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Global Music Evocative and soulful, music embodies culture and imbues its performers with a transcendental means of expressing themselves through lyrics, ambience, beats, and melodies. This year’s festival highlights music’s ability to create emotive bonds across cultures and time. In addition to the opening and closing night films – John Pirozzi’s Sleepwalking Through the Mekong and Raul de la Fuente’s Nömadak Tx – the festival further celebrates music with The Old, Weird America: Harry Smith’s Anthology of American Opening Night Closing Night Folk Music (Program F5), by Rani Singh. Harry Smith was a key figure of underground Sleepwalking Through the Mekong Nömadak Tx (With McLaren’s Negatives ) culture through the latter half Friday, November 9, 7:00pm, Program F1 Sunday, November 11, 7:30pm, Program F19 of the 20th century, and an John Pirozzi. 2007. 70 min. (U.S./Cambodia) NY Premiere Raul de la Fuente. 2006. 92 min. (Spain) NY Premiere amateur musicologist who This engaging rock ’n’ roll documentary spotlights Nömadak Tx is a world showcase of nomadic peoples, bound picked up rare recordings of California combo Dengue Fever as they tour Cambodia by the journey of two Basque musicians, Harkaitz Mtnez. blues and country classics from with a repertoire of 1960s and 70s Khmer pop classics. de San Vicente and Igor Otxoa, who play a tandem percussive the years between 1927 and Underlying the film’s musical journey is the historical instrument, the txalaparta. The instrument serves as a 1934. The film showcases reality of the fate of artists under the Khmer Rouge regime. meeting point not only between the two musicians, but Smith’s collection of this obscure Fronted by the dynamic Cambodian-born singer Chhom also between cultures, and so they travel to remote places folk music, and its cultural Nimol, the group is an instant hit on their arrival in Phnom looking for sounds and voices. They live among the Adivasi and aesthetic place in the Penh, where they set up shows whenever a stage and people, outcasts in India; with the Sami in Laponia; with American music canon. The film speakers can be found. There are inspiring exchanges people of the Mongolian steppe; and with Saharan people is a blend of archival footage, between the band and Khmer master musicians and in Morocco. In some cases, they emphasize the importance interviews, and recent live school children, all of whom join in at the open-air of communality and the mutual dependency of all people performances by some of modern rock’s preeminent artists, grand finale. The music melds dance jams, traditional by creating their txalaparta out of indigenous materials, as including Sonic Youth, Kate and Anna McGarrigle, Lou Reed, music, and Cambodian licks into a totally unique hybrid well as incorporating local performers and musical styles and Beck. pop sound. in a final concert with and for each community. Co-presenter: Joe’s Pub Co-presenter: World Music Institute

