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Events
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- STRANGER WITH A CAMERA
21c Museum Hotel
Tuesday, December 15 at 8:00pm - Between the Folds
Fern Creek Traditional High School
Thursday, November 19 at 3:30pm - Films of Sean Anderson
Al Smith Fellowship Filmmaker Tour ...
Tuesday, October 20 at 7:00pm - HOME MOVIE DAY
Filson Historical Society
Friday, October 16 at 9:00am - SLEEPDEALER
Speed Museum
Thursday, October 15 at 5:30pm - 2ND KENTUCKY SHORT FILM & VIDE...
21c Museum Hotel Park Garage Rooftop
Tuesday, September 15 at 7:00pm - Warren Oates Weekend!
Floyd Theatre @ U of L
Sunday, September 13 at 2:00pm - Art & Copy
21C Museum Hotel
Thursday, August 27 at 7:30pm - James Baker Hall Documentary -...
21c Museum Hotel
Tuesday, August 18 at 7:00pm - Filmmaker Tony Balko in Person!
21c Museum Hotel
Tuesday, July 21 at 7:00pm
Kiley
Remember that the deadline for the Lexington Film League's 'DO-ERS
Video Contest' is January 15th, 2010! Head to www.lexingtonfilmleague.org for more info.
Louisville Film Society Young@Heart today at 3:30pm and 6pm at Fern Creek HS. Free! Hope you can join us in supporting Community Cinema and Louisville's first student run independent movie theater!
Louisville Film Society If you missed Stranger With a Camera, you can still catch it on video! An important film and especially relevant for KY folks, LFS encourages you to check it out - Wild and Woolly has a copy as of this evening - just in time for Ladies Night (Rent one Get 1 Free)
Louisville Film Society Young@Heart - Thursday - FREE
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Fern Creek High School sophomore Elizabeth Priddy hates being in front of a camera, but she's learning that she likes filmmaking from behind the lens.
Louisville Film Society Meet Filmmaker Elizabeth Barret Tonight and talk about her classic KY doc Stranger With a Camera.
Meet Filmmaker Elizabeth Barret - FREE
Location:21c Museum Hotel
Time:8:00PM Tuesday, December 15th
Louisville Film Society
STRANGER WITH A CAMERA investigates the circumstances surrounding a swift, cold-blooded murder that shocked America. In 1967 noted Canadian filmmaker Hugh O'Connor was hired by New York producer Francis Thompson to direct a segment of a film titled US, depicting the breadth of the American experience. The film was comm...issioned by the United States Department of Commerce to screen in the USA pavilion at Hemisfair '68. It was intended to provide a survey of American life - its many achievements, as well as its troubled communities. O'Connor was drawn to Letcher County in eastern Kentucky, where President Johnson had declared a "War on Poverty" in a massive program of economic and social reform launched in 1964.
At that point in American history, eastern Kentucky's Appalachian region had become a metaphor for all that was wrong with the American Dream. In 1963 the publication of Night Comes to the Cumberlands, by Kentucky lawyer Harry M. Caudill, eloquently described the poverty and economic exploitation of the southern Appalachian region, a region supported primarily by coal mining. His book shocked and galvanized citizens, politicians and journalists nationwide. Soon reporters from national newspapers swarmed into the region, followed by international film crews, network TV journalists, magazine reporters, politicians such as President Lyndon Johnson and Bobby Kennedy, and hundreds of young and idealistic VISTA volunteers.
While many of the area's residents were thankful for the attention, many others-both rich and poor-were not. Many local merchants, businessmen and professionals were angered by the media's portrayal of their world as one of backward ignorance. They resented the armies of do-gooders out to "save" them, regarding them as dangerous outsiders and agitators. Among those enraged by the media attention was an eccentric elderly landlord, Hobart Ison, who took strong exception to the media's presence on his land. When Hugh O'Connor filmed mining families living in shacks on Ison's land, Ison became enraged and shot and killed him.
In STRANGER WITH A CAMERA, filmmaker Elizabeth Barret, who was born and raised in the region, explores the tensions that led to the murder, and the issues that linger still, a generation later. Barret narrates the film, describing her childhood and teenage memories growing up in a middle-class home in eastern Kentucky. By her own account, her teenage memories of high school fun and family vacations stood in stark contrast to the hunger and poverty depicted in the national media. The story of Hugh O'Connor and Hobart Ison would acquire additional significance for Elizabeth Barret when she began to study filmmaking at Appalshop, a regional media arts center whose mission was to teach local people to film and document their own culture.
