19 August 2009 - The Unbreakable Promise: South Africa and the First Black Precedents

Wednesday August 19th - 7:30PM
Brecht Forum
451 West Street, New York, NY 10014

BLACK AUGUST:

--The Life and Death of Steve Biko - World in Action, 1977, 25 minutes
--A Savage War of Peace - Video News Service, 1993, 50 minutes
--Dear Mandela (excerpt) - Dara Kell & Christopher Nizza, 2009, 6 minutes
--Dear Mandela (excerpt) - Dara Kell & Christopher Nizza, 2009, 17 minutes
TOTAL RUNNING TIME: 98 minutes | Digital Projection

Discussion with:
--Dara Kell - co-director of Dear Mandela (2010)
--Reverend Mavuso Mbhekiseni - a leader of the Rural Network in South Africa
--Christopher Nizza - co-director of Dear Mandela (2010)
--Mazwi Nzimande - president of Abahlali baseMjondolo Youth League

C0-sponsored by Red Channels


(Network in the UK released a (PAL) 2-DVD set (2005) of twelve "World in Action" programs from 1967-1991.)

17 August 2009 - On the Juche Idea: North Korean Propaganda, Theirs and Ours

Monday August 17th - 7:30PM
Brecht Forum
451 West Street, New York, NY 10014

--The Crime of Korea - US Army Signal Corps, 1950, 15 minutes
--The Parade of the Korean People's Army - DPRK, 2002, 30 minutes
--Always Working Together for the People - DPRK, ca. 1993, 60 minutes
--Cunnilingus in North Korea - Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries, 2007, 6 minutes
TOTAL RUNNING TIME: 111 minutes | Digital Projection


(All of the Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries videos are available on their website.)

12 August 2009 - Occupied Territories, the Space Race, and the Public Domain

Wednesday August 12th - 7:30PM
Brecht Forum
451 West Street, New York, NY 10014

RIGHT TO THE CITY:

--For the Living - Lewis Jacobs & Leo Seltzer, 1949, 21 minutes
--Sunday - Dan Drasin, 1961, 17 minutes
--The Social Life of Small Public Spaces - William H. Whyte, 1988, 58 minutes
TOTAL RUNNING TIME: 106 minutes | Digital Projection

Discussion with:
--JH Crawford, author of Carfree Cities (International, 2000), and Carfree Design Manual (International, 2009)
--Garrett Ramirez, from Two Coves Community Garden
--Ben Totushek of the Student Coalition on Expansion and Gentrification
--Teri Tynes of Walking Off the Big Apple


Special thanks to Dan Streible.

(The Whyte film is available on DVD (2005) from Direct Cinema.)

10 August 2009 - (In)Tangible Cultural Heritage: Oral Histories - Moore and Patterson

Monday August 10th - 7:30PM
Brecht Forum
451 West Street, New York, NY 10014

BLACK AUGUST:

--Louise Alone Thompson Patterson: In Her Own Words - Louis Massiah, 2002, 18 minutes
--Queen Mother Moore Speech at Greenhaven Prison - People's Communication Network, 1973, 17 minutes
TOTAL RUNNING TIME: 35 minutes | Digital Projection

Discussion with:
--Louis Massiah, filmmaker, founder of Scribe Video Center
--Dr. Mary Louise Patterson, daughter of Louise Patterson
--Frances Villar, mayoral candidate, from the Party for Socialism and Liberation

C0-sponsored by Red Channels


(The Massiah film is available from Scribe Video Center.)

5 August 2009 - Buffalo Soldiers: African-Americans and US Militarism

Wednesday August 5th - 7:30PM
Brecht Forum
451 West Street, New York, NY 10014

BLACK AUGUST:

--The Negro Soldier - Stuart Heisler, 1944, 43 minutes
--No Vietnamese Ever Called Me Nigger - David Loeb Weiss, 1968, 68 minutes
TOTAL RUNNING TIME: 111 minutes | Digital Projection


Special thanks to Vivian Gilbert-Strell.

(The Weiss film is available from The Cinema Guild.)

