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Banff Film Festival tickets are available as of….. right now! Feb 16 and 17th at Duffin Theater! Purchase at https://www.arcadian.com//more-event_tickets https://youtu.be/8jfPonLYujY?si=pBBLC1IT_D7Rm-8K
In honor of Black History Month, join NAPL and MCLA's Femme Forward Coalition for a FREE screening of Hidden Figures! 3rd floor community room. Snacks will be provided. If possible, please bring your own seating. Any questions, email Adult Services Librarian Ryan Miller at [email protected], or give us a call. Funded through the generosity of the Friends of NAPL!
Boundary-destroying in his approach to reframing film vocabulary, Arthur Jafa was taught by Haile Gerima at Howard University. In 2014, he made Dreams Are Colder Than Death, an essay film on the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech. In his experimental use of imagery of Black life, Jafa doesn’t merely document but interrogates the realities of African American lives today.Free. Accessible seats available; for information, call 413 458 0524.
Image: As Told to G/D Thyself; Terence Nance, Jenn Nkiru, Marc Thomas, Kamasi Washington, and Bradford Young; 2019. Filmmakers like Jenn Nkiru and Bradford Young, who went to Howard University and were taught by Haile Gerima and other first-generation L.A. Rebellion filmmakers, have teamed up with a wide variety of other filmmakers and musicians to create an avant-garde that is pushing the edge of film, music, design, advertising, and art. This assortment of shorts showcases the breadth of this work and its inherent multimedia approach (for example, the prevalence of music videos). Theirs is a practice for today, a world
Where better to begin the Williamstown Public Library 150th Anniversary Film Series, which explores the transformative power of reading, with this story about a lonely young boy with a love of books who becomes drawn into a timeless world of fabulous creatures? Wolfgang Peterson's The NeverEnding Story celebrates the particular way that books allow you to build worlds around yourself. Our main character Bastian ducks into a book story to avoid school bullies only to be saddles with a great responsibility. As he imagines himself the hero of the story, reading becomes an engine for maturation and growth. Free. Accessible
News ReleaseThe film, Seeing Through the Wall: Meeting Ourselves in Palestine and Israel, will be screened at the Bennington Museum on Sunday, March 24th , at 3:00 p.m. The film documents the recent visit of a small group of Jews to that area. Vermonters Rabbi Dov Taylor and filmmaker Anne Macksoud will be present for background and discussion. Admission is free and open to the public.
Join us for an in-person screening of Nathan-ism, a film by Elan Golod, at the Yiddish Book Center. At the end of World War II, Nathan Hilu, the son of Syrian Jewish immigrants to New York, received a life-changing assignment from the U.S. Army: to guard the top Nazi war criminals at the Nuremberg trials. This experience fueled a lifetime of artistic inspiration for Nathan, a virtually unknown “outsider artist,” who spent the next 70 years obsessively creating a visual narrative from his memories. Nathan-ism explores Nathan's relationship with his own stories, and the compulsion he has to share them with
Join us for an in-person screening of Nathan-ism, a film by Elan Golod, at the Yiddish Book Center. At the end of World War II, Nathan Hilu, the son of Syrian Jewish immigrants to New York, received a life-changing assignment from the U.S. Army: to guard the top Nazi war criminals at the Nuremberg trials. This experience fueled a lifetime of artistic inspiration for Nathan, a virtually unknown “outsider artist,” who spent the next 70 years obsessively creating a visual narrative from his memories. Nathan-ism explores Nathan's relationship with his own stories, and the compulsion he has to share them with
