Events
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The Green Wave
Presented by International House Philadelphia at The Ibrahim Theater at International House February 24, 2012 By providing an animated backdrop for the urgent blog posts and tweets that became a lifeline to Iranian pro-democracy activists, The Green Wave recounts the dramatic events of the most severe domestic crisis in the history of Iran. From the widespread hope of political change in Iran through the 2009 elections to the violent suppression of the mass protests against President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s re-election, filmmaker Ali Samadi Ahadi brings us into the world of Iranian... |
International House Philadelphia |
02/24/12 |
The Ibrahim Theater at International House, Philadelphia |
Cuban Revolutionary Cinema: De cierta manera (One Way or Another)
Presented by International House Philadelphia at The Ibrahim Theater at International House March 1, 2012 De cierta manera layers documentary and fiction, moving adeptly between footage of the demolition of slums just outside of Havana in the early years of transition and reconstruction of the Revolution; footage of the rituals of the Abacuá, a secret and all-male religious society dating to slavery; and the story of a revolutionary romance between Mario, a bus driver who can question but not break from the discourse of machismo, and Yolanda, a school teacher who struggles with the... |
International House Philadelphia |
03/01/12 |
The Ibrahim Theater at International House, Philadelphia |
Directors in Focus: Peter Rose
Presented by International House Philadelphia at The Ibrahim Theater at International House March 3, 2012 Peter Rose is a professor in the Media Arts department at the University of the Arts. His works in film, video, installation and performance have received extensive national and international exhibition, including shows at the Whitney Museum, the Museum of Modern Art, the Centre Pompidou, the Philadelphia Museum, the Yokohama Museum of Art, the Fabric Workshop and Museum, the Rotterdam International Film Festival and the Film Society of Lincoln Center.
For over forty years I... |
International House Philadelphia |
03/03/12 |
The Ibrahim Theater at International House, Philadelphia |
Archive Fever! 3.0: Women Art Revolution
Presented by International House Philadelphia at The Ibrahim Theater at International House March 7, 2012 Co-presented by the Institute of Contemporary Art at the University of Pennsylvania. dir. Lynn Hershman-Leeson. US, 2010, 35mm, 85 mins, color
An entertaining and revelatory “secret history” of feminist art, Women Art Revolution deftly illuminates this under-explored movement through conversations, observations, archival footage and works of visionary artists, historians, curators and critics. Starting from its roots in 1960s antiwar and civil rights protests, the... |
International House Philadelphia |
03/07/12 |
The Ibrahim Theater at International House, Philadelphia |
Motion Pictures–American Independent Cinema: Wanda
Presented by International House Philadelphia at The Ibrahim Theater at International House March 8, 2012 Cited by film critic Jonathan Rosenbaum as one of the 100 greatest American films ever made, Barbara Loden’s neo-realist gem centers on her brilliant performance as a rural Pennsylvanian housewife embarked upon a flight to nowhere, traveling through an American landscape of decrepit factories, two-lane wastelands and ratty motels. Dragged seemingly by the wind into a relationship with small-time crook, Loden’s Wanda floats through her life as if witness to it; a view of... |
International House Philadelphia |
03/08/12 |
The Ibrahim Theater at International House, Philadelphia |
The Janus Collection: Onibaba
Presented by International House Philadelphia at The Ibrahim Theater at International House March 10, 2012 Deep within the wind-swept marshes of war-torn medieval Japan, an impoverished mother and her daughter-in-law eke out a lonely, desperate existence. Forced to murder lost samurai and sell their belongings for grain, they dump the corpses down a deep, dark hole and live off of the meager spoils. When a bedraggled neighbor returns from the skirmishes, lust, jealousy, and rage threaten to destroy the trio’s tenuous existence. Driven by primal emotions, dark eroticism, a frenzied score by... |
