But it is strange, there is a strong relationship. Mr. Loeser will be present to discuss the films. The Millennium thanks Juliane Wanckel of the Goethe Institute New York and Hiltrud Schulz of Icestorm International for their help in making these programs possible. San Francisco-based filmmaker, Sandra Davis returns to the Millennium with a full program of recent works. The evidence includes testimonies describing experiences in sexuality, love relationships, births, illegal abortions, adolescence as a Jew in revolutionary Russia and in the Protestant US Midwest.
Private anecdotes illuminate societal realities of race, culture, and gender.
Bits of 1950's educational films testify to scientific belief in cause and effect and stupefying patriarchal convictions of 'how to' grow up well, avoid 'going bad' and get a date for the prom. I noticed the program in France called them 'odes' which is a lovely word that seems old-fashioned and quite precise, evoking a sense of both memory and presence. The dryness of gold, the rock of plateau, the cemetery of the sailors, the echoes of fishermen and artists, the memory of Paul Valery. And water everywhere. Open Screening 16MM, S8MM, Video Projection .