES REGOPSTAAN’S DREAM THE TODOS SANTOS SINCE THE THE RETURN OF A Film by Christopher Walker FILMS COMPANY CAME SARA BAARTMAN In post-Apartheid South Africa the Two Films by Olivia Carrescia A Film by Russell Hawkins A Film by Zola Maseko efforts to redress the wrongs of the “[The Todos Santos] films are When village leaders of the Haporai In a storeroom at Paris’s past have created surprising conflicts. two halves of a story that... will people of Rendova Island (Solomon Musée de l’Homme, a man Gemsbok Park was created in 1931 to endure as a testimonial to the Islands) invite a Malaysian company to carefully wraps a jar in heavy preserve Bushmen culture, but under Mayas’ continuing resourcefulness and log their tribal land, the community white paper. Inside is the brain of Sara Apartheid the park’s mission changed to vitality. These films deserve to be shown faces a difficult crossroads. Most of the Baartman, which, along with the rest of ecological preservation, prompting the in every college campus with a Latin men embrace the chance to earn money; her remains, is finally going home to widespread eviction of the Bushmen. American department.” – Victor Perera, many of the women are more concerned South Africa. with preserving the forests and tradi- Now they are attempting to reclaim Guatemalan-American author THE RETURN OF SARA BAARTMAN tions that sustain their families. their ancestral homelands. This struggle continues the story told in The Life and encompasses the sensitive issues of TODOS SANTOS Evocative archival footage from the Times of Sara Baartman (see page 3), wildlife conservation and the rights of CUCHUMATAN - Report from 1920’s raises questions about the ongo- and tackles difficult issues of artifact indigenous people to live in protected areas. a Guatemalan Village ing legacy of colonial attitudes. We and human remains repatriation and the Filmed over three years the film follows An intimate look at the mountain village witness the ongoing disruption of land rights of indigenous peoples. of Todos Santos before the violence of and society, and glimpse those same Bushmen leader David Kruiper on his Sara’s repatriation involved years of the 1980s. Todosanteros discuss the forces at work internally, within the odyssey to reclaim not only his people’s lobbying by activists in South Africa, a increasing importance of cash to this people themselves. land, but to restore a disappearing connection between a French parlia- once self-sustained farming community. language and culture. “The film has significant pedagogical mentary assistant and South African The annual harvest is reaped, the elab- value in anthropological, ecological, and poet Diana Ferrus, and French senator “Highlights the clash between the old- orate Fiesta of Todos Santos is cele- economic instruction... Guided only by Nicolas About who, when told that only style conservation ideals and a more brated, and the workers migrate out of visual imagery and indigenous voices, a law could force the country to give up inclusive, community-oriented approach the mountain village in search of work [the film goes] beyond western repre- Baartman, introduced one. to environmental resource manage- on the lowland cotton plantations. sentations of global processes and ment. It is fascinating to see and hear Her burial offered some closure on an “A must for viewing by anyone inter- faces [the viewer] with actual human the different stakeholders tell their episode of racist imperialism. Speaking ested in Latin America.” impacts, illustrating the ongoing legacy stories: the traditional San leader, the at her funeral, South African president – American Anthropologist of colonialism. We come to see that the human rights lawyer who was able to Thabo Mbeki said Baartman’s story “is manner of exploitation, which plays on secure six farms outside the National 41 minutes | color | 1982 the story of the loss of our ancient free- vulnerabilities within traditional soci- Park and is still negotiating for rights Sale/video: was $390 now $298 dom... It is the story of our reduction to eties to the pressures and promises of within the Park, the Afrikaner farmer Rental/video: $85 the status of objects that could be whose grandfather had settled in the westernization, has not changed much TODOS SANTOS - owned, used and disposed of by others.” area in 1915 and who is now surprised in the last century.” – Keith Prufer, ‘that the bushmen want our land.’“ The Survivors Auburn University, for Anthropology However, questions and uncertainties – Cultural Survival Quarterly This film documents the legacy of the Review Database remained. For how does an exploited bloody civil war of the 1980’s. spirit return home when the accompa- ✵ ✵2002 Film Festival, 2001 Film Festival, nying culture is gone? Even, what to American Anthropological Association “An excellent teaching tool for courses Association for Asian Studies call her, Sara, Sarah, or Saartjie – what ✵2001 Film Festival, in sociology, anthropology or political ✵2001 Award of Commendation, would she have called herself? The African Studies Association science.” – Professor of Anthropology Society for Visual Anthropology colonial legacy may be receding, but it ✵2001 Film Festival, African Allan F Burns, University of Florida ✵International Independent Award, Literature Association 2001 North-South Media Festival is still a long way from vanishing. 58 minutes | color | 1989 (Switzerland) 52 minutes | color | 2000 Sale/video: was $375 now $298 55 minutes | color | 2003 cc Sale/video: $390 | Rental/video: $75 Rental/video: $100 52 minutes | color | 2000 Sale/video: $390 | Rental/video: $75 Sale/video: $390 | Rental/video: $75

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REGOPSTAAN’S DREAM SINCE THE COMPANY CAME THE RETURN OF SARA BAARTMAN INDIGENOUS PEOPLES KNOROSOV - HUMAN FACES BEHIND TAKING PICTURES GIVE US OUR The Decipherment of the THE RAIN FOREST: A Film by Les McLaren & Annie Stiven SKELETONS! Mayan Script Indigenous People Many renowned Australian A Film Paul-Anders Simma A Film by Tiahoga Ruge & Eduardo A Film by Mady Samper documentary filmmakers, Herrara Fernandez Niillas Somby is a Sami, an ethnic including Gary Kildea, Through the experiences of the indige- group who inhabit northern Scandinavia. Dennis O’Rourke, Bob Connolly and KNOROSOV traces the history of the nous peoples in Colombia, HUMAN He is fighting to compel the Norwegian Robin Anderson, honed their craft while ancient Mayan codices since their FACES BEHIND THE RAIN FOREST docu- authorities to release the skull of a residents of Papua New Guinea. Their discovery, and relates the fantastic ments the dramatic events surrounding rebellious ancestor. films capture the energy and contradic- story of the man who deciphered them. the harvest of opium poppies in the rain tions of a country in transition from Mons Somby, Niillas’ ancestor, and An unknown linguist who had never forest, and analyzes the complexities colony to young, modern nation. Alask Hetta were executed in 1854 for visited the Mayan sites, Yuri Knorosov behind Colombia’s drug crisis. murder, following a rebellion against But whose stories are they? Filmmakers discovered the key while working at the We visit the Quinteros Fish Farm, where the government, which claimed two are now often challenged about cultural Russian Institute of Ethnography in the Paez Indians have stopped growing Norwegian lives. Their bodies were rights and the Western domination of Leningrad. Published in 1952, during the poppies in favor of fish farming. And at claimed by the State for scientific representation. TAKING PICTURES Cold War, the Western academic a Yanaconas Indians community meeting research, and their skulls are held to explores the issues and pitfalls of film- community dismissed his work. we see the first definitive steps to end this day, part of a collection of 900 skulls ing across a cultural boundary. The film includes interviews with Yuri poppy production after years of bloodshed. at The Anatomical Institute, in Oslo. “Strongly recommended. ...Illustrated Knorosov and contemporary Maya However, for many communities the In those days research into racial classi- with a healthy sampling of clips from scholars including Michael Coe, author poppy still represents the only viable fication was a popular field for Scandi- their works, films full of beauty, wonder, of Breaking the Maya Code. Animated crop. To complicate matters, aerial navian scientists. Racist legislation was humor and amazement.” – Video Librarian sequences illustrate the process fumigation has caused an ecological justified by, and in turn reinforced this Knorosov used to eventually succeed catastrophe and agricultural crisis, “Stunning... Powerful... For anyone research, continuing the persecution of where so many had failed. furthering the shortage of food and work. interested in film and the people behind the Sami well into the 20th Century. and in front of the camera this is a “This fascinating film shows many HUMAN FACES BEHIND THE RAIN Today Niillas Somby’s rebellion is a great view of what it means to be on details of Knorosov’s life and the devel- FOREST debunks the stereotypes propa- peaceful one. But how will he convince either side. For those interested in opment of his unconventional ideas.” gated by Western media, and is a the authorities that Mons’ skull isn’t cultural ramifications of documentary – David H. Kelly, Professor of simultaneous plea for assistance from rightfully the property of the govern- film or ethnography this is more than a Archaeology, University of Calgary the international community. ment, but belongs to the legacy of a glimpse into the lives behind the lens ✵2001 Award of Merit in Film, long oppressed people? “Highly Recommended!” – Educational Latin American Studies Association and in front of it. I would highly recom- ✵ Media Reviews Online mend this film for college/university “Stands by itself as a record of the Special Jury Prize, 2001 injustices suffered by the Sami and a Guanajuato Film Festival (Mexico) ✵2003 Award of Merit in Film, undergraduates, graduates and faculty.” call for understanding and reform. An ✵Best Editing & Visual Effects, 2000 Latin American Studies Association – Educational Media Reviews Online engaging film... mirrors the history of Pantalla de Cristal Festival (Mexico) ✵2nd Prize for Best Documentary, ✵Bilan du Film Ethnographique (Paris) 2002 Bogotá Film Festival relationships between native peoples 57 minutes | color | 2000 52 minutes | color | 1996 and colonial governments around the Sale/video: $390 | Rental/video: $75 30 minutes | color | 2001 Sale/video: $390 | Rental/video: $75 world.” – Visual Anthropology Review Sale/video: $225 | Rental/video: $65 49 minutes | color | 1999 Sale/video: $390 | Rental/video: $75

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KNOROSOV - THE DECIPHERMENT HUMAN FACES BEHIND TAKING PICTURES GIVE US OUR SKELETONS! OF THE MAYAN SCRIPT THE RAIN FOREST JEWISH STUDIES LATIN AMERICA DITA AND THE UNCLE CHATZKEL THE SAVED WELCOME TO COLOMBIA FAMILY BUSINESS A Film by Rod Freedman A Film by Paul Cohen & A Film by Catalina Villar Oeke Hoogendijk Directed by Josh Taylor Using his skills as a linguist and lexi- Two million displaced Produced by Jonathan Mednick cographer, Chatzkel Lemchen survived “I’m opposed to this film. The history of persons, 35,000 murders per This superb documentary explores the the Russian revolution, two world wars, the Barneveld group is an exception.” year, 70,000 mines scattered colorful history of the glamorous family the Holocaust (which claimed most of Opening with these words THE SAVED all over the country, a kidnapping every that founded Bergdorf-Goodman’s. his family), and communism. tells the story of 700 Dutch Jews who, ten minutes: Colombia is the theatre of one of the most tragic wars of our time. The director focuses on his charismatic Until his recent death at the age of 94, seemingly on a whim of fate, managed grandmother, Dita. A Catholic divorcee he still worked in Vilnius, Lithuania, to escape deportation to concentration In WELCOME TO COLOMBIA, filmmaker from Cuba, she was an unlikely match for providing a bridge between Lithuanian, camps during World War II. While their Catalina Villar travels across her country Andrew Goodman, the Jewish successor Russian and Yiddish cultures. Lemchen friends and neighbors were dragged during the course of Colombia’s 2002 to the family business. But her marriage was regarded as a Lithuanian national from their homes, these survivors found presidential election. Everywhere she finds proved to be a passionate one, filled treasure because of the dictionaries he shelter at a chateau in Barneveld. THE people who are tired of the fighting and with adventures with the likes of Ernest created to preserve the Lithuanian SAVED captures their story, in their own the blaming, and who simply want peace. language during the Soviet era. words, for the first time. Hemingway and the Duke of Windsor. Among the people she encounters are With rare documentation of the rise of Lemchen’s enthralling accounts of the THE SAVED pieces together the stories Colombian activists who create a satiri- the fashion industry and nostalgic turning points in his life have great of 9 survivors. Some remember the in- cal street theatre performance. One of glimpses of a long-gone New York City, historical and contemporary relevance. house concerts and the love affairs that the floats features President Andres the film also reflects on the value of the Incorporating powerful Russian and developed, others the isolation and Pastrana sitting on the toilet, his “Stars myths that hold families together. Lithuanian archival footage, some seen anxieties about the future. At Wester- and Stripes” boxers clearly visible. But for the first time, UNCLE CHATZKEL bork and Theresienstadt, where they Pastrana is only one of the many 58 minutes | color | 1999 helps us to understand the past’s rela- were eventually sent, they saw trains villains in the decades-long civil war. Sale/video: $245 | Rental/video: $75 tionship to the present. headed for the camps, sometimes carry- Fuelled in large part by drug money, the ing friends or family. Finally, the film war pits the government and right-wing “What a film! What a tribute! What a records the survivors’ struggle to come paramilitaries against guerrilla groups, FAITH AND FORTUNE man! He calls to mind all the best of to terms with their exceptional fate, of which the best known is FARC. The Reichmann Story the few very best people I’ve known. A Film by Alan Handel with the guilt, anger and depression For me it sets a welcome standard for that continue to haunt them. Although Villar has little sympathy for the all documentaries and for the media in guerrillas, she offers a counterpoint to FAITH AND FORTUNE tells the epic tale ✵Best Documentary for Television, of a dynastic family that acquired stag- general. It’s enough to bring tears – propaganda that obscures the fact that tears of joy for survival of the human Dutch Academy Awards (1998) the most of the killings are perpetrated gering wealth, only to lose it all in a real ✵Comenius Award (Austria, 1999) estate gamble of astonishing proportions. spirit.” – Albert Maysles (Director of not by guerrillas, but by paramilitaries. Gimme Shelter and Grey Gardens) Two Lengths Available: The law-and-order candidate Alvaro Although ultra-Orthodox, the Reichmann’s 90 minutes | color | 1998 “This is a beautiful film, an inspiring Uribe wins the election, but as Villar became one of the dozen wealthiest Sale/video: $375 | Rental/video: $100 families in the world, their property film, a humane film despite the inhu- journeys from Cauca to the Pacific 60 minutes | color | 1998 holdings constituting the greatest real manity that’s an irreducible part of the Coast, from Caguan to Bogota, she Sale/video: $275 | Rental/video: $75 estate empire the world had ever seen. story it relates. It’s the story of a man finds hope in people working for posi- whose character, humanity, and tive, peaceful change. As the Reichmann story unfolds the achievements single him out as an documentary examines the tensions 65 minutes | color | 2003 extraordinary person whatever the Sale/video: $390 | Rental/video: $75 between the family’s religious beliefs and circumstances. Highly Recommended.” their huge ambitions in the business world. – Educational Media Reviews Online “Recommended. A lively in-depth portrait.” 52 minutes | color | 2000 – Educational Media Reviews Online Sale/video: $275 | Rental/video: $75 52 minutes | color | 2000 Sale/video: $245 | Rental/video: $75 37

UNCLE CHATZKEL THE SAVED WELCOME TO COLOMBIA LATIN AMERICA THE WORLD STOPPED WATCHING 1932: SCARS OF MEMORY FERNANDO IS BACK Directed by Peter Raymont (Cicatriz de la Memoria) A Film by Silvio Caiozzi Produced by Peter Raymont, Harold Crooks & Lindalee Tracey A Film by Jeffrey Gould & Co-Produced with the National Film Board of Canada Carlos Henriquez Consalvi FERNANDO IS BACK follows the workings of Chile’s Forensic Identification Unit (FIU) THE WORLD STOPPED More importantly, however, for the film- January 22, 1932. An indige- in its quest to reclaim the identities of WATCHING is a sequel to makers, is the other half of the story – nous peasant uprising erupts the ‘disappeared.’ the award winning The World what of the Nicaraguans left behind? in western El Salvador. Founded in 1994, the unit is composed Is Watching (also distributed by What of the democracy they now live Retribution is swift. In some villages, of specialists in anthropology and First Run/ Icarus Films), a cinema verité in? Of freedom? Of poverty? the army and “citizen militias” slaughter look at foreign news coverage of a forensics, doctors who match the skulls, “A moving study of Nicaragua since the all males over age 12. Elsewhere, climactic moment in the US-financed bones, and teeth of recovered victims world stopped watching when Wash- they summarily execute anyone with Contra war against Nicaragua’s revolu- with old family photographs, dental ington’s perceived problem was fixed in a tenuous link to the Communists. tionary government. records and medical histories. Their 1990. Though justifiably critical of the In SCARS OF MEMORY survivors share goal is to identify the remains of all the Fourteen years later, filmmakers US media, this is a careful, balanced, their harrowing memories – many for disappeared, to be able to say how they Peter Raymont and Harold Crooks accurate and sensitive documentary.” the first time. died, reclaiming their histories and returned to Nicaragua with two American – Thomas W. Walker, Ohio University, identities, one by one. journalists who were in the original film Author of Nicaragua: Living In The Jeffrey L. Gould (director of the Center for to discover what became of the first Shadow Of The Eagle Latin American and Caribbean Studies at Fernando Olivares Mori disappeared revolution to be conducted in the glare Indiana University) and Carlos Henríquez when he was 27 years old. The FIU is “A rare view... moving and sensitive... of the world media. Consalvi (founder of the Museo de la now working to identify his remains. the message, searing and powerful, is Palabra y la Imágen in El Salvador) FERNANDO IS BACK documents the They encountered Nicaraguans from that it is never too late for us to face collaborated on this historical research FIU’s efforts, capturing the impact of every level of society: from Sandinista what we have done and to try our best project that aimed to recover and their work for one family, and on the leader Daniel Ortega to an 82-year-old to help the victims salvage what they analyze the testimonies of survivors. entire country. peasant survivor of a Contra attack, can from the wreckage of their lives Over two hundred interviews form the “Powerful and moving, this film shows Carmela Requenes Martinez; to the and country for which we share a very basis for the documentary. legendary Sandinista commander, Julio large part of the responsibility.” the viewer the consequences of the Ochoa, and two former Contra merce- – Noam Chomsky, Massachusetts The brutal way in which the uprising Chilean dictatorship and what it did to naries who admit to killings that took Institute of Technology was crushed left many too scared to the people of the nation. Recommended.” place during the Contra War. ever participate in politics again. The – Educational Media Reviews Online Two Lengths Available: trauma resonated through six decades ✵ Much has changed. Literacy is down. 52 minutes | color | 2003 cc 2001 Award of Merit in Film, of military rule, until the 1992 peace Latin American Studies Association Infant deaths are up. Many NGOs are Sale/video: $390 | Rental/video: $75 accords ended a brutal, 12-year civil war. ✵Best Documentary, 1998 doing useful development work, particu- | | 82 minutes color 2003 “An excellent historic record of this tragic Festival of New Latin American larly in the area of women’s health and Sale/video: $440 | Rental/video: $100 Cinema (Cuba) housing. But, according to recent UNESCO chapter in Central American history. The reports, 26% of Nicaraguan children strength of the film... comes from those 31 minutes | color | 1998 never set foot in a classroom, a figure who lived through the horrors. The peas- Sale/video: $225 | Rental/video: $60 twice as high as the 13% average in ants interviewed... provide an articulate the rest of Latin America. and often harrowing tale of their nation’s bloody past and the political terror which The journalists have also changed. Do destroyed their lives.” – Film Threat they still feel like frustrated high-paid ✵2003 Award of Merit in Film, mouthpieces for a hidden editorial line? Latin American Studies Association ✵Honorable Mention, 2003 Festival de Film y Video de El Salvador 53 minutes | color - b&w | 2002 38 Sale/video: $390 | Rental/video: $75

