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THE MASTER, THE REBEL, AND THE ARTIST: THE FILMS OF 4 OUSMANE SEMBÈNE, DJIBRIL DIOP MAMBÉTY, AND MOUSSA SENE ABSA FASHION IN FILM FESTIVAL: 8 BIRDS OF PARADISE ADRIFT IN AMERICA: 13 THE FILMS OF KELLY REICHARDT TALES FROM NEW 14 CHINESE CINEMA 18 SIGNAL TO NOISE 19 TERRENCE MALICK MILDRED PIERCE AND JEANNE DIELMAN: 23, Quai du 21 Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles FAMILY MATINEES: 22 SPRING TRAINING 25 BEHIND THE SCREEN 27 REAL VIRTUALITY 2 2 3 FILM PROGRAMS Friday, April 15 5:00 Salomé, introduced by All program times and dates are 7:00 Normal Love and Pat Kirkham (MI, p. 12) subject to change. Underground Opulence, 7:00 Fashions of 1934 introduced by Marketa (MI, p. 12) Key to theaters and screening rooms: Uhlirova (MI, p. 10) Monday & Tuesday, MI Moving Image Theater Saturday, April 16 April 25 & 26 BA Celeste and Armand Bartos Screening Room 12:30 Step into Liquid 2:30 Tron: Legacy in Dolby ML Media Lab (BA, p. 22) Digital 3-D (MI, p. 17) 2:00 Secrets of the Orient Wednesday, April 27 Friday, April 1 (MI, p. 10) 7:00 Writing In Treatment: A 7:00 An Evening with Kelly 5:00 Male and Female, Conversation with Yael Reichardt (MI, p. 13) introduced by Inga Fraser Hedaya (MI, p. 20) Saturday, April 2 (MI, p. 10) Friday, April 29 12:30 Boxing Gym (BA, p. 22) 7:00 The Devil Is A Woman 7:00 Thomas Mao and 21G 2:00 Xala, introduced by June and Inauguration of the (MI, p. 15) Givanni (MI, p. 6) Pleasure Dome (MI, p. 10) Saturday, April 30 3:00 River of Grass (BA, p. 13) Sunday, April 17 12:30 The King of Kong: A Fistful 5:00 Madame Brouette, with 1:00 Step into Liquid of Quarters (BA, p. 23) Moussa Sene Absa in (BA, p. 22) 2:00 Oxhide II (MI, p. 15) person (MI, p. 6) 2:00 Dreams of Darkness and 5:00 Disorder and 5:30 Wendy and Lucy Color, introduced by Condolences (MI, p. 15) (BA, p. 13) Eugenia Paulicelli 7:00 Single Man (MI, p. 15) 7:30 Touki Bouki, introduced (MI, p. 10) Sunday, May 1 by Sada Niang (MI, p. 6) 3:00 Besouro, introduced by 1:00 The King of Kong: A Fistful Sunday, April 3 C. Daniel Dawson of Quarters (BA, p. 23) 1:00 Boxing Gym (BA, p. 22) (BA, p. 20) 2:00 City of Life and Death 1:00 Hyenas and Joe Ouakam, 4:30 Pink Narcissus (MI, p. 11) (MI, p. 15) with Wasis Diop in person 7:00 Golden Butterfly 5:00 Thomas Mao with 21G (MI, p. 6) (MI, p. 11) (MI, p. 15) 3:00 Old Joy (BA, p. 13) Monday, April 18– 7:15 Winter Vacation 4:30 Moolaadé, introduced by Thursday, April 21 (MI, p. 15) Samba Gadjigo (MI, p. 6) 2:30 Tron: Legacy in Dolby Friday, May 6 5:00 Wendy and Lucy Digital 3-D (MI, p. 17) 7:00 Jeanne Dielman: 23, Quai (BA, p. 13) Wednesday, April 20 du Commerce, 1080 7:30 Yoole: The Sacrifice, with 10:00 Video Game Lab Bruxelles (MI, p. 21) Moussa Sene Absa in (ML, p. 17) Saturday, May 7 person (MI, p. 6) Friday, April 22 12:30 Dogtown and Z-Boys Friday, April 8 2:30 Tron: Legacy in Dolby (MI, p. 23) 7:00 The Colors of the Digital 3-D (MI, p. 17) 2:00 Jeanne Dielman: 23, Quai Mountain and Ixquic 7:00 Steven Arnold Special, du Commerce, 1080 (MI, p. 16) introduced by Stuart Bruxelles (MI, p. 21) Saturday, April 9 Comer (MI, p. 11) 8:00 Signal to Noise (p. 18) 12:30 Hoop Dreams (BA, p. 22) Saturday, April 23 Sunday, May 8 2:00 Black Girl and Borom 12:30 Racing Dreams 1:00 Dogtown and Z-Boys Sarret (MI, p. 7) (BA, p. 22) (BA, p. 23) 4:00 Badou Boy and Contras 2:00 Cobra Woman (MI, p. 11) 2:00 Mildred Pierce (MI, p. 21) City (MI, p. 7) 4:30 Flaming Creatures and Friday, May 13 6:30 Casa Vieja (MI, p. 16) Sensuous Pleasures 7:00 Days of Heaven (MI, p. 19) 7:00 Tableau Ferraille (MI, p. 11) Saturday, May 14 (BA, p. 7) 7:00 Lupe, Chumlum and 12:30 Pelada (BA, p. 23) Sunday, April 10 panel discussion with 2:00 Badlands (MI, p. 19) 1:00 Hoop Dreams (BA, p. 22) Ronald Gregg, Stuart 4:30 Days of Heaven (MI, p. 19) 2:00 Le Franc and Le Petite Comer, Agosto Machado 7:00 The Thin Red Line Vendeuse de Soleil Sunday, April 24 (M,I p. 19) (MI, p. 7) 1:00 Racing Dreams Sunday, May 15 4:00 Faat Kiné (MI, p. 7) (BA, p. 22) 1:00 Pelada (BA, p. 23) 6:30 Riding High and A Man 2:00 The Merry Widow 2:00 Badlands (MI, p. 19) Tied to a Chair (MI, p. 16) (MI, p.12) 5:00 The New World (MI, p. 19) 7:00 Teranga Blues (BA, p. 7) 2 3 3 THE MASTER, THE REBEL, AND THE ARTIST: THE FILMS OF OUSMANE SEMBÈNE, DJIBRIL DIOP MAMBÉTY, AND MOUSSA SENE ABSA April 2–10 Presented in collaboration with the