This conjurs an extraordinary experience of archival film footage interacting with itself in a modernist expression invoking the origins of motion picture technology while accessing a living unconscious phenomena. Your eyes will never forgive you if you miss this. Boston has long been known nationally as a center for teen media projects. This program presents highlights from an ongoing screening collaborative of these projects, using different approaches to putting video and film equipment in the hands of youth. Tons of taxis.
Animation sews it up.
An experimental animation exploring rhythmic and organic qualities in a machine called Train. The twins, a boy and a girl, are born in pre-war Helsinki in 1945. Their story is animated through a brilliantly evocative technique using pixelated pencils, as the characters are schooled and learn the ways of the world. This one-hour documentary film, set primarily in Lexington, MA over the Memorial Day weekend in 1971, examines a local conflict that reverberated nationally. Originally planned as a rally against the Vietnam War, Operation POW retraced the ride of Paul Revere from Concord to Boston culminating with a huge demonstration on the Boston Common.