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2002 festival program at a glance
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wednesday
may 22
8 pm OPENING NIGHT
Co-presented by Planet in Focus: Toronto Environmental Film
Festival
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The Great Dance
Director: Craig & Damon Foster (South Africa, 2000, 75 min, 35 mm)
Visually breathtaking landscapes serve as the backdrop to a journey
with the San tribespeople of South Africa as they practise the finely
tuned tracking and hunting skills that form the basis of their spiritual
worldview and cultural traditions.
Being San
Director: Michael Duffett (South Africa, 2001, 15 min, video)
With their traditions threatened by the encroachment of land ownership
and economic pressures, the San people gather for an outdoor screening
of The Great Dance and share in a renewed appreciation of their
hunting traditions.
thursday
may 23
7:30 pm THE OBSERVER AND THE OBSERVED
Presented by guest curator Colin Low
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Prolific Canadian filmmaker Colin Low explores
distinct roles of documentary film through the lenses of social
change, cultural transformation, and the technology, art and globalization
of media. Low presents excerpts from Canadian films - his own and
those of others.
9:30 pm WHY THE REVOLUTION WILL NOT BE TELEVISED
No documentary film festival would be complete without a documentary
about documentaries.
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Countdown
Director: Stephen Marshall (USA, 2001, 5 min, video)
With sound mixing by Beastie Boy Ad Rock, and enough visual wit
and inventiveness to make a Ralph Nader speech look sexy, Countdown
takes aim at an increasingly myopic mass media.
The Universal Clock: The Resistance of Peter
Watkins
Director: Geoff Bowie (Canada, 2001, 76 min, video) (English, French
with subtitles)
In an investigation of the impact of TV's "universal clock" (the
48-minute hour, or 22-minute half-hour) on documentary content,
Bowie contrasts independent documentarian Peter Watkins as he films
an epic reenactment of the Paris Commune with international television
program buyers who glibly set the formulaic standards for global
infotainment.
friday
may 24
2 - 4 pm SPECIAL EVENT: MASTER CLASS WITH
COLIN LOW
Sponsored & Presented by: The National Film Board
of Canada
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7:30 pm AT THE EDGE OF CONSUMER CULTURE
Two very different worlds at the margins of consumer culture,
from Vancouver to Montreal.
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Le 4215 Rue Parthenais
Director: Isabelle Lavigne (Canada, 2001, 50 min, video) (French,
with subtitles)
Single residents of a low-cost Montreal apartment building make
up a community of individuals who stick to themselves and respect
each other's solitude. Time moves slowly in this island of largely
unemployed outsiders, where one person's discarded objects become
another's treasures.
Alain Dubreuil, Alchemist (Alain, Artiste-Demolisseur)
Director: Manon Barbeau (Canada, 2001, 26 min, video) (French, with
subtitles)
A scavenger of junkyards, garbage dumps, and buildings slated for
demolition, North Vancouver "demolition artist" Alain Dubreuil transforms
found objects, abandoned structures and recycled treasures into
magnificent flights of artistic and architectural fancy.
9:30 pm RumiNATIONS - curated by Dana Claxton
An investigation of how Indian people are "packaged and
sold" to satisfy consumers, the public and tourism policies.
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The Indian Dialogue
Director: David Hughes (Canada, 1967, 28 min, 16 mm film)
Duke Redbird and others talk about community, self and the impact
of non-native values on aboriginal autonomy.
From Another Time Comes One
Director: Zachary Longboy (Canada, 1990, 10 min, video)
An experimental documentary exposing the commodificaton of Indian
people.
What Was Taken...And What We Sell
Director: Nora Naranjo-Morse (Canada, 1994, 11 min, video)
A visual narrative investigating the commercialization of Southwest
Indian culture.
In Whose Honor
Director: Jay Rosenstein (USA, 1997, 46 min, video)
The Cleveland Indians, Washington Redskins....America's continued
devaluation of Native American people and their culture.
Natalie of Wood
Director: Shawn Chappelle (Canada, 2001, 2 min, video)
A remix of old Hollywood images commenting on the film industry's
persistent appetite to stereotype Indian people.
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Director: Steven Loft (Canada, 2000, 1 min, video)
As a reflection on the artist's mixed Native and Jewish heritage,
he makes his Indian status card number into a tattoo.
Real Indian
Director: Malinda Maynot (USA, 1996, 7.5 min, 16 mm film)
A light skinned, curly-haired Lumbee woman tells her story about
not fitting the perceptions of what an Indian should look like.
saturday
may 25
3 pm WAR
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Children Kosovo 2000 (Aeya / Femijet)
Director: Ferenc Moldovanyi (Hungary, 2001, 90 min, 35 mm film)
Incorporating both the Serbian and Albanian words for children in
its title, this film includes footage made by children and their
own accounts of events that tell of the devastating and lasting
impact of war on children from either side of the conflict.
7 pm RADICAL WISDOM: STORIES OF RESISTANCE
FROM AROUND THE WORLD
From around the world, what pushes people into a life of radical
politics.
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Four Hundred and Fifty (450 / Cuatrocientos
Cincuenta)
Director: Dario Doria (Argentina, 2001, 50 min, video)
Every Wednesday elderly Argentinean activists take to the streets
to claim their right to a decent pension that was taken from them
through privatization. An elegant testimony and a powerful reminder
of why we fight in the present to protect the future.
