Laura Viddy Darga is television producer who has over seventeen years experience in the industry. A Philadelphia native and Temple University alum, Laura spent the last ten years as a producer in the...
Foreword to Guns for Banta and Domestic Tourism II
Date/Time:
02/15/2012 - 7:00pm - 9:00pm
Location:
International House Philadelphia, The Ibrahim Theater (3701 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104)
Cost:
Free to the Public
Explore the revolutionary potential of film and the cinematic archive with a series of screenings, discussions, and performances presented as part of the exhibition Living Document / Naked Reality: Towards an Archival Cinema at the Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania.
Foreword to Guns for Banta
dir. Mathieu Kleyebe Abonnenc, 2010, 29 mins, b/w, sound
Domestic Tourism II
dir. Maha Maamoun, 2009, 62 mins, color, sound
Retrace Third Cinema director Sarah Maldoror’s lost film through Mathieu Kleyebe Abonnenc’s Foreword to Guns for Banta and experience the complexities of a rapidly changing society in Maha Maamoun’s film Domestic Tourism II, composed of excerpts from Egyptian films that feature the pyramids.
Followed by a conversation between Nora Alter, Professor of Film and Media Arts at Temple University, and Eve M. Troutt Powell, Associate Professor of History at Penn.
For more information: http://ihousephilly.org/events/foreword-to-guns-for-banta-and-domestic-t...