Courtney Egan presents a program of locally produced shorts. Films made before the storm and flooding of 2005 will be contrasted with work made since, presenting similar subjects seen through different eyes and different times. What things used to be like, what it’s like now, who gets to tell the story — how are these things shaping what’s to come?
Includes short films and excerpts by Royce Osborn, Helen Hill, music video director Will Horton, Walter Williams (of Mr. Bill fame), Earlneka Royale of Students at the Center, J Bogas, the Yes Men, NOCCA student Helen Schmehl, the New Orleans Kid Camera Project, Laura Belsey with Babs Johnson, and Survivor’s Village.
| 80m |
A special tribute to a group of filmmakers who have made significant contributions to various categories of Palestinian Revolution Cinema between the years of 1968 and 1982. Given the current political environment in Palestine, Iraq, and Lebanon in 2007, it is especially important to screen these films that have slipped through the cracks of history. They are a visual testament to past events and offer us a glimpse of history from the perspective of the people who actually lived it, a perspective not sanctioned by the official US/European meta-narrative of the region. In the context of last summer’s Israeli invasion of Lebanon, screening Monica Maurer’s film Born Out of Death of the aftermath of the Israeli bombardment of Beirut in 1981 has an ever more present urgency. How does our frame of reference of the current dire and desperate situation for Palestinians shift when we see the 1974 Israeli destruction of the Palestinian refugee camp Nabatiya in Mustafa Abu Ali’s film They Do Not Exist? Films include: 1) Away from Home – Qais Il Zobaidi/Syria /11 min/ 1969. 2) The Visit – Qais Il Zobaidi/Syria/ 10 min/ 1970. 3) Children Nonetheless – Khadija Abu Ali/Palestine/ 25 min/1980. 4) They Don’t Exist – Mustafa Abu Ali/Palestine/ 25 min/ 1974. 5) Born Out of Death – Monica Maurer/ Palestine/ 9 min/ 1981.
| 95m |
A selection of powerful, poetic, and beautiful short films from around the world. Films include Present, Cleveland Street Gap, Canal Nueve, White Feathers, Boom, Jean Paul, Hide Your Words, and Hazards Of Engagement. See individual descriptions for short films, listed in alphabetical order.
