calendar spring 2009

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De Lange Conference
VII: Transforming the
Metropolis
The De Lange Conference will
ask many of the world’s leading
thinkers and practitioners of
innovative urban solutions to
engage in a dialogue on the
concept of sustainable and
humane cities.
Conference: March 2-4
Alice Pratt Brown Hall
Film Series: VADA Film
Auditorium, Rice Media Center
calendar spring 2009
In Sylvia’s City (En la
ciudad de Silvia)
Director: José Luis Guerin
A romantic yet intensely
expressive dialogue-free story
anchored by real substance and
full of desire.
With: Libra
Director: Carlota Coronado
Carlota Coronado reports about
everyday’s issues in this very
short film.
January 22, 7:00 pm
January 12, 7:00 pm
Metropolis (1927)
February 2, 7:00 pm
Megacities: 12 Stories of
Survival (1998)
February 9, 7:00 pm
Social Life of Small Urban
Spaces (1988)
PRODUCTION
Wyrd Sisters
by Terry Pratchett
A Rice Players Production
Wyrd Sisters is a Monty Pythonesque comedy about Macbeth’s
three witches. There is a wicked
duke and duchess, a ghost of
a murdered king, dim soldiers,
strolling players, and a land in
peril. But it is three witches, who
view magic in the most practical
way possible, who stand between
the Kingdom and destruction.
February 6-7, 8:00 pm
February 12-14, 8:00 pm
General Admission, $10; Rice
Alumni, Faculty, Staff, & Senior
Citizens, $8; Students, $5
For tickets, call 713-348-PLAY.
Under the Stars (Bajo las
estrellas)
Director: Félix Viscarret
After its successful critical and
box office success in Spain,
Under the Stars is a remarkable
debut film, in which Félix
Vizcarret, well known by his short
films, evokes the claustrophobia
and paranoia of small-town life.
With: The Happy Man (El
Hombre Feliz)
Director: Lucina Gil
Lucina Gil's keen eye responds
to this daring and good humored
question: Does the Happy Man
Exist?
Iranian Film Festival
Mataharis
Director: Icíar Bollaín
No other Spanish filmmaker
bravely portrays the untouchable
issues concerning Spanish
contemporary society better than
Icíar Bollaín.
With: Machine (Maquina)
Director Gabe Ibañez
Through pain and confusion a
girl discovers his new nature,
finding the way to achieve the lost
harmony.
January 24, 7:00 pm
Le Chant des Oiseaux
February 6-8
Director: Albert Serra
Displaying freely his own vision
about the classic myth of the
Nativity, the film is beautifully
crafted and contemplative, with
impressive views and photographlike cinematography to satisfy the
most demanding eye.
The Banana Skin
With: Traumatology
Director: Daniel Sánchez
7 Blind Women
Filmmakers
Daniel Sánchez Arévalo gives
us once again an assured and
captivating tragicomedy.
January 25, 7:00 pm
January 23, 7:00 pm
January 19, 7:00 pm
Chinatown (1974)
January 26 7:00 pm
City of God (2002)
FILM
FILM
Festival of New Spanish Cinema, 2009
Director: Ali Atshani
An engaging comedy about death
and the afterlife. A workholic
encounters ghosts and finds them
of some use in his everyday life.
February 6, 8:00 pm
Director: Various
A dream inspired director,
Mohammad Shirvani, orgnaized
a year-long filmmaking workshop
for blind women. The project
culminated in the remarkable
short films.
February 7, 8:00 pm
FILM
Double Vision:
Rice/University of
Texas Student Film
Screenings
A selection of student films from
the storied University of Texas
film program and the fledgling
Rice film program. Experience
the splendors and miseries of
being a film student and try to
catch the up and coming film
makers of the future. This
event will be part of an ongoing
collaboration between UT and
Rice, including a Summer Film
Institute. Stay tuned for details.
February 13, 7:00 pm
VADA Film Auditorium
Rice Media Center
Over There (AAN JA)
Seven Billards Tables
(Siete mesas de billar
francés)
Director: Gracia Querejeta
Upon receiving the news that
her father is ill, Angela, and her
son Guille, travel to the capital.
She arrives too late, and her
father's long-time girlfriend,
Charo, explains that the business
is far from good. The business,
a billiard hall with seven tables,
has lost it all: style, clients, and
money.
With: Said’s Journey (El
Viaje de Said)
Director: Coke Riobóo
Said, a Moroccan boy crosses
The Straights. On the other side,
in the land of opportunity.
