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Programs and ToursScreen Arts and Cultures Film SeriesTogether with UM’s Screen Arts and Cultures program (SAC), UMMA will offer a range of films in the new Helmut Stern Auditorium in the Museum's lower level. LightworksThursday, November 5, 7 pm This program presents a curated selection from past “Lightworks” Festivals, the student-run festival which showcases Screen Arts and Cultures student production projects at the end of each academic term. Memories of Agano: Film Screening and ColloquiumThursday, November 12, 7 pm Markus Nornes, Professor in the Department of Screen Arts and Cultures and Asian Languages and Literature will discuss the film and his ideas about and practice of “abusive subtitling” as it applies to his collaboration with film director Sato Makoto on Memories of Agano. The Power of the Powerless by Cory Taylor (78 min, 2009)Sunday, November 15, 2009, 3 pm AND Tuesday, November 17, 2009, 4 pm A documentary about the difficult moral choices people had to make in communist Czechoslovakia, the nonviolent struggle toward freedom that eventually led to the student inspired “Velvet Revolution” of 1989, and the legacy of apathy left behind 20 years later. This event is cosponsored by the University of Michigan Museum of Art, Center for European Studies-European Union Center, Center for Comparative and International Studies, Center for Russian and East European Studies, International Policy Center, and Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies. Part of the series The Nines: Brinks, Cusps, and Perceptions of Possibility—from 1789 to 2009. UM Screen Arts and Cultures Projectorhead Series
Thursday, November 19, 7 pm A masterful new film from the director of Still Life, 24 City chronicles the dramatic and thunderous fall of a state-owned munitions factory and its conversion into a luxury high-rise apartment complex. Artfully composed, rich in offbeat details, and punctuated with pop songs, 24 City weaves together the stories of three generations of factory workers (some real, some actors—including Joan Chen) into a fascinating oral history of post-revolutionary China and the massive changes transforming the country. Southeast Michigan SalonThursday, December 3, 7 pm This program is part of a “screening exchange” between students at other institutions and the Department of Screen Arts and Cultures at the University of Michigan and will present a selection of work from the College for Creative Studies in Detroit and Washtenaw Community College in Ann Arbor. The Beaches of Agnes by Agnes Varda (2008, 100 minutes)Thursday, December 10, 7 pm A magnificent new film from Agnes Varda, director of Cleo from 5 to 7 and The Gleaners and I, The Beaches of Agnes is a richly cinematic self-portrait, a reflection of art, life, and the movies. |
