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2016 Films & Events
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Cover Image: Atanarjaut, The Fast Runner Friday, June 3, at 7pm
April Friday, April 1 at 7pm
Saturday, April 9 at 7pm
EIGHT HOuRS OF FEAR
TOKYO DRIFTER
Directors in Focus: Seijun Suzuki
Directors in Focus: Seijun Suzuki
dir. Seijun Suzuki, Japan, 1966, DCP, 83 min., color, Japanese w/ English subtitles
dir. Seijun Suzuki, Japan, 1957, 35mm, 77 min., b/w, Japanese w/ English subtitles
A crazy yarn about a reformed yakuza on the run from his former comrades.
When their train is trapped by a landslide, passengers, including a murderer escorted by police officers, pile into a bus to proceed through the rugged countryside. Print courtesy of the Japan Foundation.
Saturday, April 2 at 2pm Directors in Focus: Seijun Suzuki
PASSPORT TO DARKNESS
dir. Seijun Suzuki, Japan, 1959, 35mm, 88 min., b/w, Japanese w/ English subtitles
In this stylish film noir, a trombonist goes on an all-night bender after his wife disappears during their honeymoon. When he finds her corpse, he begins a frantic quest to find her killer. Print courtesy of the Japan Foundation.
Saturday, April 2 at 5pm Directors in Focus: Seijun Suzuki
THE SLEEPING BEAST WITHIN
dir. Seijun Suzuki, Japan, 1960, 35mm, 86 min., b/w, Japanese w/ English subtitles
A businessman vanishes upon his return from an overseas trip, so his daughter hires a reporter to help find him. When the father reappears, the reporter becomes suspicious and starts digging deeper, uncovering a secret world of heroin smuggling and murder. Following the screening, author Tom Vick will sign copies of his new book, Time and Place Are Nonsense: The Films of Seijun Suzuki. Print courtesy of the Japan Foundation.
Saturday, April 2 at 8pm Directors in Focus: Seijun Suzuki
YOuTH OF THE BEAST
dir. Seijun Suzuki, Japan, 1963, 35mm, 91 min., b/w, Japanese w/ English subtitles
A disgraced ex-cop pits two yakuza gangs against each other to avenge the death of a fellow officer. Introduced by Tom Vick - Curator of Film, Freer and Sackler Galleries, Smithsonian Institution. Print courtesy of the Japan Foundation.
Thursday, April 14 at 7pm Pop: On Screen and Around the World
Tuesday, April 5 at 7pm
The Dept. Of Hispanic Studies At The University Of Pennsylvania Presents:
NEGRABLANCA
dir. Helena de Llanos, Spain, 2015, HD video, 90 min., color, Spanish w/ English subtitles.
The filmmakers traveled to a town in southern Spain, where they invited community members to co-create a film that interweaves lived histories and fictionalized accounts to confront a question central to a community’s history: “Did this happen or did we make this up?” FREE ADMISSION
Wednesday, April 6 at 7pm
Archive Fever! 7.0 - From The Temple University Archives
THREE TEMPLE uNIVERSITY STuDENT FILMS BY STANFORD PROFESSOR/ FILMMAKER JAN KRAWITZ
dir. Khalil Al-Mozian, Palestine, 2012, digital file, 47 min., color
Gaza looks at the glory days of Gaza Strip movie theaters and considers the role of pleasure in an Islamic society. Followed by:
LAuRA MARKS: AFFECTIONS
dir. Grahame Weinbren, USA, 2015, digital file, 25 min.
dir. James Crump, USA, 2015, DCP, 72 min.
CINEBLATZ
dir. Jeff Keen, UK, 1967, video, 3 min., color
MARVO MOVIE
dir. Jeff Keen, UK, 1967, video, 5 min., color
MEATDAZE
dir. Jeff Keen, UK, 1968, video, 9 min., color
FREE ADMISSION Pop: On Screen and Around the World is guest curated by Ed Halter and organized by the Philadelphia Museum of Art on the occasion of the exhibition International Pop on view at the Museum through May 15, 2016.
