Margaret Mead Film Festival 2006

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Margaret Mead Film & Video Festival
American Museum of Natural History
Central Park West at 79th Street
New York, NY 10024
November 8 – 12, 2006
Celebrating 30 Years
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For tickets: 212 769 5200 • Festival office: 212 769 5305 • www.amnh.org/mead
Festival Highlights
2006 – Celebrating 30 Years
Closing Night
Opening Night
“Doc”
Wednesday, November 8
7:00 pm, Program F1
Immy Humes. 2006. (Work in progress)
Before mental illness shattered his promising life, Harold
Louis (“Doc”) Humes co-founded The Paris Review (with
Peter Matthiessen and George Plimpton), wrote two
critically acclaimed novels, directed an underground film,
and designed prefabricated paper houses for the poor.
He was an integral part of the 1950s New York intellectual
scene, a 60s free-speech militant, and a 70s visionary crazy
genius. An early advocate of medical marijuana and
therapeutic massage, he saw us as living in a culture of fear,
manipulated by shadowy government and corporate
powers. His filmmaker daughter, Immy Humes, recounts her
father’s extraordinary life with archival films and audio
recordings, and brings to life three vibrant decades of
American cultural history. Timothy Leary, Norman Mailer,
George Plimpton, the F.B.I., and the C.I.A. are all featured in
this unsentimental portrait of a man and his times.
Discussion with director Immy Humes, musician and Beat
generation ambassador David Amram, and other special guests
Co-presenter: Independent Television Service
Focus on Bonnie Sherr Klein
Inside China
The Mead Festival spotlights the work of author and awardwinning filmmaker Bonnie Sherr Klein, who gained
international acclaim as a member of Challenge for Change
and Studio D, the Women’s Unit
of the National Film Board of Canada,
where she directed the groundbreaking films Not a Love Story: A
Film About Pornography (Program F3),
and Speaking Our Peace: A Film about
Women, Peace, and Power. SHAMELESS:
The ART of Disability (Program F19)
marks her return to filmmaking
after a nearly two-decade absence due to a disabling stroke.
The U.S. premiere of SHAMELESS will be followed by a
community discussion led by Bonnie Sherr Klein and Simi
Linton, director of the New York-based Disability/Arts
organization. Moreover, this year marks the 25th anniversary
of the infamous documentary Not a Love Story. This screening
will be followed by a panel discussion with the filmmaker as
well as scholars and activists in the fields of women’s studies.
This year’s festival features three very different films that
focus on the many issues facing China—from the effort to
maintain traditional practices to realities of globalization
and the AIDS crisis. Micha X. Peled’s China Blue (Program F2)
provides unparalleled access to both the top and bottom
levels of a blue jeans factory in Sichuan province; Ruby Yang’s
The Blood of Yingzhou District (Program F21) traces a year
in the life of children who have lost their parents to AIDS; and
Yang Rui’s The Bimo Records (Program F14) depicts the
disappearing traditions of Bimo clergy among the Yi people.
Hip-Hop Field Report
Games For Change
Hip-hop culture has become
synonymous with youth
culture and plays a significant
economic role in the political
and entertainment markets
throughout the world. This
program, guest curated by
Erika Dalya Muhammad,
is conceptualized as a field
report of the culture’s
influence on pop trends.
This selection of videos
pays tribute to the culture’s
dominant aesthetic. Presented
in collaboration with the
Mount Vernon Hip-Hop Arts
Center and Muhammad’s
Hip-Hop Arts Initiative, the
program features: Roots,
BLING: Consequences and
Repercussions, and Sneakers.
(Program F8)
Video games have come
of age, having surpassed
Hollywood box-office
revenues for the third year
in a row. The games featured
in this special session have a
relationship to documentary
filmmaking because of their
emphasis on social and
political issues. This program
features demos of the
Right to Return/Pioneers
Sunday, November 12
7:00 pm, Program F20
Jonathan Demme, Daniel Wolff, and Abdul Franklin.
2006-2007. (Work in progress)
Right to Return/Pioneers is a powerful project about
the changing human ecology of some of the New Orleans
neighborhoods worst hit by the floods that followed
Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. It features the pioneering
individuals and families who have chosen to exercise their
self-granted “right to return” to their devastated homes
in an effort to rebuild their lives. Discussion with directors
and special guests
Post Katrina
following games: Ayiti:
The Cost of Life, Darfur is
Dying, A Force More Powerful,
and Tropical America, and
will be introduced and
moderated by Suzanne
Seggerman and Benjamin
Stokes from Games for
Change. (Program F15)
The Festival showcases the work of some of America’s leading
filmmakers who have tried to make sense of the Hurricane
Katrina tragedy by seeking out the details behind the headlines.
