Margaret Mead Film and Video Festival - 2nd and 3rd of April, 2005

VIKSHANA – Visual Anthropology Network – invites you to a screening of the Margaret Mead Traveling Film and Video Festival on the 2nd and 3rd of April, 2005. All are welcome. Limited seating, so do come early.

Venue: Centre for Film and Drama
5th Floor, Sona Towers, 71 Millers Road, Bangalore 560052, Phone: 51231207 For directions on how to get there: http://www.collectivechaos.org/location_cfd.html

Schedule as below. For stills from the films and more information: http://www.amnh.org/programs/mead/travel.html


April 02, 6.30 pm

MARRY ME
Uli Gaulke & Jeannette Eggert. 2003. 105 min. (Germany/Cuba) While on holiday in Cuba, Erik, from Hamburg, meets and falls in love with Gladis from Havana. One year later, Gladis and her 8-year-old son, Omarito, board a plane to leave their island home for Germany. This intense and intimate portrait of their transcultural marriage takes us through the couple's first two years as they struggle with unexpected obstacles. Marry Me presents a highly original observation of cross-cultural identity and alienation.

A/K/A MRS. GEORGE GILBERT
Coco Fusco. 2004. 31 min. (U.S.)
This hybrid video blends fictional and documentary source material in an imaginative re-creation of a crucial political moment in U.S. history. Co-scripted by Rick Moody (The Ice Storm), it tells the story of an FBI agent who confesses to his involvement in the nationwide search for Angela Davis, the famous radical philosopher and black activist who was on the FBI's "Ten Most Wanted" list in 1970 and an underground fugitive for two months.


April 03, 2.00 pm

MARGARET MEAD: A PORTRAIT BY A FRIEND
Jean Rouch. 1978. 30 min. (U.S.)
Jean Rouch filmed this loving and humorous portrait of anthropologist and filmmaker Margaret Mead in September 1977 while he was a guest of the first Margaret Mead Film Festival. As both a friend and colleague, Rouch reveals a glimpse of the legendary Mead in her later years.

JAGUAR
Jean Rouch. 1957. 92 mins. (Niger/Ghana)
Part documentary, part fiction, and part reflective commentary, Jaguar tells the story of three young men from the Savannah of Niger who leave their homeland to seek wealth and adventure on the coast and in the cities of Ghana. This seminal film, which was the result of improvised on-screen action and then later, improvised narrative voice-over, is the story of their travels, their encounters along the way, their experiences in Accra and Kumasi, and, after three months, their return to their families and friends at home.


April 03, 4.30 pm

OSCAR
Sergio Morkin. 2004. 61 min. Video. (Argentina)
Oscar is a taxi driver, family man, and intrepid guerilla artist who rebels against the bombardment of advertisements in Buenos Aires. In doing so, he attracts attention from both the media and academia as an artist/activist whose story resonates strongly. But can he pay his bills without selling out?

HOW TO FIX THE WORLD
Jacqueline Goss. 2004. 28 min. (U.S./Uzbekistan)
This highly inventive digitally animated film brings to life the celebrated work of A.R. Luria's research with the Uzbek Soviet farm collectives in the 1930's. Photographs of the collectives taken during this same period serve as the basis for the animated images. The restaged conversations between the famed cognitive psychologist and the "subjects" reveal the impact of Soviet socialism on these Muslim oral-based agricultural communities.

THE FUTURE OF FOOD
Deborah Koons Garcia. 2003. 88 min. Video. (U.S./Canada/Mexico) What will food look like for future generations? Will all plant species become private property? The Future of Food raises important questions about genetically modified food. It highlights the role of corporations and government in agriculture, and the role consumers have yet to play in determining what we will eat in the decades to come. Viewing this film, you'll never look at food the same way again!