A CHICKEN IN EVERY POT
GATE OF FLESH
Family Matinee
SITA SINGS THE BLuES
dir. Nina Paley, USA, digital, 75 min. color, in English
A dazzling animated retelling of Ramayana, the ancient Indian epic. FREE ADMISSION
Wednesday, April 27 at 7pm Cityscapes: Vienna
PRATER
dir. Ulrike Ottinger, Germany, 2007, digital, 104 min., color, German w/ English subtitles
The beguiling images in Prater transform the mythical Viennese attraction into a cinematic experience.
dir. Andy Warhol, USA, 1965, 16mm, 34 min. b/w
dir. Jan Krawitz, USA, 1978, 16mm, 29 min., color
Directors in Focus: Seijun Suzuki
Saturday, April 23 at 2pm
RESTAuRANT (AKA L’AVVENTuRA) / THE LIFE OF JuANITA CASTRO
dir. Jan Krawitz, USA, 1979, 16mm, 29 min., b/w
Thursday, April 7 at 7pm
Troublemakers unearths the history of land art in the tumultuous late 1960s and early 1970s.
Worldwide Warhol
COTTON CANDY AND ELEPHANT STuFF
FREE ADMISSION
TROuBLEMAKERS: THE STORY OF LAND ART
Friday, April 29 at 7pm
dir. Jan Krawitz, USA, 1976, 16mm, 10 min., b/w
Friday, April 15 at 7pm Full Exposure
DREAMS REWIRED
Warhol shot this intriguing short film in an Italian restaurant in New York City, where one of the film’s stars, Edie Sedgwick, was a regular. Followed by:
dir. Manu Luksch, Martin Reinhart & Thomas Tode, Austria/Germany, UK, DCP, 2015, 85 min., color/b+w, in English
THE LIFE OF JuANITA CASTRO
Part social realist drama, part sadomasochistic trash opera, Gate of Flesh paints a dog-eat-dog portrait of postwar Tokyo. Introduced by Rob Buscher, Director, Philadelphia Asian American Film Festival. Print courtesy of the Japan Foundation.
Dreams Rewired traces the desires and anxieties of today’s hyper-connected world back more than 100 years to the birth of the telephone, television and cinema.
Friday, April 8 at 7pm
TALES OF SORROW AND SADNESS
A model is groomed to become a professional golfer as a publicity stunt. When she excels at the sport, her success leads a deranged fan to hatch a blackmail scheme. Print courtesy of the Japan Foundation.
Loosely inspired by Fidel Castro’s sister, who defected from Cuba to the United States. The films will be introduced by Dr. Homay King, History of Art Professor, Bryn Mawr College, who will be joined for a post-screening discussion by Iggy Cortez, PhD candidate in the Department of the History of Art, University of Pennsylvania. FREE ADMISSION This program is supported by Kaja Silverman and the Mellon Foundation’s Distinguished Achievement Award, the Katherine Stein Sachs and Keith L. Sachs Program in Contemporary Art in the Department of History of Art at the University of Pennsylvania, and the Alice Paul Center for the Study of Gender, Sexuality, and Women at the University of Pennsylvania.
Saturday, April 16 at 8pm
Saturday, April 30 at 11am
dir. Seijun Suzuki, Japan, 1964, 35mm, 90 min., color, Japanese w/ English subtitles
dir. Seijun Suzuki, Japan, 1965, 35mm, 87 min., color, Japanese w/ English subtitles
GAZA 36MM
Described as a “rock concerto for film,” this is Whitehead’s take on swinging London in the 1960s, with music by Pink Floyd and others. Preceded by:
dir. Peter Whitehead, UK, 1967, video, 65 min., color
STYX
TATTOOED LIFE
An Evening with Laura U. Marks
Wednesday, April 20 at 7pm
Director Jan Krawitz in person
Directors in Focus: Seijun Suzuki
Monday, April 4 at 7pm
TONIGHT LET’S ALL MAKE LOVE IN LONDON
Set in the 1930s, Tattooed Life is the story of two brothers: Kenji, an art student, and Tetsu, who is working as a yakuza to help pay for Kenji’s tuition. Print courtesy of the Japan Foundation.