THE WORLD STOPPED WATCHING 1932: SCARS OF MEMORY (CICATRIZ DE LA MEMORIA) FERNANDO IS BACK LATIN AMERICA

THE FILMS OF THE BATTLE OF CHILE THE PINOCHET CASE A Film by Patricio Guzmán PATRICIO GUZMÁN (Part 3) “Patricio Guzmán’s heartbreaking probe “An exultant depiction of people In September 1998, General Augusto When Pinochet finally returned to Chile of Chile’s revolution, the Pinochet coup, becoming politicized and taking charge Pinochet flew to London on a pleasure he faced 200 accusations of crimes, this and the long entangled aftermath will of their own destinies, responding trip. He rested for a few days... he had time in Chilean courts. Eventually the be considered in centuries to come one ingeniously to further acts of oppression tea with Margaret Thatcher. But, Chilean Supreme Court also stripped him of the most eloquent and daring explo- and attempting to reorganize every suddenly, he began experiencing back of his immunity, and on January 29, 2001, rations of revolution and repression, aspect of their lives along communal pain and underwent sugery. When he Judge Juan Guzmán placed Augusto hope and memory, to survive our sorry lines.” – Los Angeles Times awoke the London police arrested him. Pinochet under house arrest. The people times. What Guzmán passionately and Who was responsible for this? were no longer afraid, and the Chilean clinically observes in Chile is valid for “Part III is every bit as powerful as the justice system started to make up for In this masterful look at the dramatic the whole world.” – Ariel Dorfman first two parts, and in some ways more lost time. interesting.” – Village Voice arrest of Pinochet, Patricio Guzmán Born in 1941 in Santiago, Chile, as ✵ details the precedent-setting legal efforts “Eloquent, meticulously structured. an adolescent in the late 1950’s 1979 Berlin Film Festival to make a tyrant answer for his crimes. A gripping step-by-step account of the Patricio Guzmán became drawn to case. Sober political and legal analysis 78 minutes | b&w | 1978 The case originated in Spain two years documentary filmmaking when he saw Sale/video: $285 | Rental/video: $100 alternates with grim first-hand accounts before Pinochet’s arrest. With the film’s the films of Chris Marker, Frederic Rossif, of torture and murder in a film that has protagonists, among them prosecutor and Louis Malle. His first film was the structure of a choral symphony that Carlos Castressana, who filed the made when Salvador Allende became CHILE, swells to a bittersweet finale. A beauti- charges, and Judge Baltasar Garzón, the democratically elected socialist fully layered mosaic that is all the more OBSTINATE MEMORY who upheld them and issued the arrest president of Chile; his epic documentary powerful for never raising its voice to a In 1997 Patricio Guzmán returned to warrant, THE PINOCHET CASE explores trilogy THE BATTLE OF CHIILE was shout... ” – New York Times show The Battle of Chile in his home- how a small group of people in Madrid filmed throughout Allende’s final year, land for the first time, and to explore laid the groundwork for this incredible “Haunting! A magisterial documentary until the very day of the coup d’etat, the terrain of the confiscated (but feat – catching a dictator 25 years after about the force of memory.” September 11, 1973. maybe reawakening) memories of the his rise to power. – New York Magazine Chilean people. Pinochet spent 503 days under house “Both a legalistic thriller and a searing THE BATTLE OF CHILE “The disquieting juxtaposition of a past arrest at an estate outside London, until documentary, THE PINOCHET CASE is a (Parts 1 & 2) so indelibly etched in the minds of one Tony Blair’s government released him fitting coda to a magnificent trilogy... generation and a youthful population on grounds of ill health. However, only (and) Guzmán’s trilogy is one of the “Not only the best film about Allende oblivious to history lends the film a haunt- after the House of Lords, in a historic finest documentaries ever made.” and the coup d’etat, but among the best ing quality.” – Leonard Klady, Variety decision with international repercussions, – Simon Hattenstone, The Guardian documentary films ever made, changing ✵1998 Award of Merit in Film, Latin divested him of his legal immunity, ruling our concepts of political documentary ✵2003 Award of Merit in Film, American Studies Association that even heads of state can be held within a framework accessible to the Latin American Studies Association accountable for crimes against humanity. widest audience.” – Time Out Film Guide 58 minutes | color | 1997 ✵Premiere, Semaine de la Critique, Sale/video: $390 | Rental/video: $100 Equally important is the platform the 2001 Cannes Film Festival “A landmark in the presentation of ✵ film gives to Pinochet’s surviving Grand Prize, 2001 Fiction du Reel living history on film.” – Judy Stone, victims. THE PINOCHET CASE movingly (France) San Francisco Chronicle For more biographical information about ✵ incorporates the stories – crucial to the Golden Gate Award for ✵ Patricio Guzmán, and complete descrip- Best Documentary, 2002 Premiere, Director’s Fortnight, tions of THE BATTLE OF CHILE, CHILE: case against Pinochet – of many San Francisco Film Festival 1975 & 1976 Cannes Film Festivals OBSTINATE MEMORY, his contemplative Chileans who traveled to Madrid to ✵ Grand Prize, 1975 & 1976 Grenoble sojourn ROBINSON CRUSOE ISLAND, testify, including relatives of the “disap- 109 minutes | color | 2001 and his most recent film MADRID, visit International Film Festivals peared” and others who survived the Sale/video: $440 | Rental/video: $125 our web site: www.frif.com 184 minutes | b&w | 1976 secret prisons. Sale/video: $490 | Rental/video: $175

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THE BATTLE OF CHILE THE PINOCHET CASE LATIN AMERICA PAULINA ALONSO’S DREAM MEDELLIN NOTEBOOKS VARAN WORKSHOP Directed by Vicky Funari A Film by Danièle Lacourse & A Film by Catalina Villar IN COLOMBIA Produced by Vicky Funari & Yvan Patry A Three Part Series Produced by Jennifer Maytorena Taylor Medellin, Colombia, the city made famous Catalina Villar Mayan lay priest Alonso lives in the by the cocaine cartels. It is the home of In the 1950’s, when Paulina was a child Highlands of Chenalho, deep in the chronic violence, and is overpopulated The Varan Workshop in Colombia is a in a rural Mexican village, her parents heart of Chiapas, Mexico, where his by peasants fleeing the guerrillas. training organization that teaches a traded her away for land rights. The village is torn by a violent conflict. three-month course at the Film and villagers ostracized her and the town But at one high school a remarkable Since 1994, the Zapatista National Television Department of the National boss raped her, keeping her as his teacher is working on an innovative Liberation Army has been in a tense University of Colombia. In each film unwilling mistress throughout much of project. He asks the students to commit military standoff with the Mexican army described below, the student filmmakers, her adolescence. At 15, she took control to “a big experience – to write the most and paramilitary groups. all under 25-years-old, had no prior of her destiny and escaped to Mexico important book in the world, more production experience. City to begin a new life. Alonso was drawn into the conflict important than 100 Years of Solitude! when he met Maria, who lost nine You are going to tell, the story of your Each student filmmaker, while shooting, Now middle-aged, Paulina returns to family members at the Acteal Massacre life.” While improving their language confronted a “state of emergency” – an her village to confront her family about (when paramilitary units opened fire and writing skills, the teacher hopes the unexpected development that emerged what happened and encounters a web inside a church, killing 45 civilians who students will understand it is possible from the subject and the characters of intrigue and denial. PAULINA inter- were seeking refuge). His quest for to overcome the greatest of obstacles. themselves. The young filmmakers were weaves documentary and fiction styles justice those responsible, and for non- astonished to discover a surprising reality. to explore the characters’ radically Millerdad and Sandra, Maria Eugenia, violent solutions have brought repeated Their films reflect this discovery. different perspectives and memories, death threats. Doralba and others recount the kindness and those of this vital, resilient woman. of their mothers, the absence of their ALONSO’S DREAM focuses on the fathers... helping each other develop an FOLLOWING ONE’S WAY Directed by Diego Fernando Hernandez “A remarkable documentary... simulta- impact the violence has on the day-to- all-important capacity, for listening. neously devastating and inspiring... day lives of the Mayan peasants, rather To escape from the poor, dangerous “Highly Recommended! Excerpts from assured, intelligent filmmaking... a than on the glorification of the Zapatis- environment in which she lives, a young some of the students’ diaries... punctuate testament to what the human spirit can tas. Through Alonso’s story, the film woman’s struggle to succeed as a poignant scenes of both despair and love.” endure and rise above.” – New York Times becomes a contemplative and critical singer in Bogota, Colombia. – Educational Media Reviews Online “An important study of gender and assessment of the uprising from the ✵ class politics.” – Time Out New York perspective of the Mayan people. 2001 Award of Merit in Film, HAIR THERAPY Latin American Studies Association Directed by Andrea Saïd ✵ “Highly Recommended! A gripping 2001 Award of Merit in Film, ✵Best Documentary & Audience A Colombian filmmaker questions her Latin American Studies Association examination of a conflict about which Award, 1998 Nyon Film Festival ✵2001 Film Festival, National little is known in the outside world. It (Switzerland) friends – all young women like her, and Women’s Studies Association allows the viewer to see into the lives ✵Prix “Découvertes” 1998 SCAM caught between maintaining their inde- ✵Grand Jury Prize, 1998 of the Maya, to understand their culture (France) pendence and love, relationships, and San Francisco Film Festival and the many obstacles they face.” ✵Grand Prize, 1998 Festival Amas the desire to start a family. ✵Best Documentary, 1998 – Educational Media Reviews Online Cultura (Portugal) San Juan Film Festival ✵ THERE’S NO ROOM FOR ✵2001 Award of Merit in Film, Grand Prize, 1998 Festival ✵Lifetime’s Vision Award, 1999 Latin American Studies Association Documentaire de Saint-Jacques SO MANY PEOPLE Hamptons Film Festival de Compostelle (Spain) Directed by Diego Fernando Hernandez ✵1998 Sundance Film Festival 71 minutes | color | 2000 If Edgar doesn’t find work by the end of Sale/video: $440 | Rental/video: $100 55 minutes | color | 1998 90 minutes | color | 1997 Sale/video: $390 | Rental/video: $75 the week, he and his wife will leave Sale/video: $440 | Rental/video: $100 Bogota for the coast, leaving their daughter behind. 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PAULINA ALONSO’S DREAM MEDELLIN NOTEBOOKS FOLLOWING ONE’S WAY LITERATURE NAGUIB MAHFOUZ: COLETTE MARGUERITE, A Reflection of Herself The Passage of the Century A Film by Yannick Bellon A Film by Dominique Auvray A Film by Francka Mouloudi Known simply as Colette, Marguerite Duras (1914-1996) Duras also speaks of her work, her In 1988, Naguib Mahfouz, “who, through Sidonie Gabrielle Colette – best known as the author of political engagements, and social works rich in nuance – now clear-sightedly (1873-1954) was both a popu- The Lover and for the screen- commitments. And we see her directing realistic, now evocatively ambiguous – lar and literary sensation. She scandal- play for Hiroshima, Mon Amour (the a rehearsal of Savannah Bay with Bulle has formed an Arabian narrative art ized Parisian society with her three classic 1960 New Wave film directed by Ogier and Madeleine Renaud in 1984, that applies to all mankind,” was marriages and career as a music-hall Alain Resnais) – was one of the most and on the set of Agatha (1981) and awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. performer. But she was also one of the controversial and renowned cultural Nathalie Granger (1972), which was He was the first and is still the only finest prose stylists of her era. figures in post-war France. Extremely shot in her own home. prolific, between 1943 (when she Arab Nobel Laureate for Literature. Colette’s work explored the struggle Throughout the film Marguerite Duras published her first book) and 1995 (when between independent identity and goes from pain to joy, from the serious The author of the acclaimed Cairo Trilogy, she published her last – That’s All), Duras passionate love, and asserted female to the anecdotal, with lightning speed. The Harafish, Arabian Nights and Days directed 19 films and wrote more than sexuality in a male-dominated world. As it moves along with the years, among many other novels and story 70 novels, plays, movies and adaptations. collection, Mahfouz is now 88, half- The first woman chosen as a member of themes and locations of her life, blind, hard of hearing, and crippled by France’s prestigious Goncourt Academy, Dominuqe Auvray was a friend of Duras MARGUERITE, A REFLECTION OF a recent assassination attempt, but still her semi-autobiographical novels and the editor of three of her films: HERSELF becomes a moving portrait of witty and lucid. include the Claudine and Chéri series, Baxter, Vera Baxter (1976), Le Camion a complex woman, mother, journalist, as well as The Vagabond, and Gigi. (1977) and Le Navire Night (1978). Given militant, friend, filmmaker and writer. He weaves the threads of his life access to an amazing breadth of archival Narrated and written by Colette, the “This loving portrait of the writer and together with his view of society, his materials, interviews from television film looks back over her carefree child- filmmaker... is poetic, allusive and childhood, his discovery of literature programs, extracts from Duras’ films, hood, the inspiration she drew from her elusive – much like her art. The video is (Egyptian and Western), the city of home movies (filmed between 1957 and rural homes, and her career as a suffused with her passion for literature, Cairo (which he left only three times in 1992), and photographs, she creates in performer. The film, which includes the process of writing, and cinema.” his life), Islamic fundamentalism, the MARGUERITE, A REFLECTION OF HERSELF conversations with neighbor Jean – The Chicago Reader evolution of Egypt, the role of women, a personal portrait of the woman. and the future of civilization. Cocteau, shows a woman who may be “Tip of the Week! Incredible Charm.” near the end of her life but who Speaking about her youth and family, “[Mahfouz] is not only a Hugo and a – New City Chicago remains dynamic and engaged – even if Duras discusses her mother and broth- Dickens, but also a Galsworthy, a Mann, ✵ she claims (to the amused disbelief of ers in Indochina and their transposition 2003 Michel-Mitrani Prize, FIPA a Zola and a Jules Romains.” ✵ Cocteau) to now spend her days occu- in Un Barrage Contre Le Pacifique. She 2003 Belfort Film Festival (France) – Edward Said, London Review of Books pied with needlepoint. also describes her move to Paris to 61 minutes | color - b&w | 2002 “A very beautiful portrait of Naguib study at the Sorbonne, her loves and “This video treasure... is highly recom- Sale/video: $390 | Rental/video: $125 Mahfouz.” – Le Figaro friendships there (the famous Rue mended.” – Library Journal Saint-Benoit group of 50’s Paris, with ✵2002 Film Festival, African Literature Association “The narrative, written and spoken by Robert Antelme, her first husband, ✵2001 FilmFest, Middle East Colette, has all the savor of her best Dyonis Mascolo, the father of her son, Studies Association pages. With a film like this, the cinema Edgar Morin, Claude Roy, and many others). is truly the “witness” of our times.” 49 minutes | color | 1999 – La Cinématographie Française Sale/video: $375 | Rental/video: $75 ✵2003 Film Festival, National Women’s Studies Association 29 minutes | b&w | 1951 Sale/video: $225 | Rental/video: $75

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NAGUIB MAHFOUZ: COLETTE MARGUERITE, A REFLECTION OF HERSELF THE PASSAGE OF THE CENTURY MEDIA KUXA KANEMA - THE UNIVERSAL CLOCK - NAJI AL ALI: A MOBILE WORLD The Birth of Cinema The Resistance of An Artist With Vision A Film by Jean-Michel Mariou, A Film by Margarida Cardoso Peter Watkins A Film by Kasim Abid Francine Raymond & Jean-Paul Gerouard Directed by Geoff Bowie The first cultural act of the Naji Al-Ali produced thousands of From Africa’s Ivory Coast, where owning A National Film Board of Canada a cellular phone is still a practically Mozambique Government Production cartoons satirizing the powers that be after independence was to in the Middle East, and paid the ulti- unaffordable luxury, to Helsinki, Finland, create the National Institute of Cinema Documentaries are enjoying an unprece- mate price. On July 22, 1987 he was birthplace of Nokia and Ericsson, where (INC). The new president Samora dented boom fueled by audiences seeking shot leaving the London offices of the 6 out of 10 people own a mobile phone, Machel understood he needed to use alternative programming. But now docu- Al Qabbas newspaper, and died after to this film offers a fascinating and informed the power of the image to build an mentary filmmaking, too, finds itself laying in a coma for 5 weeks. Despite assessment of the information age. independent nation. constrained by the imperatives of televi- some arrests and an investigation by MI5, Crossing the globe, the filmmakers sion. The chief culprit is the so-called the assassin has never been identified. interview industry professionals on the The history of the INC and the films it “universal clock,” a straitjacket that produced cannot be disassociated from Naji is still a popular artist in the Arab leading edge of the revolution, as well imposes theme and running-time restric- as prominent sociologists who believe the movement embodied by Machel and tions to meet the demands of the global world, loved for his defense of the ordi- FRELIMO (Mozambique Liberation nary people. Featuring interviews with the telecommunications boom will market. However, there is a rebel resisting further widen the gap between devel- Front). Footage from the films – found this uniformity of the spirit. leading Arab writers, his wife and by filmmaker Margarida Cardoso in an others, Naji Al Ali give us insight into oped and developing nations. abandoned, burnt out building – show For the last three decades Peter Watkins his subtle cartoons, and allows us to 49 minutes | color | 2000 Mozambique’s trajectory from great has proven that films may be made examine the forces that shaped Naji as Sale/video: was $390 now $298 hope to great disillusionment. without compromise. He continues to an artist, and shows how his experiences Rental/video: $75 work outside the regular boundaries, mirror those of other exiled Palestinians. KUXA KANEMA weaves these found austere dedication being his only rule DISTRESS SIGNALS - images into interviews with the people for success. “A valuable and vital primer into an who produced them, constructing a history extraordinary life, lived in extraordinary An Investigation of of the birth and death of local cinema, THE UNIVERSAL CLOCK documents times in an unfortunate land... a Global Television and the birth and death of an ideology. Watkins in Paris shooting his acclaimed, wonderful visual documentation of the Directed by John Walker A National Film Board of Canada epic film La Commune (see page 28). But pain of Palestine. The history of the Today, the People’s Republic of Mozam- Production as a stark counterpoint we are harshly Palestinian struggle can never be bique is simply the Republic of Mozam- reminded of the reality when the camera recorded without some reference to The United States’ number two export bique. Samora Machel’s death marked takes us through the corridors of MIP-TV the trenchant cartoons of Naji al-Ali.” isn’t steel or lumber, it’s entertainment. the end of Mozambique’s cinema (the in Cannes, the annual international tele- – Politics and Culture While global audiences watch Law and current government prefers television). vision market where industry strategists Order, regional producers are often There is nothing left of the INC. The “Valuable... Outstanding... goes a long define standards, negotiate lucrative ignored in their own countries. forgotten images that captured the first deals and adjust their famous clock to way toward preserving the memory of Shot in Africa, North America and Europe, eleven years of independency – the years meet the dictates of globalization. Naji al-Ali, allowing future generations of the socialist revolution – are rotting, to draw inspiration from this remarkable DISTRESS SIGNALS exposes the structure taking with them both the history of a How, then, do we regain our liberty as individual.” – Al Jadid, A Review & of the global television industry. television viewers? Perhaps by reviving period, and the history of hope. Record of Arab Culture and Arts “This slick, well-edited production the spirit of resistance that drove the ✵2003 Film Festival, ✵Audience Award for Best exposes the dumping of another deadly rebellious Communards of 1871, as African Studies Association Documentary, 1999 Arab Screen American product on the global market... suggested by that permanent rebel, Film Festival (London) Certain to be a discussion starter in 52 minutes | color - b&w | 2003 the great Peter Watkins. ✵Journalist’s Choice Award, 2000 high school and college media courses” Sale/video: $390 | Rental/video: $100 ✵ 2001 Toronto International Basic Trust Human Rights Film – Video Rating Guide for Libraries Film Festival Festival (Ramallah & Tel Aviv) 55 minutes | color | 1991 cc | | 76 minutes | color | 2001 52 minutes color 1999 Sale/video: $285 | Rental/video: $75 Sale/video: $248 | Rental/video: $75 Sale/video: $390 | Rental/video: $75 42

