5pm *FREE*
Picture of Light
(Peter Mettler, Canada, 83 min., 35mm, 1994)
7pm
Manufactured Landscapes
(Jennifer Baichwal, Canada , 90 min., 35mm, 2006)
9pm *FREE*
Gambling, Gods, and LSD
(Peter Mettler, Switzerland/Canada, 180 min., 35mm, 2003)
A filmmaker's inquiry into transcendence becomes a three-hour trip across countries and cultures, interconnecting people, places and times. From Toronto, Peter Mettler sets out on a journey that includes evangelism at the airport strip, demolition in Las Vegas, tracings in the Nevada desert, chemistry and street life in Switzerland, and the coexistence of technology and divinity in contemporary India. Everywhere along the way, the same themes are to be found: thrill-seeking, luck, destiny, belief, expanding perception, the craving for security in an uncertain world. Fact joins with fantasy; the search for meaning and the search for ecstasy begin to merge. Blending documentary observation with lyrical camerawork, location sound with aural sculpture, the result is a mosaic of moments where the whole is much greater than the sum of its parts.
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Residency Event featuring artist and writer Antonio Rocha
7h30pm – reading by the artist at 8h30pm
At Brewing Grounds for Change (2008 N. Farwell Avenue)
Hosted by the Cultural Crisis Residency Program
The cafe, a cooperative space, co-owned by Matt Nelson, will continue its interactive promotions on Remembrance with an emphasis for that day on Antonio and Matt's "Long Relationship." Antonio and Matt encourage you to participate in the space by sharing objects or words that speak to Remembrance. There will also be goodies from Bombay Sweets.
PARTY following at 3433 N. Pierce Street (north of Townsend, just south of Keefe), starting at 10:30pm.
