Local Directors Film Viewing and Panel

These films will be presented on Wednesday, November 3 and again on Thursday, Nov. 5, at 2 p.m. with a panel discussion in the Putnam Theatre

I Covered My Eyes (Paul Turano, USA, 2008)
This film explores the reconciliation of my early memories of witnessing tragic televised events in the 1970s and early ’80s with my current understanding of their traumatic influence. Using experimental formal strategies and text commentary, these images are interspersed with my family’s own contemporaneous home movies – portraying an idealized childhood – to create a patchwork of conflicted memory from both the public and private spheres.

Today the Hawk Takes One Chick (Jane Gillooley, USA, 2009)
The film highlights the lives of three grandmothers living in a society at the threshold of simultaneous collapse and reinvention. Without an overt narrative structure, the film’s drama emerges from the steady accumulation of details that tell a greater story of family in a world dictated by HIV.

Nothing Is over Nothing (Jonathan Schwartz, USA, 2008)
A series of portraits, gestures, lights captured, divisions recorded, and lines collected in Jerusalem.