KUXA KANEMA - THE BIRTH OF CINEMA THE UNIVERSAL CLOCK A MOBILE WORLD MEDIA SEEING IS BELIEVING - CULTUREJAM: Hijacking AL JAZEERA: Voice of Arabia Handicams, Human Rights Commercial Culture A Film by Tewfik Hakem and the News Directed by Jill Sharpe Founded in 1996, Al Jazeera states her support for Al Jazeera – but Produced by Lynn Booth & Jill Sharpe A Film by Katerina Cizek & (“The Island” in Arabic) was one month later, when their Kabul Peter Wintonick New revolutionaries stand poised along the first 24-hour news chan- office is bombed, some journalists can Camcorders have become the eyes of the our information highways. They’re nel in the Arab world. Little known in only respond with suspicion. the U.S. until 9/11, the notoriety of this world when no one else is watching. “Culture Jammers,” and their mission is Combining news footage, excepts from “Arab CNN” has exploded since then, Human rights activists, war crimes to artfully reclaim our mental environ- various Al Jazeera programs, and inter- and has grown during the wars in investigators, right-wing proselytizers and ment by causing a bit of brand damage views with executives, anchors, and Afghanistan and Iraq. ordinary citizens are arming themselves to corporate mindshare. CULTUREJAM journalists (from Yousri Fouda, trying to with the tools of this visual revolution. punctures the illusion of free speech in Shot on location in Doha, Qatar, uncover stories on the Guantanamo From Rodney King to Osama Bin Laden, public spaces, yet gives us new hope at AL JAZEERA takes us behind the detention camp, to the first Arab female handicams aren’t just for weddings and the same time. Scream at the TV, but scenes of the Arab world’s independent sports reporter, Leila Smati), AL JAZEERA vacations anymore. don’t touch that dial! Yet. satellite TV channel. With a multina- is an invaluable look at the challenges What are the risks and responsibilities? We follow media tigress Carly Stasko, tional staff of seventy journalists and faced and issues raised by the most What is the wider impact on television Reverend Billy of the Church of Stop numerous international correspondents, important television channel in the and society? To answer these and other Shopping, and the Billboard Liberation Al Jazeera embodies the idea of a Arab world. unified Pan-Arab world. questions, the filmmakers spent two years Front as they use the tools of the “Recommended... a rare view of one of tracking media activists across the world. medium to re-wire the message. Will The film explores the paradoxes that the most popular and often controversial Mickey Mouse represent a “world of Drawn from original shooting and exclu- emerge between the apparent ortho- satellite television organizations in the laughter” or “sweatshop labor practices”? sive contemporary archives, SEEING IS doxy of Arab societies, and the journal- Middle East [and] a valuable resource BELIEVING provides a multi-faceted Jammers first appeared in the early istic freedom flaunted by Al Jazeera. for a Western world eager to learn window into the power of do-it-yourself 1980s, but medieval jesters, movements The station’s philosophy of open debate more about Middle Eastern ideas.” filmmaking. like Dada, Surrealism, and the Situa- is not easily embraced in what Fayçal – Educational Media Reviews Online tionist International of Paris, and recent Al-Quassam, the host of The Opposite ✵ “Recommended. An appropriate vehicle Viewers Choice, 2003 FilmFest, movements (punk to “post”) provide the Direction, calls “a dictatorial, single- for portraying the importance of balanced Middle East Studies Association philosophical lineage. party culture which does not know the news reporting and the revolutionary meaning of dialogue.” An excerpt from 52 minutes | color | 2003 Is Culture Jamming civil disobedience? | results of technology in overcoming the his program in which a former Algerian Sale/video: $390 Rental/video: $75 Senseless vandalism? The only form of ‘digital divide.’” – Educational Media Prime Minister storms off the set, self-defense left? Reviews Online condemning Al Jazeera as, “a place of “Fascinating... Essential viewing, partic- “Hearing all opinions is what democ- folklore and lies,” illustrates the conflict. racy is all about. Besides, if you close ularly for those who still harbour naive Al Jazeera’s impact extends far beyond your ears to dissent, you could miss out notions that the mainstream news media the Arab world. In Afghanistan when on the sharp, often funny documentary.” will provide us with all the coverage of Al Jazeera correspondent Youssef – The Vancouver Sun world affairs that we need.” Al-Chouli’s exclusive stories from – Montreal Gazette ✵2003 Film Festival, Society for Kandahar show the impact of U.S. ✵2003 Award of Commendation, Photographic Education bombing on Afghani civilians, Washington ✵ Society for Visual Anthropology Audience Choice Award, 2001 correspondent Hafez Al-Mirazi questions ✵2003 Film Festival, American Vancouver International Film Festival Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld Anthropological Association 52 minutes | color | 2001 cc about them. He interviews National ✵ Abraham Award, Conflict & Sale/video: $390 | Rental/video: $75 Security Advisor Condoleeza Rice, who Resolution Series, 2002 Hamptons Film Festival 58 minutes | color | 2002 cc Sale/video: $390 | Rental/video: $75 43

SEEING IS BELIEVING - CULTUREJAM: HIJACKING COMMERCIAL CULTURE AL JAZEERA:VOICE OF ARABIA HANDICAMS, HUMAN RIGHTS AND THE NEWS MIDDLE EAST THE PERFUMED IRAN,VEILED APPEARANCES SOS IN TEHRAN GARDEN A Film by Thierry Michel A Film by Sou Abadi A Film by Yamina Benguigui Composed of a series of By illustrating these dramatically differ- What is on the minds of contemporary THE PERFUMED GARDEN is an explo- diverse, often contradictory ent forces at play within Iranian society, Iranians? To answer this question Sou ration of the myths and realities of images of mundane, everyday Michel gives us a rare glimpse into a Abadi spent five months in Tehran, sexuality in Arab society. Through inter- life juxtaposed against historical country that seems destined for change. documenting what happens in the city’s views with men and women of all ages, footage of protest and revolution, IRAN, The Iranian revolution took one kind of social service and psychological institu- classes, and sexual orientations, the VEILED APPEARANCES is an insightful courage; outliving it requires quite tions. We visit: documentary about contemporary Iran, another. film lifts a corner of the veil that usually The Voice of Assistance, a psychology 23 years after the Islamic Revolution. shrouds discussion of this subject in the “A revelatory examination... Michel’s telephone hotline; Arab world. Filmmaker Thierry Michel gained extra- access is remarkable, his insights The Committee of the Imam, a charity ordinary access to Iran’s Islamist para- pointed. The film, of course, couldn’t be Made by an Algerian-French woman created by the Ayatollah Khomeini for militaries, and to increasingly free more timely.” – Newsday director, the film begins by looking at the the poor; thinking groups youth. By illustrating more permissive history of the region, and “Ventur[es] into dangerous territory, the generational and ideological divi- The mandatory pre-marital sex educa- ends with the experiences of contempo- looking for a reality that has little to do sion inherent in this theocratic society, tion courses of the Health Ministry; rary lovers from mixed backgrounds. with the images to be found in the the film becomes an understated yet international press... What emerges is a The group psychotherapy sessions of Dr. The film examines the desire for plea- powerful document of a country at the film that gives a brief glimpse of the Majd, psychoanalyst of Tehran’s elite; sure in societies that place a high value cusp of profound change, or perhaps not. on chastity and virginity, and discusses complexity of the social fabric in The Marriage Foundation, an ultra- pre-marital sex, courtship and marriage, The film opens to a funeral for activist modern Iran, where a desire for Islamic matrimonial agency. private vs. public spaces, language, social poet Mohammad Mokhtari, a victim in a modernism chafes against the bedrock By taking the camera into places where taboos, and the desire to break them. series of disappearances of prominent of fundamentalism. A courageous film... intellectuals (presumably assassinated careful to ground its observations on a people come to confide, SOS IN THE PERFUMED GARDEN also demon- by the Islamist militia). The ensuing realistic human scale.” – The Bulletin TEHRAN shows us the unseen life of strates how the rich legacy of fantasy in the rich and poor, the educated and the scenes witness, even humanize, ✵2003 FilmFest, Middle East Studies A Thousand and One Arabian Nights illiterate, the religious and the atheistic, Islamists worshipping martyrs. Thus, a Association continues to permeate contemporary the married and the adolescent. surprising parallel is drawn between ✵2003 Sundance Film Festival Arab culture, and that a world of eroti- Iranian intellectuals mourning political ✵Grand Prize, 2002 Creation “Remarkable. A compassionate obser- cism survives as a form of survival and martyrdom, and fundamentalists cele- Documentary Festival (France) vation of Iranians’ private pain.” resistance to this day. brating their martyrs for Islam. ✵2002 Joseph Plateau Prize for – Al Jadid, A Review & Record of ✵ Best Documentary, 2001 Turin The film shifts to teenagers seeking Best Belgian Documentary Arab Culture and Arts Women’s Film Festival (Italy) refuge in the mountains surrounding Two Lengths Available: ✵Best Documentary, 2001 ✵Best Documentary, 2001 Vues Tehran. The scenes of teens indulging 58 minutes | color | 2002 Brussels International d’Afrique Film Festival (Montreal) in small acts of freedom, out of the Sale/video: $390 | Rental/video: $75 Independent Film Festival ✵2002 Seattle Arab and Iranian ✵2001 Jan Vrijman Prize, Amsterdam Film Festival Bassijis’ reach (with other scenes of a 90 minutes | color | 2002 International Documentary Festival ✵2002 OutFest - Los Angeles Gay drama school and college dorm) capture Sale/video: $440 | Rental/video: $100 ✵2001 SCAM Prize, “Brouillon d’un and Lesbian Film Festival the spirit of the Iranian youth. “Our society is in freefall,” one youth states, reve,” French Documentary 52 minutes | color | 2000 Directors Guild while dancers express hopelessness ✵ Sale/video: $390 | Rental/video: $75 (“Our lives are suspended”). The 2000 Cannes Film Festival, New Talents “Universelles” Section younger Iranians express their desire for a more open society, and challenge 52 minutes | color | 2000 the wisdom of their parents who fought Sale/video: $390 | Rental/video: $75 for – and continue to embrace – the ideals of the Islamic Revolution. 44

THE PERFUMED GARDEN IRAN,VEILED APPEARANCES SOS IN TEHRAN MIDDLE EAST ZINAT, GENERATION X-SADDAM 20 YEARS OLD IN THE THE JUNCTION ONE SPECIAL DAY A Film by Shelley Saywell MIDDLE-EAST A Film by Ilan Ziv A Film by Ebrahim Mokhtari On the eve of the 2003 U.S. A Film by Agal Moghaizel Although they had little in To work as a nurse, Zinat became the invasion, acclaimed filmmaker Filmed after the fall of common in life, Fahmi Abou first woman from the Island of Qeshm Shelley Saywell traveled to Saddam Hussein, 20 YEARS Ammouneh and David Biri are in the south of Iran to remove her Iraq to film the lives of ordinary people, OLD IN THE MIDDLE-EAST linked in death by Netzarim Junction, a Boregheh, the traditional veil. Now, especially young Iraqis, who were traverses the region – from Jordan to crossroads between the Israeli settle- along with her husband Ahmad, she is caught between Saddam’s tyranny and Syria, Iran, and Lebanon – to take the ment of Netzarim and the Palestinian running for office in the first local elec- a devastated economy (for which they pulse of Arab and Iranian youth. refugee camp of Nusseirat. It was there tions held since the Islamic revolution. blamed the West). that they died – the first Israeli soldier The film offers an opportunity for West- and the first resident of Nusseirat to Now, Saywell returns to find the people Amidst election day rumors, Zinat ern students to truly understand the lose their lives in the 2nd Intifada. engages in friendly banter with Ahmad she met and interviewed before the lives and attitudes of their Middle East- over which of them will get the most war. What happened to them? Have ern counterparts: how they’re different, Using home videos and memories of votes. She trades spirited jibes with a they survived? Have their feelings about and how they’re the same. family and friends, THE JUNCTION man who tells her, “a woman should be Saddam and the U.S. changed, or shows the ripple effects on their loved Hyam Pourla, an Iranian theology like a domesticated animal,” and her remained the same? ones and their communities. David’s student and aspiring mullah who clan- sister remains angry at the meaning- visitors debate the place of women in Traveling from Baghdad to Basra, across destinely sings in a heavy metal band, lessness of his death. His dearest Iranian society. the severely damaged country, Saywell says, “There are big games being friend, El’ad, committed suicide, and his visits the ruined university campus, The following day, with the elections played in the region. Great strategies army buddies are disillusioned. For the back streets of Baghdad on night over, the film presents the newly decided for the Middle East... We are Fahmi's family, his death is both a patrol, the blood soaked cells of Abu elected representative Zinat as she powerless. All people can do is suffer.” personal tragedy and one more injustice expresses her ideas to improve the Graib prison, and the mass graves It’s a feeling echoed by many, including perpetrated by the Israeli occupiers. living conditions of her fellow villagers. where mothers search for a scrap of familiar clothing. Abbud, a Palestinian studying in Once a busy intersection in a teeming “Celebrates the empowerment of Jordan: “We are reduced to silence,” neighborhood, the Palestinian homes, Surprisingly, Saywell finds all her protag- women, not abstractly, but in direct life he says. “We can’t speak freely here.” orange groves, and greenhouses are situations, without sentimentality or onists. There are surprises, some ironies, “We’re now lacking ideals,” says now rubble and sand. manipulation of scenes or and we hear some things that could not Kamal, who studies at the American dialogue…Zinat’s unique qualities, be told while Saddam was in power. The narrative spine of THE JUNCTION University in Beirut. “The Arab myth is may be confined in space and time, yet alongside her wit and charm, are no But many anti-American feelings fading. We don’t know where to look it reaches far into the social fabric of small influence in paving the way for remain. Most pervasive is the sense of for references. We’re lost.” both societies to explore the culture of new roles for rural [Iranian] women.” desperate confusion, the constant worry death that feeds the political impasse, – Al Jadid, A Review & Record of about what lies ahead in the dangerous, 20 YEARS OLD IN THE MIDDLE-EAST and the violent convolutions that Arab Culture and Arts chaotic life under occupation. offers an indispensable snapshot of the attitudes of a generation who desire consume both Israelis and Palestinians. ✵Special Mention of the International 45 minutes | color | 2003 liberty over extremism, but who fear Jury, 2000 Cinéma du Réel (Paris) Sale/video: $298 | Rental/video: $75 “What is so beautiful about Ilan Ziv’s ✵2000 Amsterdam International that American policies will lead them into film is its will to never contrast the pain Documentary Festival ever more warfare, and who – above all of one family with the pain of another; ✵2000 Margaret Mead Film Festival – simply want to pursue their dreams. to never privilege the intensity of one at the expense of the other.” 54 minutes | color | 2000 52 minutes | color | 2003 Sale/video: $390 | Rental/video: $75 Sale/video: $390 | Rental/video: $75 – Telestars (France) ✵Best Documentary, 2003 Haifa Film Festival (Israel) 57 minutes | color | 2003 Sale/video: $390 | Rental/video: $75 45

ZINAT,ONE SPECIAL DAY GENERATION X - SADDAM 20 YEARS OLD IN THE MIDDLE-EAST MIDDLE EAST ALGERIA’S BEN BARKA - ARAB DIARIES ALONE WITH WAR BLOODY YEARS The Moroccan Equation A Five-Part Documentary Series A Film by Danielle Arbid Produced by Deborah Davies, A Film by Malek Bensmaïl, A Film by Simone Bitton Daoud Kuttab & Ilan Ziv Exiled to France during the 1975 - 1991 Patrice Barrat & Thierry Leclère In October 1965 Ben Barka was abducted civil war that killed 150,000 people, The intimate stories of individuals ALGERIA’S BLOODY YEARS on a Paris street and later murdered. filmmaker Danielle Arbid returns to across the Arab world confronting the chronicles the country’s struggle His body was never found, nor were the Lebanon to interrogate the militiamen life’s basic milestones. for democracy since indepen- culprits positively identified. Who was about their justifications for the war, dence from France. The film traces the Ben Barka and who wanted him dead? “Highly Recommended! Presents a rare while wondering about the collective rise of fundamentalist groups in the As Morocco tries to exorcise its past, critical insight into contemporary life in amnesia that seems omnipresent. A 1980’s and 90’s in response to the country’s this film explores the life of the coun- the Arab world. It dares to bring up fearless woman in a male dominated authoritarian leadership, and examines try’s greatest and most controversial strong issues without imposing judgment society, Arbid is searching for the story Algeria’s descent into a morass of political figures, because his premature on the values discussed.” of her country, “Peace was declared. But massacres among the Islamic guerillas, disappearance left his story untold. – Educational Media Reviews Online no one explained to us what peace is.” the military, and civilians that have The documentary traces the extraordinary Her interviews with the Muslim and claimed the lives of nearly 200,000 BIRTH Christian militias are chilling, but she people over the past 15 years. career of a gifted child from the slums Filmmakers: Suheir Farraj (Palestine), of the Medina who earned Morocco’s Abbas Hashim (Iraq) & Abeer Esber doesn’t find the answers she seeks. Not a simple catalog of atrocities, first degree in mathematics. As a (Syria) She walks through the streets, ques- ALGERIA’S BLOODY YEARS uses member of the Istiqlal (freedom) Party, The stories of an unwanted baby, an tions people, knocks on doors, heckles contemporary interviews, archival news he was a leader in the movement to absent baby, and a baby in jeopardy. politicians. footage, and testimony from main play- oust the French from Morocco. But his Her quest reveals a Beirut seen with new ers on all sides of the conflict – includ- dreams of an open state were soon YOUTH eyes, with the echoes of history fading. ing leaders of the Islamic guerillas, frustrated. King Mohammed V and his Filmmakers: Ali Bilail (Egypt), Samia Maybe the massacres didn’t happen generals from the Algerian military, successor, Hassan II, sought to an Chala (Algeria) & Muriel Aboulrouss after all? Maybe all the bombings and (Lebanon) journalists, French government officials, absolute monarchy under French tutelage. shootings didn’t harm anyone? and others – to unravel the mysterious Barka’s radical politics and economic Young women striving for independence. “The emotional power of this film is in machinations that have killed thousands programs led to conflict between the [its] interviews with former militiamen... of innocent Algerians. royal family, the governing Istiqlal Party, HOME, OR MAIDS IN Arbid, like a public prosecutor with ✵2003 FilmFest, Middle East and Barka’s opposition movement. MY FAMILY moral urgency on her side, is deter- Studies Association Filmmaker: Yto Barrada (Morocco) Using extensive archival materials and mined to expose the guilty.” – Al Jadid, The relationship between a liberal 59 minutes | color | 2003 the testimony of family members and A Review & Record of Arab Culture family and their servants. Sale/video: $390 | Rental/video: $75 colleagues, BEN BARKA interweaves and Arts the story of the man and the history of “A courageous and edifying document, Morocco’s struggle for independence. LOVE AND MARRIAGE Filmmakers: Samia Chala (Algeria) a film about a place that is, in many “Highly Recommended! This film well & Muriel Aboulrouss (Lebanon) respects, still at war. Arbid [is] a young represents Ben Barka’s life, as well as The societal obstacles to personal Lebanese filmmaker of great talent and the political situation in Morocco in the happiness. strong personality.” – Le Monde last several decades. It moves at a crisp ✵Best Documentary, 2000 pace that will engage the viewer.” WORK Locarno Film Festival – Educational Media Reviews Online Filmmakers: Ghalia Sheikh & Lubna ✵2001 Seattle Human Rights ✵ Haddad (Syria) Abbas Hashim (Iraq) 2003 FilmFest, Middle East & Raed Helou (Palestine) Film Festival Studies Association 58 minutes | color | 2000 ✵2003 Film Festival, The aspirations of men and women as Sale/video: $390 | Rental/video: $75 African Studies Association embodied in flying. 84 minutes | color | 2002 5 x 26 minutes | color | 2001 46 Sale/video: $440 | Rental/video: $100 Sale/video: $478 | Rental/video: $150

ALGERIA’S BLOODY YEARS BEN BARKA - THE MOROCCAN EQUATION ALONE WITH WAR MIDDLE EAST BETHLEHEM DIARY THE BOMBING CITIZEN BISHARA CLOSE, CLOSED, A Film by Antonia Caccia A Film by Simone Bitton A Film by Simone Bitton CLOSURE In the final year of the 20th Century, On September 4, 1997, three young One in every five Israelis is a Palestin- A Film by Ram Loevy Bethlehem was expecting 5 million visi- Palestinians blew themselves up in central ian. Israeli Arab: is there a more Like a prison with one million tors to celebrate the end of the millen- Jerusalem. Among the victims were three “impossible” notion of citizenship? CITI- inmates… that’s how the people of the nium, but the streets are deserted, and 14-year old Israeli girls – Sivann Zarka, ZEN BISHARA introduces us to the most Gaza Strip regard their land. Made over shops are empty. Israel has closed off Yael Botwin and Smadar Elhanan. The emblematic of Israel’s Palestinian citi- a two-year period by an Israeli and Bethlehem since the 2nd Intifada began suicide bombers – Tawfiq Yassine, zens, the MP Azmi Bishara. Palestinian crew, CLOSE, CLOSED, the previous September. Bashar Sawalha and Youssef Shouli – A sociologist by training, the brilliant CLOSURE shows the extent of their were from the same West Bank village. BETHLEHEM DIARY focuses on two Bishara fights for equality for Israel’s deprivation, and their growing frustration. Palestinian families and an Israeli THE BOMBING documents the search for Palestinian citizens and for their recog- “A thoughtful and balanced perspective human rights lawyer during this tumul- answers in the aftermath of this tragedy. nition as a national minority. The film on these all-too-familiar facts with a tuous period. Their intimate, surreal, Through interviews with the families of follows him in his parliamentary work, first-person documentary that combines and surprisingly humorous stories illus- both the victims and bombers, the film his election campaign and records his a dry wit with a deep sense of despair.” trate how violence and uncertainty attempts to offer insight into the thoughts on citizenship, national minori- – George Robinson, The Jewish Week affect both their public and private lives. psychology and ideology that perpetu- ties and democracy. ates such violence in the Middle East. “A wide range of views…via a Six months later, July 2001. As high- Bishara’s erudition, energy and his panorama that presents life near the rise Israeli settlements go up a few “Highly Recommended. Exposes viewers predilection for provocation make him Erez Crossing from Israel into Gaza, and hundred yards away, the growing to the psychological trauma of everyday an outstanding guide through the turbulent the daily litany of obstacles faced. The violence is forcing these families to existence in Israel and provides inti- wings of Israeli political life, and a caustic further deterioration of life in Gaza... consider leaving their homes. BETHLE- mate portraits of this country’s inhabi- observer of events in the Middle East. stresses the importance of reminding HEM DIARY brings Palestine into focus, tants who live under constant fear and “Highly Recommended! An excellent film the world that the Palestinians are not personalizing experiences that are disillusionment. Skillful interviews with which offers a dynamic point of view on merely casualties in the newspaper being repeated throughout the region at Palestinian and Israeli parents and a host of political and ethical issues.” headlines, but human beings with this very moment. siblings of the bombers and victims – Educational Media Reviews Online dreams, emotions, and a persevering transcend the stories of personal “Powerful… Impassioned filmmaking ✵ sense of humor.” – Al Jadid, A Review tragedy and loss to reveal the broken 2002 Human Rights Watch and measured analysis.” & Record of Arab Culture and Arts psyche of a country torn apart by years Film Festival – The Big Issue ✵ of war and irreconcilable differences. “ 2002 Argus Human Rights Festival “An excellent window into the mind of ✵ (Denver) 2002 FilmFest, Middle East – Educational Media Reviews Online someone who hopes to create peace Studies Association ✵Closing Night Film, 2002 and justice and is unsure of how exactly ✵2002 Human Rights Watch “Deconstructs the bombing through L’Acharnière Festival (Lille, France) to do that... In the end... it puts forth Film Festival interviews, eye-witness accounts and ✵2002 Biennale des Cinémas questions that may be uncomfortable even a Palestinian psychiatrist’s analysis Arabes, Zoom on Palestine (Paris) | | for those of us working for peace.” 60 minutes color 2001 of the young bomber’s motivations. [It] Sale/video: $390 | Rental/video: $100 52 minutes | color | 2001 – Online Journal for Peace and succeeds in establishing a different, Sale/video: $390 | Rental/video: $75 Conflict Resolution universal context within which to under- ✵International Independence stand the current Intifada.” – Al Jadid, Award, 2002 North-South Media A Review and Record of Arad Festival (Geneva) ✵Honorable Mention, DocAviv ✵2002 Cinema Du Reel (Paris) International Documentary Film Festival 53 minutes | color | 2002 | ✵2002 Vermont Women’s Sale/video: $390 Rental/video: $75 Film Festival 59 minutes | color | 1999 Sale/video: $390 | Rental/video: $75 47

