PROGRAM 1: May 25th
This is a program that samples international
strategies of re-thinking city living, reclaiming territories,
negotiating urban spaces, and perceiving the relationships
they create. The show includes films from Egypt, Ireland,
Mauritania, Senegal, and the U.S., including an Irish-Mauritania
co-production (the first ever, to our knowledge!). Special
mention goes to the Maison des Cinéastes in Nouakchott,
Mauritania (www.lamaisondescineastes.org), and to our friends
in Alexandria, Egypt, whose online videos kept us up-to-date
during the recent, fantastic Arab Spring.
Ronan Coyle CHRYSALIS (Ireland, 2009, 2
minutes, video)
Rubberbandits HORSE OUTSIDE dir. Peter Foott
(Ireland, 2010, 4 minutes, video)
Les filles du bled KO MI DEBO (Mauritania,
2009, 4 minutes, video)
Alan Lambert OUROBOROS II (Ireland, 2007-11,
2 minutes, video)
Ahmed Talek Ould Taleb Lehiar LA-BAS DANS
LA CAPITALE (Mauritania, 2008, 3 minutes, video)
Ahmed Ghoneimy THE GOOD BOY (Egypt, 2009,
7 minutes, video)
Hugh Mcgrory MAZE (Ireland, 2003, 3 minutes,
Super-8mm/video)
Felix Samba N’diaye LES MALLES (Senegal,
1989, 14 minutes, 16mm)
Moira Tierney NOUAKCHOTT ROCKS (Ireland/Maritania,
2010, 21 minutes, Super-8mm/video)
Total running time: ca. 65 minutes.
PROGRAM 2: CHILDRENS’ FILMS:
May 26th
The first four of these films were shot
during Super-8mm workshops given by the Film Flamme association
in Marseille and by Moira Tierney in Dublin, Fermanagh,
and Toulouse. The children were at total liberty to proceed
as they desired; adult input consisted of technical support
and post-production (the films were primarily edited in-camera;
post production consisted of assembling the images and sound
according to the childrens’ instructions). The fifth
film was shot by children in the Gaeltacht (Irish-speaking
area) of County Cork, Ireland, during a workshop led by
Donal Ó’Céilleachair.
LA DREAM TEAM (2007, 3 minutes, Super-8mm)
LIBERTY KIDS (2006, 5 minutes, Super-8mm)
BELLEFONT 31! (2011, 20 minutes, Super-8mm)
COLLECTIVE FILM (2010, 22 minutes, Super-8mm)
PÉIDHLEACÁN SOLAIS (2008,
5 minutes, 35mm/video)
Total running time: ca. 60 minutes.
PROGRAM 3: May 26th
St. Clair Bourne
THE BLACK AND THE GREEN
1983, 45 minutes, video.
This film, one of St. Clair Bourne’s
most rarely seen, chronicles a fact-finding trip to Belfast
made by five American civil rights activists, including
the Reverend Herbert Daughtry. Drawing a parallel between
the civil rights movement and the troubles in Northern Ireland,
the film documents the activists’ discovery that many
Catholics in Ireland had been influenced by the civil rights
movement. As the WASHINGTON POST reported at the time, “In
the Belfast ghetto, the delegation members are strangers
in a familiar land of crushed tenements, graffiti-stained
walls, and heavily armed law officers.”
Reverend Daughtry and Sandy Boyer, both
of whom are featured in the film, will be here in person
for the screening!
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