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Tuesday, April 14 'Night of Women's Film' @ Anthology 6:00PM- Eye Am: Women Behind the Lens Shorts Tonight's short films feature women confronting their identity and the notion of Other. Featuring films by Sarah Klein, Ruth Hererra, Zulma Aguiar, Oriana Fox, & Diana Arce. Eye Am is a cable tv series and traveling festival showcasing women's memoir spanning across all genres of film and video. EA airs @ 9:30-10:30pm the 1st Sunday of the month on: Manhattan Neighborhood Network, Time Warner #34/ RCN #82 (in Manhattan) & Streaming Live Online at www.mnn.org (Worldwide). www.eyeamvideo.blogspot.com 7:00PM - Death Jewel (Film and) Video curated by EE Miller A cross-genre program of shorts featuring film and video gems which respond to death with reflections on mortality, intimate and communal loss, human ritual, and violence. Sonali Gulati, Antonio Paez, & Byron Karabatsos Where is There Room? (16mm to video, 2003) Silas Howard What I Love About Dying (video, 2006) Jennifer MacDonald Brighter Death Now (hand drawn animation, 2002) Akiko Hatakeyama Violet (video, 2008) Eileen Myles Chapter 22 (The Odyssey) (video, 2007) Kara Lynch Strange Miss Otis (video) Venus Sobranes The Moon’s Pyramid (super 8, 2003) Miatta Kawinzi The Sky Will Save Us? (video, 2008) Diane Bonder I Remember Now, We Never Danced, I Miss You, Goodbye (16mm, 2006) 8:00PM - Bernice Perry: Queen of Sinatraland (2008, 17 minutes) Bernice Perry is an 83 year-old songwriter who has been producing her own public access television show for 37 years. Her life and work, inspired by Frank Sinatra has a haunting quality that forces us to ask questions about definitions of celebrity, nostalgia, and reality. Film by Victoria Kereszi. www.victoriakereszi.net SITTIN' ON A MILLION (2008, 26 minutes) SITTIN' ON A MILLION presents these stories in all their contradictory glory, alongside vintage erotica, reenactments, and street performances asks us to consider the role of memory and imagination in creating history, and reminds us about all those ordinary, extraordinary people erased from the official record. Film by Penny Lane & Annmarie Lanesey. www.mamefaye.com Curators: Victoria Kereszi is a photographer, filmmaker, curator, and media educator. Her video and photo portraiture explores the ways women living on the margins of society take control of their own representation. EE Miller is an interdisciplinary conversationalist who makes video, radio, and installation. Her current broadcasts, DEATH JEWEL RADIO, invite guests to consider funeral arts and utopia with music, sound arts and storytelling. www.eemiller.wordpress.com |
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