The Festival presents, in marathon fashion, Spike Lee’s fourhour documentary When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four
Acts (Programs F10 & F11). A powerful chorus of witnesses,
cutting across racial and class lines, contemplate the uncertain
future of the Lower Ninth Ward. The screening will be followed
by a discussion with Sam Pollard, co-producer/editor; Bertha
Lewis, Executive Director, New York ACORN; and noted New
Orleans-born musician, Dr. John. Jonathan Demme and his
collaborators, Daniel Wolff and Abdul Franklin, also initiated a
project — Right to Return/ Pioneers — that will present a year
long record of the human ecology of the New Orleans region.
(Program F20) The Closing Night presentation features clips
that focus on the courageous citizens who suffered through
this calamitous natural, and then political, event. This year’s
post-Katrina programs help to celebrate their spirit.
Margaret Mead Film
& Video Festival
Ticket Information
Please note:
Entrance for screenings is on
77th Street between Central Park
West and Columbus Avenue.
Tickets are not refundable.
Programs are subject to change.
Please check our website for
the most current schedule and
updated information.
All screenings are held at the American Museum of Natural History.
Films are shown in a number of different program formats, ranging from a single full-length
movie to multiple short films. Ticket prices are per program. Tickets may be purchased in advance
for any program on the Festival schedule. Each program is identified by a program code. Please
refer to the program code when ordering tickets.
To Order
By Phone
Call 212 . 769.5200 Monday – Friday, 9 am – 5 pm
Have your credit card, membership category,
and program codes ready when you call.
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are accepted. A service charge applies.
On Line
Visit www.amnh.org/mead to purchase tickets
online. A service charge applies.
On-site Purchase
Mid-October – November 12
Tickets may be purchased during Museum hours
at the Advance Group Sales desk in the Theodore
Roosevelt Rotunda (Central Park West at 79th
Street entrance), and at the Rose Center for Earth
and Space (81st Street entrance).
No service charge.
Ticket Prices
General Public
$9
Members/Students/Senior Citizens
$8
Opening Night film and reception
with filmmakers
(F24) limited to 50
$ 40
When the Levees Broke
(2 programs: F10 & F11)
Members/Students/Senior Citizens
$ 16
Friend of the Festival
$ 99
(F23) The Friend of the Festival package includes:
$ 14
•12 tickets – your choice of programs;
•please specify program codes
•Invitation to the Opening Night film
•and reception for one
November 8-12
During the festival, tickets may be purchased at
the 77th Street entrance, between Central Park West
and Columbus Avenue, one hour prior to show.
No service charge.
Schedule
LeFrak Theater
Wednesday, Nov. 8
7:00 pm Program F1
“Doc” 57 min.
Opening Night
Thursday, Nov. 9
Friday, Nov. 10
Kaufmann Theater
Linder Theater
6:30 pm Program F2
China Blue 88 min.
8:40 pm Program F3
Not a Love Story: A Film
about Pornography 70 min.
6:45 pm Program F4
Shooting Under Fire 72 min.
8:45 pm Program F7
John & Jane Toll-Free 83 min.
6:30 pm Program F8
Hip-Hop Field Report
6:30 pm Program F6
Under the Roller
Coaster 15 min.
8:30 pm Program F5
It Ain’t Disneyland 3:30 min.
The Chances of the World
Changing 99 min.
8:45 pm Program F9
Rain in a Dry Land 83 min.
Roots 5 min.
Today’s Man 55 min.
BLING: Consequences and
Repercussions 11 min.
Sneakers 52 min.
Saturday, Nov. 11
12:30 pm Programs F 10 & F11
When the Levees Broke
255 min. (There will be a
half-hour intermission after
Parts 1 & 2)
6:00 pm Program F12
Flock of Dodos 84 min.
12:45 pm Program F14
The Bimo Records 91 min.
8:30 pm Program F13
The War Tapes 97 min.
3:45 pm Program F15
Games for Change (demos)
Ayiti: The Cost of Life
Darfur is Dying
A Force More Powerful
Tropical America
Sunday, Nov. 12
1:45 pm Program F18
El Inmigrante 90 min.
4:15 pm Program F19
My Beautiful Smile 5 min.
SHAMELESS: The ART
of Disability 72 min.
7:00 pm Program F20
Right to Return/Pioneers
(clips from a work in progress)
Closing Night
1:30 pm Program F21
The Bicycle: Fighting AIDS
with Community Medicine
14 min.
