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| (E) Film Festval in Brooklyn - NEEDS ATTENTION |
| By Nenad N. Bach |
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03/1/2002
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(E) Film Festval in Brooklyn - NEEDS ATTENTION
www.bam.org
tel: (718) 636-4100
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General admission tickets to BAM Rose Cinemas are $9. Tickets are $6 for
students (with valid I.D. Monday-Thursday, except holidays), seniors, BAM
Cinema Club members, and children under 12. Tickets are available at the BAM
Rose Cinemas box office, by phone at 718.777.FILM (order by "name of movie"
option), or online at www.bam.org. A dinner and movie package on Friday and
Saturday nights at BAMcafé is available for only $30 (at the box office
only). For more information, call the BAMcinématek hotline at 718.636.4100
or visit www.bam.org.
www.bam.org
718.636.4100
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BAM Cinematek Presents
No Man's Land: The Splintering of Yugoslavia,
A Selection of Provocative Works about the Wars of Secession in
Yugoslavia
Filmmakers Jasmila Zbanic (Bosnia) and Goran Radovanovic (Serbia) at BAM for
Q&As, Saturday, April 13
Panel Discussion with Jasmila Zbanic, Goran Radovanovic, co-curator Howard
Feinstein, and Thomas Keenan, director of the Bard College Human Rights
Project, Sunday, April 14
Brooklyn, February 25, 2002 - From April 12-14, BAMcinématek, the
repertory film program at BAM Rose Cinemas (30 Lafayette Avenue), presents
No Man's Land: The Splintering of Yugoslavia, a selection of provocative
films and videos depicting the recent wars in Serbia, Kosovo, and the
former Yugoslavian republics (especially Bosnia and Croatia). The
Friday-through-Sunday series includes five different programs that feature
short-format works responding to or documenting the social upheaval,
systematic genocide, and war crimes committed in these regions. Among
these films are early works by Danis Tanovic whose feature No Man's Land
received a Golden Globe and was recently nominated for an Academy Award.
No Man's Land is co-curated with Howard Feinstein, a New York based film
critic who is also a programmer for the Sarajevo Film Festival.
According to Feinstein, "When republics began seceding from autocrat
Slobodan Milosevic's Yugoslavia, 'ethnic cleansing' and other horrors
perpetrated in the name of his 'Greater Serbia' ensued. The atrocities in
Bosnia and Croatia, recorded by war correspondents and instantly beamed
around the world, were also captured by film and video makers."
"A number of Bosnians with an artistic bent, like No Man's Land director
Danis Tanovic, fought the war with cameras. Some talented dissidents in
Serbia managed to make subversive films and videos. Croatian artists living
under dictator Franjo Tudjman, as well as ethnic Albanians caught in the
quickfire mass expulsion from Kosovo, had to wait until their conflicts were
somewhat resolved before they could create interpretations of those events.
Directors from abroad, outraged by the world's blind eye, sought to expose
the horrendous effects of war in Bosnia, Croatia, and Kosovo." Feinstein
concludes, "The exhibition No Man's Land: The Splintering of Yugoslavia
features some of the strongest of these works. Most don't offer solutions to
the complex problems of the Balkans. Some choose to comment on the absurdity
of the Yugoslav wars. A few do suggest possible ways out of the quagmire. No
matter what the approach, the spectator is moved, even provoked, by what is
projected."
Two artists featured in the series will be present for special Q&A sessions
and a panel discussion. Serbian Goran Radovanovic, whose films and videos
have been exhibited worldwide, will discuss his work on Saturday, April 13
as will Jasmila Zbanic, a filmmaker and cultural activist from Bosnia. Both
directors will be on hand for a panel discussion with film writer and
curator Howard Feinstein and Tom Keenan, director of the Human Rights
Project (at Bard College), on Sunday, April 14. BAMcinématek is made
possible through the leadership support of The Joseph S. and Diane H.
Steinberg Charitable Trust. No Man's Land: The Splintering of Yugoslavia is
supported by Trust for Mutual Understanding.