International House Philadelphia |
03/10/12 |
The Ibrahim Theater at International House, Philadelphia |
Reelblack Presents: The Barrel of a Gun
Presented by International House Philadelphia at The Ibrahim Theater at International House March 13, 2012 This feature-length documentary offers the most comprehensive examination to date of the murder of white Philadelphia police officer Daniel Faulkner and the conviction of black journalist-turned-cab-driver Mumia Abu-Jamal. The case has ignited world-wide controversy, with Abu-Jamal’s arrest and trial becoming a cause célèbre for celebrities, foreign dignitaries and human rights campaigners. For Faulkner supporters, however, the controversy serves as smoke and mirrors to... |
International House Philadelphia |
03/13/12 |
The Ibrahim Theater at International House, Philadelphia |
Full Exposure: You are all Captains (Todos vos sodes capitains)
Presented by International House Philadelphia at The Ibrahim Theater at International House March 14, 2012 A further entry in the rapidly proliferating, rich vein of documentary/fiction hybrids, You are all Captains channels the genre-bending and sensitivity towards children found in the best work of Abbas Kiarostami and François Truffaut. Director Laxe stars as a self-described “neo-colonialist” filmmaker who goes to Tangiers ostensibly to hold a series of workshops for disadvantaged street children. It quickly becomes clear, however, that his intentions are not purely... |
International House Philadelphia |
03/14/12 |
The Ibrahim Theater at International House, Philadelphia |
Cuban Revolutionary Cinema: Maluala
Presented by International House Philadelphia at The Ibrahim Theater at International House March 15, 2012 Set in a slightly ambiguous moment of either the late 18th or early 19th century Cuba, Maluala unambiguously presents the palenques, the historical communities of runaway slaves (cimarrones), hidden by the mountains of the Sierra Maestra in eastern Cuba and hunted by the Spaniards. Part of Giral’s trio of films including El otro Francisco and Rancheador, in Maluala one distinctly encounters the sacred rituals of the cimarrones, trading amongst each other, and with rogues... |
International House Philadelphia |
03/15/12 |
The Ibrahim Theater at International House, Philadelphia |
Sonic Arts Union: Hardware Hacking Workshop with Nicolas Collins
Presented by International House Philadelphia at The Ibrahim Theater at International House March 17, 2012 Composer, musician and professor Nicolas Collins leads a workshop in “hardware hacking.” Assuming no technical background whatsoever, these workshops guide the participants through a series of sound-producing electronic construction projects, from making simple contact microphones, through “bending” toys, to making oscillators and other circuits from scratch. The curriculum is drawn from Collins’ book, Handmade Electronic Music—The Art of Hardware... |
International House Philadelphia |
03/17/12 |
The Ibrahim Theater at International House, Philadelphia |
Sonic Arts Union: Gordon Mumma Performed by Jenny Lin and Conrad Harris
Presented by International House Philadelphia at The Ibrahim Theater at International House March 17, 2012 Preceded by a talk by Nicolas Collins at 7pm
Highly-regarded contemporary music interpreters Jenny Lin and Conrad Harris perform recent works by Gordon Mumma. Mumma studied piano and horn in Chicago and Detroit, and began his career as an active horn player in symphonic and chamber music. He co-founded with Robert Ashley the Cooperative Studio for Electronic Music and the now-historic ONCE Festivals of Contemporary Music. Gordon Mumma was among the first composers to employ... |
International House Philadelphia |
03/17/12 |
The Ibrahim Theater at International House, Philadelphia |
Everything Is Terrible! Presents DoggieWoggiez! PoochieWoochiez!