The Blood of Yingzhou
District 39 min.
6:15 pm Program F16
Chronicles of a Professional
Eulogist 7 min.
On the Road with the Red God:
Machhendranath 52 min.
8:00 pm Program F17
Pavee Lackeen (The Traveller
Girl) 87 min.
4:00 pm Program F22
A Map With Gaps 26 min.
How Little We Know of Our
Neighbours 50 min.
Alphabetical Listing
Ayiti: The Cost
of Life
Global Kids, in collaboration
with Game Lab. 2006.
Video Game. (U.S.)
The Bicycle:
Fighting
AIDS with
Community
Medicine
Katerina Cizek. 2005.
14 min. (Canada/Malawi)
World Premiere
The Bimo
Records
Yang Rui. 2006.
91 min. (China) U.S. Premiere
BLING:
Consequences
& Repercussions
Saturday, November 11
Discussion with game makers
With Darfur is Dying,
A Force More Powerful, and
Tropical America
Ruby Yang. 2006.
39 min. (China) NY Premiere
unexpected events. The game
was developed in an afterschool program in which
youth leaders from Global
Kids, in the Playing 4
Keeps program, worked in
partnership with the game
developers at Game Lab.
http://olp.globalkids.org/
Co-presenter:Games for Change
Each day, Pax Chingawale
pedals his bicycle more
than 20 kilometers from
village to village, working
with traditional healers
in a grass-roots effort to
combat the spread of AIDS
in southern Malawi, Africa.
Pax is not a doctor or a nurse,
but an HIV-positive volunteer
who understands the
life- saving importance of
antiretroviral therapy.
This stunning observational
film by a Chinese filmmaker
focuses on the lives of three
Bimo clergy of the Yi people,
one of the ethnic minorities
living in the Da Liangshan
Mountains of China. In this
remote landscape, festivals
and religious traditions
remain an integral part of
Yi life, and the Bimo clergy
conduct rituals that bridge
the worlds between mortals
and ghosts. The old ways
seem safe here, shrouded in
the mist, but assimilation
and modernity are eroding
the traditional ways.
Co-presenter: The Center for
Religion and Media and the
Center for Media, Culture and
History at New York University
Kanye West’s music video,
Diamonds from Sierra Leone,
introduced the topic of
conflict diamonds to urban
communities and BLING
further educates the hip-hop
generation about the murder
and carnage caused by
the world’s greed for this
precious gem.
Sunday, November 12
Discussion with Morris Rossabi,
Columbia University, Adjunct
Associate Professor of Early
Chinese and Inner Asian History
and Sara (Meg) Davis, Ph.D.,
Executive Director of Asia Action
With The Blood of Yingzhou
District
Discussion with director and
Angela Zito, NYU Associate
Professor of Anthropology
and Religious Studies,
Director of the Religious
Studies Program and
Founder/Co-director of
the Center for Religion
and Media
Friday, November 10
6:30 pm, Program F8
With Roots and Sneakers
Kareem Edouard. 2005.
11 min. (U.S.)
The Blood
of Yingzhou
District
This innovative video game
allows the player to assume
the role of various family
members living in rural Haiti.
Over the course of the game,
the player balances goals
such as getting an education,
making money, staying
healthy, and seeking happiness
while encountering
Sunday, November 12
Discussion with director; Morris
Rossabi, Columbia University,
Adjunct Associate Professor of
Early Chinese and Inner Asian
History; Sara (Meg) Davis,
Ph.D., Executive Director of
Asia Action
With The Bicycle: Fighting AIDS
with Community Medicine
Narrated by hip-hop legend
Chuck D, BLING: Consequences
and Repercussions tackles
the issues behind hip-hop’s
obsession with diamonds
and the continued illegal
diamond trade in Africa.
Gao Jun is an orphan with
severe challenges. Both
his parents have died from
AIDS, and the toddler is also
HIV-positive. Residents in his
remote village in southeast
China, including some of his
extended family, won’t go
near him, mistakenly fearing
they could catch the deadly
Co-presenter: Open Society
Institute
Co-presenter: The Mount
Vernon Hip-Hop Arts Center
virus. The Blood of Yingzhou
District documents a year in
the life of Gao Jun and other
children in several villages
of Anhui Province who have
lost their parents to AIDS
in a region where traditional
obligations to family and
village collide with terror of
the disease.
Co-presenter: Open Society
Institute
The Chances
of the World
Changing
Eric Daniel Metzgar. 2005.
