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SUMMARY:Ackland Film Forum: "In The Family" Watch Party and Panel
DESCRIPTION:This fall\, in collaboration with the Film Studies Programs in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at UNC-Chapel Hill\, the Ackland Film Forum presents an all virtual series on Queer Cinema. View the selected films on your own or join us for a watch party with the filmmaker. Watch parties will be followed by a live post-film panel discussion with the filmmaker and area scholars. \nThe second film in our Queer Cinema series will be In the Family (Patrick Wang\, 2011\, 169 minutes). The Independent Spirit Award-nominated debut of acclaimed filmmaker Patrick Wang (A Bread Factory\, The Grief of Others)\, In The Family is a heartfelt story woven around child custody\, two-Dad families\, loss\, interracial relations\, the American South\, and the nature of what it means to be in a family\, all explored with ambitious and rewarding nuance. \nTuesday\, November 10\, 2020\nIn the Family Watch Party and Panel \nLinks to both the streaming film (available Nov 6-12) and panel are provided with registration. Register here. \n6 p.m.\nWatch In the Family along with filmmaker Patrick Wang and share your thoughts and questions for the filmmaker on Twitter. #AcklandFilmForum \n9 p.m.\nFollowing the watch party\, join director Patrick Wang\, Heidi Kim (English and Comparative Literature and Director of the Asian American Center\, UNC-Chapel Hill)\, and Martin Louis Johnson (English and Comparative Literature\, UNC-Chapel Hill) for a virtual post-film discussion. \nThis event is co-sponsored by the Asian American Center at UNC-Chapel Hill and the UNC University Libraries.\n \nThe Ackland Film Forum series on Queer Cinema is sponsored in part by the Laughing Gull Foundation.
URL:https://events.ackland.org/event/in-the-family-watch-party-panel/
LOCATION:Zoom (Link Provided with Ticket)\, United States
CATEGORIES:Ackland Film Forum,Talks,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Ackland Film Forum: "Queer Genius" Watch Party & Panel
DESCRIPTION:This fall\, in collaboration with the Film Studies Programs in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at UNC-Chapel Hill\, the Ackland Film Forum presents an all virtual series on Queer Cinema. View the selected films on your own or join us for a watch party with the filmmaker. Watch parties will be followed by a live post-film panel discussion with the filmmaker and area scholars. \nThe first film in the series\, Queer Genius\, explores the remarkable lives of five queer female artists: Barbara Hammer\, Eileen Myles\, Black Quantum Futurism\, Moor Mother\, and Dynasty Handbag / Jibz Cameron. Queer Genius will be available to stream for Ackland Film Forum audiences October 9-15\, 2020\, with a watch party and panel on Tuesday\, October 13. \nOctober 13\, 2020 | Queer Genius Watch Party and Panel \n7 p.m.\nWatch Queer Genius along with filmmaker Chet Pancake and share your thoughts and questions for the filmmaker on Twitter. #AcklandFilmForum \n9 p.m.\nFollowing the watch party\, join Chet Pancake\, film scholars Franklin D. Cason Jr. (North Carolina State University) and Sarah Keller (University of Massachusetts Boston)\, and special guest Florrie Burke for a virtual post-film discussion. The panel will be moderated by Martin Louis Johnson (UNC-Chapel Hill). \nLinks to both the streaming film and panel are provided with registration. Register below. \n—\nAbout the Panelists: \nChet H. Pancake is an award-winning filmmaker and sound artist. Chet’s work has been presented nationally and internationally in a wide variety of venues\, including the Museum of Modern Art\, Royal Ontario Museum\, Baltimore Museum of Art\, Academy of Fine Arts Prague and Big Screen Plaza\, Herald Square NYC. Pancake’s awards include the Paul Robeson Independent Media Award\, Jack Spadaro Documentary Award\, Maryland State Arts Council Individual Artist Award\, the Silver Chris\, and Edes Foundation Emerging Artist Fellowship at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and the Pew Center for Arts & Heritage “No Idea Too Ridiculous” grant. Chet’s films have been broadcast in the U.S.A. and Great Britain (Sundance Channel\, PBS\, FreeSpeech TV\, CommunityChannelUK) and are distributed by Bullfrog Films and the Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre. Sound art releases can be found on Ehse Records and Recorded in Baltimore. Pancake completed an MFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in