FESTIVAL NEWS
September 20: Looking Back Screens at Scribe Video Center in Philadelphia, PA at 7:00PM
Ninth annual Media That Matters winner, Looking Back will screen as part of a night run by Scribe Video Center in Philadelphia, PA called Photographic Memory on Sunday, September 20 at 7:00 PM
International House
3701 Chestnut Street
$10, $8 students/seniors, $5 Scribe members
Filmmakers Ashley Maynor and John Petit and photographer J.J. Tizou will be there in person
This program assembles four works which explore how the photographic images triggers and informs and influences our memories and sense of ourselves as individuals, family members, artists, activists and survivors.
Ulysse (France, 1982, 35mm, color, 22 min. French with English subtitles)
Directed by Agnès Varda.
Varda returns to a striking photograph she took in 1954, its subject a naked man on the beach beside a young boy, also naked, and the corpse of a goat. When the subjects, tracked down thirty years later, fail to remember the circumstances surrounding the photo, the film becomes a haunting meditation on the elusive nature of memory as well as a fascinating introduction to Varda’s photography and its influence on her filmmaking.
Looking Back (US, 2008, 5:25 min)
Directed by Emile Bokaer
Homeless veteran Albert Lewis photographs his life and sheds light on the support of his community.
The Archivist (US, 2007, 4:43 min)
Directed by John Petit
For Memories Sake (US, 2009, work-in-progress,29 min)
Directed by Ashley Maynor
For Memories’ Sake investigates the life and work of Angela Singer, a Southern homemaker who has taken an average of a dozen photos a day for the last 35 years, compiling a mysterious and strange archive of over 150,000 photographs of her daily life. Her life and hobby of photography is explored through the lens of her granddaughter, filmmaker Ashley Maynor. The film asks questions about the nature of photography as a form of memory and captures a cross-generational portrait of two Southern women whose lives as image-makers have taken very different paths.
Published on September 20, 2009
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