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  • GREY DATURAS, MY DISCO, CHAINGARDEN, MENEGUAR, CHAINGARDEN

    Grey Daturas

    GREY DATURAS are from Melbourne, Australia. An epic wash of drone, metal, and improv musics, the trio have released several albums and CDRs, but their first domestic issuance is the Crucial Blast repress of 2004’s “Dead in the Woods”.

    “If the Melbourne sunshine puts a smile on most of its native’s faces, this must be compensated for by the scowls of the Grey Daturas, an improvisational three piece intent on wiping all that is bright, clean and decent from the sun kissed land and drowning it in a muddy grave in the gape of the Pacific” – NICK SOUTHGATE, The Wire

    MY DISCO is a Melbourne-based math rock trio pummeling crowds since 2003.
    This is their second tour of America.
    http://www.myspace.com/mdband

    Members of 16 Bitch Pile Up and Child Pornography combine as CHAINGARDEN to give tribute to Seattle’s bastard, out-of-state son Rage Against the Cage. Gutteral a cappella grunge vocals give new meaning to the creed, “the world means nothing.”

    MENEGUAR formed as students at SUNY Purchase. They have since taken over Brooklyn as indie rock royalty and enthroned the world with records on Troubleman Unlimited. Members have played in Wooden Wand and the Vanishing Voice, and Woods.
    http://meneguar.net

    and

    CHAINGARDEN

  • 11th Annual Arab Film Festival

    Gaza Another Kind of Tears
    A documentary by AbdelSalam Shehada
    Palestine, 2006, 53min
    Gaza Another Kind of Tears focuses on the anguish an individual family endures during the occupation, it’s subsequent joy at the liberation of 2005, and the interminable wait for the sweet promise of change.

    Followed by

    Galil: A School with No Walls
    A documentary by Avi Hershkovitz and Sharon Hammou
    Israel, 2006, 72min
    Galil: A School with No Walls takes us inside the Galil-Jalil school for Jewish and Arab children to show how participants learn tolerance and each others¹ language for the present as well as understanding and mutual acceptance for a brighter future.  A mixed staff of teachers must constantly strive to reconcile their own cultural identities with the premise of this school for cooperation and tolerance.

  • 11th Annual Arab Film Festival

    A Selection of Shorts from the Amman Filmmakers Cooperative and a documentary from Saudia Arabia

    Amman Filmmakers Cooperative
    The Amman Filmmakers Cooperative (AFC) is a not-for-profit cultural initiative and talent incubator. The AFC promotes independent Arab filmmaking through training, experimentation, and networking. The AFC project was founded in May 2003 by Hazim Bitar, a filmmaker and communication consultant.

    Sharar
    Saleh Kasem, Ammar Quttaineh, Hazim Bitar| 17 min | Fiction)
    A blue-collar worker in one of Jordan’s “industrial” zones is caught in a cycle of despair.

    Overdose (Ammar Quttaineh | 14 min | Fiction-Comedy)
    News reporter Oraib is caught between her desire to report the news uncensored and the external pressures to stop the so-called media incitement

    Growing Up
    (Hazim Bitar | 9 min | Documentary)
    Rich or poor, rain or shine, the children must play, and life is their ultimate caretaker, always working in unexpected ways to ease the children
    into the world of grown ups.

    Little Feet
    (Aseel Mansour | 8 min | Fiction)
    A young soccer fan and his dreams of glory and life’s unexpected surprises.

    3 Eyes
    Rawan Zeine & Hazim Bitar | 5 min | Experimental)
    One place, three experiences. The filmmaker explores the psychology of perception.

    Order of Out
    Ja’far Safwan | 5 min | Fiction-Comedy)
    A Man wakes up one day and decides to break his routine.

    What a Job
    (Mohammad Aboujarad, Omar Saleh, Hazim Bitar | 7 min | Fiction-Comedy)
    A group of young men sign up for an interview for a position that promises to be a great career move but there is always the unexpected.

    The Last Patch
    (Omar Saleh & Rifqi Assaf & Hazim Bitar | 15 min | Fiction-Comedy)
    This film is dedicated to computer geeks. The battle between Microsoft and Open Source for market share has reached its climax

    Folowed by

    Full Moon Night
    A documentary by Mamdouh S. Ba-ajajah
    Saudia Arabia, 2007, 31min
    A rare documentary featuring the traditions in Hejaz, Saudia Arabia around the festivities of Ramadan, Eid, and other occasions, allowing an unusual glimpse in the every day lives or ordinary Saudis.