May 2012. Chet is currently a member of the Vox Populi Gallery in Philadelphia\, PA.. Pancake was recently commissioned by Goldsmiths at University of London to provide creative work for “Citizen Sense”\, a 1.5M (EUR) multi-year project directed by Dr. Jennifer Gabrys. \nDr. Franklin D. Cason Jr. is a filmmaker and film scholar\, who has taught courses in film theory\, history\, aesthetics\, criticism\, and analysis. His research interests have been primarily concerned with film\, modern visual culture\, and media studies. As such\, his writing and artistic practice reaches across the disciplines of art history\, film studies\, digital multimedia\, graphic novels\, philosophy\, sociology\, literature\, musicology\, aesthetic theory\, visual studies\, and historical poetics. His most recent essay\, “Symbiopsychotaxiplasticity: Some Takes on William Greaves\,” co-authored with Tsitsi Jaji\, was recently published in Cultural Studies (28:4\, 2014)\, in a special issue on Theorizing Production\, edited by John Jackson. Currently\, he is at work on an intellectual biographical documentary on African American Philosopher Alain Locke\, and completing a book on the institutional context of the politics and aesthetics of African American films. \nDr. Sarah Keller is Associate Professor of English and Director of Cinema Studies at University of Massachusetts Boston. She has lectured and published extensively on women and film history and aesthetics. Her book Maya Deren: Incomplete Control examines the role of unfinished work through Maya Deren oeuvre (Columbia University Press\, 2014)\, and her book Anxious Cinephilia was published in 2020 by Columbia University Press. Her current project\, Barbara Hammer: Pushing Out of the Frame\, is a study of the career of visual artist and experimental filmmaker Barbara Hammer for Wayne State University Press’s Queer Screens Series\, edited by David Gerstner. \nDr. Martin L. Johnson is assistant professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His first book\, Main Street Movies: The History of Local Film in the United States\, was published by Indiana University Press in 2018. He is currently working on two projects—a history of advertising film in the U.S.\, and a history of early (pre-1923) educational cinema.\n \nAckland Film Forum is sponsored in part by the Laughing Gull Foundation.
URL:https://events.ackland.org/event/queer-genius-watch-party-panel/
LOCATION:Ackland Art Museum\, 101 S. Columbia Street\, Chapel Hill\, NC\, 27514\, United States
CATEGORIES:Ackland Film Forum,Talks,Virtual
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SUMMARY:CANCELED: Ackland Film Forum: "Ash is Purest White" (dir. Zhangke Jia\, People's Republic of China\, 2018)
DESCRIPTION:The Ackland Art Museum has canceled this program as part of our response to the spread of coronavirus COVID-19 and based on recommendations from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Any additional updates will be posted on the Museum’s website.\nAsh is Purest White  \nZhangke Jia\, People’s Republic of China\, 2018 \nIntroduced by Rick Warner\, UNC Dept. of English & Comparative Literature \n2h 16m \nFILM SYNOPSIS \nA tragicomedy initially set in the jianghu-criminal underworld-setting\, ASH IS PUREST WHITE is less a gangster movie than a melodrama. With a three-part structure\, it begins by following the quick-witted Qiao (Tao Zhao) and her mobster boyfriend Bin (Fan Liao) as they stake out their turf against rivals and upstarts in 2001 postindustrial Datong before expanding out into an epic narrative of how abstract forces shape individual lives\, and continues Zhangke Jia’s body of work as a record of 21st-century China and its warp-speed transformations. \nTICKETS \nTickets available at the Varsity Theatre\, 123 E. Franklin St. \n____________________________________________________________________________________________ \nABOUT THE SERIES \nThe Ackland Film Forum’s Spring 2020 series The Patterned Screen: Rhythm and Repetition in Contemporary Asian Cinema is organized by the UNC Global Cinema Studies program in the Department of English and Comparative Literature\, and the Ackland Art Museum. The series is presented in connection with the Ackland’s exhibition Yayoi Kusama: Open the Shape Called Love (on view through April 12\, 2020). The exhibition is organized by Peter Nisbet\, Deputy Director for Curatorial Affairs. Yayoi Kusama: Open the Shape Called Love presents the distinguished collection of James Keith Brown ’84 and Eric Diefenbach.
