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Seijun Suzuki’s Tokyo Drifter
WORLD CINEMA
CULTURE & CUISINE
Keiichi Tanaami, one of Japan’s most prominent and influential pop artists, and famed British pop artist Derek Boshier came to International House in March to discuss their cinematic work as part of a special film series, Pop: On Screen and Around the World, which International House presented through mid-May in collaboration with the Philadelphia Museum of Art and its International Pop exhibit.
The Board of Delegates invited I-House residents, members and friends in the Philadelphia community for an evening of Culture & Cuisine at Brauhaus Schmitz, a popular German restaurant on South Street, where the authentic cuisine, including Bratwurst and Sauerbraten, was served family-style.
In April, I-House presented the Smithsonian’s touring retrospective of films by legendary Japanese director Seijun Suzuki. Co-organized with the Japan Foundation, the program featured groundbreaking films by Suzuki from the 1950s and 1960s. Tom Vick, Curator of Film, Freer and Sackler Galleries at the Smithsonian Institution, visited International House on April 2 to sign copies of his new book, Time and Place Are Nonsense: The Films of Seijun Suzuki, at a screening of The Sleeping Beast Within. He also introduced Youth of the Beast, one of Suzuki’s breakthrough films. Through Indian Eyes: Native American Cinema, a landmark touring program featuring 20 films directed by and about Native Americans, opened at the Ibrahim Theater in May. This remarkable event, which shattered stereotypes perpetuated by Hollywood for decades, was organized by the UCLA Film & Television Archive and supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts.
Through Indian Eyes: Native American Cinema
Culture & Cuisine at Brauhaus Schmitz
SPECIAL EVENTS International House Philadelphia was proud to host Penn Nursing’s event on March 24 to honor Dr. Denis Mukwege, a physician who has risked his life to mend thousands of women that have been raped in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where warring militias have used mass rape as a weapon of terror. The Nobel Peace Prize nominee came to Philadelphia to receive Penn Nursing’s Renfield Foundation Award for Global Women’s Health. Dr. Mukwege inspired the audience in the Ibrahim Theater as he fielded questions about his humanitarian work, his stand against violence toward women, and his compassionate commitment to restoring hope and dignity in the lives of women.