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Wednesday, October 17, Coolidge Corner Theater 290 Harvard Street, Brookline, MA
5:30 PM Screening Room "Ausangate" / Andrea Heckman and Tad Fettig / 61 mins / Documentary / Peru / 2006
"The Dancing Chickens of Ventura Fabian" / Nina Hasin / 11 mins / Documentary / Mexico / 2006
7:00 PM Selection of Shorts from Spain / 73 mins / Screening Room
"Antes y despues de besar a Maria" / Ramon Alos / 7 mins "La Parabólica" / Xavi Salas / 12 mins "DVD" / Sciro Altabas / 18 mins "Elena Quiere" / Lino Escalera / 19 mins
8:30 PM Screening Room "Those I Left Behind" / Lisandro Perez-Rey / 46 mins / Documentary / US, Cuba / 2006 Trapped between the sea and the politics of governments, Cuban families on either side of the Florida straits have endured nearly a half-century of separation and loss. Filmed in both the United States and Cuba, this documentary explores the transnational ties that bind Cuban-Americans in the United States to their families still living on the island and sheds light on the controversial new travel restrictions imposed by the U.S. Government and its emotional impact on the lives of four Cuban families.
"TV LUV" / Bernice Gonzalez / 18 mins / Short / Puerto Rico / 2006 Erica and Jorge are a young couple that decides to get rid of everything that interferes in their relationship. They start by getting rid of their TV. When everything seems to be fine, it just starts getting wrong, their problems are still there. Boredom and repetition take over, and they have to make a decision where their relationship is going to go.
Thursday, October 18: Coolidge Corner Theatre 290 Harvard Street, Brookline, MA and Museum of Fine Arts, Remis Auditorium 465 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA
2:45 PM Museum of Fine Arts Remis Auditorium (Free Screening) "Orozco: Man of Fire" / Laurie Coyle & Rick Tejada-Flores / 58 mins / Documentary / US / 2007 Co-presented by the Latino Public Broadcasting www.lpbp.org A visually arresting and whimsical documentary portrait of Mexican muralist José Clemente Orozco (1883 - 1949), whose dramatic life, iconoclastic personality, and dynamic painting made him the conscience of his generation. The artists story plays out against the backdrop of the Mexican Revolution, the Great Depression, and both World Wars. After surviving the loss of his left hand and the destruction of two-thirds of his early work by US border agents, he and his colleagues, Diego Rivera and David Alfaro Siqueiros, launched the Mexican mural movement that went on to capture the imagination of Depression-era America.
5:00 PM Coolidge Corner Theatre (Screening Room) "Dos Patrias Cuba y la noche" / Christian Liffers / 84 mins / Documentary / Germany / 2006
7:00 PM Coolidge Corner Theatre
(Movie House 2)
"Más que a nada en el mundo" (More
than Anything in the World) / Andrés Becker & Javier Solar / 90 mins /
Narrative Feature / Mexico / 2006 Seven-year-old Alicia lives with her mother in an apartment. Alicia and her mother are the best of friends, and nothing could come between them--until Mom begins to bring her dates home. Through the suggestions and overactive imagination of a friend at school, Alicia begins to believe that her mother is possessed by a vampire--a vampire whom Alicia believe lives next door, in the guise of a sickly old man. Taking matters into her own hands, Alicia decides to enter the vampire's apartment and place a cross on his chest to break her mother's curse. Alicia will do anything to save her mother. Similar in theme to the classic Spirit of the Beehive, but with a keen eye for the rhythms and struggles of contemporary Mexican family life, More Than Anything in the World marks a confident debut for directors Andrés Len Becker and Javier Solar. Illuminating the secret worlds of lonely children, the film never strays from its true subject: the uncommon love between a single parent and her child. 2006 Film at the World Film Festival of Montreal. Best First Fiction Feature 2006 Guadalajara Film Festivals, Best First Film Friday, October 19 Museum of Fine Arts, Remis Auditorium 465 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA (Free Screening) 5:45 PM Museum of Fine Arts Remis Auditorium "Orozco: Man of Fire" / Laurie Coyle & Rick Tejada-Flores / 58 mins / Documentary / US / 2007 Co-presented by the Latino Public Broadcasting www.lpbp.org |
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This film documents the lives of Quechua
people who live around Ausangate, a sacred peak in southeastern Peru. It is
based on anthropological research conducted over twenty years and reveals how
the weavers make textiles encoded with symbolic images that reinforce
ancestral beliefs during rituals and in everyday life. Four Quechua people's
stories are told against a backdrop of high Andean lakes and mountains showing
a harsh existence possible only through a strong symbiotic relationship to
their alpacas and llamas. From these animals they gain food, pelts, dried dung
for fuel, transport for goods, and yarn for clothing. They maintain a deep
integrity through their interconnectedness with the natural forces and their
ritual relationships to Ausangate, and they still organize their labor and
social relationships through the Inca social practices of ayni and
ayllu.
The Dancing Chickens of Ventura
Fabian is a lively bilingual musical video, which visits with master
woodcarver Ventura Fabian and his family in their small rural village of San
Martin Tilcajete, nestled in the hills outside the colonial city of Oaxaca in
southern Mexico. Every member of this campesino/artesano family works together
to create some of the country's most colorful and creative folk art the
hand-carved, hand-painted wooden figures that have become one of Mexico's most
popular contemporary crafts.
"El canto del grillo" / Dany Campos /
17 mins
The director Christian Liffers travels
with his team to Cuba to search for evidence. In his luggage are poems and
prose texts of the Cuban author Reinaldo Arenas texts, which describe the
desire for love, sexual freedom and the proud and unbending attitude in the
fight against discrimination. Are these desires and attitudes still to be
found in Cuba? And which desires, clichés, and projections of Cuba attract the
producer and many more people? Poems and prose texts are the reference points
for the protagonists and their personal stories of present-day Cuba, which are
always the centre of attention. Six men with different backgrounds and of
different ages describe their life, afflictions, desires, longings and joys in
Cuba. They have some things in common: homosexuality (with the exception of
Isabel, the transsexual) and the daily social exclusion on the part of the
Cuban 'Machismo-society' and the Cuban government. However they differ heavily
concerning their social status and their opinions of the topic.
©
.2006 BLIFF. All Rights Reserved.
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