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. 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. 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. 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.