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  • ReCalibrate: Michelle Dizon’s Video Works

    Experimental video artist Michelle Dizon comes to San Francisco Cinematheque from Los Angeles for her first solo screening.  Working with home movies shot in California and the Philippines, low-end video, numerous found images from the web and other films, and carefully culled and original texts, Dizon articulates a compelling political and aesthetic vision that constantly questions the status quo of language, images, and the power embedded in them.   In our current context of globalization and war, pieces such as Calibrate; Département des Arts de l’Islam; We, the Undersigned, Girls of Hiroshima; and her newest piece, The Great Wall compel us to re-think representational and political practices. We will also screen earlier, more intimate, works including My Child, Anak and A Family Sick.

    Admission

    $5 Cinematheque members, students, seniors, disabled;

    $8 general

  • Taliban Country

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    In May/June 2004, Walkley-award winning investigative reporter Carmela Baranowska was embedded with U.S. Marines in one of the most dangerous and remote parts of Afghanistan, beyond the reach of UN and aid agencies.

    Frustrated by the limitations imposed on what she could report, Baranowska decided to travel back to Oruzgon Province independently of the U.S. Marines and Afghan militia that she had journeyed with up to that point. Western media outlets reported her kidnapping by the Taliban; a ‘fact’ the documentary dispels. (The source of reports of an abandoned vehicle and Taliban abduction of a western woman has never been uncovered.)

    More importantly, Baranowska’s footage offers disturbing first-person accounts of the treatment being dealt Afghans by U.S. marines in the war on terror and has led to the opening of two U.S. military investigations.Carmela Baranowska, 45 mins, Australia, 2004

    With a report and discussion on the history of U.S. involvement in Afghanistan and the continuing occupation.

    Info: http://www.actionsf.org/#local6

  • Amazing Grace: Jeff Buckley

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    Feature documentary explores Jeff’s legendary music and its enduring impact, paying tribute to the life and legacy that Jeff left behind with his music, lyrics and unforgettable voice.

    Co-sponsored by Ironweed & Film Arts Foundation

    Info: http://www.noisepop.com/2006/films.php

    Badgeholders *do* get into Noise Pop Films, and the walk-up ticket price is

    $8 unless otherwise stated for special events.