Saturday, April 16 at 5pm Directors in Focus: Seijun Suzuki
dir. Seijun Suzuki, Japan, 1977, 35mm, 93 min., color, Japanese w/ English subtitles
Saturday, April 9 at 2pm
Directors in Focus: Seijun Suzuki
BEST OF THE FEST: KID FLIX MIX I
dir. Seijun Suzuki, Japan, 1967, DCP, 91 min., b/w, Japanese w/ English subtitles
Family Matinee
dir. Various, USA, digital, 60 min., color, in English
Audience favorites and award-winning short films from the New York International Children’s Film Festival, for ages 3 to 8.
BRANDED TO KILL
Perhaps Suzuki’s most famous film, this send-up of B movie clichés about an assassin has been cited as an influence by filmmakers such as Quentin Tarantino and John Woo.
dir. Andy Warhol, US, 1965, 16mm, 66 min. b/w
Exhumed Films Presents
EX-FEST PART VI!
A 12-hour marathon of films whose titles are only revealed to the audience as each film is projected.
DIRECTORS IN FOCuS: SEIJuN SuZuKI APRIL 1 - 16, 2016 International House Philadelphia proudly presents the Smithsonian’s touring retrospective of films by legendary Japanese director Seijun Suzuki. co-organized with the Japan Foundation, the series includes screenings of nine groundbreaking films by Suzuki, who has amassed a stunning, boundlessly creative body of work in a career spanning nearly five decades. The series features Suzuki films from the 1950s and 1960s. Tom Vick, curator of Film, Freer and Sackler Galleries, Smithsonian Institution, will visit International House on Saturday, April 2 to sign copies of his new book, Time and Place Are Nonsense: The Films of Seijun Suzuki at the 5pm screening of The Sleeping Beast Within. He will then introduce the 8pm screening of Youth of the Beast, one of Suzuki’s breakthrough films. “To experience a film by Japanese B-movie visionary Seijun Suzuki is to experience Japanese cinema in all its frenzied, voluptuous excess,” New York Times Film critic Manohla Dargis has said of Suzuki, whose films range from classic “B movie” potboilers to beguiling metaphysical mysteries.
Friday, April 1 at 7pm
Friday, April 8 at 7pm
Saturday, April 2 at 2pm
Saturday, April 9 at 7pm
Saturday, April 2 at 5pm
Saturday, April 16 at 5pm
EIGHT HOuRS OF FEAR PASSPORT TO DARKNESS
THE SLEEPING BEAST WITHIN Saturday, April 2 at 8pm
YOuTH OF THE BEAST
Saturday, April 7 at 7pm
GATE OF FLESH
TATTOOED LIFE
TOKYO DRIFTER
TALES OF SORROW AND SADNESS
Saturday, April 16 at 8pm
BRANDED TO KILL
May Saturday, May 7, 2016 7pm
Saturday, May 14 at 5pm
Saturday, May 28 at 2pm
dirs. Lonnie van Brummelen & Siebren de Haan, The Netherlands, 2014, 35mm film, b/w, transferred to 4K DCP and HD, 63 min., color, Dutch and Urk w/ English subtitles
dir. Toshiya Fujita, Japan, 1973, DCP, 97 min., color, Japanese w/ English subtitles
naTurally naTIvE
EpIsodE of ThE sEa
In the Dutch fishing village of Urk, political, cultural, and environmental forces have conspired to upend ancestral traditions. The directors embarked on an intimate collaboration with the people of this town to capture its daily life. Preceded by
lady snowBlood
Gory revenge is raised to the level of visual poetry in this stunning film, which was a major inspiration for Quentin Tarantino’s Kill Bill saga. This endlessly inventive film charts the singleminded path of vengeance taken by a young woman, whose parents were victims of a gang of brutal criminals.
