Thursday,
January 13 at 7:30pm
Reel
Voices Africa Film Series
Life
on Earth
dir.
Adberahmanne Sissako, Mali, 1998, 35mm, 61 mins, color, Bambara
and French w/ English subtitles
 Conceived
as part of 2000’s Vue Par, a European television series
which invited ten outstanding independent producers to imagine
the last day of the present century in their own countries,
Life on Earth is one of the most
searching and at the same time poetic meditations on Africa
at the beginning of a new millennium. Sissako improvises a "fictional
documentary" out of daily life in Sokolo, his father's
village in Mali near the southeastern corner of Mauritania.
He then overlaid these vignettes with readings from Aimé Césaire,
locating them within the poet's critique of the relationship
between metropole and periphery. Behind all of this are the
melancholy tones of the great Malian tenor, Salif Keita.
preceded
by
In
Their Own Voices
dir.
Filmon Mebrahtu, USA, 2004, video,
16 mins, color
An
interwoven portrait of four African immigrants featuring a Nigerian
visual artist, a Sierra Leonean singer, a
Liberian drum maker and a Guinean artisan.
Join
us at 6:30pm for Opening Night
In
Their Own Voices - A photographic exhibition by Vera Viditz-Ward
In
Their Own Voices
features portraits of the artists shot during the production
of the Reel Voices film series. On display until February 4th.
For
the past twenty years Vera Viditz-Ward has photographed in both
West Africa and the United States documenting the experiences
of Africans at home and abroad. Her work has been exhibited
and published in the USA, Europe and Africa. Most recently her
photographs were featured in the Balch Institute exhibition,
Extended Lives: The African Immigrant Experience in Philadelphia.
This
current exhibit is a continuation of her work documenting African
immigrants living in Philadelphia.
Please
visit Reel Voices
for more information and schedule of upcoming events.
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