STRANGER WITH A CAMERA probes the tragic encounter between a mountain man and a filmmaker to explore today's unresolved questions concerning media images and the individual's lack of power to define oneself within the American landscape. Eloquent interviews representing multiple, conflicting perspectives shed new light on the creation and consumption of media images in society. STRANGER WITH A CAMERA combines a fascinating look at a complexly motivated crime with an insightful exploration of how the media affects the communities it chronicles.
Persons appearing in the film include the coal miner who was filmed by Hugh O'Connor, the crew and producers of US, the local lawyer who defended Ison, longtime Letcher County residents and local journalists. Footage of Calvin Trillin reading passages from his 1969 New Yorker magazine account of the murder and 1960s War on Poverty film clips lend an additional richness to the film.
At its core STRANGER WITH A CAMERA is a meditation on the power of the media and how that power affects the people it portrays, for both good and bad-sometimes doing both simultaneously. As Barret says in the film, "Can filmmakers show poverty without shaming the people we portray? I came to see that there was a complex relationship between social action and social embarrassment. As a filmmaker, I live every day with the implications of what happened."
Meet Filmmaker Elizabeth Barret - FREE
Time:8:00PM Tuesday, December 15th
Location:21c Museum Hotel
Louisville Film Society Interesting followup on Bhopal - for people who have seen Mimi Pickering's Chemical Valley, it will have special meaning.
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A gas disaster that happened 25 years ago has not been cleaned up because Dow Chemical has not acknowledged responsibility.
Louisville Film Society Recent Martha Colburn/Jad Fair collaboration
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Jad Fair and Lumber Rob. Visuals by Martha Colburn. Knitting Factory, NY.NY. Nov. 2009
Louisville Film Society Edited by Louisville Native Drew Kilcoin - this Friday only @ Village 8!
Location:Village 8 Theaters
Time:7:30PM Friday, December 4th
Louisville Film Society Last Chance to see a Global Lens Film - this Sunday @ The Ali Center
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Just one day from completing their military training, three conscripts desert their camp and escape into the frozen wilderness of Northern Iran. Travel through this mountainous, snowbound region is dangerous, ...
Louisville Film Society Join LFS, Fern Creek High School, KET and UofL Thursday for Community Cinema Screening of Between the Folds at 3:30pm or 6:00pm at Fern Creek High School's theater. Panel discussion will follow 3:30pm screening!
Louisville Film Society
BETWEEN THE FOLDS. Think origami is just paper planes and cranes? Meet a determined group of theoretical scientists and fine artists who have abandoned careers and scoffed at graduate degrees to forge new lives as modern-day paper folders. Together they reinterpret the world in paper, creating a wild mix of sensibilit...ies towards art, science, creativity and meaning.
COMMUNITY CINEMA
BETWEEN THE FOLDS
Thursday, November 19, 2009
3:30 PM Followed by Panel Discussion
6:00 PM Followed by a Community Discussion
Free & Open to the Public
Fern Creek Traditional High School
SPONSORS
LFS, KET, Fern Creek Traditional High School, Fern Creek Traditional High School Alumni Association, Commonwealth Center for the Humanities & Society at UofL, Independent Lens, ITVS
Community Cinema
Time:3:30PM Thursday, November 19th
Location:Fern Creek Traditional High School
Louisville Film Society TONIGHT - Apalshop Alum Mimi Pickering presents her films, including a doc about Hazel Dickens (9 PM) and clips from her new film about Anne Braden (7 pm). 21c - Nov. 17 - FREE
Louisville Film Society
TONIGHT - The Osso Quartet w/Special Appearance by Sufjan Stevens featuring his film 'The BQE' @ 21c Musuem Hotel
Doors 7:30, Show 8:00pm
$10 advance tickets
$12 at the door
The Osso Quartet will perform their most recent album Run Rabbit Run, the first full-length album composition by Sufjan Stevens in four years. The... evening will feature works from the album as well as a special screening of Stevens' The BQE - a cinematic suite inspired by the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway and the Hula-Hoop. Sufjan Stevens will introduce his film.
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Photography by Reuben Kleiner and Sufjan Stevens-- Music by Sufjan Stevens-- Edited by Malcolm Hearn, Rueben Kleiner, and Sufjan Stevens-- Released by Asthmatic Kitty Records on October 20, 2009 http://asthmatickitty.com/the-bqe
Louisville Film Society Tonight - Local Filmmaker Ron Schildknecht will present his 20th Anniversary DVD Editions of “The Legend of the Pope Lick Monster” and “My Porcelain Past” will be celebrated at Molly Malone's Irish Pub on October 28th at 7:00 p.m.
