Monday, October 2, 7:00 p.m.
A
videomaker based in Houston and Mexico City, Ximena Cuevas has captured
the experimental media world with her riveting images. She pushes the
boundaries of the video medium while whipping up hot political issues
around identity borders, cultural authority, and self-representation.
She'll share some of her latest work with us.
Monday, October 16, 7:00 p.m.
As
development executive of Election, Liz Lyon helped bring to the screen
1999's most radical and entertaining commentary on teen gender and sexuality
wars. Chair of the English department at Hobart and William Smith Colleges
and founding coeditor of the feminist scholarly journal Camera Obscura,
Lyon offers a unique perspective on the intersection of film theories and
industries. A Q&A will follow the screening of this Academy Award –winning
film.
Activist
and artist Mike Hoolboom presents his films Panic Bodies (1999) and
Letters from Home (1996).
"Filmed in the shadow of AIDS, Panic Bodies is [Hoolboom's] testament to the
permanent impermanence" of the flesh. The film's six parts show the range of Hoolboom's engagement with mortality, from rage to reverie. . . . To watch Panic Bodies is to see what it means to live and die in the cinema."
— Cameron Bailey, NOW
With equal intensity, Letters from Home reflects — through stunning imagery and pithy wit — on death, AIDS, and the art of living.
Monday, October 23, 7:00 and Tuesday, November 28, 4:00 p.m.
The
touring program of this year's Ann Arbor Film Festival — one of the oldest
independent film fests in the country, and surely the one with the most
edge and moxie. Followed by a panel of faculty filmmakers talking about
filmmakers, featuring our own artists from the Park School of Communications:
Christina Cornejo, Ann Curran, Pierre Desir, David Gatten, and Rob Hahn.
Monday, November 6, 7:00 p.m.
This film takes us inside the vibrant music scene of Congo's capital city of Kinshasa, whose back alleys and clubs pulsate to some of the most influential music in the world. Starring Soukous music legend Papa Wemba, it tells the rags-to-riches story of a country musician who seeks fame in the city. Directed by Mweze Ngangura. Congo/Belgium, 1987. French with English subtitles, 95 minutes.
Panel discussion afterward with Kole Ade-Odutola, graduate student in communication; Peter Kareithi, assistant professor of television-radio, Peyi Soyinka Airewele, assistant professor of politics, and Gina Marchetti, associate professor of cinema and photography. Patricia R. Zimmermann, professor of cinema and photography, moderates.
Tuesday, November 7, 4:00 p.m.
Jimmy Cliff stars as an aspiring reggae performer who achieves stardom while on the run from the law. The film examines the relationship between culture and capitalism, taking an acerbic look at the commodification of reggae in Jamaica. Directed by Perry Hanzell. Jamaica, 1973. 120 minutes.Panel discussion follows with Pierre Desir, assistant professor of cinema and photography; Naeem Inayatullah, assistant professor of politics; and Steven F. Pond, assistant professor of ethnomusicology at Cornell University. Gina Marchetti, associate professor of cinema and photography, moderates.
Co-curators: Christina Lane, Gina Marchetti, Patty Zimmermann
"Cinema on the Edge" is the special public program component of the Department of Cinema and Photography's American Film course, 222-10200.
This program is supported by the James B. Pendleton Endowment of the Roy H. Park School of Communications, with additional support from the Central New York Programmers Group and the New York State Council on the Arts. Call 607-274-7003 for more information.
Individuals with disabilities requiring accommodation should contact the Office of Affirmative Action at 607-274-3909 (voice), 607-274-1767 (TDD), or bleblanc@ithaca.edu as much in advance of the event as possible.
Andrejs Ozolins, Ithaca College Office of Publications, 1. Sept. 2000