Eleftheria Lialios' film diary is powerful and emotional examination of the death of the filmmaker's daughter, Elektra, and of Lialios' attempts to come to terms with her loss through her art. The first two parts of an on-going project present an overview of the filmmaker's place of birth along with the political and social struggles facing the region and family structure. Using film footage and sound recorded by the filmmaker's father, as it was being broadcast at the time of the Apollo 11 moon landing, along with other sources of found footage, Lineage seeks to explore the dynamic of a private experience of a very public event. An imagined history. The filmmaker attempts to find the birthplace of her great-grandmother.
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As an originator of the Transgressive cinema, filmmaker Nick Zedd has created some of the most dark and disturbing films in the history of cinema, and has been regularly berated for his seeming amorality and shameless use of sex, violence and taboo-breaking to get centre stage. Continues through Sunday, January 24. Their romantic pop songs have the nostalgia of old Motown with a Beatlesque flare. Solarcane is a duo but their CDis overlapped sounds and textures. They perform tonight with country-influencedDara Roberts among others.