General admission tickets to BAM Rose Cinemas are $9. Tickets are $6 for
students (with valid I.D. Monday-Thursday, except holidays), seniors, BAM
Cinema Club members, and children under 12. Tickets are available at the BAM
Rose Cinemas box office, by phone at 718.777.FILM (order by "name of movie"
option), or online at www.bam.org. A dinner and movie package on Friday and
Saturday nights at BAMcafé is available for only $30 (at the box office
only). For more information, call the BAMcinématek hotline at 718.636.4100
or visit www.bam.org.
No Man's Land: The Splintering of Yugoslavia
All programs presented in English or with English subtitles
Program 1 (84min)
Friday, April 12 at 6:50, 9:10pm
Portraits of Artists in Sarajevo (1994), Bosnia, 19 min
Directed by Danis Tanovic
Danis Tanovic captures the lives of Sarajevan artists during the siege. In a
city surrounded by Serbian troops-cut off from electricity and water, and
without adequate weapons to protect themselves-the artists still find ways
to creatively respond to the daily horrors around them. Tanovic, who shot
more than 300 hours of footage on the front lines during the war, just
received a Golden Globe and an Oscar nomination for his first feature film,
No Man's Land (2001).
Dawn (1996), Bosnia, 13 min
Directed by Danis Tanovic
This documentary records the bittersweet reunion of a man and his wife and
children after three years apart. Having lost his eyesight and both arms in
the war, he is aware of his family's mixed feelings of joy and shock.
Awakening (Ça Ira) (1998), France, 52 min
Directed by Danis Tanovic
The director journeys through postwar-Bosnia with a European aid worker,
interviewing people along the way and recording their stories of the war.
Program 2 (92min)
Saturday, April 13 at 2, 7pm*
*Q&A with director Goran Radovanovic follows screening
A Man Called Boat (1992), Bosnia, 9 min
Directed by Pjer Zalica
Sarajevo-born Pjer Zalica documents a day in the life of a Bosnian sniper.
Zalica pieces together fragments from the man's routine as he prepares for
another day of battle, never once showing the sniper's face.
Serbian Epics (1993), UK, 40 min
Directed by Paul Pawlikowski
The filmmaker Paul Pawlikowski creates an intimate and shocking portrait of
Radovan Karadzic, the Bosnian Serb leader currently indicted for war crimes.
Karadzic's views and daily life are captured in great detail.
Second Circle (1998), Serbia, 27 min
Directed by Goran Radovanovic
Goran Radovanovic's Second Circle follows a struggling family of Gypsies in
Serbia as they face discrimination at every turn.
Hop, Skip & Jump (1999), Bosnia, 16 min
Directed by Srdan Vuletic
In this award-winning dramatization of the war, Srdan Vuletic depicts the
uneasy relations between Bosnian Muslims and Serbs before, during, and after
the siege of Sarajevo, as the powerful and the oppressed change places.
Program 3 (93min)
Saturday, April 13 at 4*, 9:30pm
* Q&A with director Jasmila Zbanic follows this screening
Red Rubber Boots (2000), Bosnia, 18 min
Directed by Jasmila Zbanic
Zbanic documents the horrors of Milosevic's ethnic cleansing directive in
Red Rubber Boots. The camera follows Bosnian women while they search through
mass graves to identify their family members. One mother seeks a pair of red
rubber boots, hoping they will lead to the remains of her missing child.
The Abyss (2000), Bosnia, 15 min
Directed by Adis Bakrac
Bosnian filmmaker Adis Bakrac descends with workers into a cave called The
Abyss-a mass grave for 84 murdered Bosnians.
Crime and Punishment (1998), Norway, 60 min
Directed by Maria Fugelvaag Warsinski
Warsinski retells the story of the 1995 massacre of Bosnians in Srebrenica,
the single worst mass killing in Europe since World War II, during which
Serbian soldiers invaded the UN-designated "safe area" and killed more than
7,500 men. Warsinski explores the event through interviews with survivors
who are searching for their loved ones' remains.
Program 4 (104min)
Sunday, April 14 at 2, 8:30pm
The Valley (1999), UK, 70 min
Directed by Dan Reed
Dan Reed's The Valley, a documentary about the bloody conflict in Kosovo's
Drenica Valley, was shot just as the war was beginning in this region.
