In Vanda’s Room – 2000: 3:00pm Drama, Foreign Language With the intimate feel of a documentary and the texture of a Vermeer painting, Pedro Costa’s In Vanda’s Room takes an unflinching, fragmentary look at a handful of self-destructive, marginalized people, but is centered around the heroin-addicted Vanda Duarte. (35mm. Portuguese language with English subtitles.) Ne… Read more »
Events
PEDRO COSTA: October 7 @ IU Cinema
Shorts Program (2001-2007): 3:00pm Foreign Language Jonathan Rosenbaum of the Chicago Reader suggests,“Costa’s films are the cinema of the future, partly becauseof their intimate scale. As we get to know them better,they steadily grow in stature.” As we get to know Costa’s feature films, it is important to also see the shorts, in which the… Read more »
SIGN UP: Media-making Workshop for Teens with Akosua Adoma Owusu
Ghanaian-American filmmaker Akosua Adoma Owusu is offering a media-making workshop for teens in conjunction with the Hirshhorn Museum’s ARTLAB+. The workshop, Women Represented, will be held on Wednesday afternoons from October 5 – December 7. Participants will learn how to “read” what contemporary female artists have to say about being a woman today. They will… Read more »
PEDRO COSTA: October 6 @ IU Cinema
Lecture with Pedro Costa: 3:00pm Film Director Pedro Costa will be a Jorgensen Guest Lecturer on October 6th at 3pm in the IU Cinema. The lecture will be in interview format, led by James Naremore Professor Emeritus, IU Department of Communication and Culture, and Darlene Sadlier, Professor, Department of Spanish and Portuguese. Costa’s films have… Read more »
Pedro Costa at IU Cinema: October 6-8
On Thursday, October 6, acclaimed Portuguese director Pedro Costa will give the Jorgensen Guest Filmmaker Lecture at the Indiana University Cinema. The BFC/A is co-sponsoring Costa’s visit to Bloomington for his retrospective, which will take place from October 6 – 8. The retrospective includes the films Down to Earth (1984); Ossos (1997); his complete shorts… Read more »
Mississippi River 9th Ward Film and Arts Festival: Oct 6-9, 2011
Tonight: Mississippi Damned in New Orleans with Director Tina Mabry
The New Orléans Afrikan Film and Arts Festival Project is presenting Tina Mabry’s Mississippi Damned tonight, September 16 at 6:30 pm. Mabry will be in attendance. Location: The New Orleans African-American Museum This screening is a sneak preview of the 2011 Mississippi River 9th Ward Film and Arts Festival. This year’s festival will take place from October 6 –… Read more »
Hispanic Heritage Month at the BFC/A: Focus on Sara Gómez
Today marks the first day of Hispanic Heritage Month, and the BFC/A is honoring Afro-Cuban filmmaker Sara Gómez. Gomez made numerous short documentaries and newsreels for ICAIC, the Cuban national film institute, but is primarily known for her feature film De Cierta Manera (One Way or Another). Here… Read more »
Ebony Goddess at Creatively Speaking Series: Sept 17th
BAMcinématek series Creatively Speaking will screen Ebony Goddess Queen of Ile Aiye as part of the Women on the Verge… aka For Colored Girls… (shorts program). This year, the Creatively Speaking series celebrates what the UN has declared “the Year of People of African Descent,” bringing together a selection of films representing the breadth and diversity… Read more »
Articulations of Memory in Cinemas @ University of Ottawa – Sept 2-3
Articulations of Memory in Cinemas Friday 09/02– Saturday 09/03, 2011 University of Ottawa, Canada The subject of this interdisciplinary and bilingual (French and English) workshop is the articulations of memory in African, diasporic, national, and black cinemas. Representations of memory are linked with the questions of identity and identity structures, because they not only shed… Read more »