BETHLEHEM DIARY CITIZEN BISHARA CLOSE, CLOSED, CLOSURE MUSIC Presented by Jonathan Demme THE INTERNATIONALE THE UNDERGROUND MACHITO: I’ll SING FOR YOU A Film by Peter Miller ORCHESTRA A Latin Jazz Legacy A Film by Jacques Sarasin A Film by Carlos Ortiz THE INTERNATIONALE draws on A Film by Heddy Honigmann In the 1950s and 60s, Mali people’s stories about the long-time Filmmaker Heddy Honigmann In a career that spanned half awoke each morning to anthem of socialism to celebrate the illuminates the lives and a century, Cuban bandleader Boubacar “KarKar” Traoré’s relationship between music and social music of a ragtag group of Frank “Machito” Grillo voice on the radio, singing of indepen- change. The film traces the changing international bohemians – an Argentine embodied Latin Jazz and influenced dence. Revered as the Malian Elvis, meaning of the song since Eugene pianist, Romanian father and son violin- generations of musicians, contributing Traoré introduced the Twist to his country, Pottier wrote it in 1871 (at the fall of ists, a Venezuelan harpist, and singers to a cultural explosion on the interna- but because his music was played only the Paris Commune) through the end of from Mali and Vietnam -who play in the tional music scene. on radio, he didn’t earn enough money, the Cold War. Metro and on the streets of Paris. and became a tailor and a salesman to MACHITO weaves together vintage film Rare archival footage, performances by feed his family. All are united by their experiences with clips and recordings, Hollywood produc- Billy Bragg and Pete Seeger, and inter- political repression, and by a spirit that tion numbers, and one-of-a-kind street Then, both his life and his country’s views with an international cast of led them to flee any number of horren- performances in Cuba and New York. struggles spiraled into tragedy, leaving activists make THE INTERNATIONALE a dous situations throughout the world. Sensational shows at such hot spots as Traoré somewhere between myth and serious but often irreverent meditation Finding refuge in Paris, music becomes the Cotton Club highlight the golden era obscurity, before a music producer on the power of music in people’s lives. their economic lifeline, but as this film of Latin Jazz in the 40s and 50s. sought him out and revived his career. “An impressive performance! A worthy makes movingly clear, it is also a “Hugely informative, with astonishing This lyrical presentation of an artist’s subject resonant with profound social, metaphor for their will to survive. archival footage.” – John Pareles, legacy transports us to the vibrant land- cultural, and historical value. A moving... “A splendid example of how illuminat- New York Times scape of Mali and surrounds us with and compelling film.” – Journal of ing and entertaining a documentary can “Documentaries, at their best, can bring the delicate yet powerful rhythms of the Film & History be! A tremendously affecting film.” country’s most famous musician. you near to the past, to people and “What a remarkable film! Takes us on a – LA Times events you might never have known. “With a generous serving of music, lyrical journey from the Paris Commune “A stirring account of survival in exile. That’s what Ortiz has done here... fantastic black and white photos and to the collapse of Soviet Communism, Warmly observed. During the richly movie that can make you cry and laugh newsreels, and vibrantly filmed footage from the slums of Kingston Jamaica to diverse musical interludes, Eric Guichard’s as well as dance.” – Los Angeles Times of modern-day Mali, director Jacques Tiananmen Square, in search of what agile camera cruises the Paris streets. “✵✵✵✵ [4 Stars - Highly Sarasin tracks Traoré’s journey in this might be the only song to change the Taking in immigrant quarters, markets Recommended]” – Video Rating hypnotically beautiful film.” – LA Weekly world.” – Professor Robin D.G. Kelley, and low-rent hotels, the filmmakers Guide for Libraries “Scintillating. Educational value aside, NYU casually construct a picture of the ✵First Prize Winner, 1988 [it] is exciting for its extended perfor- ✵2003 Film Festival, vibrantly cosmopolitan, multi- ethnic San Juan Film Festival mance sequences” – Variety Society for Cinema Studies burg that draws these musical refugees.” ✵Jury Prize Winner, 1987 ✵Best Short Documentary, 2001 – Variety San Antonio Film Festival “Lovely, lyrical... A poignant, finally Woodstock Film Festival joyous experience.” – The Film Society 108 minutes | color | 1998 ✵2002 Human Rights Watch 58 minutes | color | 1987 Sale/video: $285 | Rental/video: $100 of Lincoln Center Film Festival Sale/video: $390 | Rental/16mm: $125 ✵1st Prize, 2001 Montevideo ✵2000 Margaret Mead Film Festival Rental/video: $100 International Film Festival 30 minutes | color | 2000 ✵2002 Tribeca Film Festival Sale/video: $225 | Rental/video: $60 ✵2002 Margaret Mead Film Festival 76 minutes | color | 2001 Sale/video: $348 | Rental/video: $125

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I’LL SING FOR YOU UNDERGROUND ORCHESTRA MACHITO: A LATIN JAZZ LEGACY PHILOSOPHY OPTIMUM - MILLE GILLES DERRIDA’S ELSEWHERE The Crusade for Efficiency (A Thousand Gilles) A Film by Safaa Fathy A Film by Henry Colomer A Film by Ijsbrand van Veelen DERRIDA’S ELSEWHERE investigates the expression of any motif Derrida has OPTIMUM is the story of three 19th- The theories of Gilles Deleuze (1925- parallels between the personal life and sought to explore in his writings.” century visionaries who helped shape 1995) have reverberated far beyond the life work of one of the most impor- – Janus Head tant philosophers of the 20th century. contemporary society. Influenced by the academia. One of the most influential “Highly Recommended! A unique and Shaped around readings from Derrida’s maxim, “Everything should be useful, all thinkers of the last century, Deleuze’s intensely personal examination.” book Circumfession, the film integrates human resources should be optimized books include The Anti-Oedipus (1972) – Dr. Brad Eden, University of Nevada and made profitable,” each helped and A Thousand Plateaus (1980). seemingly disparate themes including Las Vegas, for Educational Media develop a universal philosophy that “Perhaps one day,” wrote Michel Foucault, hospitality, religion, sexuality and the Reviews Online would allow humanity to become more “this century will be known as Deluzian.” place of the subject in philosophy. Derrida ✵2001 Vancouver International efficient, more productive, and more shows us the common thread he perceives From “deterritorialization” to “Rhizomes,” Film Festival powerful. One discovered the principle, running though them: responsibility. MILLE GILLES explores some of his anti- the second a tool, and the third, the As we follow Derrida around his home, Two Lengths Available: hierarchical ideas, and includes a rare, | | ideal field of application for this tool. office, in the classroom and on his trav- 68 minutes color 2000 short sequence with Deleuze himself. Sale/video: was $440 now $298 els, he speaks of the suffering, the One of the founders of Utilitarianism, More importantly, architect Greg Lynn, Rental/video: $100 Jeremy Bentham constituted a universal musician D.J. Spooky, designer/soft- challenges and the questions that have | | system for increasing the potential ware developer Bernard Cache, organi- conditioned his thought since his child- 52 minutes color 2000 Sale/video: was $390 now $248 usefulness of all individuals. zational theorist Jules Koster, Media hood in Algeria. He describes his Rental/video: $75 Studies professor Patricia Pisters and mother and childhood in the same An obsessive classifier, Charles others explain how they use Deleuze. manner as he does ideas, somewhere Babbage invented a litany of common between affect and concept, at a MARX FOR BEGINNERS gadgets, but his most important contri- When Deleuze died, Roger-Pol Droit boundary where a work becomes biog- bution was the Analytical Engine – the wrote in Le Monde, “No one knows A Film by Bob Godfrey & raphy and biography gives birth to a Cucumber Studios genuine forerunner of the computer. what distant posterity will remember of work. Related imagery – photos of his a body of work that contemporaries It was Francis Galton who would indi- life there, super-8 footage from the MARX FOR BEGINNERS is a probably understand only a little. cate the ideal field to which the Analyt- 1960’s and 70’s, images from Spain – hilarious animated film about Thought, with Deleuze, is the experi- ical Engine could be applied: Genetics. illustrate his ideas. Karl Marx’s most influential ence of life rather than reason.” ideas, and contextualizes them by intro- A sardonically witty journey into the world DERRIDA’S ELSEWHERE takes us into “Informed, clear and intellectually ducing Pythagoras, Plato, Aristotle, da of 19th century science, OPTIMUM illus- his worlds – that of his work in Paris generous... More than the confident Vinci, Copernicus, Galileo, and trates how three eccentric intellectuals and that of his familial and spiritual repetitions of familiar phrases, the Descartes. All in seven minutes! envisioned the current genetic revolution roots in Algeria and the Spain of Lorca fragility of the film image, as a picture at the dawn of the industrial age. and El Greco. We begin to see how “This stylistically animated condensation without support, explains the key places allow words to appear, producing of rambunctious and irreverent quota- “Informative and entertaining... As the concepts against the grain of the text. images that let us catch a glimpse of tion and paraphrasing of important film makes clear, with a dry and perpet- A valiant attempt to break habitual what’s beyond. historical thinkers will be a stimulating ual humor, all three of these men were ways of thinking.” and amusing treat.” – Booklist “Enthralling!” – Leonardo Digital Reviews examples of genius-gone-batty. Just – Leonardo Digital Reviews ✵ how offbeat their research was is Blue Ribbon, 1983 American | | “[A] retrospective glimpse into the Film Festival explained in meticulous details with 44 minutes color 1997 Sale/video: $375 | Rental/video: $75 complex relation between the man and | | vintage photographs, drawings, his thought, or what amounts to 7 minutes color 1978 Sale/video: $125 | Rental/video: $35 diagrams and delightful animations.” Derrida’s reflections on the question of – Leonardo Digital Reviews autobiography. A filmed confession 55 minutes | b&w | 2000 about his life in which the meaning of Sale/video: $390 | Rental/video: $75 its full disclosure remains as elusive as

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OPTIMUM - THE CRUSADE FOR EFFICIENCY MILLE GILLES - A THOUSAND GILLES DERRIDA’S ELSEWHERE PHOTOGRAPHY THE SPECTRE OF HOPE MAGNUM PHOTOS - EL DIA QUE ME QUIERAS With Sebastião Salgado & John Berger The Changing of a Myth (The Day You’ll Love Me) Directed by Paul Carlin A Film by Reiner Holzemer A Film by Leandro Katz Produced by Paula Jalfon, Colin MacCabe & Adam Simon Magnum Photos was built upon the After Che Guevara was captured and Over the past 30 years Brazilian photog- we feel the hope of these people from principle that the vision of every individ- killed in Bolivia, a wire photograph of rapher Sebastião Salgado’s work has had all over the world who are trying to ual photographer must be respected. his corpse was transmitted all over the an actual impact on the world and how again find a stable position in life, and Founded in 1947 by Robert Capa, Henri world. Its publication on October 10, it is seen, bringing conditions of famine we add our own hope to it.” Cartier-Bresson, David Seymour and 1967, was the culmination of a and poverty to the attention of a jaded – Leonardo Digital Reviews George Rodger to free photographers legendary, two-year search for Guevara. first world in a profound, arresting way. “Both a remarkable conversation… and from the restrictive formulas of Taken by Freddy Alborta, it has been Best known for Ways of Seeing – the a stunning portrait (in Salgado’s pictures) commercial work, Magnum is still compared to Rembrandt’s The Anatomy seminal book and BBC series – John of what globalization really looks like.” owned by its members. Lesson of Professor Tulp. Berger is one of the world’s leading art – John Leonard, New York Magazine Filmmaker Reiner Holzemar became the Using close-up and masking techniques and photography critics. His Selected “Through close-ups of Salgado’s black- first to film the annual Magnum Photos while re-photographing the image, film- Essays, written over nearly 50 years, and-white images we see with unflinch- meeting, and one of the few to film maker Leandro Katz attempts to expose has just been published (Pantheon ing eyes the plight of displaced peas- camera shy Henri Cartier-Bresson the indeterminate powers of photographic Books, 2002). ants, refugees and migrant workers as (shortly before his 90th birthday). He representation. The result invokes a In THE SPECTRE OF HOPE Salgado joins they move out of their rural homelands also documents Magnum members in sense of mourning, but the film counters Berger to pore over Salgado’s collection and into cities and slums. But... Salgado the field, while well-known photographers the Guevara myth by placing him into Migrations. Six years and 43 countries sees hope – especially evident in his Rene Burri and Philipp Jones Griffiths the historical Latin American intellectual in the making (ranging across Africa, portraits of children – in that the current discuss the historical context of Magnum. context, through references to Borges, Asia, Eastern Europe and Latin Amer- economic situation is chosen, and Gardel, and Neruda. Today the agency runs offices in London, ica), Migrations contains photographs therefore changeable.” – Photo District Paris, New York and Tokyo, and continues “Visually exquisite and deeply moving... of people pushed from their homes and News Online to record all facets of the human condi- at once an elegy to the passing of the traditions to cities and their margins – “Moving, thought-provoking and utterly tion, be it beauty or horror. Working on age of revolution in Latin America and slums and streets and refugee camps. enthralling.” – Judith Bumpus, projects for years, resisting trends and an investigation into the history and Intercut with photographs from Migra- The Art Newspaper sensationalism, the members of mythos surrounding the infamous tions, their intimate conversation ✵2003 Film Festival, Society for Magnum are still considered the photograph of the beatific corpse of its combines a discussion of Salgado’s Photographic Education premier photographers in the world. central icon: Che Guevara.” work with a critique of globalization, – Jeffrey Skoller, Afterimage “Utilizing some first rate shots of the and becomes a wide-ranging investiga- 52 minutes | color | 2001 | classic images on which Magnum’s ✵2000 Award of Merit in Film, tion of the power of the image to relay Sale/video: $390 Rental/video: $100 reputation was built, [the film] provides Latin American Studies Association devastating truths and, surprisingly, hope. an excellent general introduction to ✵2000 Film Festival, Society for “Salgado’s most noteworthy achieve- those unique qualities and achievements Photographic Education ✵ ment is his ability to remind us that that still make it the finest photo agency Coral Prize, 1998 Festival of visual imagery changes an abstract idea New Latin American Cinema (Cuba) in the world... Quintessentially Magnum ✵ into an emotional explanation, capable on Magnum – honest and dispassionate.” Best Documentary, 1998 International Film Festival of of piercing through to the heart of what – History of Photography Valdivia (Chile) life is. [His] capacity to expose a too ✵2001 Film Festival, Society for | | often obscured side of global reality Photographic Education 30 minutes color 1998 helps provoke those who look at the Sale/video: $225 | Rental/video: $75 pictures to move beyond indifference. 58 minutes | color | 1999 Through the still images and the video Sale/video: $390 | Rental/video: $75

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THE SPECTRE OF HOPE MAGNUM PHOTOS - THE CHANGING OF A MYTH EL DIA QUE ME QUIERAS (THE DAY YOU’LL LOVE ME) PHYSICS POLITICS & CONTEMPORARY ISSUES (U.S.) SCIENTISTS AT THE KILLING TIME CAUGHT IN THE CROSSFIRE - RIM OF REALITY A Film by Ijsbrand van Veelen Arab-Americans in Wartime A Film by Samy Brunett Directed by David Van Taylor & Brad Lichtenstein Does Time exist? This is one of the A Lumiere Production in Association with the Independent Television Service The world’s largest particle accelerator central questions raised by KILLING is being built at the CERN laboratory on TIME, which explores conflicts between Before 9/11, New York City’s Arab As they wrestle with their place in the border of France and Switzerland. Quantum Mechanics and Einstein’s population was one among many ethnic wartime America, CAUGHT IN THE Six stories high, in a tunnel 300 meters Theory of Relativity. The film centers on groups making their way: politically CROSSFIRE gives voice to a three below ground, the accelerator is part of the work of Theoretical Physicist Julian diverse; Muslim and Christian; assimi- people whose stories we need to hear. a project designed to allow physicists Barbour, who gained notoriety with the lated and separatist; wealthy and working “Recommended. The film’s starkness to recreate the first moment of the publication of his landmark book, The class. Now Arab-Americans are finding adds to its power, while its timeliness – universe, the first infinitesimal fraction End of Time (1999). out how bad it can be when you belong as America continues to align itself of a second after the Big Bang. to the wrong immigrant group at the Physics has always been grounded in against predominantly Arab nations – wrong time. Filmmaker Samy Brunett, a former Newton’s conception of Time. However, cannot be overstated.” employee of CERN, returns to the lab through his collaborations with Bruno Centered in New York City, CAUGHT IN – Video Librarian for an update on the quest to understand Bertotti, and his own attempts to recon- THE CROSSFIRE puts viewers in the “In its acute eye and ear for quotidian the universal laws. He finds scientists cile Quantum Mechanics with Relativity, shoes of three individuals, including detail, and in its compassion for inno- pushing their machines to the edge of Barbour came to the conclusion that Raghida Dergham, a high-level corre- cents, the film proves undeniably technological feasibility, in search of the Newton was wrong. spondent for the leading independent affecting.” – New York Times ‘divine particle,’ the Higgs boson, the KILLING TIME is a thought-provoking, Arabic newspaper and a regular on missing link in the Theory of Everything. artful presentation of Barbour’s contro- CNN. While the U.S. has given her the “Brilliant... no one who watches will be able to see Arab or American identity in Over the past two decades science has versial theories, and suggests radical opportunity to be an independent simple black-and-white terms. Among changed dramatically. Scientists have reevaluation of the universe in which woman, she often feels like a woman the most eloquent and resonant in all been expanding the limits of their we live. without a country. She can’t return to her home Lebanon, where she is under the [9/11 anniversary] programs.” investigative methods by implementing “Highly Recommended. This fascinating indictment for treason, and her report- – Baltimore Sun new concepts such as symmetry and and provocative documentary not only ing of Middle East perspectives earns uncertainty. Thanks to today’s technol- presents Barbour’s thinking in his own “Invites us to see Arab and Muslim her hate mail from Americans as well. ogy, they are formulating theories that clearly elucidated words but it does it immigrants in the U.S. as individuals, may provide insight into the most with wit and flowing style. Multiple Khader El-Yateem is an outsider among not as a fifth column of Al Qaeda profound questions of our age. exposures, slow motion, and other outsiders – an Arab Christian. But since sympathizers. Its human interest story bursts the stereotype of the dangerous 43 minutes | color | 2001 time-altering visual devices successfully 9/11, his Salam Arabic Lutheran Church Arab in our midst.” – Al Jadid, Sale/video: $375 | Rental/video: $75 enhance Barbour’s ideas in a fresh and has become a haven for Brooklyn Arabs, distinctive manner without disrupting the Christian and Muslim alike. A Review & Record of Arab Culture and Arts information presented. – Educational As a child in Yemen, New York Police ✵ Media Reviews Online Officer Ahmed Nasser watched Ameri- 2002 FilmFest, Middle East ✵Eadweard Muybridge Award, 2000 can cop shows. Stationed at Ground Studies Association Dutch Film Festival Zero in the days after 9/11, he felt the 54 minutes | color | 2002 cc ✵Magazine Prize, Image & Science, full impact of terrorism. But in the same Sale/video: $298 | Rental/video: $75 2000 Science Festival (Paris) period, he also saw his fellow officers ✵Premio Arte, 2000 Teleciencia ignore calls from harassed Arab-Ameri- Scientific Film Festival (Portugal) cans in his precinct. ✵Bronze Dragon, 2000 Beijing Scientific Film Festival 30 minutes | color | 2000 Sale/video: $225 | Rental/video: $60