One of the great lost masterpieces of Japanese animation, this was the last film in the adultthemed Animerama trilogy produced by the godfather of Japanese anime & manga, Osamu Tezuka, and directed by his longtime collaborator Eiichi Yamamoto. For mature audiences. Graphic content. Introduced by Eric Bresler - Director/Curator, PhilaMOCA, and Founder, Cinedelphia
FREE ADMISSION
Saturday, May 14 at 8pm
lady snowBlood: lovE song of vEngEancE
dir. Toshiya Fujita, Japan, 1974, DCP, 89 min., color, Japanese w/ English subtitles
lE chanT du sTyrÈnE
dir. Alain Resnais, France, 1958, 35mm film transferred to video, 13 min., color, French w/ English subtitles
Friday, May 20 at 9pm
dir. Eiichi Yamamoto, Japan, 1973, DCP, 86 min., Japanese w/ English subtitles
dirs. Lonnie van Brummelen & Siebren de Haan, The Netherlands, 2008/2012, 35mm, 16 min, b/w, sound Dolby SR
Pop: On Screen And Around The World GLOBAL POP SHORTS
dir. Valerie Red-Horse (Cherokee), Jennifer Wynne Farmer, USA, 1999, 35mm, 107 min.
BElladonna of sadnEss
vIEw from ThE acropolIs
Thursday, May 12 at 7pm
Through Indian Eyes: Native American Cinema
The director’s invigorating sequel to his cult hit, Lady Snowblood. The heroine is captured by the authorities and sentenced to death for killings she has committed, but is offered a chance to escape, if she carries out dangerous orders for the government.
This hilarious short illustrates the confrontation of cultural insensitivity and cultural oversensitivity, leading to a seemingly endless cycle of the same old, same old.
TalEs of ThE nIghT
dir. Michel Ocelot, France/UK, digital, 84 min., color, in English.
A beautifully animated tale about six exotic fables as viewers are whisked off to enchanted lands full of dragons, werewolves, captive princesses, sorcerers, and talking bees.
Saturday, May 21 at 7pm
An intimate portrait of Akerman’s mother, a Holocaust survivor, in the last years of her life.
now
dir. Randy Redroad, USA, 1991, video, 17 min.
Family Matinee
dir. Chantal Akerman, Belgium, 2015, DCP, 115 min., French w/ English subtitles
dir. Manfred Kuttner, Germany, 1963, 8mm film transferred to video, 4 min., b/w
cow TIppIng
Saturday, May 21 at 2pm
no homE movIE
a-Z
A moving tale of Native self-betterment and triumph in this disarming drama about three American Indian sisters, raised separately in foster families, who now seek a shared destiny as entrepreneurs of a line of organic cosmetics. Preceded by:
dir. Santiago Álvarez, Cuba, 1965, 16mm film transferred to video, 5 min., b/w
Saturday, May 28 at 5pm Through Indian Eyes: Native American Cinema
rhymEs for young ghouls
dir. Jeff Barnaby (Mi’kmaq), Canada, 2013, video, 88 min.
Barnaby’s visionary feature debut uses the tragic legacy of Canada’s Indian Residential Schools as a leaping off point for a full-throttle revenge fantasy.
nEon
dir. Midge MacKenzie, UK/New Zealand, 1966, 16mm film transferred to video, 23 min., color
waITIng for commErcIals
dir, Nam June Paik, Jud Yalkut, US, 1966-72, 16mm film transferred to video, 7 min.
Thursday, May 19, at 7pm
aBId
ThE ThIrd man
dir. Pramod Pati, India, 1970, 16mm film transferred to video, 5 min., color
consumEr arT
dir. Natalia LL, Poland, 1972–1974, 16mm film transferred to video, 8 min., color
FREE ADMISSION Pop: On Screen and Around the World is guest curated by Ed Halter and organized by the Philadelphia Museum of Art in collaboration with International House Philadelphia on the occasion of the exhibition International Pop on view at the Museum through May 15, 2016. For more information: philamuseum.org.
Saturday, May 14 at 2pm Family Matinee
BEsT of ThE fEsT: KId flIX II
Cityscapes: Vienna
dir. Carol Reed, UK, 1949, DCP, 104 min., b/w
Pulp novelist Holly Martins travels to shadowy, post-war Vienna, only to begin investigating the mysterious death of an old friend. A legendary tale of love, deception, and murder, starring Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli and Orson Welles.