Presented by International House Philadelphia at The Ibrahim Theater at International House March 19, 2012 Those krazed VHS-hunting pupz from Everything Is Terrible! (everyone’s favorite found footage chop shop) are back with their third inner-eye-opening feature – containing a feat never before attempted in either human or canine history. EIT! asks but a few simple questions: 1) What if we made a movie composed entirely out of dog-related found footage?; 2) What if this magical movie, made up of thousands of other dog movies, was also a remake of Alejandro Jodorowsky’s 1973... |
International House Philadelphia |
03/19/12 |
The Ibrahim Theater at International House, Philadelphia |
Adaptations Film Series: Le Million
Presented by International House Philadelphia at The Ibrahim Theater at International House March 21, 2012 An impoverished artist discovers he’s purchased a winning lottery ticket at the very moment his creditors come to collect. The only problem is, the ticket is in the pocket of his coat, which he left at his girlfriend’s apartment, who gave the coat to a man hiding from the police, who sells the coat to an opera singer who uses it during a performance. By turns charming and inventive, René Clair’s lyrical masterpiece had a profound impact on not only the Marx Brothers... |
International House Philadelphia |
03/21/12 |
The Ibrahim Theater at International House, Philadelphia |
You Don’t Like the Truth – 4 Days inside Guantanamo
Presented by International House Philadelphia at The Ibrahim Theater at International House March 22, 2012 You Don’t Like the Truth – 4 Days inside Guantanamo is a stunning documentary created from security camera footage of an encounter in Guantanamo Bay between a team of Canadian intelligence agents and Canadian citizen Omar Khadr, then a 16-year-old detainee. Based on seven hours of video footage recently declassified by the Canadian courts, the film delves into an unfolding high-stakes game of cat and mouse between captor and captive over a four-day period. Maintaining a... |
International House Philadelphia |
03/22/12 |
The Ibrahim Theater at International House, Philadelphia |
The Price of Sex
Presented by International House Philadelphia at The Ibrahim Theater at International House March 23, 2012 Intimate and revealing, The Price of Sex is about young Eastern European women drawn into a world of sex trafficking and abuse, told by the women who refused to be silenced by shame, fear, and violence. Emmy-nominated photojournalist Mimi Chakarova, who grew up in Bulgaria, takes us on a personal journey exposing the shadowy world of sex trafficking from Eastern Europe to the Middle East and Western Europe. Filming undercover and gaining extraordinary access, Chakarova illuminates how... |
International House Philadelphia |
03/23/12 |
The Ibrahim Theater at International House, Philadelphia |
Granito: How to Nail a Dictator
Presented by International House Philadelphia at The Ibrahim Theater at International House March 24, 2012 Part political thriller, part memoir, Granito takes us through a haunting tale of genocide and justice that spans four decades, two films, and filmmaker Pamela Yates’s own career. Granito is a story of destinies joined together by Guatemala’s past and of how When the Mountains Tremble, a documentary from 1982, emerges as an active player in the present by becoming forensic evidence in a genocide case against a military dictator. In an incredible twist of... |
International House Philadelphia |
03/24/12 |
The Ibrahim Theater at International House, Philadelphia |
Adaptations Film Series: Ken Jacobs
Presented by International House Philadelphia at The Ibrahim Theater at International House March 28, 2012 Ken Jacobs was born in Brooklyn, NY, in 1933. He studied painting with Hans Hofmann, one of the prime creators of Abstract Expressionism in the mid-fifties. It was then that he also began filmmaking (Star Spangled To Death). In 1967, with the involvement of his wife Florence and many others aspiring to a democratic, rather than demagogic cinema, he created The Millennium Film Workshop in New York City. A nonprofit filmmaker’s co-operative open to all, it made available film... |
International House Philadelphia |
03/28/12 |
The Ibrahim Theater at International House, Philadelphia |
Cuban Revolutionary Cinema: Cecilia
Presented by International House Philadelphia at The Ibrahim Theater at International House March 29, 2012 The film that is storied to have led to the temporary displacement of Alfredo Guevara from his presidency of the ICAIC (Instituto Cubano del Arte y la Industria Cinematográficos), Cecilia has been heavily, if not scathingly, debated in circles of Cuban film and art critics. An adaptation of the 19th century novel Cecilia Valdés, the film radically reconceives the story of a mulata so light that she can “pass,” and of such beauty that her one tool for... |
