ZVS Media Posts Tagged ‘general-public’
Avant Cinema 3.8: Caroline Koebel
Event Date(s) / Time: Thu, 29 Apr, 2010 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM Details: Perhaps best known to the Austin audience as “Booboo” in Spectres of the Spectrum (1999, Dir: Craig Baldwin, DP: Bill Daniel), Caroline Koebel—a recent transplant from Brooklyn—has been exhibiting her experimental films and video art internationally since the early 1990s. Informed by conceptual art, film theory and feminism, her work provokes new modes of aesthetic and critical engagement with such subjects as early cinema, commodity culture, and the maternal eye. Avant Cinema features Flicker On Off, her current series re-purposing big-budget movies as a platform to engage world affairs, including global warming, the assassination of Benazir Bhutto, and the Haditha Massacre.
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Avant Cinema 3.8: Caroline Koebel
Doc Tour: HARLAN: IN THE SHADOW OF JEW SUSS
Event Date(s) / Time: Wed, 24 Mar, 2010 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM Details: Even more than Leni Riefenstahl, film director Veit Harlan was Hitler and Goebbel’s favorite Third Reich filmmaker. He made films in the 1930s which extolled Nazi family values within melodramatic forms. Then in 1939 Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels gave Harlan the most important assignment of his career – to make a gripping, mob-stirring film of Jew S
Essential Cinema: VIOLENCE AT NOON
Event Date(s) / Time: Tue, 30 Mar, 2010 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM Details: An amoral drifter enters a home to terrorize a maid (Shino), whom he has known earlier on a farm, but he ends up raping and killing the mistress of the house.
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Essential Cinema: VIOLENCE AT NOON
Essential Cinema: THE PLEASURES OF THE FLESH
Event Date(s) / Time: Tue, 23 Mar, 2010 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM Details: After a student is raped, her teacher murders the rapist.
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Essential Cinema: THE PLEASURES OF THE FLESH
Essential Cinema: JAPANESE SUMMER: DOUBLE SUICIDE
Event Date(s) / Time: Tue, 9 Mar, 2010 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM Details: In a post-apocalyptic Japan, streets are deserted except for the military and police. A young woman is on the road looking for love, but fate attaches her to a military deserter who is more intent on suicide than sex.
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Essential Cinema: JAPANESE SUMMER: DOUBLE SUICIDE