Against the backdrop of burning villages, armed men, and burying of the
dead, individuals on both sides discuss their rights to the land.
Documentary Mosaique (1999-2000), Kosovo, 28 min
Directed by Eugen Saracini
Eugen Saracini weaves together three stories of Albanian suffering in the
aftermath of the Kosovo war. One family maintains its optimism in the face
of losing five sons; two men from different generations, the sole survivors
of a massacre in their town, reflect on the past and future; and a family of
seven decide to remain where they are despite the destruction of their home.
Program 5 (103min)
Sunday, April 14 at 4:15pm*
*Panel discussion with filmmakers, curator Howard Feinstein, and Tom Keenan
follows this screening
Operation "Storm" (2001), Croatia, 52 min
Directed by Bozidar Knezevic
Operation "Storm" in 1995 resulted in the liberation of all occupied
Croatia, and was deemed a success. But after several years, the unsettling
truth about what really happened began to see the light.
Model House (2000), Serbia, 21 min
Directed by Goran Radovanovic
Using a small model house as a metaphor, Goran Radovanovic gently satirizes
the intolerable living conditions of Serbian refugees from Croatia living in
Serbia.
The Last Wish (1999), Serbia, 1 min
Directed by Goran Radovanovic
Radovanovic's The Last Wish is a one-minute version of a 30-second public
service announcement from 1999 about the repression of the press-one of many
he made for Serbian TV from 1998-99.
Ethnically Clean (1998), Serbia, 30 min
Directed by Janko Baljak
Created in association with Radio B92, a Belgrade news and music outlet for
Serbian resistance to Slobodan Milosevic's regime, Ethnically Clean examines
Milosevic's "ethnic cleansing" tactics by documenting the civilian court
case of a Serb who has murdered several Croats.
The BAM Rose Cinemas are named in recognition of a major gift in honor of
Jonathan F.P. and Diana Calthorpe Rose. BAM Rose Cinemas would also like to
acknowledge the generous support of The Peter Jay Sharp Foundation, Richard
B. Fisher and Jeanne Donovan Fisher, Brooklyn Borough President Marty
Markowitz, Brooklyn Delegation of the New York City Council, New York City
Department of Cultural Affairs, New York State Council on the Arts, HSBC
Bank USA, Bloomberg Radio AM1130, and Bowne of New York. Additional support
is provided by The Liman Foundation, and Coca-Cola Enterprise of New York.
BAMcinématek would like to offer special thanks to Howard Feinstein and to
the filmmakers: Dan Reed, Danis Tanovic, Goran Radovanovic, Paul
Pawlikowski, Srdan Vuletic, Adis Bakrac, Jasmila Zbanic, Maria Fugelvaag
Warsinski, Pier Zalica, Janko Baljak, Eugen Saracini and producer Nenad
Puhovski.
General information
BAM Howard Gilman Opera House, BAM Rose Cinemas, BAMcafé, and Shakespeare &
Co. BAMshop are located in the main building at 30 Lafayette Avenue
(Lafayette and Ashland) in the Fort Greene neighborhood of Brooklyn. BAM
Harvey Theater is located at 651 Fulton Street (between Ashland and
Rockwell) in Fort Greene, Brooklyn. BAM Rose Cinemas is Brooklyn's only
movie house dedicated to first-run independent and foreign film and
repertory programming. J.A.M Catering Services provides food and beverages
at BAMcafé, which features an eclectic mix of spoken word and live music on
Friday and Saturday nights as well as Sounds of Praise (live gospel music
with a soul-food buffet) on selected Sunday afternoons. A package including
dinner in BAMcafé and a movie ticket to BAM Rose Cinemas is available for
only $30 (at the box office only). BAMcafé is open Friday-Saturday from
5-10:30pm and Sundays from 2-8pm. Additionally, dinner is served from
5-7:30pm on all Monday-Wednesday mainstage performance nights.
Subway: 1, 2, 4, 5, Q Local, and Q Express to Atlantic Avenue
W, M, N, R to Pacific Street; G to Fulton Street; C to Lafayette Avenue
Train: Long Island Railroad to Flatbush Avenue
Car: Commercial parking lots are located adjacent to BAM.
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