Thursday, March 28, 2002, 6pm | Apichatpong Weerasethakul in person! Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Mysterious Object at Noon (2000). “Mr. Weerasethakul’s film is like a piece of chamber music slowly, deftly expanding into a full symphonic movement; to watch it is to enter a fugue state that has the music and rhythms of another culture.” Elvis Mitchell, […]
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Thursday, March 21, 2002, 6pm James Benning in person! James Benning will appear in person to present the first complete screening of his California Trilogy, including the US premiere of the third film in the trilogy, Sogobi. Each film is composed of 35 shots, each shot lasting 2 minutes and 30 seconds, filmed from a […]
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Thursday, March 14, 2002, 6:15pm A central but rarely shown film in the history of feminist cinema, Jeanne Dielman follows three days in the life of a middle-class European woman as she does her daily housework, cooks for her teenage son, occasionally engages in prostition, and gradually descends into madness. Using the real-time element of […]
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Thursday, March 7, 2002, 6pm Paula Froehle in person! Loosely traversing the boundary between experimental and narrative form, Paula Froehle’s densely layered and poetic films search for new metaphoric relationships to express the realms of the subconscious. This evening provides an overview of her work, from early pieces such as Second Skin (1990), Spitting Image […]