Institute of African Studies, Columbia University Guest curator: June Givanni The Senegalese filmmakers Ousmane Sembène (1923–2007) and Djibril Diop Mambéty (1945–1998) pioneered cinematic creativity in Africa. Among the many filmmakers they inspired is Moussa Sene Absa (b. 1958), a protégé and former assistant of Mambéty’s. All three directors give voice to the African people through their films: they were screen griots, and their work has much in common. In their films, women are portrayed centrally as agents of change and as risk takers, reflecting their true revolutionary role in Senegalese society. The directors also choose to focus on the “little people” of everyday life. A less central but nonetheless frequent impulse in their work is the recognition and embrace of a pan-African relationship to the continent and the diaspora, a tension between the homeland and the West. 4 Moolaadé (Photofest) The Master: The Rebel: The Artist: Ousmane Sembène Djibril Diop Mambéty Moussa Sene Absa Sembène—docker, trade unionist, Speaking of his parents’ Absa is known as “the Artist,” prolific novelist, and filmmaker disappointment about his because he is a painter as well for four decades—is widely decision to become a filmmaker, as a filmmaker. The artistry of known as the master of African Mambéty said “I was a rebel at his feature films draws heavily cinema. This title reflects not a young age.” His avant-garde, on performance art and visual just his storytelling and visual urban style of filmaking chimed art forms. As he once said, “I see mastery but his vision of the role with the radical cinema of the the décor as a character, and this of cinema in social development, 1960s. As British film critic character is just as important echoed in his famous quote about Mark Cousins wrote, “Mambéty as an actor. The sets speak to the function of African cinema should have been on T-shirts us. I like cinema verité, and I am not just as entertainment but as like Che Guevara . He was the inspired by reality.” Absa’s work “night school for the masses.” most wildly talented filmmaker exemplifies that of a generation Sembène’s films almost always to emerge from Africa at the end of Senegalese filmmakers involve women as central of the 1960s—many would say (including Mansour Sora Wade characters, from his first feature, ever.” Mambéty’s films combine and Dyana Gaye) whose use of Black Girl, to his last, Moolaadé. influences from theater and film, color, stunning imagery, and close Sembène said, “Africa can’t in works marked by subversion, collaboration with various forms develop without the participation complexity, humor, and pathos. of performance art is inspired of its women.” As Sembène told Mambéty worked closely with by the culture’s “Masters.” his biographer, Samba Gadjigo, “I his brother—the internationally Absa presents a Senegal that think that Africa is maternal. The renowned musician Wasis Diop, recognizes the value of all its African male is very maternal . who has scored many films over people, speaking to and valuing According to our traditions, a man the years, including Mambéty’s the old and the young, men and has no intrinsic value, he receives Hyenas. Diop wrote music for the women, the politics and the his value from his mother.” remake The Thomas Crown Affair. poetry of his society. 5 Xala dream of escaping to Paris, their village where the traditional SATURDAY, APRIL 2, 2:00 P.M. lives filled with luxury. When just practice of female genital Introduced by June Givanni such an opportunity arises, they circumcision is still prevalent. unexpectedly choose different Sembène dramatizes a clash Dir. Ousmane Sembène. 1975. paths. Sada Niang, University of of values at the foundation of 123 mins. 35mm. With Thierno Victoria, is the author of Djibril African culture; he described this Leye. This satire about post- Diop Mambéty: A Filmmaker as the most African of all of his independence Senegal is a Against the Tide. films. The film was the second critique of the incoming African in a planned trilogy exploring nationalist leaders, their Western the heroism found in daily life, supporters, and the departing Hyenas (Hyènes) people Sembène called “heroes colonial officers. The story SUNDAY, APRIL 3, 1:00 P.M. to whom no country gives any about a member of the petit Introduced by Wasis Diop medals.” Samba Gadjigo, Mount bourgeoisie who buys his way Dir.