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SCIENTISTS AT THE RIM OF REALITY KILLING TIME CAUGHT IN THE CROSSFIRE - ARAB-AMERICANS IN WARTIME POLITICS & CONTEMPORARY ISSUES (U.S.) THE LOBBY OTHER AMERICAN VOICES LIVE FREE OR DIE A Film by Benny Brunner A Film by Corinna Belz & Neil Hollander A Film by Marion Lipschutz & Rose Rosenblatt How powerful is the American It seemed that the entire criticism of the domestic and foreign Israel Public Affairs Committee country rallied around policies of George W. Bush celebrate Abortions have been legal for more (AIPAC)? THE LOBBY is a George W. Bush during the this nation’s identity.” – Amy Ione, than twenty years. Free Speech has balanced examination of this controver- fearful period after 9/11. But what of The Diatrope Institute, for Leonardo been guaranteed for more than two sial subject. that checkered mix of intellectuals, Digital Reviews hundred. In Bedford, New Hampshire, activists, unions and NGOs, which, prior the rights to both have collided in a Considering the pro-Israeli attitude of “Highly Recommended! If you believe to the attack, leveled vehement criti- battle of beliefs and wills. every recent U.S. administration, it is that democracy flourishes only when cism at the Administration’s domestic often suggested that the Jewish lobby all points of view are freely expressed, Obstetrician and gynecologist Wayne and foreign policies? dictates Washington’s Middle East then [the film] provides a much-needed Goldner performs abortions as part of policy. AIPAC does lobby politicians to Interviews with Noam Chomsky, Richard response from the…dissident side of his practice. When he opposes a support its goals, like the National Rifle Deats, Katrina van den Heuvel (The the spectrum of American political merger between the Catholic Medical Association and the Cuban American Nation), Amy Goodman of Democracy discourse to the conservative and Center and Eliot Hospital that would National Foundation. But does this Now, Asif Ulla (War Resisters League) mainstream ideology that has domi- threaten access to family planning, pro- organization really have a disproportion- and others create a portrait of a country nated the media and the political life protesters flock to his doorstep and ate influence on U.S. foreign policy? that, during this period, was unable process in the aftermath of the attacks to the middle school where he teaches. tolerate loyal dissent, despite our proud of September 11, 2001. Very current In THE LOBBY people with diverse polit- As the community unravels, Goldner tradition of protest. [and]… appropriate for all age groups ical attitudes from varying backgrounds feels increasingly threatened by extrem- over Junior High school level and, by give their opinion on this matter and The fear of a new McCarthy era runs ists, and abandoned by colleagues. providing a perspective that is not other related topics. Some of those through the conversations, triggered by Still, he continues to follow his generally represented in the main- interviewed include: the growing volume of legislation, such conscience. “I’ve always been a stream media, would be useful in as the “Patriot Act,” which undermines fighter,” muses Goldner, “I’ve always Steven Grossman - presenting information directly or in fundamental rights. been a person who’s taken on the odds.” former president of AIPAC, eliciting class discussion.” Malcolm Hoenlein - The “war against terror” is being – Educational Media Reviews Online “Should be seen by medical societies, Conference of Presidents of Major pursued in the name of the liberty, yet hospital boards, and hospital staffs. It “The combination of intelligent inter- Jewish Organizations representative, ultimately also seems to threaten should also prove of interest to those views and quiet moments merges into a concerned about the marked decline in Denise Majette - liberty itself. thoughtful documentary on contempo- physicians performing abortions Georgia congresswoman, “As a US citizen I believe OTHER rary U.S. politics... The ability to throughout the United States... J.J. Goldberg AMERICAN VOICES is a tremendous - dissent, and to check and challenge A somber, serious film.” – Journal of editor of the Jewish weekly Forward, contribution to social history and the government power, fall within the the American Medical Association political discourse as well. [Fulfills] a Janet McMahon - Jeffersonian tradition and is the highest ✵ editor of the Washington Report, function often associated with art: stir- form of patriotism.” – Pop Politics Justice & Human Rights Award, ring our emotions and presenting 2000 Vermont International Noam Chomsky - | | complex points of view in a way that 52 minutes color 2002 Film Festival professor at MIT. Sale/video: $298 | Rental/video: $75 ✵ allows us to wrestle with a larger 2000 Shirley Gordon Public Policy Award, Family Planning Advocates The opinions of these and the other picture. It should be shown in high of NY interviewees form a rounded, rational school and college classroom. Years and unemotional conversation about an from now, moreover, this kind of docu- 70 minutes | color | 2000 often-avoided subject, a subject that for mentation will provide future genera- Sale/video: was $390 now $298 many is too sensitive to approach. tions with the words of those who saw Rental/video: $75 other paths were available. America | | 25 minutes color 2003 prides itself on its tradition of dissent Sale/video: $225 | Rental/video: $75 and, from this perspective, this film’s

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THE LOBBY OTHER AMERICAN VOICES LIVE FREE OR DIE POLITICS & CONTEMPORARY ISSUES (U.S.) PSYCHOLOGY SOUTH (Sud) BROTHERHOOD OF HATE FIRST KILL A Film by Chantal Akerman Directed by Pamela Yates A Film by Coco Schrijber A New York Times Television Production Inspired by her love of South- What is the psychology of war? FIRST “Smartly and superbly conceived. FIRST ern writers, Chantal Akerman BROTHERHOOD OF HATE documents KILL examines this and other questions KILL is really about American society at planned to produce a broad one family’s legacy of hate, showing through interviews with several Viet- this very moment... The questions it meditation on the American South. how it was handed down from one nam veterans that evoke the contradic- raises pertain to events in Iraq and However, days before she was to begin, generation to the next. tory feelings that killing produces – fear Afghanistan, to ultra-violent James Byrd, Jr. was chained to a truck Few stories of the violent right are as and hate, seduction and pleasure. videogames, to explicit violence in films, and to shootings by high school by three white men and dragged three emblematic as that of the Kehoe family FIRST KILL also includes a discussion students and factory workers. A cry of miles through predominately black parts of Coleville Washington, especially the with Michael Herr (who has refused to concern, it is a stunningly beautiful of the town of Jasper, Texas. story of the oldest son Chevie. Chevie be interviewed for ten years), the work about the most terrifying of This event subsequently became the conspired to build a whites only home- former war correspondent who wrote subjects.” – Leonardo Digital Reviews film’s symbolic focus. “But this is not an land in the Pacific Northwest, and then the screenplays for Apocalypse Now anatomy of his murder,” Akerman embarked on a national rampage of and Full Metal Jacket, and wrote “A chilling (and timely) indictment of writes, “nor the autopsy of a black man theft, police gunfights and murder. His Dispatches, the most important book the human propensity for violence” lynched by three white males. Rather, it most serious crime was the murder of about the experiences of the soldier in – Leslie Camhi, Village Voice Arkansas gun dealer William Mueller, the Vietnam War.. “If war was hell and is an evocation of how this event fits in “Highly Recommended! Profoundly his wife Nancy and her 8-year-old only hell and there were no other colors to a landscape and climate that is as moving. A compelling portrait of the daughter Sarah. in the palate... I don’t think people much mental as physical.” effect of warfare on the combatant. An would continue to make war...” he says. Akerman continues, “How does the The Muellers lived outside of rural excellent teaching aid to explorations of southern silence become so heavy and Russellville, Arkansas. Deputy Sheriff For other people war is just work. Right human conduct and capabilities. As so menacing so suddenly? How do the Aaron Duvall of Russellville was after taking the infamous photo of well, this film could really force serious trees and the whole natural environ- assigned to investigate what appeared Vietnamese General Loan shooting a introspection by those who may be sure ment evoke so intensely death, blood, to be an isolated triple homicide. He Vietcong prisoner in the head, Eddie Adams they could never take a life.” and the weight of history? How does becomes obsessed with finding the went out to lunch. Other Vietnam veterans – Educational Media Reviews Online killers of a family he knew. are still struggling with their traumas. the present call up the past? And how “One of the best and most unsettling On the other hand, former “tunnelrat” does this past, with a mere gesture or a Through the story of Duvall’s investiga- films.” – Mark Oliver, The Guardian simple regard, haunt and torment you tion of the Mulleur/Kehoe case, this Billy Heflin recalls his wartime experi- ✵2003 Film Festival, National as you wander along an empty cotton film reveals the virulent, familial nature ences longingly. field, or a dusty country road?” Women’s Studies Association of white supremacy in America. These confessions are juxtaposed with ✵2002 Cinema du Reel (Paris) ✵ Directors Fortnight, 1999 “Recommended. A fine addition to any images of Western tourists and others ✵2002 Seoul Human Rights Cannes Film Festival library collection. Does a good job of who now visit the former killing fields Film Festival ✵1999 Toronto International creating drama through the narrative, (where they can buy a painting of ✵2001 Amsterdam International Film Festival keeping the viewers both shocked and General Loan shooting that Vietcong Documentary Festival prisoner), conveying people’s fascina- 70 minutes | color | 1999 intrigued.” – Educational Media 52 minutes | color | 2001 tion with war and its memory. Tourists’ Sale/video: $440 | Rental/video: $100 Reviews Online Sale/video: $390 | Rental/video: $75 ✵ snapshots have replaced the wartime 2001 Amnesty International photojournalism, while Vietnamese Film Festival artists reproduce the infamous ✵2001 Seattle Human Rights photographs from the war in oil, turning Film Festival them from a silent documentary testi- 52 minutes | color | 2000 mony into works of art. Sale/video: $390 | Rental/video: $75

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SOUTH (SUD) BROTHERHOOD OF HATE FIRST KILL PSYCHOLOGY THE TUBE DREAMLAND LOST WHY MEN DON’T IRON A Film by Peter Entell Directed by Lisanne Skyler Directed by Teresa MacInnes & A Three Part Series by Anne Moir & Produced by Greg Little Kent Nason Jim Meyer Is there proof that television is addic- A National Film Board of Canada tive, as some people have suspected for Following several full-time residents of Production After three decades of equal opportu- years? Scientists have found that view- Las Vegas over a two-year period, nity, there are still fundamental Being lost is more than a physical state. ing a cathode tube (television) causes a DREAMLAND shows the cityscape inequities between genders. Prominent From the Odyssey to the Bible to decrease in brain activity. The content beyond the strip’s grandiose casinos. It neuroscientists are studying the biologi- The Blair Witch Project, being lost is a is irrelevant; the effect is caused by the is a world of dingy gambling halls cal foundations of these differences, central motif in our culture. cathode tube technology itself. patronized by locals who struggle daily and how genetics and the environment with compulsion and self-impoverishment. After nine-year-old Andy Warburton interact to forge our behavior. WHY TV networks and corporations like G.E. disappeared into the Nova Scotia MEN DON’T IRON examines the research, have been funding research about the We meet middle-class retirees; working forest, Ken Hill joined the search and challenging some long-established physiological effects of television for people who ‘look for the streaks’ and rescue operation. Warburton’s death myths along the way. decades. Journalist Luc Mariot, sometimes crash as hard as drug addicts; casino dealers who find that left Hill, a psychologist at Saint Mary’s together with filmmaker Peter Entell, Episode 1 - Learning the Difference they too are vulnerable to addiction; University, devastated. So he dedicated set off to penetrate the very heart of Recent research has shown that girls and professional gamblers who would- his research to understanding the these industries. The film features are outstripping boys at every academic n’t wish their life on anyone. And we behavior of lost people. LOST documents interviews with experts including level. Learning the Difference explains meet Lou Gerard, a retired tailor from what he and others have learned about Robert Kubey PhD, a professor at why, and questions conventional teach- Los Angeles who moved to Las Vegas, the human reaction to being lost. Rutgers University and director of the ing methods. Center for Media Studies. with its cheap rent and complementary We navigate winding streets of London meals, to do a little “harmless” gambling. with a cabbie, visit West Edmonton From Europe to the studios of Japan and Episode 2 - The Brain at Work Mall (where 2000 people get lost every on to the clinical laboratories of the U.S., “Intriguing... a realistic look into the More women then ever are now enter- year despite many maps), and enter the they discover some troubling cases. daily surroundings and struggles of the ing the workforce, but men still occupy Vegas population. If you are looking for Hampton Court labyrinth with a young most top positions. The Brain At Work “Scary because it makes clear just how a good tool to highlight problem couple, and observe differences in the presents evidence that biology plays a little we know about potentially harmful gambling... this is a great film choice.” ways that men and women navigate. role in men’s drive to succeed more effects of ‘tubes’ on our brains, but – Massachusetts Council on Problem These and other examples, behind-the- than it does for women. “Women who reassuring that someone is finally asking Gambling News scenes coverage of search and rescue really are determined to get to the top the questions which so desperately operations, Hill’s research, and an inter- can do it these days – what’s remark- need to be answered!” “A candid, uncompromising look at view with psychologist Dr. Daniel Montello able is that more women don’t.” says – Jane M. Healy, Ph.D., Educational compulsive gambling and the effect of (University of California) help us to anthropologist Helen Fisher. Psychologist, Author of Endangered neighborhood casinos on Las Vegas. understand the psychology behind the Minds and Failure to Connect Not since... CASINO has the naked truth Episode 3 - The Emotional Difference about Las Vegas been captured so perfectly decisions lost people make. “A convincing, methodical and well- The Emotional Differences explores on screen.” – Las Vegas CityLife “Highly Recommended! An intelligent argued denunciation.” neurological elements that help to and extraordinary film.” – Le Monde (France) Two Lengths Available: perpetuate divisions of household labor. – Educational Media Reviews Online 71 minutes | color | 2000 “A well-developed and provocative 87 minutes | color | 2001 | ✵ Sale/video: $440 Rental/video: $100 Chris Award for Education & resource for high-school, college, and Sale/video: $440 | Rental/video: $100 Information, 48th Columbus 57 minutes | color | 2000 general audiences.” – Booklist Film Festival Sale/video: $390 | Rental/video: $75 ✵2000 Film Festival, National 52 minutes | color | 1999 cc Women’s Studies Association Sale/video: $390 | Rental/video: $75 3 x 52 minutes | color | 1998 Sale/video: $440 | Rental/video: $125

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THE TUBE DREAMLAND LOST RELIGION RUSSIA & THE FORMER SOVIET UNION RAISE THE DEAD BREAD DAY THE BELOVS HIGHWAY A Film by James Rutenbeck A Film by Sergey Dvortsevoy A Film by Victor Kossakovsky A Film by Sergei Dvortsevoy

H. Richard Hall grew up as a child evan- In a forgotten settlement north of In a rural Russian village, A small family circus traverses the gelist in the backwoods and small St. Petersburg, a group of elderly twice widowed Anna steppes of Kazakhstan and other Central towns of Depression-era Appalachia. people lives isolated from the outside Feodorovna Belova and her Asian republics of the former Soviet Union. Hall was mentored by William Bran- world. But once a week a train brings brother Michail Feodorovitch are visited With virtuoso visual compositions, ham, the illiterate son of a Kentucky them bread. by two other brothers. They drink a Dvortsevoy captures them presenting bootlegger who rivaled Oral Roberts as great deal of tea, steam in a Russian their act to handfuls of villagers, trans- BREAD DAY is an unforgettable portrait the preeminent evangelist of the 1940’s bath and discuss whether there exists forming the barren landscape. of rural poverty, traditional life, and old and 50’s. By the 60’s, Branham had died “a measure to measure ordeals.” age at the end of the 20th century. A drum rolls, a boy lifts a 70-pound in a car accident, the tents had folded, “A Masterpiece... a real life Beckett play.” weight with his teeth. Then, as he lies and business savvy evangelists were “A deadpan parable of Soviet Civiliza- – The Times (London) down over shards of shattered glass, moving to television. tion at the end of its tether. More than his father drops the weight upon him. that, it is a coolly beautiful look at a ✵International Jury Prize, 1993 But Brother Hall still travels the back Miraculously, the boy jumps up very unbeautiful situation.” Nyon Film Festival roads of the American South. RAISE unharmed, and bows to the camera. – Slavic Review ✵Joris Ivens Award, 1993 THE DEAD is a contemporary journey After each performance, the energy of ✵ Amsterdam International into his world. It is an exploration of the Best Short Documentary, 1998 Documentary Festival the circus dissipates, making way for land, people, and milieu of a misunder- Visions du Reel Festival (Nyon) the father’s prayers and screaming ✵ 60 minutes | b&w | 1992 stood and largely undocumented reli- Golden Centaur, 1998 St. children. Their mother is exhausted, Petersburg Film Festival Sale/video: $390 | Rental/video: $75 gious tradition. and the dilapidated bus won’t start. ✵2000 Film Festival, American “The best and most sensitive documen- Anthropological Association While the mother sings a lullaby, a tary on the Appalachian religion and WEDNESDAY 19.7.1961 captured desert eagle observes the scene. 53 minutes | color | 1998 Pentecostalism that I have ever seen in A Film by Viktor Kossakovsky Dvortsevoy’s subtle rhythm allows us to Sale/video: $390 | Rental/video: $75 mingle with the people and animals, to my extensive research – accurate and A riveting portrait of existence in share in the existence of the highway. insightful.” – Professor Harvey Cox, contemporary Russia. Harvard University Divinity School CHASTIE (Paradise) “Splendid... Mesmerizing... a testament “Exhilarating and poignant, humorous A Film by Sergey Dvortsevoy to the magical power of film to trans- “Stunning... a gorgeous documentary and chilling... a poetic essay on what testament to an often misunderstood port the onlooker into other lives and After spotting a tiny hamlet time does to hope.” – Sunday Times distant lands, to kindle contemplation, and marginalized religious tradition.” while flying over the steppes “Captivating... a cinematic patchwork offer perspective and excite with the – Sharon Hatfield, Journal of of Kazakhstan, filmmaker quilt composed of brief, often wordless poetic beauty of exotic images.“ Appalachian Studies Dvortsevoy decided to visit. Culled from glimpses into the lives of Russians who – New York Times ✵2000 Film Festival, American three months of filming, CHASTIE have in common only the accident of “Amazing! Dvortsevoy chooses to docu- Anthropological Association presents unadorned images, but the their birth at the same time and place.” ment quiet moments of unremarkable ✵1999 Margaret Mead Film Festival film’s thirty sequences are so breathtak- – Slavic Review lives, to make grander statements ingly photographed that they become a 54 minutes | color | 1998 93 minutes | color | 1997 about human beings’ ability to endure Sale/video: $345 | Rental/video: $75 magnificently wrought ethnographic poem. Sale/video: $440 | Rental/video: $100 and survive. Minimalist filmmaking at “Astonishing.” – New York Times its finest.” – Chicago Tribune ✵Best Short Film, 1996 Cinema du Reel ✵Grand Prize, 1999 Vue Sur ✵Grand Prize, 1995 Les Doc Festival (Marseilles) Vision du Reel Film Festival (Nyon) ✵2000 FilmFest, Middle East ✵Public Fipressi Prize, 1995 Studies Association Leipzig Film Festival ✵2001 Film Festival, Association for Asian Studies 23 minutes | color | 1995 Sale/video: $190 | Rental/video: $45 52 minutes | color | 1999 Sale/video: $390 | Rental/video: $75 55