Water Worlds Water Worlds “The Machine Is Us/ing Us” In conjunction with AMNH’s exhibition, Water: H20 = Life, on Program 2 (F12) examines water use as both a luxury and view through May 2008, the festival highlights cultural a necessity. El Agua en Tiempos Extras (Water in Extra Times) cinema related to the element water. These programs explore is an animated short from Mexico exploring the impact the most pressing water-related issues from national and of global warming on this finite resource; Gimme Green international environmental and social justice platforms. offers a wry, super-realist look at the U.S. phenomenon – the suburban lawn – with its watering and maintenance and the daunting implications for all of us managing to keep up with the Joneses. The Water Front focuses on a largely African American working class community outside of Detroit, Michigan where water wars are unleashed when local community activists battle the public works department in an effort to keep water affordable and available. Discussions with filmmakers follow the screenings. User-generated content (UGC), one of the most important trends in online media, reflects the expansion of media production through new technologies that are accessible to and affordable for the general public, including digital video, Program 1 (F3) features international water-related issues. blogging, podcasting, mobile phone photography, and more. Village of Dust, City of Water is a lyrical and chilling ciné-poem This new form of communication has created global about water equity throughout much of India. In Thirst, movements that connect people. How does this all impact filmmakers Deborah Kaufman and Alan Snitow present a the world of independent, alternative media-making, and penetrating look at the global issues of privatization and particularly documentary and nonfiction media? The the role of corporations, governments, and citizens. A post- Machine Is Us/ing Us: User-Generated Content will take a look screening discussion with the filmmakers and others opens at content on YouTube,WITNESS’The Hub, and KarmaTube the discussion to the impact of this film on raising awareness. and will be moderated by Michael Wesch, assistant professor of cultural anthropology at Kansas State University. Other Water: H2O = Liƒe is organized by the American Museum of Natural History, New York (www.amnh.org), and Science Museum of Minnesota (www.smm.org) in collaboration with Great Lakes Science Center, Cleveland; The Field Museum, Chicago; Instituto Sangari, São Paulo, Brazil; National Museum of Australia, presenters include Sara Pollack, YouTube’s film manager; Canberra; Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Canada; San Diego Natural History Museum; and Singapore Science Centre with PUB Singapore. Michael Smolens, founder and CEO of dotSUB; Sameer The American Museum of Natural History gratefully acknowledges the Tamarind Foundation for its leadership support of Water: H2O = Liƒe, and the Padania, manager of The Hub; Jenny Douglas, co-creator and Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future for its assistance. coordinator of KarmaTube.org; and filmmaker Silas Hagerty. Exclusive corporate sponsorship for Water: H2O = Liƒe is provided by JPMorgan. (Program F13) Water: H2O = Liƒe is supported by a generous grant from the National Science Foundation. The Museum extends its gratitude to the Panta Rhea Foundation, Park Foundation, and Wege Foundation for their support of the exhibition’s educational programming and materials. Margaret Mead Film All screenings are held at the American Museum of Natural History. & Video Festival Films are shown in a number of different program formats, ranging from a single full-length movie to multiple short films. Ticket prices are per program. Tickets may be purchased in advance Ticket Information for any program on the Festival schedule. Please refer to the program code when ordering tickets.

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Schedule Friday Nov. 9 Saturday Nov.10 Sunday Nov.11

LeFrak Theater 7:00 pm Program F1 Sleepwalking Through the Mekong 70 min. Opening Night

KaufmannTheater 1:00 pm Program F2 5:45 pm Program F4 1:15 pm Program F12 7:30 pm Program F19 Salim Baba 14 min. Autism: The Musical 93 min. El Agua en Tiempos Extras McLaren’s Negatives 10 min. Ghanaian Video Tales 60 min. (Water in Extra Times) 5 min. Nömadak Tx 92 min. 8:15 pm Program F5 Gimme Green 27 min. Closing Night Mirror Animations 4 min. 3:15 pm Program F3 The Water Front 50 min. Village of Dust, City of The Old, Weird America: Water 28 min. Harry Smith’s Anthology of 4:30 pm Program F13 Thirst 62 min. American Folk Music 90 min. The Machine Is Us/ing Us 120 min.

Linder Theater 1:15 pm Program F6 6:15 pm Program F8 1:00 pm Program F14 5:15 pm Program F16 Losers and Winners 96 min. Scaredycat 15 min. Super Amigos 82 min. Praying with Lior 87 min. Promised Paradise 52 min. 3:45 pm Program F7 3:15 pm Program F15 Stranger Comes to 8:30 pm Program F9 Our Brilliant Second Life Town 28 min. The Beloved Ones 6 min. 6 min. Grito de Piedra (Scream of The Thread of Karma 52 min. The Birthday 63 min. the Stone) 59 min.

Peoples Center 4:00 pm Program F10 6:00 pm Program F11 2:00 pm Program F17 4:00 pm Program F18 SchoolScapes 77 min. Yeai Hem Reau-A Cambodian The Art of Regret 59 min. Keep the Dance Alive 75 min. Medium 50 min. Alphabetical Listing

Sunday, November 11 This experimental animation Co-presenter: Mailman El Agua en 1:15pm, Program F12 considers global warming School of Public Health, and its impact on water – Columbia University Tiempos Extras With Gimme Green and from floods to droughts – and (Water in Extra Times) The Water Front some of the solutions to help Dominique Jonard. 2006. preserve this finite resource. 5 min. (Mexico) U.S. Premiere

