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January 16
Lewis and Clark:
The Journey of the Corps of Discovery
with writer and director Ken Burns and co-writer Dayton Duncan
Launching the Lewis and Clark bicentennial celebration, a screening of one of the four episodes of
Lewis and Clark in collaboration with Jefferson's West: A Lewis and Clark Exposition.
February 12
How's Your News?
with filmmaker Arthur Bradford
A touching and entertaining documentary of a road-trip across the country with Bradford and five of
his students from a Massachusetts camp for the mentally and physically disabled.
March 19
Black Maria Film and Video Festival
with festival director John Columbus
The ninth annual visit of this wonderful touring collection of documentary, animated, independent, and experimental shorts.
April 3-5
Cine Argentina
The Festival Film Society
presented a three-day minifestival
devoted to the renaissance in
filmmaking in Argentina.
Festival board member Ricardo
Preve coordinated the program with
Richard Herskowitz, and brought
director Mercedes Garcia Guevara
from Buenos Aires to screen her feature
Rio Escondido and a preview of
her upcoming Tango (A Strange
Turn), which Preve is producing.
VANGUARD/AVANT-GARDE FILM SERIES
In April, OFFScreen, the U.Va. Art Museum and the Virginia Festival Film Society
joined forces to present a series of bold new experimental feature and short films in
Charlottesville. Including visits by filmmakers Bill Morrison and Matt McCormick and
the area premiere of Alexander Sokurov's Russian Ark, the series showcased works that
had earned widespread critical acclaim, yet had bypassed local theaters.
Russian Ark, photo by Alexander Belenkiy
Alexander Sokurov, Michael Snow, and Bill Morrison are modern masters stretching the
limits and potential of cinema and digital video. Matt McCormick is a younger, emerging
talent whose short works indicate a very bright future. With this series, we hoped to expose
Charlottesville to the cutting edge of contemporary cinema.
April 6: Matt McCormick and Peripheral Produce
April 17: Decasia with Bill Morrison
April 19: Corpus Callosum by Michael Snow
April 27: Russian Ark by Alexander Sokurov
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CLASSICS AT VINEGAR HILL
Kurosawa/Mifune - June 11: Yojimbo
May 28:
High and Low |
September 3:
Throne of Blood |
June 25:
The Bad Sleep Well |
September 17:
The Lower Depths |
July 9:
The Hidden Fortress |
October 2:
Sanjuro |
July 23:
Stray Dog |
October 15:
I Live in Fear |
August 6:
Drunken Angel |
November 5:
Red Beard |
August 20:
Seven Samurai |
November 19:
Seven Samurai |
FIRST PERSON / NON-FICTION SERIES
September 24
The Odds of Recovery
with filmmaker Su Friedrich
Courageously autobiographical, the film winds in and out of doctors' officers, operating rooms, and
Friedrich's urban garden as she searches for answers to her physical ailments and emotional questions.
October 26
Reconstruction: Irene Lustzig explores her maternal line through her Romanian grandmother's criminal past.
December 3
The Same River Twice
with filmmaker Robb Moss
Five friends reconsider their a summer of free love and river rafting from a more considered and aged
perspective in this remarkably frank film about human choices and the tenuousness of youth.
HANDMADE MOVIES SERIES
October 23
Direct Animation
wth filmmaker Devon Damonte
Through scratching, painting, pasting, and otherwise manipulating celluloid, Damonte makes entertaining
abstract films and earns himself prominence in what he calls a "do-it-ourself revolution."
October 25
Pour Down Like Silver
with filmmaker Phil Solomon
A program featuring five films by Phil Solomon, an artist whose canvas is archival footage and whose paint is time and the chemical
processes of decay.
November 18
The Matter with Film
with filmmaker Luis Recoder
An evening of cameraless cinema looking at film as matter and film as it matters.
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