3 August 2009 - Bridges and Tunnels: Art and Efficiency

Monday August 3rd - 7:30PM
Brecht Forum
451 West Street, New York, NY 10014

RIGHT TO THE CITY:

--Manhattan Waterfront - Harold McCracken, 1937, 11 minutes
--Arteries of New York City - Robert S. Lynd, 1941, 9 minutes
--Daybreak Express - DA Pennebaker, 1953, 5 minutes
--Third Ave El - Carson Davidson, 1957, 11 minutes
--The End of the "El" - Pathe News Magazine of the Screen, 1957, 3 minutes
--Stations of the Elevated - Manfred Kirchheimer, 1980, 49 minutes
TOTAL RUNNING TIME: 88 minutes | Digital Projection

Discussion with:
--Peter Derrick of the Bronx Historical Society, and author of Tunneling to the Future (NYU Press, 2001)
--Marty Goodman, MTA Station Agent, and Executive Board Member of Transit Workers Union Local 100
--Manny Kirchheimer, filmmaker and professor, director of Stations (1980), We Were So Beloved (1985), Tall: The American Skyscraper and Louis Sullivan (2004) and Spraymasters (2008).
--Cassim Shepard of Urban Omnibus
--Jon Zazove of Dear MTA


(Pennebaker's film is available on DVD from Pennebaker Hegedus Films).

28 July 2009 - The Apocrypha - Pasolini's Non-Fiction Films: Anger and Disappointment

Tuesday July 28th - 7:30PM
Brecht Forum
451 West Street, New York, NY 10014

--La Rabbia (The Rage) – 1963, 51 minutes
--Sopralluoghi in Palestina per il vangelo secondo Matteo (Seeking Locations in Palestine...) – 1965, 53 minutes
TOTAL RUNNING TIME: 104 minutes | Digital Projection


(La Rabbia was released on DVD (2008) in Italy by Raro Video. Seeking Locations was released on DVD (2005) in the UK by Columbia.)

27 July 2009 - The Beginning of the Cold Season: Mediated Iran

Monday July 27th - 7:30PM
Brecht Forum
451 West Street, New York, NY 10014

--Iran - Kenneth Richter, 1953, 14 minutes
--Iran - Claude Lelouch, 1971, 18 minutes
--Tehran Has No More Pomegranates! - Massoud Bakhshi, 2007, 75 minutes
TOTAL RUNNING TIME: 107 minutes | Digital Projection

Speakers to include:
--Mani Mostofi of United 4 Iran
--Mahyad Toussi of BoomGen Studios


(The Bakhshi film is available on DVD from both SoCiArts and Documentary Educational Resources.)

22 July 2009 - The Cold Dialectic: Brecht on British Television

Wednesday July 22nd - 7:30PM
Brecht Forum
451 West Street, New York, NY 10014

--Lotte Lenya Sings Kurt Weill - Ken Russell, 1961, 17 minutes
--Baal - Alan Clarke, 1982, 64 minutes
TOTAL RUNNING TIME: 81 minutes | Digital Projection

20 July 2009 - Broadway Boogie Woogie: A City Unfinished

Monday July 20th - 7:30PM
Brecht Forum
451 West Street, New York, NY 10014

DOUBLE FEATURE

RIGHT TO THE CITY:

7:30
--New York City “Ghetto” Fish Market - James Blair Smith, 1903, 2 minutes
--Skyscrapers of New York City, from the North River - James Blair Smith, 1903, 3 minutes
--Manhatta - Paul Strand & Charles Sheeler, 1921, 6 minutes
--A Bronx Morning - Jay Leyda, 1931, 11 minutes
--Footnote to Fact - Lewis Jacobs, 1933, 8 minutes
--In the Street - James Agee, Helen Levitt, Janice Loeb, 1948, 16 minutes
TOTAL RUNNING TIME: 46 minutes | Digital Projection

8:30
--Moscow - Mikhail Kaufman & Ilya Kopalin, 1927, 59 minutes
TOTAL RUNNING TIME: 59 minutes | Digital Projection

With live musical accompaniment by Citizens Ontological Music Agenda: David Brahinsky, trumpet; Sten Hostfalt, mandolin; Andy O'Neill, drums; Lex Samu, coronet; Ken Silverman, guitar & percussion; Blaise Siwula, reeds.

Speakers:
--Cassim Shepard of Urban Omnibus


(The Sheeler, Strand, Leyda, and Jacobs films are available on the Unseen Cinema DVD Picturing a Metropolis (2005) released by Image.)
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