Sunday, November 11 Judith MacDougall has made revolution in China, where images, raising questions The Art 2:00pm, Program F17 a number of now-classic photography is called the “art about photography’s role as a of Regret documentaries that served to of regret.” Old photographs medium of truth … or fantasy. Judith MacDougall. 2007. establish “observational are cherished as important 59 min. (China/Australia) cinema” as a major ethno- relics, while at the same time Co-presenter: The Center for U.S. Premiere graphic film genre. This new new technology allows for Media, Culture and History at work examines the digital the easy manipulation of New York University

Saturday, November 10 This joyous, unsentimental Autism: 5:45pm, Program F4 portrait of Elaine Hall and The Musical Discussion with director the children of the Miracle Tricia Regan. 2006. Project provides a glimpse 93 min. (U.S.) into the lives of five families as they struggle with the ups and downs of raising a child with autism. The film follows the children over the course of one year and features a dedicated woman who believes that through a musical, these children will discover the world Co-presenter: Autism Speaks outside themselves. and Tribeca Film Festival

Saturday, November 10 This animated documentary The Beloved 8:30pm, Program F9 tells the story of an African family affected by HIV/AIDS. Ones With The Thread of Karma Samantha Moore. 2007. 6 min. (Uganda/U.K.) U.S. Premiere

Sunday, November 11 Issues of sexuality remain Co-presenter: Arte East and The Birthday 3:15pm, Program F15 bound to tradition in modern Kevorkian Center for Negin Kianfar and Daisy Mohr. Discussion with Shiva Balaghi, Iran, and yet within this Near Eastern Studies at 2006. 63 min. associate director, Kevorkian rigid structure, transsexuals New York University (Iran/The Netherlands) Center for Near Eastern Studies, find a government supportive NYU and Karim Tartoussieh, of their desire to be reborn American University, Paris through surgery.This sensitive portrait offers a window into With Our Brilliant Second Life the complex issue of sexuality in an Islamic society.

Saturday, November 10 Ghanaian Video Tales world, enabling filmmakers films, Ghanaian Video Tales Ghanaian 1:00pm, Program F2 introduces the genre of African to tell their own stories for follows the creation of Video Tales Discussion with director horror movies and the local audiences. Featuring the films themselves, from filmmakers behind it. Since Ghanaian filmmakers, actors, production to projection. Tobias Wendl. 2006. With Salim Baba 60 min. (Ghana/Germany) the early 1990s, video and producers with on-set NY Premiere technology has drastically observations and clips from Co-presenter: African changed the African media some of their most celebrated Film Festival Sunday, November 11 Gimme Green is a super-real Co-presenter: Mailman Gimme Green 1:15pm, Program F12 look at the American obsession School of Public Health, Isaac Brown and Discussion with director with lawns, and their impact Columbia University Eric Flagg. 2006. Isaac Brown on our environment, our 27 min. (U.S.) wallets, and our outlook on With El Agua en Tiempos Extras life. From subdivisions in and The Water Front Florida to sod farms in the arid Southwest, Gimme Green peers behind the curtain of the $40-billion industry that fuels our nation’s most irrigated crop – the lawn.

Saturday, November 10 Once the source of legendary mines and as participants in Grito de Piedra 3:45pm, Program F7 wealth in colonial days, Potosí’s a burgeoning cultural tourism (Scream of the Stone) Discussion with Pegi Vail,curator, now economically destitute industry, this film reveals the Ton van Zantvoort. 2006. anthropologist, filmmaker silver mines have been opened enduring power of colonial 59 min. (Bolivia/ as a tourist destination for enterprise to shape life in With Stranger Comes to Town The Netherlands) visitors to Bolivia. Grito de South America. U.S. Premiere Piedra portrays a Potosí miner, Gavino, and his son, Pedro,a Co-presenter: Cinema Tropical tour guide to the mines. Depicting their lives in the

Sunday, November 11 As part of an ethnographic flow of ordinary life. This Co-presenter: The Center for Keep the 4:00pm, Program F18 study, filmmaker Rina Sherman, film shows how music, dance, Media, Culture and History at Dance Alive Discussion with director a protégé of Jean Rouch, lived and spirit possession are New York University Rina Sherman. 2007. 75 min. with the Ovahimba people integrated into their everyday (Namibia/Angola/France) of northwest Namibia for life, from birth to death. U.S. Premiere seven years, documenting the

