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Motion Pictures Founder/Director Greta Schoenberg and Co-Director Ben Estabrook have assembled a collection of new work by local and international artists. Dances For Camera will  feature a program of short experimental dance films including a rare screening of Swedish choreographer Pontus Lidberg’s award-winning “The Rain”, for which Mr. Lidberg was recently honored for “Outstanding Achievement in Choreography for Film” at the Choreography Media Honors in Los Angeles..  (www.lidberg.se/therain)

The camera’s relationship to dance has traditionally been that of passive, stationary observer, creating simple archives of live stage work that are rarely seen again. Motion Pictures seeks work where this relationship is more collaborative, the dance created specifically for and with the camera, often uniting artists of different disciplines. Through the eye of the camera, choreographers extract dancers from  traditional venues and bring them into unexpected settings where they can fully interact with their surroundings. As the laws of physics seem no longer relevant, as gravity is defied, or as movements are manipulated, dance is transformed, the choreographic process often continuing in the editing room. What emerges are contemporary, creative pieces that showcase dance in a portable medium, making it accessible to anyone, anywhere. Although nothing can or should replace live dance, it is the hope that these experiments with technology will help generate broader interest in the artform, bringing dance into the 21st century and new audiences into the theater.

Motion Pictures is a San Francisco–based collective of independent artists exploring dance on camera. Relatively recent developments in technology supporting digital video have opened exciting new avenues for smaller companies and independent choreographers to develop and promote their work. Motion Pictures was established to support these artists by facilitating exchange within this emerging community while creating opportunities for broader exposure through collaborative screening events.
www.motionpictures-sf.com

An evening of short films never before seen in America. Shot on the other side of the blast shields in Iraq’s walled cities, it covers a very different side of the war than is ever seen on American screens.  It reports unembedded from war-torn *Falluja*<http://www.bignoisefilms.org/films/tactical-media/98-fallujah>,
from the giant US prison at *Umm Qasr*<http://www.bignoisefilms.org/videowire/48/48>,
from the Mehdi Army stronghold inside *Sadr City*<http://www.bignoisefilms.org/videowire/47/47> —
from the places where mainstream corporate channels can not or will not go. —

A Big Noise Film
followed by a Public Discussion:
How Do We End the Occupation.

with:

Carl Davison, organizer with Iraq Veterans Against the War, served in the Marines and the Army, and refused deployment to Iraq.
Antonia Juhasz, analyst, activist, author of Tyrany of Oil; The World’s Most Powerful Industry–and What We Must Do to Stop It
Rick Rowley, Big Noise film maker recently returned for Iraq.

Sponsored by Courage to Resist, Bay Area Iraq Veterans Against the War, & Unconventional Action in the Bay.

Thurs. Apr. 2, 7:30pm
A.N.S.W.E.R. Coalition Film Showing & Discussion
FTA (F*** the Army)

The anti-war film that was banned for 35 years. Hear a report from ANSWER organizer and Vietnam vet, Bill Hackwell about GI resistance then and now.

“FTA”, the documentary produced by and starring Jane Fonda, was the rare film which bluntly addressed the Vietnam War and the policies behind the U.S. involvement. The film was abruptly withdrawn after only one week in release and has never been made available for re-issue until recently. During 1971 and 1972, Jane Fonda and Donald Sutherland led a quasi-USO tour called FTA that played in towns outside of U.S. military bases along the West Coast and throughout the Pacific. The audiences were primarily the men and women of the U.S. armed services, and during the tour Fonda and her company interviewed the various soldiers, sailors and marines regarding their thoughts on the Indochina slaughterhouse.

The film’s true power comes in the frank comments from the servicemen and women who openly question the purpose and planning of the American involvement in Vietnam. 1972, 97 min.