Friday, May 20 at 7pm
I don’T BElong anywhErE: ThE cInEma of chanTal aKErman dir. Marianne Lambert, Belgium, 2015, DCP, 67 min., French w/ English subtitles
A documentary exploring the work of Belgian experimental filmmaker Chantal Akerman, including excerpts from many of her films.
dir. Various, USA 2015, digital, 65 min. color
Favorites and short films from the New York International Children’s Film Festival, recommended for, ages 9 to adult.
Friday, May 27 at 7pm Through Indian Eyes: Native American Cinema
smoKE sIgnals
dir. Chris Eyre (Cheyenne/Arapaho), USA/Canada, 1998, 35mm, 89 min.
Director Chris Eyre’s monumental first feature film and the first commercially released American feature film written, directed and co-produced by Native American people. Two young Native men, Victor and Thomas, journey from the Couer-d’Alene reservation to retrieve the ashes of Victor’s long-lost father. The road trip deepens the pair’s tenuous friendship as they explore their Native identity and confront past traumas with courage and humor. Preceded by:
carryIng fIrE
Native Americans first appeared on film in 1895 but were totally excluded from any meaningful role in the production of their own cinematic images for virtually the entire century to follow. Financed by tribal communities and non-Native sources, these films represent a cross-section of tribal communities across the United States and Canada, whether Navajo or Sioux, Seminole or Mohawk, Cree or Inuit. In conjunction with the series, Penn Museum will present a free 50th anniversary screening of Navajo Film Themselves, on Saturday, June 11 at 5pm at the Penn Museum. For details: www.penn.museum. This project is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts. Series curators: Jan-Christopher Horak, Dawn Jackson (Saginaw Chippewa), Shannon Kelley, Paul Malcolm, and Valerie Red-Horse Mohl (Cherokee). Associate curator: Nina Rao.
Through Indian Eyes: Native American Cinema
KanEhsaTaKE: 270 yEars of rEsIsTancE
dir. Alanis Obomsawin (Abenaki), Canada, 1993, 119 min.
This landmark documentary chronicles the 1990 standoff between the Canadian Army, Quebec police and members of the Mohawk Nation, who were determined to defend their land from the planned encroachment of a golf course. Preceded by:
lyE
dir. Dax Thomas (Laguna/Acoma), USA, 2005, video, 5 min.
dir. Marie Burke (Cree/Dene), Canada, 2009, video, 4 min.
Through IndIan EyEs: naTIvE amErIcan cInEma may 27 - JunE 9, 2016 Through Indian Eyes: Native American Cinema is a landmark touring program of films that have been directed by Native Americans. Organized by the UCLA Film & Television Archive, this remarkable series highlights independent Native American filmmaking, which is becoming a “national” cinema as Native American communities, after centuriesold legacies of genocide, displacement, forced assimilation, poverty, alcoholism and demeaning media images, have worked to take command of their destinies and their representation.
Saturday, May 28 at 8pm
Friday, May 27 at 7pm
Thursday, June 2 at 7pm
Preceded by:
Preceded by:
Saturday, May 28 at 2pm
Friday, June 3 at 7pm
smoKE sIgnals carryIng fIrE
naTurally naTIvE Preceded by:
cow TIppIng Saturday, May 28 at 5pm
drunKTown’s fInEsT shImsanI
aTanarJuaT, ThE fasT runnEr Saturday, June 4 at 2pm
KIssEd By lIghTnIng
rhymEs for young ghouls
Preceded by:
Saturday, May 28 at 8pm
Saturday, June 4 at 5pm
KanEhsaTaKE: 270 yEars of rEsIsTancE Preceded by:
lyE
Wednesday, June 1 at 7pm
TrudEll Preceded by:
nIKamowIn
ThE cavE ThIs may BE ThE lasT TImE Preceded by:
a BEnTwood BoX Saturday, June 4 at 8pm
ITam haKIm, hopIIT Preceded by:
navaJo TalKIng pIcTurE Thursday, June 9 at 7pm
TIKInagan Preceded by:
ThE honour of all
June
Wednesday, June 1 at 7pm Through Indian Eyes: Native American Cinema
TrudEll
Saturday, June 4 at 2pm
Thursday, June 9 at 7pm
KIssEd By lIghTnIng
TIKInagan
Through Indian Eyes: Native American Cinema
Through Indian Eyes: Native American Cinema
dir. Shelley Niro (Mohawk), Canada, 2009, video, 89 min.
dir. Gil Cardinal (Métis), Canada, 1991, video, 59 min.
