1. Let The Right One In: The best vampire love story I’ve ever seen.
We fuck them up and then we rebuild. El criminal comete el crimen y supone que los demás lo olvidarán. Un político y un militar ordenan bombardear una ciudad y asesinan a miles de personas y después se sientan a compartir un whisky y planear la reconstrucción. Es algo muy humano, me dirán, cometer errores y luego tratar de remediarlos. Me obsesiona la visión del que quiere oler carne quemada y después poder gozar de un aperitivo en un café, réplica del café donde alguna tarde de verano saborearon un Campari antes de idear el bombardeo. Estas campañas militares se disfrutan más que una mediocre obra de arte porque son mucho más monumentales. Así cayeron Nuremberg, Dresden, Hiroshima, Nagasaki y Tokio, una ciudad de madera devorada por las bombas incendiarias que carbonizaban a una familia antes de que pudiera darse a la fuga. Jugar a ser Dios, bah, ser un dios. Hay hijos de puta que sueñan con destruir a otra persona para poder “reconstruirla”. Precisamente, en la armonía de sus diseños, se esconde el goce de los que se profesan elegidos.
When I die I want them to play The Black and Crazy Blues, I want to be cremated, put in a bag of pot and I want beautiful people to smoke me and hope they get something out of it.
Rashan Roland Kirk
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZoFcpWAYEDs
Library of Congress builds the record collection of the century
By Randy Lewis, Los Angeles Times
About an hour south of Washington, D.C., deep beneath rolling hills near the verdant Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia, lies a storehouse filled with bounty. At one time, during the Cold War, that treasure was cash — about $3-billion worth — that the Federal Reserve had socked away inside cinderblock bunkers built to keep an accessible, safe stash of funds in case of nuclear attack. Now what’s buried here, however, is cultural rather than financial: The bunkers are a repository containing nearly 100 miles of shelves stacked with some 6 million items: reels of film; kinescopes; videotape and screenplays; magnetic audiotape; wax cylinders; shellac, metal and vinyl discs; wire recordings; paper piano rolls; photographs; manuscripts; and other materials. In short, a century’s worth of the nation’s musical and cinematic legacy.
El Núcleo educativo Cine Documental, es un espacio multimedia que desarrolla cursos especializados en cine documental. Se plantea como una plataforma de educación a distancia, flexible e interactiva.
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La metodología educativa propone:
• Clases histórico teóricas elaboradas por referentes en la materia para cada curso.
• Interacción entre alumnos y docentes a través de salas de diálogo, consultas personalizadas y chats on-line,
• Visualización de films y foros de debate.
• Bibliografía principal y complementaria.
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Testimonials
“If film has the ability to change people’s hearts and minds, then documentary filmmaking is truly a powerful weapon because it deals with reality. Although I antically made ‘Piece By Piece’ for graffiti writers, I quickly realized that the movie has a far greater impact on those that know nothing about graffiti. If people walk away from a film with a new insight or motivation to learn more about the subject matter, then I feel like documentary has done its job.”
Director Scott Herndon
Board of Directors
Andrea Lunsford – Director, Program in Writing and Rhetoric
Philippe Denis, Dreamworks Animation
Kristi M. Wilson – Soka University
Tomas F. Crowder-Taraborrelli – Soka University
Sangeeta Mediratta – Program in Writing and Rhetoric
Laura Ruberto – Director, Humanities Program, Berkeley City College
Donna Hunter – Program in Writing and Rhetoric
Joel Burgess – Program in Writing and Rhetoric
Student Board
Will Rogers
Charlie Mintz
Elise Lopez
Board of Advisors
Jasmina Bojic – Director, United Nations Association Film Festival
Annelise Wunderlich – Filmmaker, Producer, Independent Television Service, San Francisco
Carlos Castresana – Court Magistrate, Spain, Co-author of the case against General Augusto Pinochet, Visiting Professor at USF
Ken Hutz – Director, Un Mundo Non-Profit Organization for Sustainability, Honduras
Roland Hsu – Senior Associate Director Undergraduate Advising Programs
Corrine Arraez – Program in Writing and Rhetoric
Marilenis Olivera – Program in Writing and Rhetoric
Galen Davis – Introduction to the Humanities Program
Rob Wessling, Associate Director, Center for Russian, East European & Eurasian Studies
Film Lab News (2006-2008)
Outgoing Film Lab Directors Kristi Wilson and Tomas Crowder wish to thank everyone for their support over the last couple of years and to welcome Scott Herndon as the new Director, as well as Donna Hunter, Sangeeta Mediratta and Joel Burges as the faculty board members. On board as new Student Directors are Charlie Mintz and Elise Lopez. Will Rogers, as always, is the glue that holds us all together.
Kristi and Tomas’ final Film Lab Event (an August 6th screening of “The Take” ) will be part of a film series co-sponsored by the ICA and CREES (Center for Russian, East European & Eurasian Studies) . Read the poster below for more details:
NEW BOARD MEMBER:
We here at the Film Lab are proud to welcome Philippe Denis of Dreamworks Animation to our Board of Directors. Welcome Philippe! Read more about his work at the IMDB link: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1184731/
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SICA GRANT:
The Film Lab & Cross Cultural Rhetoric have received a Curricular Innovation Grant from the Stanford Institute for Creativity in the Arts for “The Stanford Mulitmedia Literacy Project.”
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The Film Lab presents:
The Weather Underground (film screening followed by Q & A with director, Sam Green) Thurs., January 31, 6-9 p.m. — Educ 128 (Cubberley)
In the 1960s and 1970s, the polarization of the political situation of the USA was becoming acute with the Vietnam War abroad and civil rights at home being but the most obvious issues. For the youth political movement, the seemingly ineffectual methods of peaceful protest and resistance led to the rise of an idealistic faction that want a more extreme approach that the Establishment could not ignore. This faction, called the Weather Underground, attempted to team up with the Black Panthers to violently confront the US government that started with street riots and escalating to bombing government targets. Thorough archival footage and interviews of the veterans of both sides of this conflict, this film covers the resistance movement’s campaign of selective violence through this period until changing times and disillusionment brought it to an end while the FBI used unethical and illegal methods to hasten it. Synopsis by Kenneth Chisholm (kchishol@rogers.com)
Tomás Crowder-Taraborrelli 