Solitary Fragments (La
soledad)
Director: Rafa Cortés
Named "Revelation of the Year"
by FIPRESCI, at Cannes 2007,
Me is the story of a man who,
suspecting himself accused of
something he hasn't done, sets
out to prove an innocence that
nobody questions.
Director: Jaime Rosales
The beautifully nuanced
performances of both Sonia
Almarcha as Adela and Petra
Martínez as Antonia, as well
as Rosales' keen ability to
portray isolation and beauty in
the apparently mundane world,
makes Solitary Fragments a
supreme delicacy not to be
missed.
January 23, 9:00 pm
January 24, 9:00 pm
Me (Yo)
January 22, 9:00 pm
Septembers
(Septiembres)
Director: Charles Bosch
For the incarcerated participants
of the 2005 Festival of Song,
singing love songs is not merely
entertainment–it is also a poignant reminder of the people they
left behind.
With: Summer or the Flaws
of Andres (Verano o los
defectos de Andrésm)
Director: Jorge Torregrosa
As always in Torregrosa's astonishing work, human nature is one
more character and his unique
look makes us wonder about our
own condition.
January 25, 9:00 pm
The Festival of New Spanish Cinema, 2009, is cosponsored by the
Spanish Consulate, Houston; the Department of Hispanic Studies; and
the Department of Visual & Dramatic Arts. All screenings are in the
VADA Film Auditorium, Rice Media Center. Admission is free and open
to the public. For more information on this film festival, please go to
http://www.film.rice.edu/events.
Director: Abdolreza Kahani
Love and a green card don’t
mix in this wry drama, but newly
divorced Payman is about to
discover that green of the pocketfolding kind could soothe a lot
of headaches. Over There dives
into the world of Tehran twentysomethings, where relationships
are born and die in the course of
electronic intrigues via cell phone
and laptop.
February 8, 8:00 pm
VADA Film Auditorium
Rice Media Center
www.arts.rice.edu
Cinematheque Series
Latin American ‘Third Cinema’
Margarita de la Vega-Hurtado
Third Cinema is a political and
artistic movement originated in
the Sixties, with a desire to depict
their own reality and their position
in front of world events, looking
for different forms and styles than
those of the dominant European
and Hollywood cinemas.
CHIRCALES (Brickmakers) by
Marta Rodríguez and Jorge Silva
(Colombia, 1968-72) and NOW
(Santiago Alvarez, Cuba, 1965)
will be screened.
February 19, 7:00 pm
VADA Film Auditorium
Rice Media Center
EXHIBITION
Mavis C. Pitman
Exhibition
The Mavis C. Pitman Exhibition
is a competitive group show that
highlights three studio track Visual
& Dramatic Arts majors.
EXHIBITION
Nada
A multi-media student exhibition
exploring the concept of
‘nothingness’ in art.
Chosen through a competitive call
for proposals and portfolio review,
each recipient is awarded an
undergraduate research stipend
to develop a body of work to be
shown in a professional exhibition.
Curated by VADA junior Erin
Rouse and Professor John
Sparagana.
The 2008-09 Mavis C. Pitman
Exhibition undergraduate artists
are Emily Henderson, David
Rosales, and Sarah Wiseman.
Exhibition on view:
February 18-March 5
Exhibition on view:
March 18-April 10
Opening reception:
February 18, 7:00 pm
Opening Reception & Talks:
March 18, 6:00 pm
VADA Gallery
Rice Media Center
VADA Gallery
Rice Media Center
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VADA Theatre
Hamman Hall
FILM SYMPOSIUM
PRODUCTION
Stop Kiss
By Diana Son
Directed by Matt Huff
Rice Theatre Program will
be presenting Diane Son’s
imaginative, moving, and
surprising comedy Stop Kiss.
Winner of an Obie Award, the
New York Times Best Of 1999,
and the 1999 Media Award from
GLAAD, Stop Kiss tells the
story of two young women in
present day New York City, who
humorously enter one another’s
lives and find mutual affection,
fears, and desires. In time, an
unspoken attraction develops
between the two friends and they
grow to understand the meaning
of courage and commitment.
Their tentative first kiss leads not
only to shocking violence, but also
to a moving transformation.
Making choices and commitments
is a scary business, ‘’Stop
Kiss’’ suggests, but what is the
alternative?
Stop Kiss will be directed by Matt
Huff, our spring guest artistic
director. Matt comes from Atlanta
and has directed in such noted
regional theatres as Actor’s
Express and Portland Center
Stage, as well as at the University
of Texas-Austin.