Mavis Dogblood is a Mohawk painter from Canada, haunted by the tragic death of her husband. Beautifully photographed, this feminist film meditates on the loss of Native traditions, and the role of women in keeping them alive. Preceded by:
This documentary explores the heart-rending struggles facing Native youth in Ontario, and the efforts of a revolutionary community-based program that supports the children.
ThE cavE
This moving film recounts the true story of a community’s journey to sobriety, enacted by a cast made up of many of the actual subjects.
dir. Helen Haig-Brown (Tsilhqot’in), Canada, 2009, video, 11 min.
dir. Heather Rae (Cherokee), USA, 2005, video, 80 min.
ThE honour of all
dir. Phil Lucas, USA, 1986, video, 57 min.
Saturday, June 11 at 2pm
A documentary about American Indian activist and poet John Trudell and his rise from poverty to leadership in the American Indian Movement, followed by personal tragedies and status as a poet and recording artist. Preceded by:
Family Matinee
nausIcaÄ of ThE vallEy of ThE wInd
dir. Hayao Miyazaki, Japan, 1984, DCP, 116 min., color, in English
Friday, June 17 at 7pm Motion Pictures
cronIca dI un amorE (sTory of a lovE affaIr) dir. Michelangelo Antonioni, Italy, 1950, digital, 98 min., b/w, Italian w/ English subtitles
Michelangelo Antonioni’s debut feature offers a powerful statement on the delusions and violence sparked by a passionate love.
The story of a young princess, brave and innocent.
nIKamowIn
dir. Kevin Lee Burton (Swampy Cree), Canada, 2007, video, 11 min.
Saturday, June 4 at 5pm Through Indian Eyes: Native American Cinema
ThIs may BE ThE lasT TImE dir. Sterlin Harjo, USA, 2014, video, 90 min.
Thursday, June 2 at 7pm Through Indian Eyes: Native American Cinema
drunKTown’s fInEsT
dir. Sydney Freeland (Navajo), USA, 2014, video, 89 min.
In her impressive first feature, writer-director Sydney Freeland unfurls a suite of stories about contemporary life among Navajo youth. Preceded by:
shImsanI
dir. Blackhorse Lowe (Navajo), USA, 2009, video, b/w 15 min.
The Muscogee Creek and Seminole nations developed their own traditional hymns. Sterlin Harjo’s personal documentary weaves together the tragic history of these hymns with the mysterious disappearance of his grandfather. Preceded by:
a BEnTwood BoX
dir. Sandy Osawa, Yasu Osawa, USA, 1985, video, 5 min.
Saturday, June 4 at 8pm Through Indian Eyes: Native American Cinema
ITam haKIm, hopIIT
dir. Victor Masayesva Jr., USA, 1984, video, 84 min.
A Hopi elder shares stories of his boyhood and the origins of the Hopi people. Preceded by:
navaJo TalKIng pIcTurE
dir. Arlene Bowman (Diné), USA, 1985, video, 40 min.
The director set out to document her grandmother’s life on a Navajo reservation, but when her grandmother refuses to participate, Bowman must confront her own motives and understanding of her heritage.
Wednesday, June 8 at 7pm Archive Fever! 7.0
KamIKaZE 89
dir. Wolf Gremm, Germany, 1982, DCP, 106 min. color, German w/ English subtitles
Friday, June 3 at 7pm Through Indian Eyes: Native American Cinema
aTanarJuaT, ThE fasT runnEr
In his last film role, legendary director Rainer Werner Fassbinder plays Jansen, an expert cop living in a dystopic future where a nefarious conglomerate controls all media.