When the Smoke Clearz
Director: Stephen Marshall (USA, 2001, 5 min, video)
Slam poet Taalam Acey's hip-hop narrative challenges the stereotypes
of Black hip-hop culture and the negative influences of pop-culture
on Black youth.
Eclipse of Radio B-92
Directors: Mark Ellam & Aleksandra Dulic (Canada, 2001, 45 min,
video)
A Serbian underground radio station struggles to reestablish its
presence post-war.
9 pm RESILIENCE: FINDING MEANING, FACING
THE FUTURE
From South African apartheid to Nazi-occupied France, these films
explore courageous paths to healing the soul.
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Rigor Mortis
Director: Lauren Mainland (Canada, 2001, 3 min, super 8 & scratch
animation)
The poetic response of a young woman to the death of her father
in a car accident, Rigor Mortis offers a serious yet whimsical look
at grief and resilience.
Facing Death... Facing Life
Director: Ingrid Gavshon (South Africa, 2000, 52 min,video)
Members of South Africa's Sharpeville Six, unjustly convicted of
murder and sentenced to death in 1984, cope with life after clemency
and release, and search for healing from the haunting burden of
their experiences on death row.
Sisters in Resistance
Director: Maia Weschsler (USA / France, 2000, 60 min, video)
Four French women reunite to recall their involvement in the French
Resistance movement during World War II, their experience of a concentration
camp, and the lifelong friendship that has enabled them to face
extreme adversity and work for justice and human rights throughout
their lives.
11:30 pm CRUSH THE MONSTER: PROPAGANDA OR
DOCUMENTARY - curated by Szu Burgess
Curator Szu Burgess takes a foray into the borderlands between
documentary and propaganda with films from the 50s, 60s, and 70s
dealing with homosexuality, complimented by her own recent work.
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Anita Bryant Pie in the Face
Director unknown (USA, 1977, 3 min, 16 mm film)
One of Anita Bryant's "Save Our Children" television news
conferences is zapped by a pie-wielding gay activist.
Go Home Bob
Director: Szu Burgess (Canada, 1995, 3 minutes, video)
Fundamentalist preacher Bob Larson meets "mob scene" at
the University of Winnipeg.
Gay or Straight: Is There a Choice?
Director: Don McBrearty (Canada, 1975, 20 min, 16 mm)
A nuanced portrait of contemporary 1975 Canadian norms and beliefs
about homosexuality.
Red Light / Green Light - Meeting Strangers
Director: unknown (USA, 1965, 20 min, 16mm film)
Ever wonder where society gets the idea that lesbians and gays are
sick, predatory creatures? Red Light/ Green Light provides the answer.
The Homosexuals
Director: Reuben Siegel - CBS Documentary (USA, 1967, 45 min, 16mm
film)
The "roots" of homosexuality; the "growing problem"
of homosexuality; statistics, percentages and levels of being gay
- all this and more in interviews with acclaimed homosexuals, shrinks,
priests, judges and regular citizens.
sunday
may 26
3 pm COMMUNITIES AND THE LAND
Pushed aside by big corporate interests, ordinary citizens push
back in their struggle to preserve the places they call home.
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Land Claims
Director: Richard L. V. Larson (Canada, 2001, 2:18 min, Super 8
film)
A thought-provoking look at North American Native land claims.
Something in the Air
Director: Sylvie Dauphinais (Canada, 2001, 25 min, video)
All is not as it seems in Canada's emerald paradise of Prince Edward
Island, where parents have begun to see a link between the excessive
use of pesticides in farming and the highest hospital admission
rates in the country for children's asthma and respiratory illnesses.
Britannia Beach
Director: David Vaisbord (Canada, 2002, 56 min, video)
Conflict erupts when the local community of Britannia Beach clashes
with developers in a struggle to address heavy pollution in the
area.
5 pm IT'S A LIVING - curated by Cineworks
Independent Filmmakers Society
Workers use humour and candour to help us better understand the
modern meaning of work.
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Day Job
Director: Britta Gordon (USA, 2001, 7 min, 16 mm film)
Insightful moments in the life of doorwoman Lynette Weil as she
presides over the lobby of a Manhattan apartment.
Atomic Ed and the Black Hole
Director: Ellen Spiro, (USA, 2001, 27 min,video)
Former nuclear scientist transforms his collection of "nuclear
waste" into a genuine museum and second-hand store.
Final Clearance
Director: Paul Barron (UK, 2000, 23 min, video)
A gang of second-hand furniture dealers makes a lucrative living
by selling the possessions of the recently deceased.
Egg Lady (Olu Kundze)
Director: Una Celma (Latvia, 2000, 26 min, 35mm film)
Aina, the Egg Lady, spends each day breaking up to 20,000 eggs by
hand for a Latvian bakery.
7 pm
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Diamonds and Rust
Directors: Adi Barash & Ruth Shatz (Israel, 2001, 73 min, video)
A diamond-mining ship working off the Namibian coast becomes a floating
microcosm of the conflicts that pervade the international diamond
industry.
9 pm HOT FROM HOT DOCS - curated by the Canadian
Independent Film Caucus, western branch
For the third year in a row, CIFC brings some gems to Vancouver
fresh from Toronto's hot docs: Canadian International Documentary
Festival.
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McLuhan's Wake
Director: Kevin McMahon (Canada, 2002, 90 minutes)
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