RAISE THE DEAD BREAD DAY WEDNESDAY 19.7.1961 HIGHWAY SOCIOLOGY Pierre Bourdieu NO LOANS TODAY OLDTIMERS SOCIOLOGY IS A MARTIAL ART A Film by Lisanne Skyler A Film by Lisanne Skyler & Joseph Todd Walker A Film by Pierre Carles Centering on a pawnshop/check-cash- Pierre’s Bourdieu’s work comprises the The film’s very title stresses the degree ing outlet, NO LOANS TODAY docu- When Original McCarthy’s most brilliant, fruitful renovations and of Bourdieu’s political engagement. He ments daily life in the African-American opened in 1933, San Fran- applications of social science in our era. took on the mantle of Emile Zola in community of South Central Los Angeles. cisco’s Mission District was The highly influential, controversial French public life, slugging it out with predominantly Irish, German, and Italian. With interviews and cinema-verité scenes Today, it is a gentrifying Latino commu- intellectual – a longtime Professor of politicians because he considered those of day-to-day living, NO LOANS TODAY Sociology at the College de France – lucky enough to have spent their lives nity, but McCarthy’s still serves their examines the relationship between what original clientele, survivors of another passed away in January 2002. studying the social world could not be are known as “fringe banks” to other indifferent to the struggle for justice. urban era. Filmed over three years, director Pierre economic problems that this community Carles’ camera follows Bourdieu as he “Extremely valuable... The perfect endures, such as crime and unemploy- “Critics Choice! A beautifully shot and lectures, attends political rallies, trav- representation of Bourdieu... shows the ment. Portraying the pawnshop as a very moving documentary.” els, meets with his students, staff, and man in action as sociologist, political metaphor for survival, the film explores – San Francisco Bay Guardian research team in Paris, and includes activist, Frenchman, mentor, and human economic and psychological marginalization, ✵Golden Gate Award, 1993 Bourdieu having a conversation with being. The various contexts of action it and reveals the unseen resiliency of the San Francisco International Günter Grass. captures are essential for understand- people of this community. Film Festival ing the person and his activities. Not A “committed” thinker in the vein of “Right on target and quite moving... 17 minutes | b&w | 1993 only does the viewer receive clarifica- Foucault, his work is concerned the From the amazingly forthright inter- Sale/video: $175 | Rental/video: $50 tion about certain concepts of his and processes of symbolic violence and views, one gets in a very brief span a their social and political implications, but cultural domination in various areas of feel for many of the complex issues also clarification in the portrayal of his OLD ENOUGH TO social life. His most well known book, associated with inner-city, black work’s process.” – Teaching Sociology Distinction (1979), addressed these poverty.” – Professor John P. Caskey, KNOW BETTER themes in an effort to overcome the “Compelling... It is truly moving to see Author, Fringe Banking - Check Cash- A Film by Ron Levaco ing Outlets, Pawnshops and the Poor opposition of objectivist (Marxist) and [Bourdieu] discussing his radical brand At the Fromm Institute for Lifelong subjectivist (Weberian) theories of class. of sociology – in an empathetic and “This mesmerizing look at a slice of life Learning the student body is composed unpatronizing fashion – with callers to In the late nineties he became one of in a hostile urban environment has much entirely of retired persons. All the a radio talk show, admirers at a book the world’s most important academics to offer for both general audiences and classes are taught by retired professors, signing, and angry unemployed workers.” actively associated with the anti-global- classroom viewers.” – Booklist who are encouraged to develop new – Cineaste ization movement. Bourdieu himself ✵Editor’s Choice, Booklist (1996) courses in subjects of interest to them. argued that scholars could and should “A tremendous portrait... breathtaking.” ✵1995 Sundance Film Festival The only criterion for acceptance is the bring their specialized knowledge to – Positif (France) ✵1995 AFI Los Angeles Film Festival desire to learn. bear on social and political issues. His ✵ 146 minutes | color | 2001 1995 San Francisco Film Festival “A moving and inspirational view of old powerful critiques of the neoliberal Sale/video: $490 | Rental/video: $125 | | age as an invaluable time of personal revolution were the natural outgrowth 56 minutes color 1994 Sale/video: $390 | Rental/video: $75 growth.” – Aging and the Human Spirit of a lifetime of research into economic, social and cultural class domination “Direct, honest, engaging! A gem of a among peoples as disparate as Algerian tribute to the transformative power of peasants and French professors. lifelong learning.” – Richard Dubanowski, Dean, University of Hawaii ✵Film Festival, 54th Gerontological Society of America Conference 58 minutes | color | 2000 Sale/video: $390 | Rental/video: $75

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PIERRE BOURDIEU - SOCIOLOGY IS A MARTIAL ART OLDTIMERS OLD ENOUGH TO KNOW BETTER WOMEN’S STUDIES LOVE STORIES IF YOU ONLY CHORE WARS YOU GOT TO MOVE A Three Part Series Produced by UNDERSTOOD A Film by Kathy Garneau & Lauren Davis A Film by Lucy Massie Phenix & Harriet Gavshon & David Jammy Veronica Selver A Film by Rolando Día A Curious Pictures Production An increasing percentage of A stirring documentary about A well-known Cuban director is searching families rely on two incomes. Among the stories of sacrifice in the personal and social transfor- for a black woman to play the lead in With two partners working struggle against apartheid are those of mation, YOU GOT TO MOVE his next film – a musical comedy. outside the home, how do they share ordinary people with fascinating private shows the grassroots struggles of “ordi- Rather than opting for an experienced work inside the home? CHORE WARS is worlds, which were often shattered by nary plainfolks” for women’s rights, actress, he seeks the spontaneity of a light-hearted look at the present day politics. As it enters three of these against strip mining in Kentucky, toxic inexperience. He sets about searching housework dilemma. The film takes us hidden worlds, LOVE STORIES explores waste dumping in Tennessee and illiteracy the Cuban Film Institute’s files and, into four homes to find out who does the complex nature of love and passion, the laundry, washes the dishes, mows and discrimination in South Carolina. obsession and transgression. with the enthusiastic support of friends and the aid of a small video camera, the lawn, vacuums carpets, parents, and These grassroots movements all gained THE MOON IN MY POCKET he scours the streets of Havana in who trains the kids on how to do chores. impetus from the legendary Highland (Directed by Kgomotso Matsunyane) is search of his actress. CHORE WARS also features commentary Folk School, founded by Myles Horton. the story of a senior ANC commander For over 50 years the School has Echoing seminal Cuban films, IF YOU by Dr. John Gottman, a psychologist imprisoned for treason in 1966, who, catalyzed communication and commu- ONLY UNDERSTOOD follows the from the University of Washington, and for twenty years, applied every year nity change. experiences of the director and crew Dr. Arlie Hochschild, a sociologist and for permission to marry his sweetheart, author of “The Second Shift.” Their but was denied each time. from behind the camera. The questions The film takes us beyond the individual posed to the auditioning hopefuls draw insights into the sociological and issues to the very process of social BUBBLES AND ME (Directed by us to the underlying ethnic and gender emotional significance of chores reveal change and the evolution of leadership. Marie Human) begins in 1976. Bubbles conflicts in Cuba. just why the struggle over who does the At a time when so many people may was a black fashion model unafraid of dishes is so important in society today. feel powerless, this film joyfully “Painting a multi-faceted portrait of apartheid. Jannie, a white Afrikaans announces people do count, that they contemporary Cuban life, the film doesn’t “A delightful combination of humour and body builder who owned a Johannesburg can make a difference. hesitate to criticize the racism, sexism, information. The film effectively raises gym, and a member of the Nationalist complex and serious issues facing women Party, fell in love with Bubbles... and economic inequality that cause “Provocative and joyful... Highlander’s daily unhappiness for many of the and men in North America and elsewhere.” work translates to the film in wonderful WHITE GIRL IN SEARCH OF THE women.” – Christian Science Monitor – Professor Gillian Creese, Chairperson ways. YOU GOT TO MOVE vibrates with PARTY (Directed by Pat van Heerden) is of the Women’s Studies Programme, the energy of people who have found “A valuable testimony of [Cuban] reality; about the love between Pauline Podberry University of British Columbia an inner strength. They are funny, tough, full of paradoxes, contradictions, and and the dashing trade union hero, eloquent.” – San Francisco Chronicle complex sentiments. A profoundly “A humorous and enlightening film H.A. Naidoo. Their story is a complex about domestic chores and sex roles.” mix of ideology, heroism and romance. honest film which overflows with the “The film’s impact is in its message: humanity and sensuality of Cuba – Teaching Sociology dedicated individuals have the power to “A unique perspective on South African today.” – Michael Chanan ✵2000 Film Festival, National create social change. Recommended for history... Sensational!” – Sunday Times Women’s Studies Association collections in Southern history and/or “Bewitching... somewhat subversive... (South Africa) ✵Honorable Mention, 1995 social activism.” – Library Journal The women are the shining stars of the ✵2002 Film Festival, Columbus Film Festival ✵ film.” – Newsday ✵ Blue Ribbon, 1986 American African Literature Association 1995 Vancouver Film Festival Film Festival ✵2000 Award of Merit in Film, ✵ ✵2001 Film Festival 1995 Arizona Film Festival ✵Silver Apple, 1986 National Latin American Studies Association African Studies Association Educational Film Festival ✵Special Mention, 1998 48 minutes | color | 1995 3 x 24 minutes | color | 2000 Festival of New Latin American Sale/video: $375 | Rental/video: $75 87 minutes | color | 1985 Sale/video: $398 | Rental/video: $100 Cinema (Havana) Sale/video: $390 | Rental/video: $150 ✵2001 Film Festival, African Literature Association 87 minutes | color | 1998 Sale/video: $440 | Rental/video: $100 57

BUBBLES AND ME WHITE GIRL IN SEARCH OF THE PARTY YOU GOT TO MOVE WOMEN’S STUDIES WESTERN EYES AGAINST MY WILL SOUHA - Surviving Hell Directed by Ann Shin Directed by Ayfer Ergun A Film by Randa Chahal Sabbag A National Film Board of Canada Produced by Humanist Broadcasting Foundation Production In 1989, Souha Béchara tried to assas- “I wouldn’t dream of trusting “A heartbreaking documentary about sinate General Lahad, who was collabo- WESTERN EYES examines internalized my family.” – Anita honor killings in Pakistan.” rating with the Israeli Army in Lebanon. racism and the search for self-accep- – www.indiewire.com Lahad survived, but Souha was arrested In Pakistan, many women tance through the experiences of Maria and thrown in Khiam prison, where she who decide to leave abusive marriages “Outspoken and poignant. The film does Estante and Sharon Kim – young spent ten years, six in solitary confine- are signing their own death warrants. an excellent job of conveying the horror women of Asian descent contemplating ment. Tortured repeatedly, Souha’s They risk being disfigured or murdered and humanity of the lives of these cosmetic surgery. refusal to collaborate made her a by men who believe it is the only way women. The combination of footage Both Maria and Sharon feel unsettled in legend. She was freed in 1998 after an to restore honor to the family. from the shelter, the legal office and Western society, and believe their international campaign. scenes and interviews from Kubra’s appearance – specifically their eyes – Authorities in Pakistan rarely respond to village and family make AGAINST MY After her release Souha traveled to the affect the way they are perceived by reports of honor killing. The Women WILL a very powerful statement against Paris home of filmmaker Randa Sabbag, others. “I am recreating myself, I am Action Forum estimates that 1000 women ‘honor killings.’” – Al Jadid, A Review who filmed Souha as she released all of balancing East and West. I’m getting are murdered each year, with little or no & Record of Arab Culture and Arts the emotions that had been forbidden response from the government. [surgery] because I want to feel better,” during her captivity. ✵2003 Prix Italia, Best Human explains Sharon. At the Dastak women’s shelter in Interest Documentary After Israel withdrew in May 2000, and Lahore, women accused of tarnishing References to pop-culture icons draw ✵2003 FilmFest, Middle East Lahad’s militia collapsed, Souha the family honor find a safe haven. viewers into their emotional journey, Studies Association returned to Lebanon with Sabbag. They Here, in this tidy building with a well- while cinematic tools, from infrared ✵2003 Thessaloniki Documentary visit to the spot of the attempted assas- kept lawn, they live in safety, receiving light to optical microscopic lenses, illus- Festival (Greece) sination, and Khiam prison, where both counseling and legal advice. trate the relative nature of beauty. ✵2002 Amsterdam International Souha meets fellow former prisoners – Using these techniques to look beyond Kubra is one such woman. After endur- Documentary Festival men and women, secularists and appearances, Shin captures the pain ing repeated beatings, the 28-year-old 50 minutes | color | 2002 Islamists alike. that almost always lies behind the fled to Dastak. We meet Kubra – armed | Sale/video: $390 Rental/video: $75 Despite her suffering, Souha shares her desire for plastic surgery. guard in tow – on her way to a meeting story with a sense of hope for the future with members of her family. They “Captures the emotional pain that these – both her own and that of Lebanon. two women experience because they entreat her to return. Eventually, she feel they don’t measure up to some agrees. Three weeks later, she is “Succeeds in shattering images of perceived standard of beauty.” murdered, shot to death in her sleep. female confinement to private, domes- tic roles and political passiveness. – Voice of Youth Advocates AGAINST MY WILL is a shocking docu- There is an unmistakable triumph in mentary about the women who take “Remarkable... A smooth, flowing, even Souha’s story, an inner strength well- control of their own lives, and risk lyrical visual production.” documented.” – Al Jadid, A Review & being killed for it. Through Kubra’s – General Anthropology Newsletter Record of Arab Culture and Arts ✵2002 Film Festival, Association for story, and the stories of other women at “Moving... This is a Lebanon no journalist Asian Studies Dastak, the film creates a portrait of has shown us.” – The Guardian (UK) ✵2001 Film Festival, National one institution that is protecting Women’s Studies Association Pakistani women, at least the women ✵2002 Human Rights Watch who can make it there. Film Festival 40 minutes | color | 2000 cc Sale/video: $285 | Rental/video: $75 57 minutes | color | 2001 Sale/video: $390 | Rental/video: $75

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WESTERN EYES AGAINST MY WILL SOUHA - SURVIVING HELL WOMEN’S STUDIES A FEMALE CABBY IN THE SETTLERS THE VIRGIN DIARIES WOMEN OF HEZBOLLAH SIDI BEL-ABBES A Film by Ruth Walk A Film by Jessica Woodworth A Film by Maher Abi-Samra Produced for the Independent A Film by Belkacem Hadjadj In the middle of the densely populated Television Service Settled in the 1950’s by Shiites from the When her husband died Soumicha, Palestinian city of Hebron on the West With funding provided by the villages of southern Lebanon and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting mother of three, became the only Bank, seven Orthodox families and their Beka Valley, Ramel el Ali (a neighbor- female cabby in Sidi Bel-Abbès, Alge- forty-three children comprise the It all begins with a controversial kiss of hood in southern Beirut) grew on the ria. This film accompanies Soumicha Jewish settlement of Tel Rumeida. the hand... Fatiha is on the verge of rubble of the civil war. By the early 1980’s it was one of the strongholds of around a city where religious and politi- In their relentless efforts to preserve marrying the man chosen for her long the Islamic Party of God, the Hezbollah. cal violence rages, and records her ‘normality’ they ignore their surroundings, ago. But her fiancé’s disturbing views experiences in a job normally reserved and refuse to acknowledge their Arab shock her, especially his opinion that in Filmmaker Abi-Samra returned to Ramel for men. neighbors. Only religious celebrations, the eyes of Islam, a premarital kiss of el Ali – his childhood home – to create the hand is forbidden. Soumicha’s customers illustrate the and excitement when the Israeli govern- a portrait of Hezbollah activists Zeinab complexities of Algerian society. Many ment grants permission to build perma- So Fatiha and her friend Jessica, an and Khadjie. Abi-Samra’s goal is not to of the women she meets offer her nent housing, punctuate their routine. American researching Moroccan family criticize or apologize for the Hezbollah, only to understand the personal, social encouragement, tempered with warn- Despite the settler’s mistrust of the law, embark on a journey through and political factors that underlay their ings to be careful. Men who frown on media, filmmaker Ruth Walk managed Morocco in search of answers to ques- commitment to Hezbollah. working women are happy to have a to create trusting relationships with the tions about virginity, sex and Islam. cabby with whom they can trust their women of Tel Rumeida. The resulting From ancient Islamic schools to the “Highly Recommended! An excellent wives and daughters. Other men are accessibility provided unique insight Saharan camel markets, and to the historical primer on the social and polit- supportive, and critical of their society’s into their lives and psychology. offices of city doctors (the most ical conditions contributing to this treatment of women. common minor surgery in Morocco is culture… a historical perspective from Through the eyes of Naomi Horowitz, the repair of the hymen), THE VIRGIN which the viewer can distill a clearer When a rumor that Soumicha has been a militant 34-year-old mother of six, we DIARIES is the story of their investigation. picture of the nature of the Islamic murdered spreads, once critical men are witness an intensely maintained normalcy, Party of God... thus putting a face of now openly worried, and gather for the which verges on delusional denial, set “Highly Recommended! An important human emotion to a topic often foreign latest news, until someone spots her against a backdrop of regional mayhem. movie for understanding contemporary yellow Renault 4. The rumor was a warning Islam and traditional Middle Eastern to Western, non-Muslim audiences.” for Soumicha, and all Algerian women. “Pick of the Day! The focus is on the cultures. This informative video would – Educational Media Reviews Online mothers as they go about their domestic be useful in both women’s studies and “A stimulating and complex picture of “A valuable glimpse into a class of duties, in an atmosphere where bullets religious studies classes.” Islamism, gender relations, feminism, people and some very courageous indi- may fly into their children’s bedrooms. – Educational Media Reviews Online and nationalism. The film helps recon- viduals.” – Al Jadid, A Review & There is no question of leaving, however: ✵ ceptualize the framework of female Record of Arab Culture and Arts all insist that their faith will see them 2003 Brooklyn International Film Festival Islamic militancy in the Middle East... ✵Best Documentary, 2001 Zanzibar through.” – Camilla Redmond, ✵2003 Film Festival, National A welcome addition to [any] film library.” International Film Festival The Guardian Women’s Studies Association – Al Jadid, A Review & Record of ✵Special Jury Prize, 2000 Bennale “In its quiet, observant way, this is one ✵2002 FilmFest, Middle East Arab Culture and Arts des Cinemas Arabes (Paris) of a handful of really important films if Studies Association ✵2001 FilmFest, Middle East you want to understand what is going 49 minutes | color | 2000 Studies Association 57 minutes | color | 2002 cc to have to happen in the Middle East Sale/video: $375 | Rental/video: $75 ✵2001 Film Festival, National Sale/video: $390 | Rental/video: $75 Women’s Studies Association before peace breaks out.” – Nick Fraser, BBC 52 minutes | color | 2000 ✵ Sale/video: $390 | Rental/video: $75 Best Director, 2002 DocAviv Film Festival 58 minutes | color | 2002 Sale/video: $390 | Rental/video: $75