International House Philadelphia |
03/29/12 |
The Ibrahim Theater at International House, Philadelphia |
Mixed Messages: Marshall McLuhan and the Moving Image
Presented by International House Philadelphia at The Ibrahim Theater at International House March 30, 2012 Marshall McLuhan is one of the most recognized cultural theorists of the 20th century. His books Understanding Media, The Guttenberg Galaxy, and The Medium is the Massage are landmark texts that distilled the rapid changes in technology, communication and philosophy in the increasingly global society of post-war America. As television became a popular medium throughout the 1960s, McLuhan recognized its potential for social transformation and conjured a utopian ideal that... |
International House Philadelphia |
03/30/12 |
The Ibrahim Theater at International House, Philadelphia |
Mixed Messages: Marshall McLuhan Panel Discussion
Presented by International House Philadelphia at The Ibrahim Theater at International House March 31, 2012 This panel discussion further investigates the influence of Marshall McLuhan within the realm of moving image art. Join media artists Peter d’Agostino, Tom Sherman and Gerd Stern for a lively discussion ranging from the origins of intermedia art practice to issues of participation and dissemination in media art works. The session will be moderated by Rebecca Clemen (EAI) and is free and open to the public. |
International House Philadelphia |
03/31/12 |
The Ibrahim Theater at International House, Philadelphia |
This Is Marshall McLuhan: The Medium Is the Massage
Presented by International House Philadelphia at The Ibrahim Theater at International House March 31, 2012 Originally broadcast in 1967 as part of NBC’s Experiments with Television, this portrait of Marshall McLuhan is far from the typical television documentary. Featuring performances by Nam June Paik and Charlotte Moorman, commentary by Allan Kaprow and Malcolm Morely and a host of pop culture icons, This is Marshall McLuhan innovatively captures the media environment McLuhan so eloquently describes. |
International House Philadelphia |
03/31/12 |
The Ibrahim Theater at International House, Philadelphia |
Suzanne Suzanne + Finding Christa
Presented by International House Philadelphia at The Ibrahim Theater at International House April 4, 2012 Suzanne Suzanne
dir. Camille Billops and James V Hatch, US, 1982, DVD, 30 mins, b/w
A young woman’s successful struggle to confront the legacy of a loving but sometimes abusive father provides inspiration and insight for all who seek to allay the long term damage of child abuse.
Finding Christa
dir. Camille Billops and James V Hatch, US, 1991, DVD, 55 mins, color
Placed for adoption at the age of four, a teenaged Christa... |
International House Philadelphia |
04/04/12 |
The Ibrahim Theater at International House, Philadelphia |
An Evening with Juan Daniel F Molero: Reminiscencias
Presented by International House Philadelphia at The Ibrahim Theater at International House April 6, 2012 Reminiscencias explores identity, autobiography, and the creation and loss of memory. A young man suffering from amnesia uses 8mm home movies and videos from his cell phone to puzzle out his own history. Is this dramatic process reality, or is it a canny fiction?
Followed by a discussion with director Juan Daniel Molero. |
International House Philadelphia |
04/06/12 |
The Ibrahim Theater at International House, Philadelphia |
Reelblack Presents: The Last Fall
Presented by International House Philadelphia at The Ibrahim Theater at International House April 10, 2012 Professional football player Kyle Bishop returns to his hometown after a turbulent stint in the NFL and struggles to find his place in life while coming to grip with a fact that he’s retired and still in his mid-20s. Things begin to look up for Kyle when he starts spending time with his former high school girlfriend Fait and her young son. After Kyle lands a job at a nearby gym, he starts to think that maybe it’s time to settle down and start a family. But when a major NFL team... |
International House Philadelphia |
04/10/12 |
The Ibrahim Theater at International House, Philadelphia |
Full Exposure: Empty Quarter
Presented by International House Philadelphia at The Ibrahim Theater at International House April 11, 2012 Empty Quarter is set in Lake, Harney and Malheur counties of Southeast Oregon. An area populated by ranching and farming communities, the region is roughly one-third of Oregon’s landmass yet holds less than 2% of the state’s population.