URL:https://events.ackland.org/event/acklandfilmforum032420/
LOCATION:Varsity Theatre\, 123 E. Franklin Street\, Chapel Hill\, NC\, 27514\, United States
CATEGORIES:Ackland Film Forum
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SUMMARY:Ackland Film Forum: "The Grandmaster" (dir. Wong Kar-wai\, 2013\, South Korea)
DESCRIPTION:The Grandmaster\n \nWong Kar-wai\, Hong Kong\, 2013 \n2h 2m \nFILM SYNOPSIS \nWong Kar-Wai\, best known for his films “In the Mood for Love” and “Chungking Express\,” is has been a fixture of international art cinema for two decades. Coming to filmmaking from a background in design\, Wong’s films are richly textured\, stunningly photographed\, often driven by mood more than plot\, and edited to a contemplative pace. “The Grandmaster” finds him returning to the martial arts genre\, which he previously explored in “Ashes of Time.” This story follows the life and times of legendary kung fu master\, Ip Man (played by Tony Leung)\, a figure famous in the West for having been Bruce Lee’s teacher. The film also features Chinese star Zhang Yiyi (known for her breakout role in “Crouching Tiger\, Hidden Dragon”) in a role that bridges the genres of martial arts and melodrama. Don’t miss the rare opportunity to see this gorgeously crafted film on the big screen! \nTICKETS \nTickets available at the Varsity Theatre\, 123 E. Franklin St. \n____________________________________________________________________________________________ \nABOUT THE SERIES \nThe Ackland Film Forum’s Spring 2020 series The Patterned Screen: Rhythm and Repetition in Contemporary Asian Cinema is organized by the UNC Global Cinema Studies program in the Department of English and Comparative Literature\, and the Ackland Art Museum. The series is presented in connection with the Ackland’s exhibition Yayoi Kusama: Open the Shape Called Love (on view through April 12\, 2020). The exhibition is organized by Peter Nisbet\, Deputy Director for Curatorial Affairs. Yayoi Kusama: Open the Shape Called Love presents the distinguished collection of James Keith Brown ’84 and Eric Diefenbach.
URL:https://events.ackland.org/event/ackland-film-forum-031620/
LOCATION:Varsity Theatre\, 123 E. Franklin Street\, Chapel Hill\, NC\, 27514\, United States
CATEGORIES:Ackland Film Forum
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SUMMARY:Ackland Film Forum: "Mother" (dir. Bong Joon-ho\, 2009\, South Korea)
DESCRIPTION:Mother \nBong Joon-ho\, South Korea\, 2009 \nIntroduction by I Jonathan Kief\, Assistant Professor of Korean Studies\, UNC-Chapel Hill\, Department of Asian Studies \n2h 9m \nFILM  SYNOPSIS \nAn early murder mystery from the director of Academy Award-winning “Parasite” (2019)\, “Mother” offers an exquisitely complex narrative and the eccentric mix of suspense and comedy for which Bong has become known. When her son is wrongly accused of a crime\, an elderly widow must take both the law\, and the streets\, into her own hands to prove him innocent. A shocking story few contemporary filmmakers would have been able to capture in such a sensitive and engaging manner. \nTICKETS \nTickets available at the Varsity Theatre\, 123 E. Franklin St. \n____________________________________________________________________________________________ \nABOUT THE SERIES \nThe Ackland Film Forum’s Spring 2020 series The Patterned Screen: Rhythm and Repetition in Contemporary Asian Cinema is organized by the UNC Global Cinema Studies program in the Department of English and Comparative Literature\, and the Ackland Art Museum. The series is presented in connection with the Ackland’s exhibition Yayoi Kusama: Open the Shape Called Love (on view through April 12\, 2020). The exhibition is organized by Peter Nisbet\, Deputy Director for Curatorial Affairs. Yayoi Kusama: Open the Shape Called Love presents the distinguished collection of James Keith Brown ’84 and Eric Diefenbach.