Saturday, November 10 Cultures collide in this rebuilt in China. As the few their pay docked if the work Losers and 1:15pm, Program F6 award-winning verité film, in remaining German engineers falls behind schedule. Winners Discussion with Patrick Hazard, which 400 Chinese laborers face the facility’s demise and director,The London International Ulrike Franke and Michael arrive to dismantle a huge, try to enforce strict safety Co-presenter: London Documentary Festival Loeken. 2006. 96 min. state-of-the-art coke- procedures, the Chinese crew International Documentary (China/Germany) NY Premiere processing plant in the Ruhr struggles with homesickness, Festival and Goethe-Institut region of Germany. It will be 60-hour shifts, and having

Sunday, November 11 This program, moderated by film manager; Sameer Padania, creator and coordinator of The Machine 4:30 pm, Program F13 Michael Wesch, assistant manager of The Hub, a new, KarmaTube,an online collection Is Us/ing Us professor of cultural participatory website that of“short,‘do something’videos, User-Generated anthropology at Kansas State supports the strategic use of coupled with simple actions Content University, takes a look at user- video to address human rights that every viewer can take;” created content on YouTube, abuses online and offline; and Silas Hagerty, director of Content from YouTube, The Hub, and KarmaTube. Michael Smolens, founder and Lusaka Sunrise, a documentary WITNESS’ The Hub, and Earlier this year,Wesch created CEO of dotSUB, a site that short that focuses on how KarmaTube a short video, Web 2.0 … has developed unique browser- soccer is being used as a The Machine Is Us/ing Us, that based applications to facilitate catalyst to spread awareness of quickly became the most wiki-style volunteer or HIV/AIDS to youth in Zambia. popular video in the blogo- professional captioning and sphere. Other presenters subtitling of video into any Co-presenter: WITNESS include Sara Pollack, YouTube’s language; Jenny Douglas, co-

Sunday, November 11 A visual journey into the McLaren’s 7:30pm, Program F19 process of cinematographic creation, this animated Negatives With Nömadak Tx Marie-Josée Saint-Pierre. essay reveals the filmmaking 2006. 10 min. (Canada) visions of legendary Canadian NY Premiere animator Norman McLaren.

Saturday, November 10 Harry Smith’s prodigious dazzling array of unexpected Co-presenter: Anthology Mirror 8:15pm, Program F5 knowledge of mythology and figures. These animations Film Archives the mystic arts, and the “mirror” the intricate subtle- Animations With The Old, Weird America: voraciousness of his image ties of Thelonious Monk’s Harry Smith. 1957. Harry Smith’s Anthology of gathering, allowed him to classic jazz piece, Misterioso. 4 min. (U.S.) American Folk Music populate the screen with a Sunday, November 11 World music takes on a whole play a tandem percussive to remote places, living Nömadak Tx 7:30pm, Program F19 new meaning in Nömadak Tx, instrument, the txalaparta. among the Adivasi people, Raul de la Fuente. 2006. Discussion with director,followed a world showcase of nomadic This unusual instrument outcasts in India; the Sami in 92 min. (India/Morocco/ by performance by Oreka Tx peoples bound by the journey serves as a meeting point not Laponia; Mongolian people Mongolia/Laponia/Spain) of two Basque musicians, only between the two on the steppes; and Saharan With McLaren’s Negatives NY Premiere Harkaitz Mtnez. de San musicians but also between people in Morocco. Vicente and Igor Otxoa, who cultures. The musicians travel Co-presenter: World Music Institute

Closing Night

Saturday, November 10 Every fan of American group of artists, including The Old, 8:15pm, Program F5 music owes a debt to Harry Nick Cave, Percy Heath, Weird America: Discussion with Jonas Mekas, Smith. Driven by his unique Philip Glass, Kate and Anna filmmaker and artistic director, sensibility and passion for McGarrigle, and Elvis Costello. Harry Smith’s Anthology Film Archives authentic offbeat music, he amassed an unparalleled Co-presenter: Anthology Anthology With Mirror Animations collection of recordings and Film Archives of American brought attention to numerous unrecognized Folk Music artists. His musical legacy is Rani Singh. 2006. celebrated here through 90 min. (U.S.) archival footage, interviews, and filmed stage performances by a diverse

Sunday, November 11 A video short about an Our Brilliant 3:15pm, Program F15 Australian couple who spend more of their waking hours Second Life With The Birthday Shelley Matulick. 2007. as “avatars” in the virtual 6 min. (Australia) world than they do in the NY Premiere real world.

