Pirate Cinema 5

Feb. 1, 2009 - Feb. 2, 2009

 

    Twentieth Century Toxicity
   Sunday, February 1
      7 pm - 10 pm
     CAMP rooftop.

7: 00 pm
Safe
Todd Haynes
USA 1995 1 h 59 m
http://0xdb.org/0114323

9: 00 pm
The River
Tsai Ming-Liang
Taiwan 1997 1 h 55 m
http://0xdb.org/0119263


Take-Aways

Poison
Todd Haynes
USA 1991. 1h 25m

The Hole
Tsai Ming-liang
Taiwan, France 1998.  1h 35m



Two films about the interior and exterior of affliction. The hero gets it from playing dead in a river, the heroine from being "allergic to the 20th century".

Keywords: hermeticism, allergy, AIDS metaphor, bodies, bent neck, leaking water in father's room, icy detachment, nosebleed,  pine-scented, steam, Mcdonalds, black instead of teal, being held by the pillion-rider, slowly revealed that this is a family, could be a gay film.

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Jan. 18, 2025
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by Wang Bing
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There will be a short interval with food.

Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat
Jan. 8, 2025
CAMP Rooftop

by Johan Grimonprez
150 mins| 2024|
7:00 pm
A story about the encounter of American Jazz and African decolonisation, via the UN and the CIA, with a lot of world around it. Featuring among others Patrice Lumumba, Krishna Menon, Malcolm X, Maya Angelou, Nikita Khrushchev, Nina Simone, Dizzy Gillespie, Duke Ellington, Abbey Lincoln, Adou Elenga...

Around the World Again
Jan. 4, 2025
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Join us for a season of new films at CAMP which explore configurations and revelations of "world", amidst a world in pieces.
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GRAND TOUR
by Miguel Gomes
2024, 120 mins.
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in memorium, Tejas Pande.

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Five narratives developed in the class "Footage Films", that re-assemble archives of campus protest, Penn Museum collections, university weapons development projects, the Schuylkill river, a utopia called Shangri-La, and their intersections across time and place.
*Recalling Far From Vietnam, collectively-made essay film from 1967.

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Machine Visions
Nov. 21, 2024
Columbia University, New York

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From Gulf to Gulf to Gulf
Nov. 14, 2024
Public Trust, Philadelphia

Screening and conversation in collaboration with University of Pennsylvania’s Cinema & Media Studies department and CARG. At old Slought/ new Public Trust.

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12 Gates Art, Philadelphia

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