URL:https://events.ackland.org/event/filmforum021820/
LOCATION:Varsity Theatre\, 123 E. Franklin Street\, Chapel Hill\, NC\, 27514\, United States
CATEGORIES:Ackland Film Forum
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200204T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200204T193000
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SUMMARY:Ackland Film Forum Talk: "Intermedial Feeling: How Kon Satoshi Animates the Self"
DESCRIPTION:Talk by Thomas Lamarre\, Middle Eastern and Asian Studies\, Duke University \nThe animated films of Kon Satoshi are often praised for the depth of their psychological portrayals.  But how exactly is psychological depth produced in animation?   To answer this question\, I propose to consider the production of depth in animation in general\, in order to situate the distinctiveness of Kon’s style — in particular\, his use of framing techniques inspired by manga and his tendency to apply techniques of compositing to characters.  A closer look at how these procedures allow Kon to “animate the self” also opens a way to consider some of the criticisms of his films\, in particular\, the criticism they produce psychological depth only by pathologizing characters associated with excessive consumption\, such as otaku and cinephiles\, gamers and advertisers. \nPart of the Triangle Film Salon series\, presented by the UNC-Chapel Hill Department of English and Comparative Literature and the Ackland Film Forum: The Patterned Screen: Rhythm and Repetition in Contemporary Asian Cinema \nLOCATION \nART& Space \nEvening Parking information \nFree and open to the public. \n____________________________________________________________________________________________ \nABOUT THE SERIES \nThe Ackland Film Forum’s Spring 2020 series The Patterned Screen: Rhythm and Repetition in Contemporary Asian Cinema is organized by the UNC Global Cinema Studies program in the Department of English and Comparative Literature\, and the Ackland Art Museum. The series is presented in connection with the Ackland’s exhibition Yayoi Kusama: Open the Shape Called Love (on view through April 12\, 2020). The exhibition is organized by Peter Nisbet\, Deputy Director for Curatorial Affairs. Yayoi Kusama: Open the Shape Called Love presents the distinguished collection of James Keith Brown ’84 and Eric Diefenbach.
URL:https://events.ackland.org/event/ackland-film-forum-talk-intermedial-feeling-how-kon-satoshi-animates-the-self/
LOCATION:Ackland Art Museum\, 101 S. Columbia Street\, Chapel Hill\, NC\, 27514\, United States
CATEGORIES:Ackland Film Forum,Talks
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200203T210000
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SUMMARY:Ackland Film Forum: "Paprika" "(Kon Satoshi\, 2006\, Japan)
DESCRIPTION:February 3\, 2020: Paprika \nKon Satoshi\, Japan\, 2006 \nIntroduced by Rick Warner\, UNC Dept. of English & Comparative Literature \n1h 30m \nA psychological thriller from one of Japan’s greatest animators\, “Paprika” is a tale that blurs the line between reality and nightmare. Dr. Atsuko Chiba works as a scientist by day and\, under the code name ‘Paprika\,’ a dream detective by night. When a device intended to help psychiatric patients falls into the wrong hands\, she must spring into action (and the minds of others) before damage is done. You will see how Christopher Nolan’s “Inception” took inspiration from the premise of this wildly entertaining film. \n***Supplemental to Paprika is a Triangle Film Salon lecture titled: “Intermedial Feeling: How Kon Satoshi Animates the Self.” Presented by Thomas Lamarre (Duke University)\, the lecture will take place the following day\, February 4th\, at 5:30 PM in the ART& space at the Ackland. \nTICKETS \n$7; Free with UNC One Card \nTickets available at the Varsity Theatre\, 123 E. Franklin St. \n____________________________________________________________________________________________ \nABOUT THE SERIES \nThe Ackland Film Forum’s Spring 2020 series The Patterned Screen: Rhythm and Repetition in Contemporary Asian Cinema is organized by the UNC Global Cinema Studies program in the Department of English and Comparative Literature\, and the Ackland Art Museum. The series is presented in connection with the Ackland’s exhibition Yayoi Kusama: Open the Shape Called Love (on view through April 12\, 2020). The exhibition is organized by Peter Nisbet\, Deputy Director for Curatorial Affairs. Yayoi Kusama: Open the Shape Called Love presents the distinguished collection of James Keith Brown ’84 and Eric Diefenbach.
