Ritual Etchings:
The Experimental Shorts of Eric Patrick

Tuesday, September 4, 2007
7:30 PM

Experimental director and producer Eric Patrick will be showing a collection of short films that spans a decade of his highly acclaimed work, including his 2007 Delta International Film and Video Festival award-winning Startle Pattern. The collection entitled Ritual Etchings: The Experimental Shorts of Eric Patrick represents not only ten years of Patrick’s work, but also a sort of general method that he uses in his work.
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The Guestworker
Cynthia Hill

Tuesday, October 9, 2007
7:30 PM

The Guestworker follows 66 year-old Mexican farm laborer Don Candelario Gonzalez Moreno through his tenth year of work through the H-2A Guestworker Visa program. In spite of back breaking labor, unpredictable pay, separation from homeland and family, and no chance for American citizenship, Candelario and his fellow laborers return year after year for a chance at economic betterment.
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Disappearances
Jay Craven

Tuesday, October 30, 2007
7:30 PM

Jay Craven’s Prohibition Era thriller Disappearances has echoes of a Faulkernarian drama, complete with mysterious family relations, eerie mystical realism, and a fascination with things past or passing. A tale of high-stakes whiskey-smuggling, a family’s mysterious past, and a young boy’s rite of passage, Disappearance stars Kris Kristopherson, Genevieve Bujold and Charlie McDermott.
More information: www.southarts.org www.disappearancesmovie.com

New Year Baby
Socheata Poeuv

Tuesday, February 5, 2008
7:30 PM

New Year Baby is a personal account of director Socheata Poeuv’s exploration of her family’s long kept secret experiences under the Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia. Poeuv grew up with no understanding of the suffering her parents and older siblings had gone though. Only once she is grown up does her mother reveal the extent of the loss that their family suffered in the Cambodian Genocide. Shocked, Poeuv returns with her parents to Cambodia in order to gain an understanding of who the Khmer Rouge was, and what they meant to her parents.
More information: www.southarts.org www.newyearbaby.net

Guerrilla Radio:
The Hip-Hop Struggle Under Castro
Thomas Nybo and Simon Umlauf

Tuesday, March 4, 2008
7:30 PM

Hip-hop is a musical form often driven by protest and rebellion against the authority that surrounds it. Working with bare bones equipment and lacking an infrastructure to help promote and distribute their music, most artists featured in Guerrilla Radio scrape out a living through black market capitalism and street performance, living in cramped apartments, or with their parents, a far cry from the lavish lifestyles of hip hop artists in the States. Even worse, these Cuban rappers face the possibility of performance bans or imprisonment for pushing too hard at the boundaries of their artistic expression.
More information: www.southarts.org www.cubanhiphop.tv

Unoccupied Zone:
The Impossible Life of Simone Weil
Cathy Crane

This film is being shown at the High Point Museum
(1859 E. Lexington Ave)

Tuesday, April 8, 2008
7:30 PM
High Point Museum

Simone Weil was one of the most compelling and contradictory spiritual thinkers of our times. A pacifist who fought in the Spanish Civil War, a former Marxist who discovered the value of religion, a Jew and a Christian who refused to be baptized. Cathy Crane's Unoccupied Zone explores these contradictions through an experimental documentary style, blending elements of dramatic reenactment, historical footage, and spoken word excerpts of Weil’s work into a cinematic collage.
More information: www.southarts.org www.cathyleecrane.com