Date: Sunday, March 23, 2014 Time: 7PM Location: Cinematheque, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Cambridge, MA Details: 98 min, France/Germany/Estonia, 2013 Filmmaker(s): Ben Russell, Ben Rivers Special co-presentation with the Harvard Film Archive and Balagan Films! Website | Facebook | Tickets ($12) | Season Passes Accepted! Synopsis: A SPELL follows an unnamed character through three seemingly disparate moments in his life. With little explanation, we join him in the midst of a 15-person collective on a small Estonian island; in isolation in the majestic wilderness of Northern Finland; and during a concert as the...
SHORT FILMS BY BEN RUSSELL AND BEN RIVERS
Date: Monday, March 24, 2014 Time: 7PM Location: Brattle Theatre, Cambridge, MA Details: 86 min total Filmmaker(s): Ben Russell, Ben Rivers Special co-presentation with the Harvard Film Archive and Balagan Films! Tickets | Season Passes Accepted! On the second night of our three-night special co-presentation, see a selection of short films from Ben Rivers and Ben Russell, the two friends, artists, and makers of A SPELL TO WARD OFF THE DARKNESS. Having been exhibited all over the world, their short films have been described as primal, otherworldly, ethnographic, and utopian. Excerpt of I KNOW WHERE I’M...
Robert A.A. Lowe (Lichens) + Ben Russell
Date: Tuesday, March 25, 2014 Time: Doors open at 9PM Location: Middlesex Lounge, 315 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA – (617) 868-MSEX Details: spontaneous music + 16mm projections Artist(s): Ben Russell, Robert A.A. Lowe (Lichens) Special co-presentation with Non-event and Balagan Films! Tickets ($10 cover at the door, 21+) | DocYard Season Passes not accepted Hot on the heels of their collaboration on A Spell to Ward off the Darkness, Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe (Lichens) and Ben Russell will join forces once more to present an evening of improvised vocalizations and musical compositions accompanied by live-manipulated...
HEARTS AND MINDS
Date: Monday, April 7, 2014 Time: 7PM Location: Brattle Theatre, Cambridge, MA Details: 112 min, USA, 1974 Filmmaker(s): Peter Davis Website | Tickets ) Synopsis: A courageous and startling film, Peter Davis’s landmark documentary Hearts and Minds unflinchingly confronts the United States’ involvement in Vietnam. Using a wealth of sources—from interviews to newsreels to documentary footage of the conflict at home and abroad—Davis constructs a powerfully affecting portrait of the disastrous effects of war. Explosive, persuasive, and shocking, Hearts and Minds is an overwhelming emotional experience and the controversial winner...
TOWN HALL
Date: Monday, April 14, 2014 Time: 7PM Location: Brattle Theatre, Cambridge, MA Details: 74 min, USA, 2013 Filmmaker(s): Sierra Pettengill, Jamila Wignot Website | Facebook | Tickets Synopsis: TOWN HALL casts an unflinching eye at Katy and John, two Tea Party activists from the battleground state of Pennsylvania who believe America’s salvation lies in a return to true conservative values.In Katy, we see a political novice rocketed to media stardom after a sensational confrontation at a town hall meeting with her senator. A young stay-at-home mom turned Tea Party spokesperson, she is gifted a new identity, steeled by the voices...