URL:https://events.ackland.org/event/ackland-film-forum-paprika/
LOCATION:Varsity Theatre\, 123 E. Franklin Street\, Chapel Hill\, NC\, 27514\, United States
CATEGORIES:Ackland Film Forum
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191119T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191119T210000
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SUMMARY:Ackland Film Forum: 3000 Nights
DESCRIPTION:Ackland Film Forum: Recent Films by Arab Women Filmmakers\nTuesdays\, Oct 29\, Nov 5\, Nov 12\, Nov 19 | 7 PM at the Varsity Theatre \nNovember 19\, 2019: 3000 Nights \nMai Masri\, Palestine\, 2016 \nIntroductory Remarks by Nadia Yaqub (Asian Studies\, UNC-Chapel Hill) \nSYNOPSIS \nInspired by a true story and shot in a real prison\, 3000 Nights traces a young mother’s journey of hope\, resilience and survival against all odds. Accused of helping a teenage boy on the run\, newlywed Palestinian schoolteacher\, Layal finds herself incarcerated in a top security Israeli prison for Palestinian and Israeli women. After Layal discovers that she is pregnant\, the prison director pressures her to abort the baby and spy on the Palestinian inmates. Terrified but defiant\, Layal gives birth to her child in chains. \nThrough her struggle to raise her son behind bars\, Layal manages to find a sense of hope and meaning to her life. When prison conditions deteriorate and the Palestinian prisoners decide to strike\, the prison director warns her against joining the strike and threatens to take her child away. In a moment of truth\, Layal is forced to make a choice that will forever change her life. \nTICKETS \n$7; Free with UNC One Card \nTickets available at the Varsity Theatre\, 123 E. Franklin St. \nABOUT THE SERIES \nThe Ackland Film Forum’s Fall 2019 series Recent Films by Arab Women Filmmakers is organized by the UNC Department of Asian Studies\, the UNC Global Cinema Studies program in the Department of English and Comparative Literature\, and the Ackland Art Museum. The series is presented in connection with the Ackland’s current exhibition She Who Tells a Story: Women Photographers from Iran and the Arab World (on view through December 1\, 2019). The exhibition was organized by the Museum of Fine Arts\, Boston.
URL:https://events.ackland.org/event/ackland-film-forum-nov-19/
LOCATION:Varsity Theatre\, 123 E. Franklin Street\, Chapel Hill\, NC\, 27514\, United States
CATEGORIES:Ackland Film Forum
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191112T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191112T210000
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SUMMARY:Ackland Film Forum: Women Without Men
DESCRIPTION:Ackland Film Forum: Recent Films by Arab Women Filmmakers\nTuesdays\, Oct 29\, Nov 5\, Nov 12\, Nov 19 | 7 PM at the Varsity Theatre \nNovember 12\, 2019: Women Without Men \nDir. Shirin Neshat\, Iran\, 2009 \nIntroductory Remarks by Ehsan Sheikholharam (Religious Studies\, UNC-Chapel Hill) \nSYNOPSIS \nMade in collaboration with her partner\, filmmaker Shoja Azari\, Neshat’s Women Without Men is an adaptation of the novel by Shahrnush Parsipur\, a book banned in Iran by the censors of the Islamic Republic. Both novel and film recount the journeys of four single women of varying age and social status who wind up meeting in a garden outside of Tehran during the summer of 1953–the eve of the coup d’etat that ousted Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh and restored the Shah to power. \n  \nTICKETS \n$7; Free with UNC One Card \nTickets available at the Varsity Theatre\, 123 E. Franklin St. \n  \nABOUT THE SERIES \nThe Ackland Film Forum’s Fall 2019 series Recent Films by Arab Women Filmmakers is organized by the UNC Department of Asian Studies\, the UNC Global Cinema Studies program in the Department of English and Comparative Literature\, and the Ackland Art Museum. The series is presented in connection with the Ackland’s current exhibition She Who Tells a Story: Women Photographers from Iran and the Arab World (on view through December 1\, 2019). The exhibition was organized by the Museum of Fine Arts\, Boston.
URL:https://events.ackland.org/event/24751/
LOCATION:Varsity Theatre\, 123 E. Franklin Street\, Chapel Hill\, NC\, 27514\, United States
CATEGORIES:Ackland Film Forum
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191105T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191105T210000
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SUMMARY:Ackland Film Forum: Mussolini's Sister
DESCRIPTION:Ackland Film Forum: Recent Films by Arab Women Filmmakers\nTuesdays\, Oct 29\, Nov 5\, Nov 12\, Nov 19 | 7 PM at the Varsity Theatre \nNovember 5\, 2019: Mussolini’s Sister \nDir. Juna Suleiman\, Palestine\, 2018 \nIntroductory Remarks by Yaron Shemer (Asian Studies\, UNC-Chapel Hill) \nSYNOPSIS \nIn a documentary with a dash of fiction\, we enter the mind of the elderly Hiam\, a Palestinian woman from Nazareth. We see her at the hairdresser’s\, waxing her upper lip and shuffling her way to bed. The mundanity of everyday life acquires extra layers of meaning because the filmmaker Juna Suleiman—her granddaughter—accompanies many scenes with internal monologues from Hiam. Gradually we gain a picture of her past: her marriage\, her family and her wealthy brother\, who bears the remarkable first name of Mussolini. \nHiam’s life is nearly over. Just a few threads are left to connect this lonely and embittered woman with the outside world: the telephone\, the TV\, her housekeeper and her 55-year-old son Mbadda. Like Hiam\, he’s blunt and sarcastic. The question rises as to when the present becomes history\, as fragments of TV news gradually transition into old footage of a wedding. Through the protagonist’s oppressively small world\, Mussolini’s Sister takes an original and restrained approach to large themes\, such as arranged marriage\, loneliness\, decline and racism. \nTICKETS \n$7; Free with UNC One Card \nTickets available at the Varsity Theatre\, 123 E. Franklin St. \nABOUT THE SERIES \nThe Ackland Film Forum’s Fall 2019 series Recent Films by Arab Women Filmmakers is organized by the UNC Department of Asian Studies\, the UNC Global Cinema Studies program in the Department of English and Comparative Literature\, and the Ackland Art Museum. The series is presented in connection with the Ackland’s current exhibition She Who Tells a Story: Women Photographers from Iran and the Arab World (on view through December 1\, 2019). The exhibition was organized by the Museum of Fine Arts\, Boston.
