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Fast Forward Film Series
Pioneers: Three Women in Film |
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Sunday, October 19, 2014 ~ 3 pm |
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Alice Guy-Blache |
Maya Deren |
Agnes Varda |
This program features three films by women who contributed historically important moments. Justin West will give a 15-minute introduction providing historical context. Justin West is Professor of Electronic Media at Holyoke Community College and curator of the fall 2014 Fast Forward Film Series.
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Falling Leaves, 1912 by Alice Guy-Blache In Falling Leaves, a silent film, a young girl is ill with tuberculosis. The doctor tells her family that she will die when the last leaf falls from the trees outside. Her sister then ties fallen leaves to the bare branches with string. Three months later, the girl has recovered. |
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Meshes of the Afternoon, 1943 by Maya Deren Mysterious symbolism runs through Maya Deren’s Meshes of the Afternoon, tantalizing the viewer with more questions than it answers. A seminal experimental work, this film combines subjective and objective camera, cinematic devises to convey meaning, and complex visual symbolism. |
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Le Bonheur (Happiness), 1965 by Agnes Varda Le Bonheur is the story of a French couple who have an ideal life (typified by Varda’s unerring use of primary colors & radiant cinematography) yet also a life marred by human desire. Two excerpts from the film will show Varda's use of color and cinematography to suggest how life flows on, over, and around us. |
The Fast Forward Film Series is free and open to the public. The screening will take place in Historic Northampton's newly enlarged 45-seat program space. |
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