Sunday, November 11 This film introduces Lior say, or simply the vessel that challenges the way people with Praying 5:15pm, Program F16 Liebling, also called the “little contains everyone’s unfulfilled disabilities are perceived and with Lior Discussion with director rebbe.” Lior has Down wishes and expectations? As received by faith communities. Ilana Trachtman. 2007. syndrome and has spent his Lior approaches his bar mitzvah, 87 min. (U.S.) NY Premiere entire life praying with utter different characters provide Co-presenter: The Center abandon. Is he a “spiritual a window into life spent for Religion and Media at genius,” as many around him “praying with Lior.” The film New York University

Saturday, November 10 Jakarta-based puppeteer Agus some meaning in these acts Promised 6:15pm, Program F8 Nur Amal travels to Bali to call of hate. The results are both Paradise Discussion with director and to account the individuals revealing and sobering. Sally Berger, assistant curator, Leonard Retel Helmrich. 2006. responsible for the terrorist 52 min. (Indonesia/ Department of Film, The bombing of a Balinese night- Co-presenter: Department of The Netherlands) Museum of Modern Art/ club in October 2002. As in Film,The Museum of Modern Art U.S. Premiere Documentary Fortnight Festival his theatrical performances, Agus uses humor to find With Scaredycat

Saturday, November 10 Since the age of 10, Salim projector he inherited Co-presenter: Indo-American Salim Baba 1:00pm, Program F2 Muhammad, now 55, has eked from his father. A pragmatic Arts Council Tim Sternberg. 2006, Discussion with director out a living screening businessman as well as 14 min. (India/U.S.) discarded film scraps for the a cinéphile, Salim hopes his With Ghanaian Video Tales children in his neighborhood sons will carry on his legacy. using a hand-cranked

Saturday, November 10 Through re-enactment, Scaredycat 6:15pm, Program F8 live action, and animation, Andy Blubaugh. 2006. Discussion with director the director, a victim of 15 min. (U.S.) a random act of violence, With Promised Paradise explores the complexities of fear and anxiety. Saturday, November 10 David MacDougall follows school in Andhra Pradesh, Co-presenter: The Center for SchoolScapes 4:00pm, Program F10 up the “Doon School Quintet,” South India. SchoolScapes Media, Culture and History at David MacDougall. 2007. his series of films about a attempts to recapture New York University 77 min. (India/Australia) traditional school in North the freshness of observing U.S. Premiere India,with this film made at the the world and is dedicated Rishi Valley School, a famous to the simple act of looking. progressive co-educational

Friday, November 9 This engaging film spotlights they set up shows wherever Sleepwalking 7:00pm, Program F1 California’s indie combo a stage and speakers can be Through Discussion with director Dengue Fever as they tour found. There are inspiring Cambodia with a repertoire exchanges between the band the Mekong of 1960s and 70s Khmer pop and Khmer master musicians John Pirozzi. 2007. classics. Underlying the film’s and school children, all of 70 min. (U.S./Cambodia) musical journey is the whom join in at the open-air NY Premiere historical reality of the fate grand finale. The music melds of artists under the Khmer dance jams, traditional Rouge regime. Fronted by the music, and Cambodian licks dynamic Cambodian-born into a totally unique hybrid singer Chhom Nimol, the pop sound. group is an instant hit on their Opening Night arrival in Phnom Penh,where Co-presenter: Joe’s Pub