URL:https://events.ackland.org/event/ackland-film-forum-nov-5/
LOCATION:Varsity Theatre\, 123 E. Franklin Street\, Chapel Hill\, NC\, 27514\, United States
CATEGORIES:Ackland Film Forum
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191029T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191029T210000
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SUMMARY:Ackland Film Forum: The Blessed
DESCRIPTION:Ackland Film Forum: Recent Films by Arab Women Filmmakers\nTuesdays\, Oct 29\, Nov 5\, Nov 12\, Nov 19 | 7 PM at the Varsity Theatre \n\nOctober 29\, 2019: The Blessed  \nDir. Sofia Djama\, Qatar\, 2017 \n\nSYNOPSIS \nAlgiers\, a few years after the civil war. Amal and Samir have decided to celebrate their twentieth wedding anniversary in a restaurant. While on their way\, their share their views on Algeria: Amal tells about lost illusions and Samir about the necessity to cope with them. At the same time\, their son Fahim and his friends Feriel and Reda are wandering about in a hostile Algiers about to steal their youth. \nTICKETS \n$7; Free with UNC One Card \nTickets available at the Varsity Theatre\, 123 E. Franklin St. \n\nABOUT THE SERIES \nThe Ackland Film Forum’s Fall 2019 series Recent Films by Arab Women Filmmakers is organized by the UNC Department of Asian Studies\, the UNC Global Cinema Studies program in the Department of English and Comparative Literature\, and the Ackland Art Museum. The series is presented in connection with the Ackland’s current exhibition She Who Tells a Story: Women Photographers from Iran and the Arab World (on view through December 1\, 2019). The exhibition was organized by the Museum of Fine Arts\, Boston.
URL:https://events.ackland.org/event/ackland-film-forum-oct-29/
LOCATION:Varsity Theatre\, 123 E. Franklin Street\, Chapel Hill\, NC\, 27514\, United States
CATEGORIES:Ackland Film Forum
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190402T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190402T210000
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SUMMARY:Ackland Film Forum: "The Headless Woman" (2008\, Argentina)
DESCRIPTION:Ackland Film Forum | Spring 2019\nFantastic Voyage: Cinematic Journeys into the Brain \nTuesday\, 2 April 2019 | 7 PM\nVarsity Theatre\, 123 E. Franklin Street\nThe Headless Woman (2008\, Argentina)\, Lucrecia Martel \nOne of the leading filmmakers of New Argentine Cinema\, Lucrecia Martel’s films explore the struggle of the bourgeoisie to keep up appearances even as the world crumbles about them. In The Headless Woman\, Martel’s third feature\, we meet an upper-class woman\, Vero\, who appears to be successfully attending to the chores of her station—gardening\, party planning\, worrying about relatives–when she hits something after being distracted by her cell phone. Over the rest of the film\, we perceive her world as she sees it\, and struggle to solve the mystery of what she actually hit—was it a dog? A child? Or nothing at all? For the remainder of the film\, we watch Vero recover from the trauma of her accident\, and try to solve the mystery therein\, all while everyone around her encourages to forget about what happened. Like Vero herself\, the surface of Martel’s films are deceptively shallow. With each viewing you notice another clue—an errant sound\, a stray image—that underscores of the depth of the deception and resonates with a broader societal impulse\, in Argentina and many other places\, to bury our darkest secrets in hopes that they never resurface. \nABOUT THE SERIES:TICKETS:\nFree for UNC One Card holders; $7 general public. Tickets available at the Varsity Theatre Box Office. \nThe Spring 2019 Ackland Film Forum series “Fantastic Voyage: Cinematic Journeys into the Brain” is organized by the Ackland Art Museum and the UNC-Chapel Hill Department of English and Comparative Literature and presented in connection with the Ackland’s exhibition The Beautiful Brain: The Drawings of Santiago Ramón y Cajal (25 Jan – 7 April 2019).