Saturday, June 25 at 2pm Family Matinee
Saturday, June 11 at 7pm Motion Pictures: William Gillette
shErlocK holmEs (1916)
dir. Arthur Berthelet, USA, 1916, DCP, 116 mins. b/w, English inter-titles
This newly restored film is a vital missing link in the history of Sherlock Holmes on screen. Presented with an original score composed and performed by Neil Brand, Guenter Buchwald and Frank Bockius.
vIva nyIcff! BEsT of spanIsh and laTIn amErIcan shorT fIlms dir. Various, 75 min., color, in English
A diverse selection of award-winning films and audience favorites from the New York International Children’s Film Festival. Recommended for ages 9+.
Thursday, June 16 at 7pm Cityscapes: Vienna VIENNA SHORTS PROGRAM
mIT BlIcK auf wIEn / wITh a vIEw of vIEnna dir. Johanna Moder, Austria, 2008, digital, 11min., color, German w/ English subtitles
Things get complicated when a potential renter and the landlady prepare to sign a lease for a flat.
phanTom frEmdEs wIEn / phanTom forEIgn vIEnna dir. Lisl Ponger, Austria, 1991- 2004, digital, 27 min., color, German w/ English subtitles
The filmmaker examines ethnicity and ethnic cultures in Vienna.
wIEn 17, schumanngassE dir. Hans Scheugl, Austria, 1967, digital, 3min., b/w
1100 wIEn gEorgEwashIngTon-hof
Saturday, June 25 at 7pm
wall wrITErs
dir. Roger Gastman, USA, 2015, video, 77 min.
From graffiti’s humble beginnings in 1967, Gastman’s newest documentary film reveals the context of the start of a movement that would grow to transform city life, public transit, public art and visual art the world over. Followed by a Q&A and book signing with director Roger Gastman and special guests.
dir. Christoph Weihrich, Austria, 2009, digital, 4 min.
dIE wIEnEr wErKBundsIEdlung / forms In rElaTIon To lIfE
dir. Zacharias Kunuk (Inuit), Canada, 2001, video, 170 min., Inuktitut with English subtitles
Based on an old Inuit legend, the chief of the clan has two sons, whose jealousy between them leads to a bloody conflict.
dir. Heidrun Holzfeind, Austria, 2014, digital, 60 min. German w/ English subtitles
This film examines the Viennese Werkbund housing settlement and its architecture.
Special eventS Saturday, April 9 at 1pm
Saturday, May 21 at 1pm
IrIsh dancIng
ITalIan dancIng and songs
All Around This World
All Around This World
All Around This World and IHP present an Irish music and dance workshop for young children and their families. Tickets are $5, kids under 2 are free.
All Around This World and IHP present an Italianthemed interactive music and dance workshop young children and their families. Tickets are $5, kids under 2 are free.
Wednesday, April 13 at 7pm Penn Humanities Presents
Tuesday, April 5 at 6:30pm Culture And Cuisine
Brauhaus schmITZ International House Philadelphia and its Board of Delegates cordially invite you for an evening of Culture & Cuisine, to meet and share a meal with IHP residents and friends from around the world. Brauhaus Schmitz, located at 718 South Street, is an authentic German restaurant and beer hall.
maTmos: pErformancE and convErsaTIon on QuEEr noIsE Experimental electronica duo Matmos will perform live, followed by a conversation on queer noise with Heather Love, R. Jean Brownlee Term Associate Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania. Matmos have made albums using recordings of liposuction, rat cages, amplified crayfish nerve tissue, freshly cut human hair, and more. They have worked with innovative artists including Björk, S Percussion and Antony Hegarty.
Saturday, June 11 at 1pm All Around This World
Saturday, April 23 at 8pm Sunday, April 24 at 7pm Intercultural Journeys Presents
lEla aIsha JonEs/ flyground: naTIvE porTals
Native Portals is a two-part movement performance series. Lynching & Love abstractly narrates first exposures to lynching and Release Mourning Clearing puts ritual and ceremony experienced in African and/or Black Diaspora center stage.
BrITIsh morrIs dancIng All Around This World and IHP present an interactive British Morris dancing workshop for kids and their families.
Wednesday, June 22 at 5pm International House Philadelphia Presents
ThIrd annual Ihp arT show
Residents and alumni of International House Philadelphia display their artwork at an opening reception.
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