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Cronica D'una Mirada: Clandestine Filmmaking in Franco's Spain, 1960 – 1975

Co-presented by the Department of Hispanic Studies and the Cinema Studies Program at the University of Pennsylvania

This six-part documentary series focuses on a generation of independent filmmakers whose innate unwillingness to conform required them to produce, distribute and exhibit radical films during Francisco Franco’s regime. Shooting under the pretense of amateur filmmaking, they hid within crowds of protesters, producing works that were often highly creative and even experimental. In order to protect the identities of its participants, many of these films had no credits.

While this body of work represents a margin of Spanish film history, it nevertheless contains some of the most crucial, first-hand documents of the end of the dictatorship, revealing problems of housing and social services, immigration, the fate of political prisoners and restrictions on expression and free speech. These films explore an era that fought for freedom through cinema.

Curated by Marta Sanchez and Manuel Barrios. Special thanks to Bryan Cameron and Anna Cox of the Department of Hispanic Studies at the University Of ennsylvania and Charlotte Nitta Cargni.

Wednesday, October 28 at 7pm
Part I: Good Manners
dir. Manuel Barrios, Spain, 2004, DVD, 44 mins, color & b/w, Spanish w/ English subtitles

Apart from professionals, owning a film camera at the end of the 50s was a privilege enjoyed by relatively few and used primarily for travel and family. People who were passionate about film went to the movies or created a cinema club. However, there was a shift that occurred when amateurs created stories with intent and when cinema clubs where used to talk about more than just films. Good Manners and accompanying shorts reflect on amateur films that dared to explore what was not permitted, that try to investigate the day-to-day morality of the time.

followed by
Happy Parallel (El Alegre Paralelo)
dir. Enric Ripoll and Josep-Maria Freixes Ramon, Spain, 1964, DVD, 28 mins, b/w

The film reveals the daily life of the popular Barcelona neighborhood of Parallel, reflecting prostitution, nightlife and all it encompasses.

A Good Friday (Un Viernes Santo)
dir. Joan Gabriel Tharrats, Spain, 1960, DVD, 26 mins, b/w

When it was produced, A Good Friday was considered quite controversial and actually forbidden by the regime and shown only in cinema clubs.

Aspectes i Personatges de Barcelona 1964
dir. Carles Barba, Spain, 1975, DVD, 25 mins, b/w, Spanish w/ English subtitles

Using footage centering on Barcelona, these images and accounts have now become outstanding documents of the period.

Free admission members above Internationalist level;
$5 Internationalists; $6 students + seniors; $8 general admission.
In advance at TICKETWEB or 1/2 hour before showtime at The Ibrahim Theater Box Office.

Robert E. Cargni
Film Program Curator
Ibrahim Theater @ International House
International House Philadelphia
3701 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104 USA
p) 1.215.895.6555| (f) 1.215.895.6562
www.ihousephilly.org

A Panel Discussion on the Works of Wolgin Prize Finalist Ryan Trecartin
October 7, 5:30 pm, Paley Library Lecture Hall

Ryan Trecartin’s work advances understandings of post‐millennial technology, narrative and identity. Discussed from a variety of perspectives, panelists will examine issues of social media and networks; gender and aesthetic themes in video art; and more. Participants include Temple University’sGerard Brown, Chair of Foundations, Tyler School of Art (moderator); Scott Gratson, Director of the Communications Program and SCT Undergraduate Studies; Aaron Smuts, Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy; Elisabeth Subrin, Assistant Professor in the Department of Film and Media Arts; and Andrew Suggs, Executive Director of Vox Populi Gallery, Philadelphia.

This event is part of a series of collaborative public programs presented in conjunction with the Tyler School of Art’s Jack Wolgin International Competition in the Fine Arts

Today (Wed 9/23): Tejaswini Ganti (New York University) will be giving a
talk titled "How the Hindi Film Industry became 'Bollywood."

At the Center for Humanities at Temple University, Gladfelter Hall 10th floor, 3-5 pm

Sponsored by the Philadelphia Cinema and Media Seminar

The Center for Visual Culture and Program in Film Studies at Bryn Mawr College
invite you to a lecture.

Kaja Silverman
Professor of Rhetoric and Film, University of California, Berkeley
"Behold the Invisible: Jeff Wall's After 'Invisible Man' by Ralph Ellison, the Prologue"
Tuesday, September 29, 2009
4pm, Carpenter 21
Bryn Mawr College
101 N. Merion Ave., Bryn Mawr, PA
Free and Open to the Public

Video Essays | The L Magazine - New York City's Local Event and Arts & Culture Guide

An excellent video essay on Do the Right Thing on its twentieth anniversary...

Temple University Cinematheque presents
A Double-Feature of Unorthodox Noir Films

The Bewitched
dir. Arch Oboler, 1945, 65 mins, black & white

This very unusual noir about a young woman struggling with a murderous split personality remains unavailable on DVD. Take this rare opportunity to see a film by the multitalented Oboler who, like Orson Welles, started in radio and once incited a public panic by detailing the horror of a giant, undulating chicken heart!


Chan is Missing
dir. Wayne Wang, 1982, 75 mins, black & white

Ostensibly a noirish quest for a missing business partner, this independent feature actually becomes a complex portrait of San Francisco's Chinese-American community. The film was shot in three weeks for around $30,000 and incorporates many non-professional actors from the Chinatown community as well as local actors who are given room to improvise in scenes sometimes reminiscent of Cassavetes. The film won numerous awards upon its release and has since been deemed a National Treasure by the Library of Congress Film Registry.

Thursday, April 30, 5:30PM
Tuttleman Learning Center - Room 101
13th between Montgomery and Berks

Both films will be presented on DVD projected onto a big screen.