SPRING 2014 SERIES NAO BUSTAMANTE IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE

COLGATE UNIVERSITY PRESENTS IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE THE PIANO

dir. Kar Wai Wong, 2000, 98 min, 35mm February 14 dir. Jane Campion, 1993, 121 min, 35mm March 28 In Hong Kong in the early 1960s, a man and a woman A mute woman (Holly Hunter), her young daughter (Anna move in to neighboring apartments. When they begin Paquin), and her piano are sent to New Zealand for an 3.28 FRIDAY 2.14 suspecting their spouses of cheating, they meet to console arranged marriage to a wealthy landowner in this 1850s each other and soon find themselves tempted toward the lyrical romantic drama. The film won three Academy same transgression. Arguably one of the most romantic Awards, and shared the highest award at the Cannes movies of all time, In the Mood for Love is renowned for its Film Festival, the Palme d’Or. lush score and cinematography, as well as for the luminous NIGHT performances of stars Tony Leung and Maggie Cheung.

AMATEUR: BLACK GIRL THE WORK OF NAO BUSTAMANTE FILM Ousmane Sembène, 1966, 60 min Artist will bring video clips to screen as part of lecture. April 4 MANDABI The late, great, and sorely missed performance scholar José Esteban Muñoz described Nao Bustamante as 4.4 2.21 Ousmane Sembène, 1968, 90 min, DVD February 21 a “vulnerability artist,” in recognition of how her work Two films by the masterful Senegalese filmmaker Ous- brings the audience into a field of exchange with the art- SERIES mane Sembène. Black Girl is a psychological portrait of ist as violating and violatable body. Despite her status as SEPTEMBER-DECEMBER 2014 a young African woman in exile and a damning allegory a lauded performance artist, Bustamante holds proudly of French decolonization. In Mandabi, one man’s attempt to the title of “amateur.” Central to the etymology of this to cash a money order in Dakar turns into an absurdist word is love, but, as Bustamante’s work shows, love is FILMS WILL BE SHOWN AT 5 PM portrait of bureacratic corruption. never easy. In this special hybrid event, Bustamante will GOLDEN AUDITORIUM, LITTLE HALL screen her video art, present a live over-dub of a film- formance, and engage the audience in a discussion blur- FREE ADMISSION ring the line between performed and sincere behavior. Programmed by Mary Simonson, Jennifer Stob, Ray Watkins, Greg Youmans, The event is part of the series Queer Performances, which and Penny Lane. is cosponsored by the Colgate Arts Council, the Dean of the College, and numerous departments and programs on campus.

AFTER TILLER dir. Martha Shane and Lana Wilson, 2014, Blu-Ray January 31 WHEN EVENING FALLS ON Director Lana Wilson and Planned Parenthood Mohawk BUCHAREST, OR METABOLISM Hudson representatives will join us this evening for a very 1.31 special screening and discussion of this moving, intimate dir. Corneliu Porumboiu, 2013, 89 min, digital file A p r i l 11 documentary on third-trimester abortion. Shot by Wilson Direct from the festival of New Romanian Cinema that and Martha Shane in the wake of the 2009 assassina- took place at the Film Society of Lincoln Center in New tion of Dr. George Tiller, the film chronicles the work and 4.11 York City last December comes the most recent film from lives of the four remaining doctors in the U.S. who openly TWELVE YEARS A SLAVE acclaimed filmmaker Corneliu Porumboiu. Like his other perform late-term abortions, and the stories of their portraits of Romanian history, politics, and society, Me- dir. Steve McQueen, 2013, 134 min, 35mm February 28 anonymous patients, told in their own voices. “Whether tabolism has been called “so precisely composed that its one is pro-life, pro-choice, or without an opinion on the Based on Solomon Northrup’s 1853 narrative, Twelve very construction has a crystalline beauty.” issue, After Tiller provides personal insight into a heart- Years a Slave has been lauded as an unflinching wrenching, complex reality.” —The Hollywood Reporter. 2.28 portrayal of slavery, depicting the kidnapping and en- Cosponsored by the Colgate Arts Council and Women’s slavement of a free man from Saratoga Springs, New Studies. York in 1841. Viewers are invited to engage in a public conversation about this difficult and compelling film with an interdisciplinary panel of faculty directly after the viewing. Co-sponsored by Writing and Rhetoric and University Studies.

FLAMING CREATURES

dir. Jack Smith, 1963, 16mm February 7 A central figure in New York City’s underground film

2.7 and art scene of the 1960s, Jack Smith (1932–1989) is now remembered as a pioneer and patron saint of queer performance, anticapitalist aesthetics, and camp sensibil- ity. Flaming Creatures is suffused with B-movie theatrics, moldy sets, and a light-hearted depiction of sexual and ACT OF KILLING gender anarchy. The film became a cause célèbre when dir. Joshua Oppenheimer, 2012, 121 min. March 7 it was deemed obscene and banned in the state of New In a place where killers are celebrated as heroes, The Act York. Come see what all the fuss was about.

3.7 Of Killing challenges unrepentant death squad leaders to dramatize their role in genocide. The hallucinatory result is a cinematic fever dream, an unsettling journey deep into the imaginations of mass murderers. Presented by Errol Morris and Werner Herzog, The Act Of Killing has been lauded as one of the most groundbreaking films in recent history. MEEK’S CUTOFF

dir. Kelly Reichardt, 2010, 104 min), 35mm April 18 A powerful revisioning of the Western genre, Kelly Reich- ardt’s film focuses on the skewed dynamics of gender and

4.18 race on display during a harrowing 1845 journey along the Oregon Trail by three settler families. Michelle Wil- liams gives a gripping performance as one of the young wives unsure of whom to trust as their guide out of the wilderness, the white mountain man Stephen Meek, who got them lost in the first place, or the mysterious Native American wanderer whose language they cannot speak.