99 min. (U.S.)
China Blue
Micha X. Peled. 2005.
88 min. (U.S./China)
NY Premiere
Chronicles of
a Professional
Eulogist
Sarah Jane Lapp. 2005.
7 min. (U.S.)
Darfur is Dying
Susana Ruiz, Ashley York &
Huy Truong. 2006.
Video Game. (U.S.)
“Doc”
Immy Humes. 2006.
57 min.
(Work in progress)
With It Ain’t Disneyland
Thursday, November 9
6:30 pm, Program F2
Discussion with Mickey Spiegel,
Senior Researcher, Human
Rights Watch; Xudong Zhang,
Professor and Chair, Dept.
of East Asian Studies; Sharon
Hom, Executive Director of
Human Rights in China and
Professor Emeritus of Law, CUNY
School of Law; and Michael
Santoro, Business School
Professor, Rutgers University
China Blue takes us inside
a blue jeans factory in
Southern China where we
follow the lives of Jasmine
and her friends, young
working girls struggling
to fulfill the impossible
obligations forced upon them
Discussion with Jonathan
Milder (the narrator)
In this hand-drawn animated
short, a rabbi takes us
on an amusing philosophical
journey as he considers his
role as a “grief facilitator.”
With On the Road with the
Red God: Machhendranath
Discussion with game makers
With Ayiti: The Cost of Life,
A Force More Powerful, and
Tropical America
Wednesday, November 8
7:00 pm, Program F1
Discussion with director
Immy Humes, musician
and Beat generation
ambassador David Amram,
and other special guests
Opening Night
Flock of Dodos
Randy Olson. 2006.
84 min. (U.S.)
A Force More
Powerful
The International Center
on Nonviolent Conflict &
York Zimmerman Inc. 2006.
Video Game. (U.S.)
How Little We
Know of Our
Neighbours
Rebecca Baron. 2005.
50 min. (U.K.) NY Premiere
An extraordinary document
of two years in the life of
Richard Ogust, a writer who
enters strange territory as he
finds himself struggling to
save the lives of hundreds of
endangered turtles.
8:30 pm, Program F5
George Amato, Director,
Conservation Genetics, AMNH
Discussion with senior game
producer Steve York
Darfur is Dying, and Tropical
America
Sunday, November 12
With A Map with Gaps
by the factory’s owner. The
complexities of globalization
are brought to a human
level through these moving
portraits of the young workers
who make our clothes.
This video game attempts
to put the player in the shoes
of one of the 2.5 million
refugees who are fighting
for survival every day in
the Darfur region of Sudan.
Players learn about some
of the challenges refugees
and displaced persons face,
as well as how to take action
to help stop the crisis. The
game was developed for the
Darfur Digital Activist Contest
that was launched by mtvU
Before mental illness shattered
his promising life, Harold Louis
(“Doc”) Humes co-founded
The Paris Review, wrote two
critically acclaimed novels,
directed an underground film,
and designed prefabricated
paper houses for the poor. He
was an integral part of the
1950s New York intellectual
scene, a 60s free-speech
militant, and a 70s visionary
crazy genius. An early advocate
of medical marijuana and
therapeutic massage, he saw
us as living in a culture of
fear, manipulated by shadowy
government and corporate
powers. His filmmaker
daughter recounts her father’s
extraordinary life with archival
films and audio recordings,
and brings to life three
vibrant decades of American
cultural history. Timothy
Leary, Norman Mailer, George
Plimpton, the F.B.I., and the
C.I.A. are all featured in
this unsentimental portrait
of a man and his times.
Panel discussion with director;
Joel Cracraft, Lamont Curator,
Department of Ornithology,
AMNH; and others
A Force More Powerful is
the first and only interactive
teaching tool in the field of
nonviolent conflict. Developed
with design assistance
from some of the Serbian
resistance leaders who
Abandoning his literary
work, Ogust transforms his
Manhattan apartment
into a veritable “Noah’s ark”
filled with 1,200 endangered
turtles. As his passion turns
into an enterprise, an epic
Co-presenter: American
Documentary/P.O.V.
Co-presenter: Asian CineVision
in partnership with the Reebok
Human Rights Foundation and
the International Crisis Group.
Co-presenter: Games for Change
Co-presenter: Independent
Television Service
Who are the dodos in the
current debate over evolution
versus intelligent design?
