Hi, kids! Allow the cinetrix to tell you what to do. In New York, it's a case of choose your own adventure. I'd opt for the amazing work of Flaherty 08 fellows Lee Wang and Laura Waddington, myself. Lee's smart as a whip [and a Stuyvesant grad], and Laura's work still haunts my dreams.
Films and videos to be screened:
• God Is My Safest Bunker (Lee Wang, 2008, 60 min., USA) - More than 30,000 low-wage workers from Southeast Asia work for American military contractors in Iraq, cleaning toilets, serving food and building barracks. Through the stories of three Filipino workers and their families, Wang's probing documentary investigates the conditions - both domestic and global - which have forced economic migration into the Iraqi war zone, and how they are understood as lived experience.
• Cargo (Laura Waddington, 2001, 30 min., The Netherlands) - "Cargo is the story of a journey I made on a container ship with a group of Rumanian and Filipino sailors who were delivering cargo to the Middle East... I made a narrative that falls between reality and fiction. It was a way of showing the limbo these men were living in." - Laura Waddington
Show starts at 7:30. Lee Wang will be participating in a post-screening discussion, moderated by Ariella Ben-Dov. General admission tickets to the Flaherty NYC series at the Anthology Film Archives are $10. Tickets are $8 for Anthology members and students with valid I.D. Tickets can be purchased here.
• God Is My Safest Bunker (Lee Wang, 2008, 60 min., USA) - More than 30,000 low-wage workers from Southeast Asia work for American military contractors in Iraq, cleaning toilets, serving food and building barracks. Through the stories of three Filipino workers and their families, Wang's probing documentary investigates the conditions - both domestic and global - which have forced economic migration into the Iraqi war zone, and how they are understood as lived experience.
• Cargo (Laura Waddington, 2001, 30 min., The Netherlands) - "Cargo is the story of a journey I made on a container ship with a group of Rumanian and Filipino sailors who were delivering cargo to the Middle East... I made a narrative that falls between reality and fiction. It was a way of showing the limbo these men were living in." - Laura Waddington
Show starts at 7:30. Lee Wang will be participating in a post-screening discussion, moderated by Ariella Ben-Dov. General admission tickets to the Flaherty NYC series at the Anthology Film Archives are $10. Tickets are $8 for Anthology members and students with valid I.D. Tickets can be purchased here.
But! There's also a Rooftop Films [now accepting submissions for summer 09] jam with Wholphin this evening.
Monday, December 8, 7 PM
Rooftop Films and Shooting People Present
WHOLPHIN IN CHELSEA MARKET
Editors Brent Hoff and Emily Doe will be there for a Q and A.
Complimentary Radeberger for all in attendance
Rooftop Films and Shooting People Present
WHOLPHIN IN CHELSEA MARKET
Editors Brent Hoff and Emily Doe will be there for a Q and A.
Complimentary Radeberger for all in attendance
Venue: Indoors at Chelsea Market
Address: 75 9th Ave (Between 15th and 16th Streets, Manhattan)
Directions: A, C, E, or L to 14th Street and 8th Ave
7:00: Live Music by Love Like Deloreans
7:30: shorts from Wholphin
Admission: No Charge
Address: 75 9th Ave (Between 15th and 16th Streets, Manhattan)
Directions: A, C, E, or L to 14th Street and 8th Ave
7:00: Live Music by Love Like Deloreans
7:30: shorts from Wholphin
Admission: No Charge
Tuesday night there's only one place I'd like to be. Sadly, grading duty calls. But you should go. I mean, talk about Lange-tasticness.
The Brattle and Harvard Book Store are thrilled to host two-time
Academy Award–winning actress JESSICA LANGE for a presentation of 50
Photographs, Ms. Lange's first photography collection. Ms. Lange's photography presentation and book-signing will be followed
by a screening of FRANCES, the 1982 Graeme Clifford film based on the
life of tragic Hollywood legend Frances Farmer. We hope you will join us this Tuesday as we welcome two-time Academy
Award winner Jessica Lange to the Brattle stage! Tickets are on sale now.