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THE SETTLERS THE VIRGIN DIARIES WOMEN OF HEZBOLLAH SUBJECT INDEX

Abortion From the Ashes ...... 6 Art 6 Wild East, The...... 11 Abortion Pill, The ...... 15 Fundi: The Story of Ella Baker...... 4 Hellfire: A Journey from Hiroshima. . 10 Working Women of the World...... 25 Live Free or Die...... 52 Ghosts of Attica ...... 31 Mille Gilles (A Thousand Gilles) . . . . 49 Christianity Spectre of Hope, The ...... 50 Activism Holocaust Experience, The ...... 27 Bonhoeffer ...... 16 A bientot j’espere (Be Seeing You) . . 22 Injury to One, An ...... 30 Asian-American Studies Captain of Souls ...... 4 Battle of Chile, The ...... 39 Internationale, The ...... 48 From Opium to Chrysanthemums. . . . 32 Investigation of a Flame ...... 16 Bonhoeffer ...... 16 Intolerable Burden, The...... 4 Letters From Home ...... 32 Raise the Dead ...... 55 Investigation of a Flame ...... 16 Choropampa - The Price of Gold . . . . 14 Once Removed ...... 32 Cinema Studies 19 CultureJam: John Cassavetes ...... 20 Western Eyes ...... 58 Belovs, The ...... 55 Hijacking Commercial Culture . . . . . 43 Last Summer Won’t Happen ...... 31 Bioethics Chastie (Paradise) ...... 55 Dam/Age: Live Free or Die...... 52 Gao Rang (Grilled Rice) ...... 12 A Film with Arundhati Roy ...... 9 Abortion Pill, The ...... 15 Lobby, The...... 52 Highway ...... 55 Finally Got the News...... 3 Death on Request ...... 15 No Loans Today...... 56 Injury to One, An ...... 30 Grin without a Cat, A ...... 22 Elisabeth Kübler-Ross: Oldtimers...... 56 Facing Death ...... 13 Kumar Talkies ...... 10 Injury to One, An ...... 30 Once Removed ...... 32 It’s My Life ...... 1 Kuxa Kanema: The Birth of Cinema. . 42 Investigation of a Flame ...... 16 Other American Voices ...... 52 Live Free or Die...... 52 La Commune (Paris, 1871)...... 28 It’s My Life ...... 1 Profits of Punishment ...... 13 Optimum ...... 49 On Snow’s Wavelength, Zoom Out . . . 6 Last Summer Won’t Happen ...... 31 Public Enemy...... 3 Vanishing Line, The ...... 15 Patricio Guzmán, The Films of...... 39 Other American Voices ...... 52 Raise the Dead ...... 55 Taking Pictures ...... 36 Seeing is Believing ...... 43 South...... 53 Biology Sociology is a Martial Art ...... 56 Origin of Life, The ...... 19 Civil Rights Split Decision ...... 33 Breaking the Ice ...... 4 Uprising of ‘34, The...... 30 Ted’s Evolution ...... 18 Uprising of ‘34, The...... 30 Captain of Souls ...... 4 War and Peace ...... 9 Why Men Don’t Iron ...... 54 Venus Boyz ...... 24 Citizen Bishara ...... 47 Witness to War...... 16 Wobblies, The ...... 30 Biographies End of the Dialogue ...... 2 You Got to Move ...... 57 Aki Kaurismäki ...... 21 You Got to Move ...... 57 Finally Got the News...... 3 Amartya Sen: A Life Reexamined . . . . 9 Addiction Anthropology Fundi: The Story of Ella Baker...... 4 Ben Barka: The Moroccan Equation. . 46 Dreamland...... 54 Advertising Missionaries...... 26 Ghosts of Attica ...... 31 Bonhoeffer ...... 16 From Opium to Chrysanthemums. . . . 32 Belovs, The ...... 55 Intolerable Burden, The...... 4 Chantal Akerman by Tube, The...... 54 Bush Mechanics ...... 34 Other American Voices ...... 52 Chantal Akerman...... 20 Chastie (Paradise) ...... 55 Public Enemy...... 3 Advertising Citizen Bishara ...... 47 Chronicle of a Summer ...... 19 South...... 53 Advertising Missionaries...... 26 Colette ...... 41 Coincidence in Paradise ...... 18 Uprising of ‘34, The...... 30 CultureJam: Derrida’s Elsewhere ...... 49 Hijacking Commercial Culture . . . . . 43 Cow Jumped Over the Moon, The. . . 14 You Got to Move ...... 57 Elisabeth Kübler-Ross: Tube, The...... 54 Cracks in the Mask ...... 7 Facing Death ...... 13 Communication & Media Studies 42 African-American Studies 3 Everything Must Come to Light . . . . . 24 Eric Rohmer: Advertising Missionaries...... 26 Family Name ...... 27 From Opium to Chrysanthemums. . . . 32 With Supporting Evidence...... 21 Cul de Sac: A Suburban War Story . . 31 Ghosts of Attica ...... 31 Give Us Our Skeletons! ...... 36 Fundi: The Story of Ella Baker...... 4 Epoca ...... 27 No Loans Today...... 56 Human Faces Behind HHH: A Portrait of Hou Hsiao-hsien . 21 Holocaust Experience, The ...... 27 the Rainforest ...... 36 South...... 53 I’ll Sing for You ...... 48 Kumar Talkies ...... 10 Knorosov: The Decipherment Machito: A Latin Jazz Legacy ...... 48 Gao Rang (Grilled Rice) ...... 12 You Got to Move ...... 57 of the Mayan Script ...... 36 Marguerite, A Reflection La Commune (Paris, 1871)...... 28 Aging Life and Times of of Herself ...... 41 Sara Baartman, The ...... 3 Lobby, The...... 52 Belovs, The ...... 55 Mobutu, King of Zaire ...... 2 Living Memory ...... 7 Magnum Photos ...... 50 Bread Day ...... 55 Mother (Mütter) ...... 29 Mabo: Life of an Island Man...... 34 Other American Voices ...... 52 Death on Request ...... 15 One Day in the Life of Spectre of Hope, The ...... 50 Facing Death ...... 13 Madarrpa Funeral at Gurka’wuy . . . . 34 Andrei Arsenevich...... 23 Taking Pictures ...... 36 Old Enough to Know Better...... 56 Old Men ...... 8 Sociology is a Martial Art (Pierre Bourdieu) ...... 56 Tango of Slaves...... 27 60 Old Men ...... 8 Red Hat - Where are You Going? . . . . 2 Tube, The...... 54 Oldtimers...... 56 Regopstaan’s Dream ...... 35 Thin Ice (Bruce McCall) ...... 12 World Stopped Watching, The . . . . . 38 Uncle Chatzkel ...... 37 Return of Sara Baartman, The...... 35 Uncle Chatzkel ...... 37 Vanishing Line, The ...... 15 Since the Company Came ...... 35 Witness to War: Criminal Justice 13 Taking Pictures ...... 36 Dr. Charlie Clements ...... 16 Against My Will ...... 58 American Studies Taxi to Timbuktu ...... 33 Zinat, One Special Day ...... 45 Brotherhood of Hate ...... 53 Abortion Pill, The ...... 15 Thomson of Arnhem Land ...... 34 Business Cul de Sac: A Suburban War Story . . 31 Blue End ...... 13 Todos Santos Films, The ...... 35 Choropampa - The Price of Gold . . . . 14 Drowning By Bullets ...... 29 Breaking the Ice ...... 4 Trinkets and Beads ...... 14 Chain of Love ...... 25 Gacaca: Living Together Brotherhood of Hate ...... 53 Venus Boyz ...... 24 Diamonds and Rust ...... 25 Again in Rwanda? ...... 18 Caught in the Crossfire ...... 51 Why Men Don’t Iron ...... 54 Dita and the Family Business ...... 37 Ghosts of Attica ...... 31 Chore Wars ...... 57 Wild East, The...... 11 Faith and Fortune: No Silence in This Court ...... 10 Cul de Sac: A Suburban War Story . . 31 The Reichmann Story ...... 37 South...... 53 Archaeology CultureJam: For Man Must Work, States of Terror ...... 17 Hijacking Commercial Culture . . . . . 43 Knorosov: The Decipherment or the End of Work ...... 25 Death & Dying Dita and the Family Business ...... 37 of the Mayan Script ...... 36 13 In the Mind of the Architect ...... 5 Blue End ...... 13 Dreamland...... 54 Living with the Past ...... 5 Mobile World, A ...... 42 Death on Request ...... 15 Empire of Reason, An ...... 30 Architecture 4 No Loans Today...... 56 Old Men ...... 8 Family Name ...... 27 If the Walls Could Speak...... 28 Profits of Punishment ...... 13 Vanishing Line, The ...... 15 Finally Got the News...... 3 Japan Dreaming ...... 10 Since the Company Came ...... 35 Where is Grandma Zheng’s First Kill...... 53 Mille Gilles (A Thousand Gilles) . . . . 49 Trinkets and Beads ...... 14 Homeland? ...... 8 SUBJECT INDEX

Ecology & Environment 14 Health Care & Medicine Sotsogorod: Cities for Utopia ...... 5 Caught in the Crossfire ...... 51 Chastie (Paradise) ...... 55 Abortion Pill ...... 15 States of Terror ...... 17 Child’s Century of War, A ...... 15 Coincidence in Paradise ...... 18 Birth (Arab Diaries) ...... 46 Tango of Slaves...... 27 Chile, Obstinate Memory...... 39 CultureJam: Choropampa - The Price of Gold . . . . 14 Uncle Chatzkel ...... 37 Choropampa - The Price of Gold . . . . 14 Hijacking Commercial Culture . . . . . 43 Death on Request ...... 15 Wednesday 19.7.1961 (Sreda)...... 55 Close, Closed, Closure...... 47 Dam/Age: A Film with Dreamland...... 54 Dam/Age: A Film with Arundhati Roy ...... 9 History (Latin America) Elisabeth Kübler-Ross: Arundhati Roy ...... 9 Alonso’s Dream ...... 40 Human Faces Behind Facing Death ...... 13 Drowning By Bullets ...... 29 the Rainforest ...... 36 Battle of Chile, The ...... 39 It’s My Life ...... 1 Female Cabby in Sidi Bel-Abbès, A . . 59 Injury to One, An ...... 30 Chile, Obstinate Memory...... 39 Live Free or Die...... 52 Fernando is Back...... 38 Lagos / Koolhaas ...... 5 El Dia Que Me Quieras ...... 50 Old Men ...... 8 From the Other Side ...... 33 Mabo: Life of an Island Man...... 34 Searching for Hawa’s Secret...... 1 Fernando is Back...... 38 Grin Without a Cat, A ...... 22 Gacaca: Living Together Regopstaans’ Dream ...... 35 6000 a Day ...... 1 Again in Rwanda? ...... 18 Justice and the Generals ...... 17 Since the Company Came ...... 35 SOS in Tehran ...... 44 Grin Without a Cat, A ...... 22 Pinochet Case, The ...... 39 Economics 25 Tube, The...... 54 Justice and the Generals ...... 17 Scars of Memory: 1932 ...... 38 Amartya Sen: A Life Reexamined . . . . 9 Vanishing Line, The ...... 15 Junction, The ...... 45 Todos Santos Films, The ...... 35 Choropampa - The Price of Gold . . . . 14 Western Eyes ...... 58 Mobutu, King of Zaire ...... 2 Witness to War...... 16 CultureJam: Witness to War...... 16 Naji Al-Ali: An Artist with Vision . . . 42 Hijacking Commercial Culture . . . . . 43 History (Middle East) Historiography 27 Paulina ...... 40 Distress Signals ...... 42 Chile, Obstinate Memory...... 39 Algeria’s Bloody Years...... 46 Pinochet Case, The ...... 39 Marx for Beginners ...... 49 Gao Rang (Grilled Rice) ...... 12 Alone with War...... 46 Profit, and Nothing But! ...... 26 Trinkets and Beads ...... 14 Kuxa Kanema: The Birth of Cinema. . 42 Ben Barka: The Moroccan Equation. . 46 S21: The Khmer Rouge Human Weapon...... 17 Killing Machine...... 11 Education La Commune (Paris, 1871)...... 28 Souha: Surviving Hell ...... 58 Seeing is Believing ...... 43 Heart of the Country ...... 10 Mother (Mütter) ...... 29 Living with the Past: Historic Cairo. . . 5 Since the Company Came ...... 35 Intolerable Burden, The...... 4 Once Removed ...... 32 Naguib Mahfouz: States of Terror ...... 17 You Got to Move ...... 57 Taking Pictures ...... 36 Passage of the Century ...... 41 War and Peace ...... 9 Uprising of ‘34, The...... 27 Forensics Naji Al-Ali: An Artist with Vision . . . 42 War and Peace in Ireland ...... 29 Fernando is Back...... 38 History (Africa) History (U.S.) 30 Welcome to Colombia ...... 37 Child’s Century of War, A ...... 15 Gambling Breaking the Ice ...... 4 End of the Dialouge ...... 2 Humor & Satire Dreamland...... 54 Family Name ...... 27 Naji Al-Ali: An Artist with Vision . . . 42 Gacaca: Living Together Finally Got the News...... 3 Gay & Lesbian Studies 24 Again in Rwanda? ...... 18 Thin Ice (Bruce McCall) ...... 12 First Kill...... 53 It’s My Life ...... 1 Life and Times of Immigration 32 Sara Baartman, The ...... 3 Fundi: The Ella Baker Story ...... 4 Perfumed Garden, The...... 44 Caught in the Crossfire ...... 51 Mobutu, King of Zaire ...... 2 I Am Become Death: Derrida’s Elsewhere ...... 49 Gender Studies Love Stories (series) ...... 57 They Made the Bomb ...... 16 Against My Will ...... 58 Intolerable Burden, The...... 4 Indigenous Peoples 34 History (Asia) Breaking the Ice ...... 4 Investigation of a Flame ...... 16 Alonso’s Dream ...... 40 First Kill...... 53 ...But I Was a Girl ...... 24 Machito: A Latin Jazz Legacy ...... 48 Cracks in the Mask ...... 7 From Opium to Chrysanthemums. . . . 32 Chain of Love ...... 25 Public Enemy...... 3 Trinkets and Beads ...... 14 Chore Wars ...... 57 Gao Rang (Grilled Rice) ...... 12 Raise the Dead ...... 55 Once Removed ...... 32 Internet Diamonds in the Dark ...... 29 You Got to Move ...... 57 S21: The Khmer Rouge Blue End ...... 13 Everything Must Come to Light . . . . . 24 Killing Machine...... 11 History (World) Mobile World, A ...... 42 Venus Boyz ...... 24 Through the Consul’s Eye ...... 8 Bonhoeffer ...... 16 Islam Why Men Don’t Iron ...... 54 Where is Grandma Zheng’s Child’s Century of War, A ...... 15 Against My Will ...... 58 Women of Hezbollah...... 59 Homeland? ...... 8 Epoca ...... 27 Al Jazeera...... 43 Zinat, One Special Day ...... 45 Grin Without a Cat, A ...... 22 History (Europe) 28 Algeria’s Bloody Years...... 46 A bientôt j’espère (Be Seeing You) . . 22 Internationale, The ...... 48 61 Globalization 25 Alone with War...... 46 Al Jazeera: Voice of Arabia...... 43 Bonhoeffer ...... 16 Human Weapon...... 17 Arab Diaries (series) ...... 46 Spectre of Hope, The ...... 50 Amartya Sen: A Life Reexamined . . . . 9 Child’s Century of War, A ...... 15 Caught in the Crossfire ...... 51 Choropampa - The Price of Gold . . . . 14 Chronicle of a Summer ...... 19 HIV / AIDS 1 Human Weapon...... 17 Cow Jumped Over the Moon, The. . . 14 Discreet Charm of Bucharest...... 4 Holocaust Iran, Veiled Appearances ...... 44 Dam/Age: A Film with Epoca ...... 27 Bonhoeffer ...... 16 Perfumed Garden, The...... 44 Arundhati Roy ...... 9 Family Secret ...... 32 Epoca ...... 27 SOS in Tehran ...... 44 Distress Signals ...... 42 From the East (D’Est)...... 19 Forging Identity ...... 28 20 Years Old in the Middle East . . . . 45 Grin Without a Cat, A ...... 22 Give Us Our Skeletons! ...... 36 Holocaust Experience, The ...... 27 Virgin Diaries, The...... 59 Lagos / Koolhaas ...... 5 Grin Without a Cat, A ...... 22 Saved, The ...... 37 Women of Hezbollah...... 59 Mille Gilles (A Thousand Gilles) . . . . 49 Holocaust Experience, The ...... 27 Tango of Slaves...... 27 Jewish Studies 37 Mobile World, A ...... 42 Internationale, The ...... 48 Uncle Chatzkel ...... 37 Bombing, The ...... 47 Since the Company Came ...... 35 Last Boshevik, The ...... 23 Human Rights (also see Civil Rights) Bonhoeffer ...... 16 Seeing is Believing ...... 43 Life and Times of Sociology is a Martial Art ...... 56 Sara Baartman, The ...... 3 Against My Will ...... 58 Derrida’s Elsewhere ...... 49 Spectre of Hope, The ...... 50 New Wave by Itself, The...... 21 Algeria’s Bloody Years...... 46 Forging Identity ...... 28 Taxi to Timbuktu ...... 33 Optimum: The Crusade Alone with War...... 46 Holocaust Experience, The ...... 27 Trinkets and Beads ...... 14 for Efficiency...... 49 Alonso’s Dream ...... 40 If the Walls Could Speak...... 28 Underground Orchestra ...... 48 Remembrance of Things to Come . . . 23 Bethlehem Diary ...... 47 Mother (Mütter) ...... 29 Universal Clock, The ...... 42 Saved, The ...... 37 Bonhoeffer ...... 16 Remembrance of Things to Come . . . 22 SUBJECT INDEX

Jewish Studies (continued) Split Decision ...... 33 Paulina ...... 40 Varan Workshop in Colombia Settlers, The ...... 59 Regopstaan’s Dream ...... 35 SOS in Tehran ...... 44 (series) ...... 40 Tango of Slaves...... 27 Taxi to Timbuktu ...... 33 Western Eyes ...... 58 Virgin Diaries, The...... 59 Wednesday 19.7.1961 (Sreda)...... 55 Journalism Underground Orchestra, The ...... 48 Race / Racism Western Eyes ...... 58 Al Jazeera: Voice of Arabia...... 43 Western Eyes ...... 58 Breaking the Ice ...... 4 Wild East, The...... 11 Caught in the Crossfire ...... 51 Where is Grandma Zheng’s Brotherhood of Hate ...... 53 Homeland? ...... 8 Why Men Don’t Iron ...... 54 Drowning By Bullets ...... 29 Captain of Souls ...... 4 Wild East, The...... 11 Cul de Sac: A Suburban War Story . . 31 Caught in the Crossfire ...... 51 Terrorism Seeing is Believing ...... 43 Museum Studies Citizen Bishara ...... 47 Algeria’s Bloody Years...... 46 World Stopped Watching, The . . . . . 38 Cracks in the Mask ...... 7 Diamonds and Rust ...... 25 Bombing, The ...... 47 Give Us Our Skeletons! ...... 36 Forging Identity ...... 29 Labor Studies Give Us Our Skeletons! ...... 36 Fang ...... 7 Human Weapon...... 17 A bientôt j’espère (Be Seeing You) . . 22 Life and Times of Holocaust Experience, The ...... 27 Sara Baartman, The ...... 3 States of Terror ...... 17 Battle of Chile, The ...... 39 Life and Times of Mabo: Life of an Island Man...... 34 Theater Chain of Love ...... 25 Sara Baartman, The ...... 3 South...... 53 Advertising Missionaries...... 26 Chore Wars ...... 57 Living Memory ...... 7 Western Eyes ...... 58 Colette ...... 41 For Man Must work, Return of Sara Baartman, The...... 35 or the end of Work ...... 25 Science (History of) Urban Studies 4 Music 48 Diamonds and Rust ...... 25 I Am Become Death: Caught in the Crossfire ...... 51 ... But I Was A Girl ...... 24 They Made the Bomb ...... 16 Injury to One, An ...... 30 Cul de Sac: A Suburban War Story . . 31 Mille Gilles (A Thousand Gilles) . . . . 49 Light, Darkness, and Colours...... 6 Internationale, The ...... 48 Finally Got the News...... 3 Optimum ...... 49 La Commune (Paris, 1871)...... 28 Peace & Conflict Resolution Women’s Studies 57 Profit, and Nothing But! ...... 26 Bethlehem Diary ...... 47 Ted’s Evolution ...... 18 Abortion Pill, The ...... 15 Taxi to Timbuktu ...... 33 Bombing, The ...... 47 Science & Technology Alone with War...... 46 Uprising of ‘34, The...... 30 Child’s Century of War, A ...... 15 Blue End ...... 13 Arab Diaries (series) ...... 46 Wobblies, The ...... 30 Chile, Obstinate Memory...... 39 Coincidence in Paradise ...... 18 Breaking the Ice ...... 4 Working Women of the World...... 25 Close, Closed, Closure...... 47 Cow Jumped Over the Moon, The. . . 14 ... But I Was A Girl ...... 24 Language Gacaca: Living Together Killing Time ...... 51 Again in Rwanda? ...... 18 Chain of Love ...... 25 Derrida’s Elsewhere ...... 49 Optimum: The Crusade Hellfire: A Journey from Hiroshima. . 10 for Efficiency...... 49 Chantal Akerman by Knosorov: The Decipherment Chantal Akerman...... 20 Justice and the Generals ...... 17 Scientists at the Rim of Reality. . . . . 51 of the Mayan Script ...... 36 Colette ...... 41 Pinochet Case, The ...... 39 Ted’s Evolution ...... 18 Law / Legal Studies Dam/Age: A Film with War and Peace ...... 9 Tube, The...... 54 Dam/Age: A Film with Arundhati Roy ...... 9 Witness to War...... 16 Arundhati Roy ...... 9 Sex & Sexuality Diamonds in the Dark ...... 29 Death on Request ...... 15 Philosophy 49 Perfumed Garden, The...... 44 Hair Therapy ...... 40 Empire of Reason, An ...... 30 Amartya Sen: A Life Reexamined . . . . 9 Venus Boyz ...... 24 Letters from Home ...... 32 Facing the Demons ...... 13 Bonhoeffer ...... 16 Virgin Diaries, The...... 59 Life and Times of Profits of Punishment ...... 13 Killing Time ...... 51 Sara Baartman, The ...... 3 Sociology 56 Gacaca: Living Together Sociology is a Martial Art ...... 56 Mokarrameh, Memories Again in Rwanda? ...... 18 Alone with War...... 46 and Dreams...... 7 Ghosts of Attica ...... 31 Photography 50 Arab Diaries (series) ...... 46 Paulina ...... 40 Justice and the Generals ...... 17 Remembrance of Things to Come . . . 23 Belovs, The ...... 55 Perfumed Garden, The...... 44 Bread Day ...... 55 Mabo: Life of an Island Man...... 34 Physics 51 Searching for Hawa’s Secret...... 1 No Silence in This Court ...... 10 Light, Darkness, and Colours...... 6 Brotherhood of Hate ...... 53 Zinat, One Special Day ...... 45 Caught in the Crossfire ...... 51 Pinochet Case, The ...... 39 World War II Political Science (U.S.) 51 Chore Wars ...... 57 States of Terror ...... 17 Bonhoeffer ...... 16 Abortion Pill, The ...... 15 Chronicle of a Summer ...... 19 Child’s Century of War, A ...... 15 Literature 41 Empire of Reason, An ...... 30 Cul de Sac: A Suburban War Story . . 31 Epoca ...... 27 62 Dam/Age: A Film with Fundi: The Ella Baker Story ...... 4 Death on Request ...... 15 Arundhati Roy ...... 9 Forging Identity ...... 28 Ghosts of Attica ...... 31 Dreamland...... 54 Derrida’s Elsewhere ...... 49 Hellfire: A Journey from Hiroshima. . 10 Human Weapon...... 17 Facing the Demons ...... 13 Thin Ice (Bruce McCall) ...... 12 Justice and the Generals ...... 17 I Am Become Death: Finally Got the News...... 3 They Made the Bomb ...... 16 Marxism Public Enemy...... 3 From the Other Side ...... 33 Where is Grandma Zheng’s Battle of Chile, The ...... 39 Split Decision ...... 33 Heart of the Country ...... 10 Homeland? ...... 8 Ben Barka: The Moroccan Equation. . 46 If the Walls Could Speak...... 28 Poverty Youth Finally Got the News...... 3 Amartya Sen: A Life Reexamined . . . . 9 Intolerable Burdern, The ...... 4 Arab Diaries (series) ...... 46 Grin Without a Cat, A ...... 22 Bread Day ...... 55 Just Watch Me! ...... 12 Chain of Love ...... 25 Internationale, The ...... 48 Profit, and Nothing But! ...... 26 Lagos / Koolhaas ...... 5 Child’s Century of War, A ...... 15 Marx for Beginners ...... 49 There’s No Room for Live Free or Die...... 52 Generation X Saddam ...... 45 So Many People ...... 40 Multi-Cultural Studies Mobile World, A ...... 42 Intolerable Burdern, The ...... 4 Caught in the Crossfire ...... 51 Psychology 53 No Silence in this Court ...... 10 Medellin Notebooks ...... 40 Chain of Love ...... 25 Alone with War...... 46 Old Men ...... 8 Perfumed Garden, The...... 44 Dita and the Family Business ...... 37 Arab Diaries (series) ...... 46 Osaka Story...... 24 20 Years Old in the Middle East . . . . 45 From Opium to Chrysanthemums. . . . 32 Belovs, The ...... 55 Perfumed Garden, The...... 44 Varan Workshop in Colombia Just Watch Me! ...... 12 Bombing, The ...... 47 Raise the Dead ...... 55 (series) ...... 40 Love Stories (series) ...... 57 Child’s Century of War, A ...... 15 SOS in Tehran ...... 44 Western Eyes ...... 58 Once Removed ...... 32 Death on Request ...... 15 South...... 53 Why Men Don’t Iron ...... 54 Perfumed Garden, The...... 44 Junction, The ...... 45 COUNTRY INDEX