Marine biologist turned filmmaker Randy Olson travels
the country in search of an
answer. He starts with his
82-year-old mother who is
neighbors with the top lawyer
for intelligent design in
Olson’s home state of Kansas,
which is the epicenter of the
controversy. This film gets
beyond the tedium of the
helped overthrow Slobodan
Milosevic in 2000, the game
simulates nonviolent struggles
to win freedom and secure
human rights against dictators,
occupiers, colonizers, and
corrupt regimes, as well as
campaigns for political
and human rights for
minorities and women.
www.afmpgame.com
This provocative video essay
about surveillence explores
the British “mass observation”
movement, a social science
enterprise founded in the
late 1930s in England that
combined anthropology
tale unfolds, creating a new
breed of dramatic nature film
featuring time, death, love …
and turtles.
“debate” of who’s right and
who’s wrong. Instead, it explores
how those who embrace each
side are “communicating” their
ideas to the public.
Co-presenter: Seed Magazine
with surrealism. The film
traces the history of the
movement, from its inception
as a progressive, if naïve,
“anthropology of ourselves”
to its reincarnation as a civil
spy unit during World War II
and its eventual emergence
as a market research firm in
the 1950s.
Co-presenter: The Vera List
Center for Art and Politics,
The New School
El Inmigrante
David Eckenrode,
John Sheedy, John
Eckenrode. 2005.
90 min. (U.S./Mexico)
It Ain’t
Disneyland
Martin Orton and
Greg Villalobos. 2006.
3:30 min. (U.K.)
John & Jane
Toll-Free
Ashim Ahluwalia. 2005.
83 min. (India)
A Map
With Gaps
Alice Nelson. 2006.
26 min. (Scotland)
NY Premiere
My Beautiful
Smile
Angele Brener. 2005. 5 min.
(Senegal) U.S. Premiere
Not a Love Story:
A Film About
Pornography
Sunday, November 12
Discussion with Dr. Josh DeWind,
Director of the Migration
Program at the Social Science
Research Council; Robert
C. Smith, Associate Professor
of Immigration Studies
at Baruch College and the
Graduate Center, CUNY;
Joel Magallan, Executive
Director of Tepeyac; and
a representative from the New
York Immigration Coalition
8:30 pm, Program F5
With The Chances of the
World Changing
Sunday, November 12
With How Little We Know of
Our Neighbours
(The Traveller Girl)
Anne Makepeace. 2006.
83 min. (U.S./Kenya)
dream of America. Welcome
to the world of offshore
call centers.
Twenty-five years after its
release, this infamous film
packs no less of a punch than
it did upon its first screening.
A story of the odyssey of two
women, Bonnie Sherr Klein,
the director of the film, and
Linda Lee Tracey, a stripper, it
sets out to explore the world
of peep shows, strip joints,
and sex supermarkets. Both
protagonists are motivated
by the desire to know more
about pornography — why it
exists, the forms it takes,
and how it affects relations
between men and women.
The film offers insights and
perspectives from the men
and women who earn their
living in the porn trade and
The Machhendranath Raath
Jaatra is Kathmandu Valley’s
oldest, lengthiest, and most
spectacular festival. Celebrated
once every 12 years, it features
a race between two unwieldy
chariots that are pulled by
rope through the narrow
city streets of Patan. The larger
chariot bears a carved and
painted figure of the deity
Rato Machhendranath, while
a smaller one carries his
godson Minnath. During the
four-kilometer journey, which
can take a month, thousands
of worshipers gather to
celebrate the gods with
offerings, music, and other
auspicious acts.
Director Perry Ogden casts
conventional plotting aside
in this hybrid documentary/
fiction film, with an unsparing
and unsentimental portrait
of Ireland’s marginalized
Traveller community. With a
hand-held digital camera
and the cooperation of a real
Traveller family, the filmmaker
follows 10-year-old Winnie,
recently suspended from
school, who lives with her
alcoholic mother and various
siblings in a single cramped
trailer in industrial Dublin.
Ogden collaborated with his
cast to create the characters
Rigorously intimate and
disarmingly affectionate,
Rain in a Dry Land chronicles
18 months in the lives of
two Somali Bantu families,
brought to the United States
from the Kakhuma Refugee
Camp in Kenya. As they
struggle to reconcile their
fantasies of American life
with its disconcerting realities,
the filmmaker unveils a
riveting portrait of families
in transition, shedding light
on the conflicting notions
of what it means to be
(or become) an American.
Friday, November 10
8:45 pm, Program F9
Co-presenter: Indo-American
Arts Council
Co-presenter: The Vera List
Center for Art and Politics,
The New School
8:40 pm, Program F3
and others
With Chronicles of a
Professional Eulogist
Co-presenter: Cinema Tropical
With so much focus on
whiter teeth, why not whiten
yours the Senegalese way?
