Two powerful, eye-opening programs deconstruct and recontextualize women’s complex relationship with Islam in Iranian culture and society. Ranging from experimental film and video to documentaries, the works draw attention to ways women are posited both within Islam and at its border, with codes of sexual propriety, veiling and separation functioning as signifiers of a condition fraught with contradiction and hope.Artists include Haleh Anvari, Samira Eskandarfar, Loghman Khaledi, Firouzeh Khorosvani, Nassrin Nasser, Pooya Razi, Jinoos Taghizadeh and Nikoo Tarkhani. Part of the Los Angeles/Islam Arts Initiative (LA/IAI), which links nearly 30 L.A. institutions to explore traditional and contemporary arts from Islamic…
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Writer-director Benedikt Erlingsson’s startling “Of Horses and Men” was Iceland’s official 2014 Oscar submission. Erlungsson’s wry dramedy, set in an isolated smallholder community in rural Iceland, is the most original first film by an actor (“The Boss Of It All’) turned director since George Clooney’s bold “Confessions of a Dangerous Mind.” Erlingsson’s harsh comedy is a rich mix of lusty wit, bone-dry humor, and rural dispatch. Passionate but without a scrap of sentimentality, it’s a horse story like no other, a paean to Iceland’s pure strain of horses. These famous pony-sized horses, developed from ponies brought to Iceland by Scandinavian…
Over the course of Filmforum series Alternative Projections we screened several works by the artist Richard Newton. He has consistently tested the boundaries of performance, media, and materials over a practice now stretching over forty years. Newton has made a large number of films and videos along with his installations and performances, sharing his same concerns, with some confronting the laws of the land or the rules of good taste, some seemingly casual, others rigorous. We’re delighted to bring a set of works by Newton, both old and new, with the artist in person, extending our looks at performance and…
PALO ALTO, Calif., Sept. 10, 2013 — HP today announced the expansion of its Z portfolio of professional workstation and display products, including the world’s first workstation Ultrabook™—the HP ZBook 14(1)—and the industry’s first line of workstations to offer Intel’s Thunderbolt technology for high-speed data transfer. The new portfolio includes three new HP ZBook Mobile Workstations, processor and graphics enhancements to the award-winning line of HP Z Desktop Workstations, and two new HP Z Displays. The HP Z family of products is engineered to meet the needs of the world’s most demanding customers, where mission-critical operations require the best performance…
The Consul General of Belgium, Ambassador Rudi Veestraeten presents the screening of IN THE NAME OF THE SON as part of their monthly “GRIT AND WHIMSY: THE BEST OF RECENT BELGIAN CINEMA” series. This film will be screened on Wednesday, September 18th, 2013 at 7:30 pm at the Aero Theatre 1328 Montana Ave, Santa Monica, CA 90403. IN THE NAME OF THE SON (Au Nom Du Fils)2013, Intramovies, 80 min., Dir : Vincent LannooLife is divine for devout Elisabeth (Astrid Whettnall), mother of two and host of the “Christian Hope Radio” show – until family tragedy brings a pedophile priest…
Two Italian short films will be screened at the 2013 Palm Springs ShortFest, International Short Film Festival and Market. Saturday, June 22, 1:30 PM – Camelot TheatresFOLLOW MEItaly, 2013, 11 Minute Running TimeUS PremiereLanguage: Italian English Sub-TitlesThis deliciously inventive tale plays with the audience’s perceptions of reality as Chiara and Michael lead us on an odyssey through time and space. Director: Matteo TondiniProducer: Roberto RondinelliScreenwriter: Matteo TondiniCinematographer: Luca NervegnaPrincipal Cast: Michael Capozzi, Benedetta Zoli, Michele GaudenziSunday, June 23, 11:30 AM – Camelot TheatresTHE NIGHTSHIFT BELONGS TO THE STARSItaly, 2012, 24 Minute Running TimeLanguage: Italian, English English Sub-TitlesMatteo a passionate mountain…
LOS ANGELES, CA – The Franco-American Cultural Fund, a partnership of the DGA, MPA, WGAW and France’s Society of Authors, Composers and Publishers of Music (SACEM), announced today that The Attack, directed by Ziad Doueiri and written by Ziad Doueiri and Joelle Touma (based on Yasmina Khadra’s book L’Attentat), walked away with three honors, including the COL*COA Audience Award. The Critics Special Prize also went to the film as well as the new Coming Soon Award, a prize given in association with KPCC 89.3, to a film presented with an attached U.S. distributor. The Attack was presented at COLCOA as…
BERLIN, Feb. 17, 2013 — Angela Hawkins calls it like she sees it, and on a good day she sees the European Film Market as the rough equivalent of a human zoo. While visiting the Market one afternoon, we found this delightful inhabitant tending to her “cage,” as she fondly dubs German Film Service + Marketing stand. We asked her opinion of which recent German movies might be able survive the Darwinian jungle of a U.S. theatrical release. “I just saw Doris Dörrie’s Kirschblüten (Cherry Blossoms), which I think would do very well in the American market, at least I…
Los Angeles Filmforum brings the 16mm show of the Ann Arbor Film Festival Tour to Los Angeles, a great program of short films including recent experimental, narrative, documentary and animated films from across the US all in 16mm. Featuring two films from LA as well, and multiple premieres in Los Angeles!The highlights are constant. Several makers intensely deal with materials, sometimes film, sometimes other sources (yarn or garbage or old film clips) to find their beauty. Explorations of natural and intensely human-built spaces; abstractions; fun and games; books and classic tales; pinhole lenses and the electric currents on which our…
MELBOURNE International Film Festival, which launched its full program yesterday, boasts world and Australian premieres and titles fresh from Cannes, but this year there is also a distinct retrospective element. Notably, there is a focus on the work of pioneering French theorist and filmmaker Jean Epstein. ”I think it is really important to have silent films alongside new films and among other retrospectives, to keep that alive,” says MIFF artistic director Michelle Carey. Epstein, who was an important figure in the 1920s avant garde, has recently been the subject of a new book and MIFF will be screening archival prints from the Cinematheque…