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  • From: suzie sisoler <suzie AT algonquin.com>
  • To: "InterNetWorkers" <internetworkers AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Lingual Tonite
  • Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 09:42:01 -0500


A very special Lingual, tonight at 10pm at the Duke Coffeehouse. Directions:

http://baobabcomputing.com/aim/coffeehouse.htm

(FYI--Lingual is a very cool monthly electronic music and video event. Both Ethan and Giles from Webslingerz are involved along with some other folks. You should try to make it out to Durham tonite . . .)

THE FIFTH ANNUAL FILM AND VIDEO HAPPENING
Duke University
February 25-27, 2000

The Center for Documentary Studies and the Duke Film and Video Program
present the Fifth Annual Documentary Film and Video Happening, a
noncompetitive event for professionals, amateurs, students, and documentary
enthusiasts of all ages.

From pro-wrestling and karaoke to seasonal changes in the arctic tundra,
the scheduled documentaries range widely in subject, tone, and structure.
Among the documentaries that will be screened:
* UNC-Asheville student Alison Watson's piece about the School of the
Americas and the controversy surrounding it,
* Julie Stovall's "Myrtle and Ellen," a stirring glimpse into the lives of
two elderly sisters who live together and care for each other,
* Kenny Dalsheimer and Jamie Hysjulien's "Shine On: Richard Trice and the
Bull City Blues," a lyrical portrait of one of the surviving musicians from
the heydey of blues in Durham,
* A mockumentary on the making of a musical about the Salem Witch Trials, and
* An intriguing study through images, sounds, and quotes about the concept
of power.

******************
THREE DAYS OF DOCS AND MORE

Each of the Happening's three days will combine screenings of submitted
documentaries with events and info-sessions. Friday night's opening session
features New York City filmmakers Vivek Bald and Claire Shanley, who will
discuss and show clips from their current documentary project: "Mutiny:
Asians Storm British Music." Bald, better-known in the clubs as DJ Siraiki,
will then headline a live show at the Duke Coffeehouse with three other
DJ's and video mixing. This event , co-sponsored by WXDU, is offered in
conjunction with the local monthly electronic music and video series
Lingual.

On Saturday screenings will alternate throughout the day with
info-sessions. Local producer Mary Beth Mann will share tips on how to
juggle the complexities of making documentaries in "Don't Quit Your Day
Job." Robert West will discuss Working Films, a new national media
organization that partners with filmmakers, educators, and community
organizers to develop "on the streets" campaigns for major documentaries.
Other presentations will address such issues as working in the field with a
one-person crew, challenging some of the myths and assumptions surrounding
independent documentary making, and building community through video and
media activism.

*******************
SPECIAL SUNDAY PRESENTATION

On Sunday, February 27, at 2 p.m. the Happening is proud to present a
screening of guest filmmaker Elizabeth Barret's recently completed
"Stranger with a Camera" in the Griffith Theater at the Bryan Center on
Duke's West Campus. "Stranger with a Camera" re-examines the 1967 murder of
Canadian director Hugh O'Connor, who was shot by a landlord while filming
in Letcher County, Kentucky, for a movie about poverty, racism, and
environmental destruction.

Barret's documentary productions have been televised nationally and have
been included in film festival screenings worldwide. She is a recipient of
the Kentucky Arts Council's Al Smith Fellowship for individual artists and
a Rockefeller Foundation Film/Video/Multimedia Fellowship. She works
closely with Appalshop, a media arts and cultural center located in
Whitesburg, Kentucky. The film is presented by Independent Television
Service (ITVS), Appalshop Films, and KET, the Kentucky Network.

Ralph Litzinger, assistant professor of cultural anthropology at Duke, will
join Barret for a discussion and question-and-answer session directly
following the screening.

*****************
HOW TO GET YOUR TICKETS

Admission to the Happening is $10 for the weekend, $5 for individual days.
For more information or to pre-register, please contact Julie Shapiro at
660.3666. Registration is also available at the door starting Friday,
February 25, at 7 p.m. at CDS.

The Happening is sponsored by the Center for Documentary Studies and the
Duke Film and Video Program, in association with the DoubleTake Documentary
Film Festival, and with support from the Lyndhurst Foundation. Media
sponsor is the Independent Weekly.
___________________________________________
Suzie Sisoler
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill | http://www.algonquin.com

Find out what Robert Morgan, author of GAP CREEK, has to say about Mountain Religion at
http://www.algonquin.com/morgan



  • Lingual Tonite, suzie sisoler, 02/25/2000

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