MIRAGES:
A Video Exhibition at the Bayly Art Museum
Friday - Sunday, November 1-3. 1:00 - 5:00pm
The Film Festival, in collaboration with the Bayly Art Museum, will open a temporary video gallery on the Bayly's second floor, presenting a potpourri of video art, TV shows, documentaries, and classic short films. The selections supplement the Festival program by offering more artistic ruminations on the meaning of the desert, and additional examples of the emerging genre of women's road movie. Artists whose work will be screened include Bill Viola, Luis Bunuel, Sophie Calle, Laurel and Hardy, George Kuchar, Ellen Spiro, Luis Valdovino, Philip Haas, and Werner Herzog. Admission is free.
In conjunction with the Festival theme, the Bayly Museum is presenting an exhibition of Dutch landscape painting, October 5-December 22.
ROGER EBERT TEACHES BONNIE AND CLYDE
Here is an opportunity to study Arthur Penn's classic Bonnie and Clyde on view at the Festival on November 1, with Pulitzer Prize-winning critic Roger Ebert. The three-part, six-hour workshop will feature Roger Ebert's shot-by-shot analysis of the film and his responses to the traditionally lively responses by class members. Class begins on Friday, November 1 at 4:00 pm, and continues on Saturday and Sunday at 10
am at Charlottesville's new Regal Downtown Mall theater. Admission is $40 for all three sessions. Seating is limited, so order early!
At Alderman Library
Festival patrons should not miss our first interactive media display at Alderman Library, jointly organized by the Film Festival and the Digital Media and Music Center. You can sample the CD-ROM's throughout the Festival during Alderman Library hours, and attend the special demonstrations given by CD-ROM creators Rick Prelinger and Adriene Jenik (see times below).
Mauve Desert by Adriene Jenik
Artist Adriene Jenik has translated Nicole Brossard's novel Le Desert Mauve into an interactive CD-ROM. The user travels the desert landscape, reconstructing 15-year old Melanie's life from her memories of her mother and her lover. Mauve Desert provokes thinking and feeling. Its subjects include: the rebellious female teen psyche, the desert, nuclear waste disposal, lesbian mothers, scientific ethics, the road, confusion, the possibility of intimacy, and death. Demonstration by Adriene Jenik: Nov. 1, 3:00--4:00pm, in Clemons Library Room 201.
The Uncharted Landscape by Richard Prelinger
This is Disk 6 of Rick Prelinger's Voyager CD-ROM series Our Secret Century. It includes the "ephemeral" (advertising, industrial, educational) films American Harvest, Freedom Highway, and In The Suburbs, interspersed with Prelinger's brilliant analysis of the films' rich revelations of American dreams and nightmares. This disk demonstrates how corporations and government agencies saturated American roads and landscapes with consumerist mythologies. Demonstration by Rick Prelinger: Nov. 2, 3:00--4:00pm, in Clemons Library, Room 201.
Added Demonstration
Film scholar Robert Kolker will demonstrate the first film studies textbook on CD-ROM, Film, Form and Culture, Nov. 2 at 4:30pm in Clemons Library.
JEFFERSON THEATER PRESENTS
Hearts' Lonely Hunters
October 25-31
Directed by Daniel Kuttner & written by Beatrix Ost
starring Hans Jorg Asman
A one-week engagement of a new feature film about a German man who confronts the legacy of Jefferson and America in Charlottesville, Virginia.
7:00pm nightly
and The Red Clay Ramblers in Concert
8:00 pm Fri, Nov. 1 $15
(free to Works passes only)
The Red Clay Ramblers, co-stars and composers of Sam Shepard's 1994 neo-western (with Richard Harris, Alan Bates, River Phoenix, and Tantoo Cardinal), Silent Tongue, will follow the screening with a live concert onstage at the Jefferson Theater.
LOCATION: CHARLOTTESVILLE
A Photo Exhibit at Gallery Neo
Oct. 28 - Nov. 30
Production stills photographed on Charlottesville's movie sets by the area's finest photographers
Women on the Road
The Film Festival is joining with Vinegar Hill Theatre and the
Women's Center to present a series of Women's Road Movies
immediately following the Festival. Discussions will follow the
early shows at the Mudhouse Cafe.
Sunday, Nov. 3
7:00 pm Thelma and Louise (1991, D: Ridley Scott, with Susan Sarandon, Geena Davis, Harvey Keitel)
9:30 pm Messidor (1978, D: Alain Tanner) shown with Portland (1996, Greta Snider)
Monday, Nov. 4
7:00 pm Faster Pussycat Kill! Kill! (1965, D: Russ Meyer, with Tura Santana) shown with Portland (1996, D: Greta Snider)
9:30 pm Butterfly Kiss (1995, D: Michael Winterbottom, with Amanda Plummer)
Tuesday, Nov. 5
6:45 pm Joan of Arc of Mongolia (1989, D: Ulrik Ottinger)
10:00 pm Beggars of Life (1928 D: William Wellman,with Louise Brooks)
Wednesday, Nov. 6
7:00 pm Bagdad Cafe (1987, D: Percy Adlon, with Jack Palance) shown with Counterwaitress
9:30 pm Je Tu Il Elle (1974, D: Chantal Akerman) shown with Rules of the Road
Thursday, Nov. 7
7:00pm Biker Women (1996, D: Victoria Samuels) shown with Dykes on Bikes/She Lives to Ride
10:00pm Tank Girl (1995, D: Rachel Talalay)