The
Second Annual Film Festival
March - April, 2002
Alternative
Visions: A Series of Unapologetically Left Films
Admission:
CFA: $4 students, $5 all others
Squeaky Wheel: $4 members/students, $5 all others
22 March
The Hidden Half
(Tahmineh Milani, 2001)
Center for
the Arts
Screening Room, UB
8:00 pm
The Hidden
Half documents the period after the 1979 Islamic Revolution in Iran
through the memories of a woman confessing an affair to her husband. Milani,
one of Iran's best-known filmmakers, recently won a top prize in the Cairo
International Film Festival for The Hidden Half.
Dr. Piyasuda Pangsapa (UB Department of Women's Studies) will introduce
the film.
To Save the Land and the People
(Anne Lewis, 1999)
Squeaky Wheel
175 Elmwood
8:00 pm
A documentary about a grassroots environmental organization that took on big business in order to preserve their land and their lives told from a working-class perspective not always found in environmental organizations.
Lewis will be on hand to introduce her film, and will conduct a workshop prior to the screening (7:00).
Stranger with a Camera (Elizabeth Barrett, 2000).
Squeaky Wheel
175 Elmwood
8:00 pm
Barrett's film documents an Appalachian community's response and resistance to its representation in President Johnson's War on Poverty, through the lens of the murder of Canadian filmmaker Hugh O'Connor.
Mike Schade of the Citizens' Environmental Coalition and Rick Ammerman of Hickory Woods Homeowners for a Clean Environment, Inc. will introduce the film.
Three Songs of Lenin
(Dziga Vertov, 1934)
Squeaky Wheel
175 Elmwood
8:00 pm
With Buffalo band Tassels from a Yardsale providing music for this event, we will have a lively screening of Vertov's last feature film.
The film's three section, "In a Black Prison was my Face," "We Loved Him," and "In the Great City of Stone," explore the life of Vladamir Lenin while showing the effects he had upon his nation and its people.