URL:https://events.ackland.org/event/ackland-film-forum-the-headless-woman-2008-argentina/
LOCATION:Varsity Theatre\, 123 E. Franklin Street\, Chapel Hill\, NC\, 27514\, United States
CATEGORIES:Ackland Film Forum
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190326T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190326T210000
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SUMMARY:Ackland Film Forum: "After Life" (1998\, Japan)
DESCRIPTION:Ackland Film Forum | Spring 2019\nFantastic Voyage: Cinematic Journeys into the Brain \nTuesday\, 26 March 2019 | 7 PM\nVarsity Theatre\, 123 E. Franklin Street\nAfter Life (1998\, Japan)\, D. Hirokazu Kore-eda\, 118 m. \nTICKETS:\nFree for UNC One Card holders; $7 general public. Tickets available at the Varsity Theatre Box Office. \nWith last year’s success of Shoplifters (2018)\, the Japanese director Hirokazu Kore-eda is finally getting the attention he deserves for his closely studied portraits of people living at the margins of society. In his second film\, After Life\, Kore-eda brings together documentary and fiction to explore the limits of human memory to recognize love and cope with grief. The premise of the film is simple. After one dies\, they enter a purgatory-like institution where they have one week to select a memory from their life to carry with them in the next world. The institution’s staff work with the recently deceased to select their memory and then\, in a nod to the miracle of cinema\, work to help recreate the experience so it can be permanently recorded. While Kore-eda’s humanism is on full display in this film\, what stays with you is his insistence that the search for happiness requires a willingness to engage fully with our past\, even those moments we have forgotten or come to regret. \nABOUT THE SERIES:\nThe Spring 2019 Ackland Film Forum series “Fantastic Voyage: Cinematic Journeys into the Brain” is organized by the Ackland Art Museum and the UNC-Chapel Hill Department of English and Comparative Literature and presented in connection with the Ackland’s exhibition The Beautiful Brain: The Drawings of Santiago Ramón y Cajal (25 Jan – 7 April 2019).
URL:https://events.ackland.org/event/ackland-film-forum-after-life-1998-japan/
LOCATION:Varsity Theatre\, 123 E. Franklin Street\, Chapel Hill\, NC\, 27514\, United States
CATEGORIES:Ackland Film Forum
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190319T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190319T210000
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SUMMARY:Ackland Film Forum: "Brainstorm" (1983\, USA)
DESCRIPTION:Ackland Film Forum | Spring 2019\nFantastic Voyage: Cinematic Journeys into the Brain \nTuesday\, 19 March 2019 | 7 PM\nVarsity Theatre\, 123 E. Franklin Street\nBrainstorm (1983\, USA)\, d. Douglas Trumbull\, 106 m. \nTICKETS:\nFree for UNC One Card holders; $7 general public. Tickets available at the Varsity Theatre Box Office. \nHelmed by the special effects pioneer Douglas Trumbull\, whose work on 2001: A Space Odyssey\, Close Encounters of the Third Kind\, Blade Runner\, and many others films has made him a legend\, Brainstorm was intended to be the film that would establish Trumbull as the contemporary of Stanley Kubrick\, Steven Spielberg\, and Ridley Scott. But the drowning death of Natalie Wood\, the film’s star\, toward the end of production delayed the film’s completion\, and the resulting fight over whether the film was worth more in the theaters or as a liability write-off so flustered Trumbull that he gave up on directing altogether. But the film\, almost entirely shot in North Carolina\, is a visionary work on the capacity of virtual reality to blur the lines between what we actually experience\, and what we experience through media technologies. \nWe will have two brief introductions to the film. The first\, from George Smart\, will focus on the depiction of modernist architecture in the film\, including the Burroughs Wellcome building in RTP. Then\, Jose Rodriguez-Romaguera will discuss the film’s portrayal of neuroscience. \nJose Rodriguez-Romaguera is a neuroscientist and postdoctoral fellow in the Stuber Lab at the University of North Carolina. George Smart is a self-described “accidental archivist” and the executive director of North Carolina Modernism Houses and USModernist\, nonprofit organizations that document\, preserve\, and promote Modernist design. He’s also the host of the podcast U.S. Modernist Radio. \nABOUT THE SERIES:\nThe Spring 2019 Ackland Film Forum series “Fantastic Voyage: Cinematic Journeys into the Brain” is organized by the Ackland Art Museum and the UNC-Chapel Hill Department of English and Comparative Literature and presented in connection with the Ackland’s exhibition The Beautiful Brain: The Drawings of Santiago Ramón y Cajal (25 Jan – 7 April 2019).