Algeria France Kenya Philippines Al Jazeera: Voice of Arabia...... 43 A bientôt, j’espère (Be Seeing You). . 22 Searching for Hawa’s Secret...... 1 Chain of Love ...... 25 Algeria’s Bloody Years...... 46 Chronicle of a Summer ...... 19 Korea (North & South) Seeing is Believing ...... 43 Arab Diaries ...... 46 Cinema, of our Times ...... 20 Pyongyang Diaries...... 11 Working Women of the World...... 25 Derrida’s Elsewhere ...... 49 Colette ...... 41 Where is Grandma Zheng’s Poland Drowning By Bullets ...... 29 Derrida’s Elsewhere ...... 49 Homeland? ...... 9 Holocaust Experience, The ...... 27 Female Cabby in Sidi Bel-Abbes . . . . 59 Drowning by Bullets ...... 29 Laos Tango of Slaves...... 27 Perfumed Garden, The...... 44 Forging Identiry ...... 28 From Opium to Chrysanthemums. . . . 32 Qatar Australia Grin Without a Cat, A ...... 22 Lebanon Al Jazeera: Voice of Arabia...... 43 Cracks in the Mask ...... 7 If the Walls Could Speak...... 28 Alone with War...... 46 Romania In the Mind of the Architect ...... 5 Internationale, The ...... 48 Arab Diaries ...... 46 Diamonds in the Dark ...... 29 see four films on ...... 34 La Commune (Paris, 1871)...... 28 Human Weapon...... 17 Discreet Charm of Bucharest, The. . . . 4 Marguerite, A Reflection Souha - Surviving Hell...... 58 Family Secret ...... 32 Belgium of Herself ...... 41 Chantal Akerman by 20 Years Old in the Middle East . . . . 45 Russia Chantal Akerman...... 20 Milles Gilles (A Thousand Gilles) . . . 49 Women of Hezbollah...... 59 Belovs, The ...... 55 Remembrance of Things to Come . . . 23 Working Women of the World...... 25 Lithuania Bread Day ...... 55 Sociology is a Martial Art ...... 56 Brazil Uncle Chatzkel ...... 37 Child’s Century of War, A ...... 15 States of Terror ...... 17 Spectre of Hope, The ...... 50 Mali From the East (D’Est)...... 19 Germany Fang ...... 7 Internationale, The ...... 48 Burkina Faso Bonhoeffer ...... 16 I’ll Sing for You ...... 48 Last Bolshevik, The ...... 23 Red Hat - Where Are You Going? . . . . 2 From the East (D’Est)...... 19 Living Memory ...... 7 One Day in the Life of Cambodia Guatemala Andrei Arsenevich...... 23 Taxi to Timbuktu ...... 33 S21: The Khmer Rouge Knorosov - The Decipherment Sotsgorod: Cities for Utopia ...... 5 Killing Machine...... 11 of the Mayan Script ...... 36 Mexico Uncle Chatzkel ...... 16 Alonso’s Dream ...... 40 Canada Todos Santos Films, The ...... 35 Wednesday 19.7.1961...... 55 Breaking the Ice & Haiti For Man Must Work, Or The End of Work...... 25 Rwanda Captain of Souls ...... 4 Profit and Nothing But!...... 26 From the Other Side ...... 33 Gacaca: Living Together For Man Must Work, Hungary Again in Rwanda? ...... 18 Or The End of Work...... 25 Knorosov - The Decipherment Mother (Mutter) ...... 29 Spectre of Hope, The ...... 50 Just Watch Me: of the Mayan Script ...... 36 Trudeau and the 70’s Generation. . . 12 India Paulina ...... 40 Senegal Thin Ice ...... 12 Amartya Sen: A Life Reexamined . . . . 9 Split Decision ...... 33 Cow Jumped Over the Moon, The. . . 14 Dam/Age: A Film with Sierra Leone Western Eyes ...... 58 Mongolia Arundhati Roy ...... 9 Child’s Century of War, A ...... 15 Chile Kumar Talkies ...... 10 Wild East, The...... 11 Fernando is Back...... 38 Solomon Islands No Silence in This Court ...... 10 Mozambique Since the Company Came ...... 35 four films by Patricio Guzmán ...... 39 War and Peace ...... 9 Kuxa Kanema ...... 42 Grin without a Cat, A ...... 22 South Africa Indonesia Morocco End of the Dialogue ...... 2 China Shadow Play - Indonesia’s Years Arab Diaries ...... 46 Everything Must Come to Light . . . . . 24 Letters from Home ...... 32 of Living Dangerously ...... 12 Ben Barka - It’s My Life ...... 1 Once Removed ...... 32 Working Women of the World...... 25 The Moroccan Equation ...... 46 Life and Times of see four films on...... 9 Iran Perfumed Garden, The...... 44 Sara Baartman, The ...... 3 Colombia Iran, Veiled Appearances ...... 44 Virgin Diaries, The...... 59 Love Stories (series) ...... 57 Human Faces Behind the Human Weapon...... 17 Namibia Regopstaan’s Dream ...... 35 Rain Forest ...... 36 Mokarrameh, Memories Diamonds and Rust ...... 25 Return of Sara Baartman, The...... 35 and Dreams...... 7 Medellin Notebooks ...... 40 Netherlands Spain SOS in Tehran ...... 44 Varan Workshop in Colombia ...... 40 ...But I Was a Girl ...... 24 Derrida’s Elsewhere ...... 49 20 Years Old in the Middle East . . . . 45 Welcome to Colombia ...... 37 Saved, The ...... 37 Internationale, The ...... 48 Zinat, One Special Day ...... 45 Congo Nicaragua States of Terror ...... 17 Iraq Mobutu - King of Zaire ...... 2 World Stopped Watching, The . . . . . 38 Sri Lanka Generation X - Saddam ...... 45 Cuba Nigeria Human Weapon...... 17 Ireland El Dia Que Me Quieras ...... 50 Lagos/Koolhaas...... 5 Switzerland 63 War and Peace in Ireland ...... 29 Grin Without a Cat, A ...... 22 Facing Death: Israel Norway If You Only Understood ...... 57 Elisabeth Kübler Ross ...... 13 Bombing, The ...... 47 Give Us Our Skeletons! ...... 36 Machito: A Latin Jazz Legacy ...... 48 Pakistan Syria Citizen Bishara ...... 47 Arab Diaries ...... 46 Czech Republic Against My Will ...... 58 Human Weapon...... 17 20 Years Old in the Middle East . . . . 45 Grin Without a Cat, A ...... 22 Junction, The ...... 45 War and Peace ...... 9 Palestine Taiwan Ecuador Lobby, The...... 52 HHH - A Portrait of Trinkets and Beads ...... 14 Settlers, The ...... 59 Arab Diaries ...... 46 Hou Hsiao-hsien ...... 21 Bethlehem Diary ...... 47 El Salvador Ivory Coast Turkey Justice and the Generals ...... 17 Mobile World, A ...... 42 Bombing, The ...... 47 Working Women of the World...... 25 Child’s Century of War, A ...... 15 1932: Scars of Memory ...... 38 Japan Uganda Witness to War...... 16 Heart of the Country ...... 10 Close, Closed, Closure...... 47 Our Friends at the Bank...... 26 Human Weapon...... 17 Egypt Hellfire ...... 10 United Kingdom Junction, The ...... 45 Arab Diaries ...... 46 Japan Dreaming ...... 10 People’s Painting, The ...... 6 Naji Al Ali: An Artist with Vision . . . 42 Living with the Past - Historic Cairo . . 5 Osaka Story...... 24 United States 20 Years Old in the Middle East . . . . 45 Naguib Mahfouz: Jordan See American Studies listing The Passage of the Century ...... 41 20 Years Old in the Middle East . . . . 45 Papua New Guinea in Subject Index Advertising Missionaries...... 26 Finland Kazakhstan Vietnam Taking Pictures ...... 36 Aki Kaurismäki ...... 21 Chastie (Paradise) ...... 55 First Kill...... 53 Mobile World, A ...... 42 Highway ...... 55 Peru Gao Rang (Grilled Rice) ...... 12 Choropampa - The Price of Gold . . . . 14 Grin Without a Cat, A ...... 22 ALPHABETICAL TITLE LIST

A Eric Rohmer: L Saved, The ...... 37 ✵A bientôt j’espère (Be Seeing You) . . 22 With Supporting Evidence...... 21 La Commune (Paris, 1871)...... 28 ✵Scars of Memory...... 38 Abortion Pill, The ...... 15 Everything Must Come to Light . . . . . 24 ✵Lagos / Koolhaas ...... 5 Scientists at the Rim of Reality. . . . . 51 Advertising Missionaries...... 26 F Last Bolshevik, The ...... 23 Searching for Hawa’s Secret...... 1 ✵ ✵Against My Will ...... 58 Facing Death: Elisabeth Kübler-Ross. 13 Last Summer Won’t Happen ...... 31 Seeing is Believing: Handicams, ✵Aki Kaurismäki ...... 21 Facing the Demons ...... 13 Letters From Home ...... 32 Human Rights and the News...... 43 ✵Al Jazeera: Voice of Arabia...... 43 Faith and Fortune: Life and Times of Settlers, The ...... 59 The Reichmann Story ...... 37 ✵Algeria’s Bloody Years...... 46 Sara Baartman, The ...... 3 Shadow Play: Indonesia’s Family Name ...... 27 Years of Living Dangerously ...... 12 Alone with War...... 46 Light, Darkness, and Colours...... 6 Family Secret ...... 32 Since the Company Came ...... 35 Alonso’s Dream ...... 40 Live Free or Die...... 52 ✵Fang: An Epic Journey...... 7 ✵ 6000 A Day: An Account of ✵Amartya Sen: A Life Reexamined . . . . 9 Living Memory ...... 7 Female Cabby in Sidi Bel-Abbès, A . . 59 a Catastrophe Foretold ...... 1 Arab Diaries (series) ...... 46 Living With the Past: Historic Cairo . . 5 Fernando is Back...... 38 ✵ Sociology is a Martial Art: B Lobby, The...... 52 Pierre Bourdieu ...... 56 ✵Finally Got the News...... 3 Battle of Chile, The ...... 39 Lost ...... 54 SOS in Tehran ...... 44 First Kill...... 53 Belovs, The ...... 55 Love and Marriage (Arab Diaries) . . . 46 Sotsgorod: Cities For Utopia ...... 5 Following One’s Way Love Stories (series) ...... 57 Ben Barka: The Moroccan Equation. . 46 (Varan Workshop) ...... 40 Souha: Surviving Hell ...... 58 M Bethlehem Diary ...... 47 For Man Must Work, ✵South (Sud) ...... 53 Birth (Arab Diaries) ...... 46 or the End of Work ...... 25 Mabo: Life of An Island Man ...... 34 Spectre of Hope, The ...... 50 Blue End ...... 13 Forging Identity ...... 28 Machito: A Latin Jazz Legacy ...... 48 Split Decision ...... 33 Bombing, The ...... 47 From Opium to Chrysanthemums. . . . 32 Madarrpa Funeral at Gurka’ Wuy . . . 34 States of Terror ...... 17 Bonhoeffer ...... 16 ✵From the Ashes: Epilogue ...... 6 Magnum Photos ...... 50 Swing in Beijing ...... 8 ✵ Bread Day ...... 55 From the Ashes: Ten Artists ...... 6 Marguerite, A Reflection of Herself . 41 T Breaking the Ice, ✵From the East (D’Est)...... 19 Marx for Beginners ...... 49 ✵20 Years Old in the Middle East . . . . 45 The Story of Mary Ann Shadd...... 4 From the Other Side ...... 33 Medellin Notebooks ...... 40 Taking Pictures ...... 36 Brotherhood of Hate ...... 53 Fundi: The Story of Ella Baker...... 4 Mille Gilles (A Thousand Gilles) . . . . 49 Tango of Slaves...... 27 Bubbles and Me (Love Stories) . . . . . 57 G Mobile World, A ...... 42 Taxi to Timbuktu ...... 33 Bush Mechanics ...... 34 Gacaca: Living Together Mobutu, King of Zaire ...... 2 ✵Ted’s Evolution ...... 18 ...But I Was a Girl ...... 24 Again in Rwanda? ...... 18 Mokarrameh, Memories and Dreams . 7 There’s No Room for So Many C Gao Rang (Grilled Rice) ...... 12 Moon in My Pocket, The People (Varan Workshop) ...... 40 Captain of Souls, ✵Generation X-Saddam ...... 45 (Love Stories) ...... 57 Thin Ice ...... 12 ✵ Reverend William White...... 4 Ghosts of Attica ...... 31 Mother (Mütter)...... 29 Thomson of Arnhem Land ...... 34 Caught in the Crossfire: Give Us Our Skeletons! ...... 36 N Through the Consul’s Eye ...... 8 Arab-Americans in Wartime ...... 51 Grin Without a Cat, A ...... 22 Naguib Mahfouz: Todos Santos Cuchumatan: Chain of Love ...... 25 The Passage of the Century ...... 41 H Report from a Guatemalan Village . 35 Chantal Akerman by Naji Al-Ali: An Artist With Vision . . . 42 Hair Therapy (Varan Workshop). . . . . 40 Todos Santos: The Survivors ...... 35 Chantal Akerman...... 20 New Wave By Itself, The ...... 21 Heart of the Country ...... 10 Trinkets and Beads ...... 14 Chastie (Paradise) ...... 55 No Loans Today...... 56 Hellfire: A Journey From Hiroshima . 10 Tube, The...... 54 Child’s Century of War, A ...... 15 No Silence In This Court ...... 10 HHH: A Portrait of Hou Hsiao-hsien . 21 U Chile, Obstinate Memory...... 39 O Highway ...... 55 Uncle Chatzkel ...... 37 Chore Wars ...... 57 Old Enough to Know Better...... 56 ✵Holocaust Experience, The ...... 27 Underground Orchestra, The ...... 48 ✵Choropampa: The Price of Gold. . . . . 14 Old Men ...... 8 Home, or Maids in My Family Universal Clock, The ...... 42 Chronicle of a Summer ...... 19 ✵ (Arab Diaries) ...... 46 Oldtimers...... 56 Uprising of ‘34, The...... 30 Cinema, of Our Time (series) ...... 20 Human Faces Behind the On Snow’s Wavelength, Zoom Out . . . 6 V Citizen Bishara ...... 47 Rain Forest: Indigenous People . . . . 36 Once Removed ...... 32 Vanishing Line, The ...... 15 Close, Closed, Closure...... 47 Human Weapon...... 17 One Day in the Life of Varan Workshop in Colombia Coincidence in Paradise ...... 18 I Andrei Arsenevich...... 23 (series) ...... 40 ✵ Colette ...... 41 I Am Become Death: Optimum: The Crusade for Efficiency 49 ✵Venus Boyz ...... 24 They Made the Bomb ...... 16 Cow Jumped Over the Moon, The. . . 14 Origin of Life, The ...... 19 Virgin Diaries, The...... 59 ✵If the Walls Could Speak...... 28 Cracks in the Mask ...... 7 Osaka Story...... 24 W If You Only Understood ...... 57 ✵ Cul de Sac: A Suburban War Story . . 31 Other American Voices ...... 52 War and Peace ...... 9 ✵I’ll Sing for You ...... 48 64 CultureJam: Our Friends at the Bank...... 26 War and Peace in Ireland ...... 29 Hijacking Commercial Culture . . . . . 43 In the Mind of the Architect ...... 5 P Wednesday 19.7.1961...... 55 D ✵Injury to One, An ...... 30 Paulina ...... 40 ✵Welcome to Colombia ...... 37 ✵Dam/Age: A Film with Arundhati Roy . 9 Internationale, The ...... 48 People’s Painting, The ...... 6 Western Eyes ...... 58 Death on Request ...... 15 ✵Intolerable Burden, The...... 4 Perfumed Garden, The...... 44 Where is Grandma Zheng’s Derrida’s Elsewhere ...... 49 Investigation of a Flame: Pinochet Case, The ...... 39 A Documentary Portrait of Homeland? ...... 8 Diamonds and Rust ...... 25 the Catonsville Nine ...... 16 Profit, and Nothing But! ...... 26 White Girl in Search of the Party Diamonds in the Dark ...... 29 ✵Iran, Veiled Appearances ...... 44 Profits of Punishment ...... 13 (Love Stories) ...... 57 Discreet Charm of Bucharest, The. . . . 4 It’s My Life ...... 1 ✵Public Enemy...... 3 Why Men Don’t Iron ...... 54 ✵ Distress Signals - An Investigation J Pyongyang Diaries...... 11 Wild East, The...... 11 of Global Television...... 42 Japan Dreaming ...... 10 R Witness to War...... 16 Dita and the Family Business ...... 37 John Cassavetes ...... 20 Raise the Dead ...... 55 Wobblies, The ...... 30 Dreamland...... 54 ✵Junction, The ...... 45 Red Hat-Where are You Going?...... 2 Women of Hezbollah...... 59 Drowning by Bullets ...... 29 Just Watch Me! ...... 12 Refugees in Our Backyard ...... 33 Work (Arab Diaries)...... 46 E Justice and the Generals ...... 17 Regopstaan’s Dream ...... 35 Working Women of the World...... 25 El Dia Que Me Quieras K ✵Remembrance of Things to Come . . . 23 ✵World Stopped Watching, The . . . . . 38 (The Day You’ll Love Me) ...... 50 Killing Time ...... 51 ✵Return of Sara Baartman, The...... 35 Y Empire of Reason, An ...... 30 Knorosov: The Decipherment Robert Bresson: Without a Trace. . . . 20 You Got to Move ...... 57 End of the Dialogue ...... 2 of the Mayan Script ...... 36 S Youth (Arab Diaries) ...... 46 Epoca ...... 27 Kumar Talkies ...... 10 ✵S21: The Khmer Rouge Z ✵Kuxa Kanema: The Birth of Cinema. . 42 Killing Machine...... 11 Zinat, One Special Day ...... 45 ✵ = New Release ORDERING INFORMATION

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