Saturday, November 10 This video re-purposes strange. The director Co-presenter: Eyebeam Stranger Comes 3:45pm, Program F7 animations from the focuses on the questions to Town Discussion with director Department of Homeland and examinations used Security, combining them to establish identity at the Jacqueline Goss. 2007. With Grito de Piedra 28 min. (U.S.) NY Premiere with stories from the border, border, and how these images from the online processes in turn affect one’s game World of Warcraft, and own sense of self and view journeys via Google Earth, of the world. to tell a tale of bodies moving through lands familiar and

Sunday, November 11 Outfitted in the regalia of the comic book-style animation, we Co-presenter: Cinema Tropical Super Amigos 1:00pm, Program F14 Luche Libre,five former wrestlers follow the caped crusaders – Arturo Perez Torres. 2007. Discussion with director in Mexico City don the personas Super Barrio, Super Animal, 82 min. (Mexico/Canada) of superheroes to fight injustice Super Ecologista,Super Gay,and and inspire others within their FrayTormenta – on their mission local communities. With a to protect the underdog. combination of live action and

Saturday, November 10 Is water part of a shared over water rights between Thirst 3:15pm, Program F3 “commons,” a human right for communities and corporations Deborah Kaufman and Discussion with directors all people? Or is it a commodity can serve as a catalyst for an Alan Snitow. 2004. to be bought, sold, and traded explosive and steadfast With Village of Dust, City 62 min. (U.S./Bolivia/India) in a global marketplace? Thirst resistance to globalization. of Water NY Premiere of Directors’ Cut tells the stories of communities A piercing examination of the in Bolivia, India, and the United global corporate drive to control States that are asking these and profit from our water – fundamental questions as water from tap to bottle. becomes the most valuable global resource of the 21st Co-presenter: Mailman century. A character-driven School of Public Health, documentary with no narration, Columbia University the film reveals how the debate

Saturday, November 10 In 1991, filmmakers Ritu Sarin intimate look at the life lifetimes, the film paints a The Thread 8:30pm, Program F9 and Tenzing Sonam made of a young lama as he aspires touching portrait of the of Karma Discussion with director The Reincarnation of Khensur to live up to the reputation Rinpoche even as it demystifies Ritu Sarin Ritu Sarin and Rinpoche (Mead Festival 1992), of his former incarnation. the Tibetan Buddhist which followed the search It also explores his moving tradition of reincarnation. Tenzing Sonam. 2007. With The Beloved Ones 52 min. (India) and discovery of a 4-year-old relationship with the two World Premiere reincarnated lama, Phara people closest to him, his Co-presenter: Khenchen Rinpoche. Sixteen attendant and his spiritual Rubin Museum of Art years later, the directors master, both of whom were revisit the reincarnation at connected to him in his Drepung Monastery in South previous life. By focusing on India. The film offers an these ties that cut across Saturday, November 10 A lyrical and chilling ciné poem Village of Dust, 3:15pm, Program F3 about social exploitation over access to water in India, where City of Water With Thirst Sanjay Barnela. 2006. rural water supplies are 28 min. (India) U.S. Premiere redistributed to serve booming cities,and other communities are displaced to create dams.

Co-presenter: Indo-American Arts Council and Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University

Sunday, November 11 This film provides a critical of how a valuable and essential TheWater Front 1:15pm, Program F12 look at the battle over water public resource should be Elizabeth Miller. 2007. Discussion with director in Highland Park, Michigan, managed in the midst of an 50 min. (U.S.) NY Premiere a working-class, largely economic crisis that silences With El Agua en Tiempos Extras African-American community claims to human rights. and Gimme Green struggling to keep their water from being privatized. Co-presenter: Mailman Local activists dealing with School of Public Health, economic justice and welfare Columbia University rights engage in a battle that seems like a gripping, dramatic play as the citizens struggle with the question

Saturday, November 10 After a 13-year absence, the Pot dictatorship. Hem Reau Co-presenter: The Center for Yeai Hem Reau – 6:00pm, Program F11 pioneering ethnographic reflects about her life and Media, Culture and History at A Cambodian Discussion with director filmmaker returns to a village work, and how she survived New York University in Cambodia to re-encounter the Pol Pot regime, which Medium the medium Hem Reau, who banned all religious expression. Yasuko Ichioka. 2007. 50 min. was first possessed by a (Cambodia/Japan) U.S.Premiere village spirit during the Pol

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