URL:https://events.ackland.org/event/ackland-film-forum-brainstorm-1983-usa/
LOCATION:Varsity Theatre\, 123 E. Franklin Street\, Chapel Hill\, NC\, 27514\, United States
CATEGORIES:Ackland Film Forum
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190224T143000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190224T160000
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SUMMARY:Ackland Film Forum: "Inside Out" (2015\, USA)
DESCRIPTION:Ackland Film Forum | Spring 2019\nFantastic Voyage: Cinematic Journeys into the Brain \nSunday\, 24 Feb 2019 | 2:30 PM\nAckland Art Museum\nInside Out (2015\, USA)\, dir. Pete Docter\, PG\, 94 m.\nPart of the Ackland’s Family and Friends Sunday program \nTICKETS:\nFree and open to the public! \nEven by Pixar’s high standards\, Inside Out is a triumph of digital animation and storytelling. But what sets Inside Out apart from other films is its use of animation to depict our base emotional responses—joy\, sadness\, fear\, disgust\, and anger—in a manner that is both charming and somehow representative of how our emotions work. \nABOUT THE SERIES:\nThe Spring 2019 Ackland Film Forum series “Fantastic Voyage: Cinematic Journeys into the Brain” is organized by the Ackland Art Museum and the UNC-Chapel Hill Department of English and Comparative Literature and presented in connection with the Ackland’s exhibition The Beautiful Brain: The Drawings of Santiago Ramón y Cajal (25 Jan – 7 April 2019).
URL:https://events.ackland.org/event/ackland-film-forum-inside-out-2015-usa/
LOCATION:Ackland Art Museum\, 101 S. Columbia Street\, Chapel Hill\, NC\, 27514\, United States
CATEGORIES:Ackland Film Forum,F.A.M. (Families at the Museum)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190219T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190219T210000
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SUMMARY:Ackland Film Forum: "Fantastic Voyage" (1966\, USA)
DESCRIPTION:Ackland Film Forum | Spring 2019\nFantastic Voyage: Cinematic Journeys into the Brain \nTuesday\, 19 Feb 2019 | 7 PM\nVarsity Theatre\, 123 E. Franklin Street\nFantastic Voyage (1966\, USA)\, d. Richard Fleischer. 101 m. \nTICKETS:\nFree for UNC One Card holders; $7 general public. Tickets available at the Varsity Theatre Box Office. \nDirected by Richard Fleischer (Soylent Green\, 20\,000 Leagues Under the Sea) and featuring Raquel Welch in her breakout role\, Fantastic Voyage is a Jules Verne-style science fiction adventure film adapted for the Cold War era. Instead of dreaming of trips to the moon or the ocean depths\, scientists are seeking to perfect the miniaturization of the atom. When the story begins\, scientists can miniaturize atoms\, but the effect lasts for just one hour. A Soviet scientist has devised the solution to permanent miniaturization and escapes to the United States with this knowledge. Before he is able to make it to the lab\, he is shot\, and develops a brain clot that is inoperable. A team of pilots\, surgeons\, and scientists\, including Welch\, volunteer to be miniaturized\, along with their ship\, aptly named the Proteus\, and go into the scientist’s body to operate on the clot. Like much of mid-century science fiction\, Fantastic Voyage provides a mix of fabulous set designs\, retrograde gender politics\, and a heady optimism for the future. \nABOUT THE SERIES:\nThe Spring 2019 Ackland Film Forum series “Fantastic Voyage: Cinematic Journeys into the Brain” is organized by the Ackland Art Museum and the UNC-Chapel Hill Department of English and Comparative Literature and presented in connection with the Ackland’s exhibition The Beautiful Brain: The Drawings of Santiago Ramón y Cajal (25 Jan – 7 April 2019).
URL:https://events.ackland.org/event/ackland-film-forum-fantastic-voyage-1966-usa/
LOCATION:Varsity Theatre\, 123 E. Franklin Street\, Chapel Hill\, NC\, 27514\, United States
CATEGORIES:Ackland Film Forum
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