A look at what Senegalese
women will endure for a
beautiful smile.
With SHAMELESS: The ART
of Disability
Perry Ogden. 2005.
87 min. (Ireland)
Rain in
a Dry Land
work night shifts selling
everything from insurance to
pancake molds. Bridging
continents by telephone, they
pitch products and soothe
frayed consumer nerves. As
they troubleshoot, they
Soviet Russia in the early 1970s
in a van he built and named
“Supervan.” Truth can indeed
be stranger than fiction, and
sometimes the gray area
between the two is the most
interesting place to explore.
Sunday, November 12
Kesang Tseten. 2006.
52 min. (Nepal) NY Premiere
Pavee Lackeen
Using a combination of
archive audio recordings, still
photographs, drama
reconstruction, and animation,
this surreal and comic tale
is an account of a journey made
by the director’s father through
diverse, including Eusebio’s
family in Mexico, the community
of Brackettville, Texas, the
horseback border patrol in
El Paso, and other migrants en
route to the United States.
Their perspectives come
together to create a moving
political commentary on the
current state of border issues.
center for the community’s
young people. This animated
short, created by teens at
the center, gives life to their
successful partnership.
An intimate portrait of young
South Asians who work
at call centers in Mumbai.
Assuming American names
such as Nicky, Naomi, and
Glen, these new members of
the global white-collar class
Friday, November 10
8:45 pm, Program F7
Discussion with Vyjayanthi
Rao, Assistant Professor
of Anthropology and
International Affairs,
New School University
Bonnie Sherr Klein. 1981.
70 min. (Canada)
On the Road with
the Red God:
Machhendranath
When the residents and local
police in a British housing
development came together,
the result was a much-needed
This film explores the
American and Mexican border
crisis, illuminated by the
story of Eusebio de Haro, a
young Mexican migrant who
was shot and killed during
one of his journeys north.
This event becomes the point
of departure for a far more
multi-layered border tale,
one that’s especially relevant
in the face of our nation’s
current immigration dispute.
The cast of this film is
Co-presenter: Human
Rights Watch International
Film Festival
from some of pornography’s
most outspoken critics.
(Note: This film contains
sexually explicit material.)
Co-presenter: Asia Society
and the narrative that
give cinematic life to the
Travellers’ own stories.
Co-presenter: New York
Irish Center
Right toReturn/
Pioneers
Jonathan Demme, Daniel
Wolff, and Abdul Franklin.
2006-2007.
(Work in Progress)
Sunday, November 12
Discussion with directors and
special guests
Begun in January 2006,
Right to Return/Pioneers is
halfway through one year
of seasonal visits to New
Orleans, documenting the
changing human ecology of
some of the neighborhoods
worst hit by the floods that
followed Hurricanes Katrina
and Rita. It features the
pioneering individuals and
families who have chosen
to exercise their self-granted
“right to return” to their
devastated homes in an
effort to rebuild their lives.
Closing Night
Roots
Meredith Danluck. 2005.
5 min. (U.S.) World Premiere
SHAMELESS:
The ART of
Disability
Bonnie Sherr Klein. 2006.
72 min. (Canada) U.S. Premiere
Shooting
Under Fire
Femke Wolting. 2004.
52 min. (Netherlands)
NY Premiere
Today’s Man
Lizzie Gottlieb. 2006.
55 min. (U.S.) NY Premiere
Sunday, November 12
Discussion with director,
Simi Linton, founder of
Disability/Arts, and others
With My Beautiful Smile
6:45 pm, Program F4
OnRamp Arts. 2002.
Video Game. (U.S.)
Award-winning director
Bonnie Sherr Klein returns to
filmmaking with SHAMELESS
after a catastrophic stroke
changed her life in 1987.
From this unique perspective,
she brings the audience into
a world of art, activism, and
disability, creating a funny
and intimate portrait of five
surprising individuals, including
Klein herself. Contradicting
other people’s preconceptions
and stereotypes, Klein’s film
dispels the myth of disability
as tragedy and celebrates
the wholeness of these diverse
and full lives.
Modern warfare is carried
out both on the battlefield
and in the media. More and
more, we rely on journalists
and photographers to
provide us with unbiased
access to events as they
happen. Shooting Under Fire
introduces Reinhard Krause,
head of the Reuters photo
Friday, November 10
6:30 pm, Program F8
With BLING: Consequences and
Repercussions and Roots
Friday, November 10
6:30 pm, Program F6
Nicky Gottlieb
With Under the Roller Coaster
Tropical
America
video collaborations between
hip-hop performers and
visual artists for a fresh
blending of pop culture and
contemporary art.
