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| TWN September News: Screenings, Awards, Film/Video Grants and More
Roddy Bogawa Retrospective at MoMA
Born and raised in Los Angeles, Japanese American artist Roddy Bogawa (b. 1962) studied art and sculpture and played in punk bands before turning to film. Bogawa's work explores internal conflict, the relationship between individuals and their environment, and how identity is shaped by culture and history. He casts non-actors and actors side by side and layers his stories with metaphors, abstract material, and multiple narrative voices. His feature-length films, a unique blend of experimental and narrative styles, range from loosely (Some Divine Wind) and strictly (I Was Born, But ...) autobiographical to science fiction (Junk) to documentary (Taken by Storm: The Art of Storm Thorgerson and Hipgnosis).
September 18-23, 2013
Museum of Modern Art
11 West 53 Street
New York, NY 10019-5497
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Harvest of Empire Wins Imagen Foundation Award for Best Documentary Film or Television of the Year
Harvest of Empire, the critically-acclaimed documentary on immigration produced and directed by Latino/a filmmakers, won the prestigious Imagen Award as Best Documentary Feature at a star-studded ceremony held in Los Angeles on Friday, August 16. Produced by Wendy Thompson-Marquez and co-directed by Eduardo López and Peter Getzels, Harvest of Empire exposes the direct connection between the long history of U.S. intervention in Latin America and the immigration crisis we face today.
Photo: Wendy Thompson-Marquez Producer of Imagen Best Documentary of the Year Award and Jesús Salvador Treviño who received Imagen Lifetime Achievement Award.
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Audre Lorde - The Berlin Years 1984 to 1992 at The Palm Springs Gay and Lesbian Film Festival
Audre Lorde - The Berlin Years 1984 to 1992, explores a little-known chapter of the writer's prolific life, a period in which she helped ignite the Afro-German Movement and made lasting contributions to the German political and cultural scene before and after the fall of the Berlin Wall. Lorde mentored and encouraged Black German women to write and publish as a way of asserting their identities, rights and culture in a society that isolated and silenced them, while she challenged white German women to acknowledge and constructively use their white privilege. This documentary contains previously unreleased audiovisual material from director Dagmar Schultz's personal archive, including stunning images of Audre Lorde off stage
Saturday, September 21, 1:30 PM
Camelot Theatres
2300 E. Baristo Road,
Palm Springs, CA, 92262
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