Global Lens
dal 12/11/2003 al 30/11/2003
Segnalato da
12/11/2003
Global Lens
The Museum of Modern Art - MoMA, New York
An exhibition project conceived by the Global Film Initiative to encourage filmmaking in developing countries. The films presented in this new annual collaboration between GFI and the Department of Film and Media represent a selective survey of contemporary filmmaking from areas where local economic realities make such expensive and technology-driven endeavors a challenge.
The Museum of Modern Art is delighted to be the premier showcase for the touring film series Global Lens, an exhibition project conceived by the Global Film Initiative to encourage filmmaking in developing countries. The films presented in this new annual collaboration between GFI and the Department of Film and Media represent a selective survey of contemporary filmmaking from areas where local economic realities make such expensive and technology-driven endeavors a challenge. The ten films in the program are accomplished, entertaining, and thought-provoking; they are also deeply rooted in the social and political realities of the countries where these talented and resourceful filmmakers live and set their stories.
This first installment of Global Lens gives audiences an opportunity to become acquainted with the varied styles and issues of filmmaking from parts of the world too rarely represented on American screens. Each year, two films from the series will play for one full week, allowing them to build an audience and attract critical attention. Several filmmakers will introduce their works.
Organized for the Museum by Jytte Jensen, Curator, Department of Film and Media. Global Lens is a collaboration between the Global Film Initiative and the Department of Film and Media, The Museum of Modern Art.
Amarelo manga (Mango Yellow). 2002. Brazil. Directed by Claudio Assis. This carnivalesque farce set among low-rent losers in the coastal town of Recife is an in-your-face debut feature guaranteed to shock and delight viewers with its perfect marriage of style and subject matter, set to a throbbing beat. In Portuguese, English subtitles. 103 min.
Thursday, November 13, 7:30; Friday, November 14, 8:00; Saturday, November 15, 7:00; Sunday, November 16, 4:00; Monday, November 17, 6:00; Tuesday, November 18, 7:00; Wednesday, November 19, 4:00
Nizhalkkuthu (Shadow Kill). 2002. India. Directed by Adoor Gopalakrishnan. In pre-independence India, a state-appointed executioner can no longer bear the solitary guilt of carrying out death sentences that are more often than not the result of politics rather than justice. In Malayam, English subtitles. 91 min.
Friday, November 14, 2:00; Friday, November 28, 4:00
Farishtay kifti rost (Angel on the Right). 2002. Tajikistan. Directed by Djamshed Usmonov. A tough Tajik gangster returns home from Moscow to visit his dying mother, but realizes only too late that the town has conspired to lure him back for complicated reasons involving money and obligation. In Tajik, English subtitles. 88 min.
Friday, November 14, 4:00; Sunday, November 30, 2:00
Khorma. 2002. Tunisia. Directed by Jilani Saadi. In a Tunisian village, the seemingly idiotic Khorma is appointed the town's official announcer of births, deaths, and marriagesx{2014}but power corrupts. In Arabic, English subtitles. 100 min.
Saturday, November 15, 5:00; Thursday, November 20, 2:00
Hubog (Wretched Lives). 2001. The Philippines. Directed by Joel Lamangan. Set in the early 1990s, during the short-lived reign of the Philippine leader Joseph Estrada, this film focuses on Vanessa, a cosmetics consultant who is forced to care for her troubled and mentally challenged sister after the sudden death of their mother. In Tagalog, English subtitles. 102 min.
Sunday, November 16, 6:00; Tuesday, November 25, 8:00
Ticket to Jerusalem. 2002. Palestine. Directed by Rashid Masharawi. A Palestinian film projectionist's perseverance is put to the test when he tries to organize a film screening in Jerusalem's old city. In Arabic and Hebrew, English subtitles. 85 min.
Wednesday, November 19, 6:30; Thursday, November 20, 4:00; Friday, November 21, 8:00; Saturday, November 22, 1:00; Sunday, November 23, 4:15; Monday, November 24, 6:00; Tuesday, November 25, 4:00
Zendan-e Zanan (Women's Prison). 2002. Iran. Directed by Manijeh Hekmat. A diverse group of women, including officially nonexistent prostitutes and drug addicts, struggle to survive in a claustrophobic Iranian prison. The film's three segments are set in 1984, 1992, and 2001. In Farsi, English subtitles. 106 min.
Friday, November 21, 4:00; Saturday, November 29, 4:00
Nada mas (Nothing). 2001. Cuba. Directed by Juan Carlos Cremata Malberti. Clara, who works in a Cuban post office, assumes other people's identities by secretly writing letters on their behalf to pass the time, giving life to inhibited emotions. In Spanish, English subtitles. 88 min.
Saturday, November 22, 5:00; Sunday, November 30, 4:00
A Festa Margarette (Margarette's Feast). 2002. Brazil. Directed by Renato Falcão. In an ode to classic silent films, a working-class everyman escapes his desperate life through the power of imagination. In Portuguese, English subtitles. 80 min.
Saturday, November 22, 9:00; Friday, November 28, 6:00
Rachida. 2002. Algeria. Directed by Yamina Bachir-Chouikh. Rachida is a young Algerian schoolteacher who flees from the city to a remote village after having been a victim of terrorism, only to find that terrorism is inescapable. In Arabic, English subtitles. 100 min.
Tuesday, November 25, 6:00; Saturday, November 29, 9:00
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