With BLING: Consequences and
Repercussions and Sneakers
Sacha Mirzoeff. 2005. 72 min.
(Germany/Israel/Palestine)
Sneakers
Featuring Questlove and
Black Thought of The Roots,
this experimental video is
part of the Art Production
Fund’s Video Art Music
Project (VAMP), a series of
Friday, November 10
6:30 pm, Program F8
Discussion with co-director
Jessica Irish
Darfur is Dying, and A Force
More Powerful
Nicky Gottlieb is a young
man struggling to leave the
comfort and safety of his
parents’ home and find his
place in the world. While he
can calculate the square root
of any number in the blink
of an eye, he has trouble
reading the simplest of facial
expressions, making social
interaction difficult. At the
age of 21, he is diagnosed
with Asperger’s syndrome, a
high-functioning form of
Co-Presenter: Disability/Arts
bureau in the West Bank
and Gaza, and his team of local
Israeli and Palestinian
photographers who cover
both sides of the Israeli
conflict. This riveting film
highlights the individuals
who risk their lives to bring
us the pictures.
The footwear that dominates
the streets today is unmistakably
the sports shoe, or sneaker.
Anyone who has ever set foot
inside a sneaker store has
caught a glimpse of a complex
world of subcultures and
identities, expressed through
shoe styles. This energetic
documentary examines the
forces that have created
the current cult of the sneaker,
from skateboarders in Vans
to 80’s B-boys in white Adidas
shell toes without laces. The
interaction of sports, music,
and street subcultures and
the clever marketing strategies
of the largest brands has
made the sneaker a star in the
global fashion economy.
autism. This loving portrait
by his filmmaker sister is
both a personal exploration
of one family’s journey and a
broader effort to understand
this mysterious disorder.
Co-presenter: Job Path
This online game brings the
real-world terrors of
investigating secret violence
in the Americas to the new
world of video games. Your
journey begins as the sole
survivor of a terrible massacre;
you must find four pieces
of evidence that will bring
justice to and preserve the
memory of your small village.
Developed in collaboration
with Los Angeles artists,
teachers, writers, and high
school students, Tropical
America features bilingual
thematic gameplay and is
accompanied by an online
database of educational
resource materials, source
texts, and imagery.
Co-presenter: Committee to
Protect Journalists
Under the
Roller Coaster
Lila Place. 2005.
15 min. (U.S.)
The War Tapes
Deborah Scranton. 2006.
97 min. (U.S./Iraq)
When the
Levees Broke:
A Requiem
in Four Acts
Spike Lee. 2006.
255 min. (U.S.)
U.S. Festival Premiere
Friday, November 10
6:30 pm, Program F6
With Today’s Man
Mae Timpano takes us back
to Coney Island’s golden
years as she remembers her
long-time love, Freddy
experienced from the inside.
We see what the soldiers
are thinking every step
of the way, from their views
on the media’s coverage
of Operation Iraqi Freedom
to how they miss their loved
ones back home. Candid, raw,
and strikingly honest, The War
Tapes exposes the culture
of combat in the 21st century.
Co-presenter: Iraq and
Afghanistan Veterans
of America
Suzanne Seggerman
Aroon Shivdasani
John Sirabella
Benjamin Stokes
Bruce Stutz
Aba Taylor
Maria-Christina Villaseñor
Anna Velasco
Marie Weller
Phil Wilde
Teddy Yoshikami
Angela Zito
Cinema Tropical
www.cinematropical.com
Support
Thanks also to the following
Museum Departments
Independent Television Service
www.itvs.org
In March 2004, several
members of one National
Guard unit arrived in Iraq
carrying digital video cameras.
The stories of this diverse
group provide an intimate
portrait of the Iraq war that
we have not yet seen. Part
journal, part joke book, and
part witness, The War Tapes
offers a view of war as it is
and a veteran from
Iraq and Afghanistan
Veterans of America
12:30 pm, Programs F10 & F11
Discussion with Sam Pollard,
co-producer/editor; Bertha
Lewis, Executive Director,
New York ACORN; and New
Orleans-born musician,
Dr. John
Moran, and the life they
shared under the famed
Thunderbolt Roller Coaster.