Borrowing from earlier forms of documentary, rather than subscribing to a modern form of documentary replete with talking heads and B-roll images, Empty Quarter presents stark portraits, waiting to be explored and... |
International House Philadelphia |
04/11/12 |
The Ibrahim Theater at International House, Philadelphia |
Sonic Arts Union: Perfect Lives
Presented by International House Philadelphia at The Ibrahim Theater at International House April 14, 2012 This film will play continuously with starting times at 1pm, 4pm, and 7pm (single full-day admission).
Commissioned by The Kitchen and co-produced with Great Britain’s arts network Channel Four, Perfect Lives is an opera for television in seven half-hour episodes. First broadcast in Great Britain in April 1984, Perfect Lives has since been seen on television in Austria, Germany, Spain and the United States, and has been shown at film and video festivals... |
International House Philadelphia |
04/14/12 |
The Ibrahim Theater at International House, Philadelphia |
The Good Life with Andrew Lampert
Presented by International House Philadelphia at The Ibrahim Theater at International House April 15, 2012 Artist-Filmmaker-Troublemaker Andrew Lampert returns for an intimate evening of irregular films and the world premiere of a major new “contracted cinema” performance piece. Whether making short films, videos, installations or live performances, Lampert’s work explores contemporary conditions of cinema spectatorship by using humor and formal investigations to get at the heart of what it is that makes images moving. From found footage mash-ups to first-person confessionals,... |
International House Philadelphia |
04/15/12 |
The Ibrahim Theater at International House, Philadelphia |
Archive Fever! 3.0: The Extraordinary Voyage with A Trip to the Moon
Presented by International House Philadelphia at The Ibrahim Theater at International House April 18, 2012 This fascinating documentary charts Moon’s voyage from the fantastical Méliès’ production in 1902 to the astonishing rediscovery of a color nitrate print in 1993 to the premiere of the new restoration on the opening night of the Cannes Film Festival in 2011. Interviews with some of contemporary cinema’s most imaginative filmmakers including Costa-Gavras, Michel Gondry, Martin Scorsese, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Michel Hazanavicius, attest to... |
International House Philadelphia |
04/18/12 |
The Ibrahim Theater at International House, Philadelphia |
Cuban Revolutionary Cinema: Suite Habana
Presented by International House Philadelphia at The Ibrahim Theater at International House April 19, 2012 A cinematic homage to the city of Havana and its inhabitants, Suite Habana resists the reading of Cuba as a place that is stuck in time. In the course of one day and one night, the documentary shows figures in constant if also conflictive motion. A film filled with sounds and cuts of spoken words, Suite Habana relays no audible dialogue. What does a film of no audible dialogue visually suggest? The mechanics of life at its most basic overdetermine all talk, or, at least, the filmic desire to... |
International House Philadelphia |
04/19/12 |
The Ibrahim Theater at International House, Philadelphia |
Hej! Scandinavia Film Series: Songs from the Second Floor
Presented by International House Philadelphia at The Ibrahim Theater at International House April 21, 2012 Songs from the Second Floor
dir. Roy Anderson, Sweden/France/Denmark, 2000, 35mm, 98 mins, color, Swedish w/ English subtitles
One evening somewhere in our hemisphere, a strange series of illogical events take place. A clerk is made redundant in a degrading manner; a lost immigrant is violently attacked in a busy street; a magician makes a terrible error in his act. Sleep on this night does not come easily to the citizens of this town. The following day, the signs of... |
International House Philadelphia |
04/21/12 |
The Ibrahim Theater at International House, Philadelphia |