March 20-21, 8:00 pm
March 22, 2:00 pm
March 26-28, 8:00 pm
Opening night only, $5
General Admission, $10
Rice Alumni, Faculty, Staff, &
Senior Citizens, $8
Students, $5
For tickets , call: 713-348-PLAY
VADA Theatre
Hamman Hall
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Visual & Dramatic Arts
46th annual Rice University
senior student art exhibition. This
multimedia show features works
by senior VADA studio track
majors.
VADA Gallery
Rice Media Center
Nonprofit Org.
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Houston, TX
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Awards Ceremony
April 22, 7:00 pm
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Opening Reception
April 22, 6:00 pm
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Exhibition on view:
April 22-May 9
April 22, 8:08 pm
VADA Film Auditorium
Rice Media Center
We extend our thanks to the Southwest Alternate Media
Project, who receives support from the City of Houston and
the Texas Commission on the Arts.
VADA Film Auditorium
Rice Media Center
Exhibition 46
Senior Art Exhibition
Brian Huberman
Chair
March 26, 7:00 pm
EXHIBITION
calendar spring 2009
Explore the beauty of the
encounter between cinema
and painting. We will look at
documentaries about works of art
that express the conjunction of
two artists: the director and the
painter.
VADA Film Auditorium
Rice Media Center
Just in time for graduation. The
students from the past year will
show their film projects, ranging
from hard-hitting documentaries,
to obscure art excursions, to
coming of age dramas. Come
cheer on your friends and boo
your enemies.
Department of Visual & Dramatic Arts
P.O. Box 1892, MS-549
Houston, Texas 77251-1892
Documenting Art
Margarita de la Vega-Hurtado
Rice Student Film Show
Rachel Boyle
Department Coordinator
FILM SYMPOSIUM
Cinematheque Series
April 17-18, 7:00 pm
April 24-25, 7:00 pm
FILM
Flicks
Special thanks to our generous financial underwriters:
Russell Pitman and the John Murfee Worsham family for
their continued support of the arts at Rice University.
The third annual Houston
Palestine Film Festival brings an
honest and independent view
of Palestine and its diaspora’s
society, culture, and political
travails through the art of film.
Gaylon Denney
Administrator & Assistant to the Chair
FILM
Palestine Film Festival
Admission toVisual & Dramatic Arts exhibitions is free and
open to the public.
Co-sponsored by Houston Indymedia,
www.houston.indymedia.org.
Charles Dove
Lecturer and Film Advisor
VADA Film Auditorium
Rice Media Center
Jeff Fegley
Photography Coordinator
March 21, 8:00 pm
Admission for film screenings is $6.00 general admission
and $5.00 Rice faculty, staff, students, senior citizens, and
SWAMP members. Admission to the Cinematheque Series,
Double Vision: Rice/UT Austin Student Film Screnings, and
Rice Film Flicks (student film show) is free and open to the
public.
VADA Gallery
Rice Media Center
Christina Keefe
Director of Theatre
Exhibition on view:
April 22-May 9
The Department of Visual & Dramatic Arts gallery hours are
11:00 am-5:00 pm Monday-Friday.
VADA Film Auditorium
Rice Media Center
Randall McCabe
Studio Shop Supervisor
March 27-29, 2008
Annual Rice University
undergraduate student art
exhibition. This show, produced
and curated by department faculty,
showcases works produced by
non-senior VADA studio track
majors.
Matthew Schlief
Theatre Production Manager
Rice Players Faculty Advisor
Exhibition 46
Undergraduate Art
Exhibition
Tish Stringer
Film & Video Technician
Beyond the Walls is a collection of
short films from the other side of
the blast shields in Iraq's walled
cities. Rick Rowley covers a very
different side of the war than is
ever seen on American television.
He reports unembedded from
war-torn Falluja, from the giant
US prison at Umm Qasr, from the
Mehdi Army stronghold inside
Sadr City, from the places where
mainstream corporate channels
can not or will not go.
Our third annual Asian Film
Festival will be in March this year.
In past years, we have screened
films from South and East Asia by
Ang Lee, Ming-liang Tsai, Ki-duk
Kim, Deepa Mehta, and Kar Wai
Wang. Check our website for the
line up.
EXHIBITION
Foor more information on film screenings,
exhibitions, or theatre productions, please
visit us online: www.arts.rice.edu.
Filmmaker Rick Rowley will attend
this film screening.
FILM
Asian Film Festival
Film & Events Information Line: 713-348-4853
Theatre Box Office: 713-348-7529
Visual & Dramatic Arts Off ice: 713-348-4882
FILM
Beyond the Walls: The
Battle for Iraq's Future
For parking information, campus maps, and
shuttle bus routes and schedules, please
visit: http://www.park-trans.rice.edu.
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calendar spring 2009