On August 29, 2005, the city
of New Orleans was forever
changed when Hurricane
Katrina made landfall,
breaching levees, flooding
neighborhoods, and killing
more than a thousand
residents. One year later,
acclaimed director Spike Lee
presents a four-part
documentary that recounts
one of the United States’
most profound natural and
human disasters through
words and images. In addition
to revisiting the hours leading
up to the devastating storm,
the film tells the personal
stories of those who survived
it, and explores the tensions
of a nation sharply divided
along race and class lines.
Co-presenter: New York ACORN
Staff, Friends, Support
Honorary Chair
Mary Catherine Bateson
Festival Co-Directors
Elaine Charnov
Kathy Brew
Festival Coordinators
Gisela Fosado
Tamar Goelman
Festival Assistant
Natalie Tschechaniuk
Traveling Festival Manager
Gisela Fosado
Volunteer Coordinator
Shannon Matlovsky
Festival Interns
Steven Blum
Maya Desai
Ally Fan
Rebecca Fitzgerald
Dana Guterman
Madeleine Kronovet
Elizabeth Lattanzio
Ji Sun Lee
Wonho Lee
Alison Manning
Ana O’Keefe
Tori Wunsch
Graphic Design
Olga Zhivov
Harriet Spear
Web Design
Michael Hoffman
Jeremy Hinsdale
Advisory Committee
Michael Apted
Patsy Asch
Thomas D. Blakely
Emilie de Brigard
Robert Carneiro
Cynthia Close
Loni Ding
Françoise Foucault
Faye Ginsburg
Myles Gordon
Rhoda Grauer
Bob Hawk
Laurel Kendall
David MacDougall
Judith MacDougall
Antonio Marazzi
Sevanne Martin
Louis Massiah
Patricia Monte-Mór
Bill Moyers
Lourdes Portillo
Somi Roy
Jay Ruby
Enid Schildkrout
André Singer
Florence Stone
Elizabeth Weatherford
Laila Williamson
Frederick Wiseman
Program Notes
Ellen Silbermann
Pre-Screening Committee
Barbara Abrash
Maria Fahey
Faye Ginsburg
Stella Hardee
Bob Kenney
Sevanne Martin
Valeria Mogilevich
Natan Vega Potler
Thanks
Gulnara Abikeyeva
Barbara Abrash
Livia Alexander
Sally Berger
John Biaggi
Tania Blanich
Mahen Bonetti
Roberto Borrero
Nicolas Buchler
Bethany Bultmann
Bruni Burres
Jorge Chica
Jodi Crews
Andrea Csandi
Sarah Eisenstein
Faye Ginsburg
Jackie Glover
Roberto Guerra
Carlos Gutiérrez
Cordula Hahn
Judith Helfand
Lisa Heller
Melanie Kent
Pooja Kohli
Katalin Koncz
Barbara Mathe
Ann Michel
Griffin Monahan
Erika Dalya Muhammad
Rick Ortiz
Thom Powers
Morris Rossabi
Rajendra Roy
Rasha Salti
Audio-Visual
Central Reservations
Communications/Marketing
Development
Education
General Accounting
Graphics
Research Library
Security
Visitor Services
Committee to Protect Journalists
www.cpj.org
Disability/Arts
www.similinton.com
Games for Change
www.gamesforchange.org
Human Rights Watch
International Film Festival
www.hrw.org/iff
Indo-American Arts Council
www.iaac.us
Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans
of America
www.iava.org
Job Path
www.jobpathnyc.org
Our Collaborators
The Mount Vernon Hip-Hop
Arts Center
www.hiphoparts.org
American Documentary/P.O.V.
www.pbs.org/pov
New York ACORN
www.acorn.org
Asia Society
www.asiasociety.org
New York Irish Center
www.newyorkirishcenter.org
Asian Cinevision
www.asiancinevision.org
Open Society Institute
www.soros.org
The Center for Religion and
Media and the Center for Media,
Culture and History at NYU
www.nyu.edu/fas/center/
religionandmedia
www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/media
Seed Magazine
www.seedmagazine.com
The Vera List Center for Art and
Politics, The New School
www.nsu.newschool.edu/vlc
This Festival is made
possible with public
funds from the New
York State Council
on the Arts, a state agency; Arts
and Culture Network Program,
Open Society Institute, Budapest;
The Consulate General of Canada,
New York; and The Netherlands
Consulate-General, New York.
Look for a special
Mead Festival
presentation at
MOMA as part
of Documentary
Fortnight in
February 2007.
www.moma.org
Bring the Margaret
Mead Traveling
Film & Video Festival
to your community!
Visit our Web site at:
www.amnh.org/mead

Margaret Mead Film Festival 2006

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