Women Direct, Ithaca College's series of new films, video, and media by women, will begin its 16th season with a Wednesday, March 5, screening featuring the works of director Ellen Spiro. The screening, set for 7:00 p.m. in Roy H. Park Hall Auditorium, is one of four planned for this year's series. All Women Direct presentations are free and open to the public.
Entitled "Camcorder Activism," the March 5 screening is a mini-retrospective of Spiro's groundbreaking camcorder and Hi-8 video work, including video samplers of her award-winning DiAna's Hair Ego: AIDS Info Upfront, and Greetings from Out Here. Roam Sweet Home uses humor and storytelling to turn upside down the myths of growing older. Spiro and her dog, Sam, go west in a vintage Airstream trailer in search of elderly who have pulled out of society and into by-the-side-of-the-road trailer communities. Sam narrates their trip in a commentary written by novelist Allan Gurganus. Spiro and Sam find abandoned bombing ranges seized by aged Robin Hood communal outlaws, pilgrims walking coast-to-coast, true believers, and martyrs to absolute mobility. The screening is an Ithaca premiere.
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The Women Direct series will continue on Wednesday, March 26, with a screening of Fina Torres's Celestial Clockwork. Presented under the title "Transnational Cinderella," the film is a narrative of a young woman who leaves her intended groom at the altar in Caracas and hops a plane to Paris in order to pursue her dream of becoming an opera singer in Rossini's Cinderella. Guest speaker for this event is Cecelia Lawless, modern languages and literature. |
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A retrospective on the career of filmmaker Pratibha Parmar will be shown on April 16, and the series concludes with an interactive screening of Adriene Jenik's Mauve Desert.
Women Direct series programmers are Ithaca College faculty members Barbara Adams, writing, and Patricia R. Zimmermann, cinema and photography. Major funding for the series is provided by the James Pendleton endowment of the Roy H. Park School of Communications. Additional funding is provided by the College's Department of Cinema and Photography, the Ithaca College Gerontology Institute, as well as the Electronic Arts Program of the Experimental Television Center funded by the New York State Council on the Arts.
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