Lecture/Screening class (3 hours)
Lecture with Antonella Bonfanti, Director of the Canyon Cinema Foundation.
Preceded by:
HALL OF MIRRORS (Warren Sonbert, US, 1966).
Achingly beautiful, a film portrait of Warhol superstars René Ricard and Gerard Malanga.
(7 mins, Color, 16mm, BAMPFA Collection)
THE DARK TOWER (Stan Brakhage, US, 1999).
A hand-painted, step-printed work of abstract light play by one of the towering figures of the American avant-garde.
(Color, Silent, 2:30 mins, BAMPFA Collection)
A daunting task that continues to confront media makers is how to represent the unrepresentable—calamities and atrocities of unimaginable magnitude. The challenge is even greater when the media maker himself is a survivor. Such is the case for veteran filmmaker Rithy Panh, who has committed his life to probing and exposing the Cambodian genocide and its aftermath. Having toiled in labor camps as a boy and watched his entire family die, he prepares to grapple with this childhood. Using clay figures, archival footage, and live action, Panh materializes the missing pictures for us, his companion witnesses. Stunningly vivid and achingly intimate.
Part of In Focus: The Role of Film Archives at the BAM/PFA.
Free gallery admission with same-day film ticket!
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Lecture with Antonella Bonfanti, Director of the Canyon Cinema Foundation.
Preceded by:
HALL OF MIRRORS (Warren Sonbert, US, 1966).
Achingly beautiful, a film portrait of Warhol superstars René Ricard and Gerard Malanga.
(7 mins, Color, 16mm, BAMPFA Collection)
THE DARK TOWER (Stan Brakhage, US, 1999).
A hand-painted, step-printed work of abstract light play by one of the towering figures of the American avant-garde.
(Color, Silent, 2:30 mins, BAMPFA Collection)
A daunting task that continues to confront media makers is how to represent the unrepresentable—calamities and atrocities of unimaginable magnitude. The challenge is even greater when the media maker himself is a survivor. Such is the case for veteran filmmaker Rithy Panh, who has committed his life to probing and exposing the Cambodian genocide and its aftermath. Having toiled in labor camps as a boy and watched his entire family die, he prepares to grapple with this childhood. Using clay figures, archival footage, and live action, Panh materializes the missing pictures for us, his companion witnesses. Stunningly vivid and achingly intimate.
Part of In Focus: The Role of Film Archives at the BAM/PFA.
Free gallery admission with same-day film ticket!
Lecture/Screening class (3 hours)
Lecture with Antonella Bonfanti, Director of the Canyon Cinema Foundation.
Preceded by:
HALL OF MIRRORS (Warren Sonbert, US, 1966).
Achingly beautiful, a film portrait of Warhol superstars René Ricard and Gerard Malanga.
(7 mins, Color, 16mm, BAMPFA Collection)
THE DARK TOWER (Stan Brakhage, US, 1999).
A hand-painted, step-printed work of abstract light play by one of the towering figures of the American avant-garde.
(Color, Silent, 2:30 mins, BAMPFA Collection)
A daunting task that continues to confront media makers is how to represent the unrepresentable—calamities and atrocities of unimaginable magnitude. The challenge is even greater when the media maker himself is a survivor. Such is the case for veteran filmmaker Rithy Panh, who has committed his life to probing and exposing the Cambodian genocide and its aftermath. Having toiled in labor camps as a boy and watched his entire family die, he prepares to grapple with this childhood. Using clay figures, archival footage, and live action, Panh materializes the missing pictures for us, his companion witnesses. Stunningly vivid and achingly intimate.
Part of In Focus: The Role of Film Archives at the BAM/PFA.
Free gallery admission with same-day film ticket!
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Lecture with Antonella Bonfanti, Director of the Canyon Cinema Foundation.
Preceded by:
HALL OF MIRRORS (Warren Sonbert, US, 1966).
Achingly beautiful, a film portrait of Warhol superstars René Ricard and Gerard Malanga.
(7 mins, Color, 16mm, BAMPFA Collection)
THE DARK TOWER (Stan Brakhage, US, 1999).
A hand-painted, step-printed work of abstract light play by one of the towering figures of the American avant-garde.
(Color, Silent, 2:30 mins, BAMPFA Collection)
A daunting task that continues to confront media makers is how to represent the unrepresentable—calamities and atrocities of unimaginable magnitude. The challenge is even greater when the media maker himself is a survivor. Such is the case for veteran filmmaker Rithy Panh, who has committed his life to probing and exposing the Cambodian genocide and its aftermath. Having toiled in labor camps as a boy and watched his entire family die, he prepares to grapple with this childhood. Using clay figures, archival footage, and live action, Panh materializes the missing pictures for us, his companion witnesses. Stunningly vivid and achingly intimate.
Part of In Focus: The Role of Film Archives at the BAM/PFA.
Free gallery admission with same-day film ticket!
show less
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