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Film Screenings on Thursday May 20, 2004 |
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PLAZA THEATER
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| 6 pm |
Opening Reception |
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7 pm |
Abbas Kiarostami, A.B.C. Africa, Uganda/Iran, 2001, 84 min.
Shot in and around Kampala, but screened here for the first time, one of the worlds most honored filmmakers captures the color and life of the city as he focuses on the faces of a thousand children, all orphans, whose parents died of aids. It records tears and laughter, music and silence, life and death.
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8.30 pm |
Djibril Diop Mambety, The Little Girl Who Sold the Sun, Senegal, 1999, 45 min.
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The last film by one of the great innovators of the African cinema is deceptively simple in its portrayal of an enterprising youngster who pursues her new employment with gusto. |
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9.30 pm |
Dziga Vertov, Man with the Movie Camera, Russia, 1929, 68 min.
Accompanied by live music of Percussion Discussion Africa
A stunning documentary which celebrates filmmaking and the dawn of the modern era. The film uses radical editing techniques and cinematic pyrotechnics to portray a typical day in Moscow from dawn to dusk. An early essay of the power of the film camera to capture reality. As early cinema was silent, it was common practice for musicians to play life music with movies. Percussion Discussion Africa under the direction of Omwana We Nsenene Sewanyana will for the first time accompany this film with a distinctly African sound track creating a unique cross cultural experience over time and place. |
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