All films in Thomas 110 unless noted
Lip mins)
Coffee Colored Children (15 min)
L is for the Way You Look(24 mins)
Chronic (20 mins)
The Righteous Babes (50 mins)
Part of Women Make Movies award-winning "Girls Around the World"--“Creates a crucial lens on the varieties of young women's lives--their fears and dreams, constraints and yearnings. Their stories of parental expectation, religious tradition,fantasy yet criticism of marriage, longing for home and safety, search for newness and
excitement, are totally compelling and human.” Zillah Eisenstein
"...explores with subtlety and intelligence the construction of femininity, the
commodification of beauty, and how each of these influences what it means to be a
woman." Carmela Garritano
"Tina Gharavi's fascinating directorial debut
Closer is an experimental documentary (which
Tina also produced) which has at its heart a
poignant character study of a 17 year-old
lesbian from Newcastle. The film was produced
without a script and the real subject, Annelise
Rodger (using her life as a starting point),
collaborated with the filmmaker to produce,
though a mixture of both documentary and
fiction film techniques, a brave auto-portrait." Netribution
"A supremely human account of her mother's affliction...Ms. Hoffmann's film reminds us that we can learn to see the world through another's eyes and respect the view...[a] gem of a film...." Frazier Moore, Associated Press
"Through efforts like this documentary I am keen to advance the
understanding of the American minority experience -- through
stories that celebrate the experiences of a multicultural society.
One way of doing so was to tell a personal story and move it
towards the universal", Nandini Sikand. "The film captures the triumphs, tragedies and the choices of an individual set against a larger social and political landscape," Lavina Melwani, India Today International
"A lyrical tribute by the filmmaker to her poet mother. Weaves together scenes shot on location, super-8 movies made 30 years ago, black and white photographs, and splendidly preserved letter to evoke the story of mother Krishna, her choices and personal battles,"Jyotirmoy Datta, India in New York
"The film opens with a sequence shot through the windscreen of a moving car: the motorway is obscured by fog and the illuminated signs are abstractions as Trinh T Minh-Ha begins her poetic monologue. 'What we see passes away the more evident becomes the background,' she says, 'while the minor details go on shifting what is seen and heard....' Trinh T Minh-Ha explores the rituals of new technology, art and daily life in Japanese culture, creating an image, not of Japan, but of the expansive reality of Japan as image," Ali Kayley & Louis Benassi , Edinburgh Film Festival. "Reminiscent of Peter Greenaway...a mesmerizing mix of fluid images and poetic narration ", John Petrakis
Chicago Tribune
"Unfolding in beautifully shot recreations and Ruth's lyrically written narration, the film's highly poetic approach perfectly complements its exploration of the way personal identity is shaped, articulated, and shared between mothers and daughters. Out of Ruth's specific experience, Halving the Bones yields many universal truths: the way family and history can impact one's self-perception and the power of shared history to soften generational divisions. Through this evocative portrait of herself, her mother, and her grandmother, the filmmaker stunningly witnesses the importance of remembering and saving fragments of family history that are too often "discarded and forgotten," Lisanne Skyler.
"... we probably need to think a bit more
about the power relations behind the whole multicultural movement and that
"multiculturalism is the latest spin on the same old history," especially if it
ignores or refuses to examine the power relations and the realities of classism
and racism." Rea Tajiri
"as the sequences move across space and time, the characters come alive with a rare spontaneity, and express conflicting points of view." The Hindu "For me, faith is not the dictates of the State of society.It is the communication of the individual soul evolving in a spiritual way through meditation. islam offers that freedom. My search continues." Kay Rasool.
"I am not concerned with verisimiltude....I am not concerned with capturing reality, I’m concerned with creating it myself.-Tracey Moffatt
"...the epic dimension first
adumbrated in Night Cries remains once again filtered through the colloquial and vernacular.
The result is a laconic poetic statement that, like Pasolini’s, could be said not to make sense as
much as to suspend sense." Lynne Cooke
"The questions I have to ask myself as artist and videomaker would be: How can I dislocate and recontextualize a much belaboured and apparently trite question such as the marketability of women
and the objectivation of female sexuality? How can a video, rather than simply
arguing against capitalism and affirming rigid gender identities, reflect and
produce the expansion of the very space in which we write and speak of the
feminine? There is a need to investigate the interplay between the
symbolization of the feminine and the economic and material reality of women." Ursula Biemann
"...it succeeds in turning the image of the other into the image of onseself, and with it turns the terror into an expression of the need to find a moment of rest." Uri Klein
"Like the "other" who I met in my travels, I began to look at the "other" in my family, namely my parents and grandparents....Seven Hours to Burnis the final product of my understanding of the "other's" past and how it is inextricably a part of myself in the present moment." Shanti Thakur
“Searching for Go-Hyang’s exquisite design and rich, densely layered imagery penetrate deeply into that sacred territory of family and our fantasies
of it.” Patricia R. Zimmerman, Ithaca College
Saturday, April 6
7:00 PM -10:00PM
Refreshments Served
The Match That Started My Fire min)
"Cleverly and whimsically, Cook celebrates the physical world as a kind of pleasure
dome," Reed Johnson, Detroit News
"Maims melodrama forever, excising the hidden history of Hollywood's phantasm of
white female stars served by black women extras. Mandatory for any cinema studies
class," Patricia Zimmermann, Ithaca College
“Onwurah’s award-winning first film is a terrifying heartbreaker,” Ellen Cohn, Village Voice
“Inspiring entertainment for another chapter in the good fight,” Yvonne Rainer
"One of the more interesting young avant-garde filmmakers...Reeves combines visceral
but elliptical images,"Amy Taubin
Village Voice
"Fast-paced, wryly observed, insightful, The Righteous Babes
demolishes the “post” in “post-feminism.” In this video, popular culture — rock music —
rather than marking the end of feminism through the commodification and containment
of its revolutionary promise, instead emerges as a vital and contested ground of
feminism’s on-going possibilities,” Ann Pellegrini
English and Women’s Studies, Harvard University