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Mon, 29 Mar 1993 13:22:44 CST
To: Multiple recipients of list ACTIV-L <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: From Womb to Tomb in Film and Video
Date sent: 27-MAR-1993
In-Reply-To: Your message of 27-MAR-1993
Seventh Annual City Lore Festival of Film and Video
Cosponsored with NYU's Metropolitan Studies
THAT'S LIFE! WOMB TO TOMB ON FILM AND VIDEO
Saturday April 17, 1993, 11 am to 11 pm
Vanderbilt Hall, NYU School of Law,
Tishman Auditorium and Greenberg Lounge
Entrance 40 Washington Square South
(between MacDougal and Sullivan Streets)
For information and reservations: 212-529-1955
Thirty-two films and videos from the independent media community
about ritual and the life course in contemporary society. Subjects
include women's sexual discoveries, Navaho girls' basketball team,
menstruation myths, midwivery in the South Bronx, adoption, gangs,
gay youth, skateboarders, the elderly, the Beecher Funeral home,
and La Ofrenda (Day of the Dead). Highlights include:
* All My Babies--George Stoney's classic documentary, made
for Georgia's Department of Health in 1951, on African
American midwives
* "Non, je ne regrette rien" (No Regret)--Marlon Riggs
(Fear of Disclosure Project, 1992). Through stirring,
life affirming performances of songs and poems, five HIV
positive Black gay men address the struggle of AIDS in
their community
* The Family Album--Alan Berliner (1986). Portrait of
family life and birth-to-death rituals drawing upon a
vast collection of rare 16mm home movies from the 1920s
through the '50s
* The Story of Vinh--Keiko Tsuno (1991). A streetwise
American-Vietnamese boy orphaned in Vietnam and
victimized for his mixed parentage, Vinh was brought to
the United States at age 18 by a foster care agency. The
video follows him though a difficult passage from
adolescence to manhood
* Shayna Maidels: Orthodox Jewish Teenage Girls--Lisa Kors
(1991). Adolescent rebelliousness as seen through the
lives of three teenage girls who have adopted the strict
life of Orthodox Judaism and their non-religious, but
supportive parents, who fear losing them to the "discovery"
of God.
* Gypsy Wedding--Eric Metzger (1976). In Romani Gypsy
culture in the United States, marriage at the onset of
puberty was not only an economic exchange between two kin
groups, but a symbol of stability for a community in
transition
* Because This Is About Love: A Portrait of Gay and
Lesbian Marriage--Shulee Ong (1992). Five couples tell
their stories of how they met, how their families and
friends responded to their vows of marriage, and what
marriage means to them
* In Her Own Time: The Final Fieldwork of Barbara
Myerhoff--Lynne Littman (1985). Anthropologist Barbara
Myerhoff was making a film about the diverse Jewish
neighborhood of Fairfax in Los Angeles when she learned
she had cancer. Lynne Littman agreed to make the film on
condition that Barbara become its central subject. The
result is a moving portrayal of how the anthropologist is
embraced by the community though its rituals of healing.
* On Ice--Andrew Takeuchi and Grover Babcock (1989). For
some, cryonics (freezing the dead for future revival) is
an act of denial, for others it's an alternative of hope.
On Ice playfully explores this futuristic freeze and
offers testimony from such advocates as Timothy Leary.
Tickets: Members of City Lore $7.00
Non-Members 10.00
City Lore Membership 25.00 (many benefits)
Members may make advance reservations for 2 guests at members'
rate. Membership benefits include: City Play, a 212 page
hardcover book, plus mailings, newsletter, and discounts.
Make checks payable to:
City Lore
72 East First Street, New York, NY 10003
212-529-1955
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Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett
Department of Performance Studies
New York University
721 Broadway, 6th floor
New York, NY 10003 {@}--'--,---,--'---,---
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Phone: 212-998-1628 Fax: 212-254-7885
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