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  • A.N.S.W.E.R. Coalition Screening

    Viva

    Cuban director Juan Carlos Cremata’s film tells the story of a young girl who runs away from home because her mother plans to leave Cuba and she doesn’t want to go. Malu is from a priveleged family and her single mother does not want her to play with Jorgito, as she thinks his background coarse and commonplace. Jorgito’s mother is a socialist who is proud of her family’s less privileged social standing. What neither woman recognizes is the immense strength of the bond between Malu and Jorgito. When the children learn that Malu’s mother is planning to leave Cuba and take her along, they decide to travel to the other side of the island to find Malu’s father and persuade him against signing the forms that would allow it. 2005, Cuba, 80min., Spanish with English subtitles.

  • “The Light in the Background is the Sun”

    Ocean of Oceans, 2008-11mins 20sec- A figure is burdened by cumbersome limbs as she churns in ocean waves, then moves toward a horizon. Her doppelganger uses the long arms as an asset, sailing through sea and space with ease. Sound design by Lily Wolfe of Parker and Lily and The Low Lows.

    Arms, 2007- 1 min. 15 sec- Arms, unicycles, cookware, and electronic toys gently collide.

    And This, Of Course, Is the Earth Down Here, 2008- 5min 30sec.- A journey in a canoe bookended by the mechanics of an eclipse and long-armed-spoon-headed boaters beamed onto the surface from the sky.

    37 Red Hats, 2008- 8mins 5sec– A 2008 visit to Beijing in which the artist located and tracked down every Pizza Hut location within the city limits

    The Hat (Sweetheart), 2007- 4 min. 30 sec- A story of love and control between a woman, a ventriloquist dummy, and a trick hat.

    Crossing, 2007- 5min.30sec.-A dual channel video about dangerous waters and a pilgrimage with voice over text from the artist’s
    Great(x10)-Grandmother’s Salem witch trial.

    They Are Coming, 2008-1 min.30 sec.- A bed bug moves frantically. He anticipates unwanted guests.

    Yonghy Bonghy Bo, 2005- 2min. 30sec.- A super 8 film about unrequited love between bumpy-headed Yonghy and Zelda, a married dummy.

    Pioneer, 2008- 2mins- A series of short video animations of The Pioneer moving through the American West of today and the open desert of days gone by asking “Where’s my horse/house?”

    Raree Show, 2009-15 min. 30 sec.- A Video Mutoscope performed visual narrative about how the Pioneer came to lose her horse and her house. Sound with Joe Houpert and Jean Chrastina

  • The Free Form Film Series

    OPENING FILM:  The Habit of Innovation by Brian Dewan (CATSKILL NY)
    http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=96382116

    “PRE-OPENING” FILM: Joy Of Painting by Peter Nowogrodzki
    MAIN PROGRAM curated by the Lost Media Archive, a repository for cultural detritus

    CLOSING ACT: live music by two-man noise ensemble FAGBASH