Homeward: A Screening Series Exploring the Concept of Home
/Homeward: A Screening Series Exploring the Concept of Home
Curated by Denisse Andrade
Sponsored by Third World Newsreel
May 20th-21st
The lack of a home may be different than a lack of home; this series addresses the meaning of home and the definitions individuals, cities, nations and cultures work with when referring to such concept. Themes ofdisplacement, (im)migration, uneven development, autonomous spaces, architecture and memory are recurring in the program.
Thursday, May 20th, 7:30pm
Doña Ana
Marlon Vásquez Silva, David Sanchez, 2 min.
Animation, Colombia
Ana is a woman who sells medicinal plants in the city of Medellín ,Colombia. While she eats strawberries and talks about their properties, we find out much more.
Here to Stay
Mansee Kong, 2008, 7 min.
Documentary, USA
Illustrates the effects of gentrification in Manhattan’s Chinatown as anelderly man and fellow tenants in an endangered single-room occupancy building await the results of an anti-eviction lawsuit
Cusps
Sara Zia Ebrahimi, 2008, 14 min.
Documentary, USA
In this personal documentary Sara Zia Ebrahimi explores her experiences livingas an urban nomad and immigrant in the post-industrial landscape of Philadelphia.
The documentary first began exploring the role artists play in gentrification.
Four Places Like Home
Simone Viger, 2008, 4 min.
Documentary, Canada
Do you know the history of your home? How much of the past can be read? This portrait of a neighborhood travels to four different reconverted buildings in the South West region ofMontreal, presenting varied notions of home.
Tactical Tourist
Dara Greenwald, 2007, 14 min.
USA
A DIY portrait of the squatting movement in Barcelona, Spain. A tourist walks through the city led by squatters – the tour points out buildings turned from abandoned or speculative properties into communal homes and radical cultural spaces.
Dear Tourist
Cristian Bermudez, 2006, 7 min.
Video letter, Costa Rica
An ordinary house in an ordinary suburb was painted in white and fuchsia colorstripes. A year later, a letter was sent to the neighbors explaining the reasons forthis choice. The same letter was used as script for this film that deals with issues such as identity, immigration and the use of art out of the white cube.
2 Home Movies
Masha Godovannaya, 2009, 9 min.
Experimental documentary, Russia
One can say with some certainty that all of us,with cameras–have shot home movies in their lives.
Now, imagine how a home moviewould look like if it was shot inWarsaw Ghetto at the beginning of 1940s by a German worker during this vacation…
No Place Like Home
Supafriends, Global Action Project, 2009, 1 min.
PSA, USA
A public service announcement focusing on homelessness among LGBTQ youth.
Featuring a conversation with Rob Robinson, of Picture the Homeless, filmmakers and others TBA.
Friday, May 21, 7:30pm
Ici Et La-Bas(Here and There)
Natalia Rodriguez, 2003, 20 min.
Documentary, France
An immigrant couple in France see their daughters becoming French. In this home of double culture, hopes of going back still exist.
The Cost of Separation
Liz Miller, 2009, 9 min.
Documentary, Canada
“The Cost of Separation” highlights the daily effects of prolonged separation from family members on three parents with refugee status in Canada.
Still
Alana Kakoyiannis, 2009, 18 min.
Documentary, Cyprus
A poetic documentary reflecting on the notion of home through the lens of Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriotdisplacement on the dividedisland of Cyprus. The testimonies of twofemale voices living on opposingsides of the Green Line combined with the filmmaker's own observations ofthe present day, capture the potency ofthe political conflict throughpersonal perspectives.
Disillusionment
Voices of Women Media, 2007, 12 min.
Video portraits, The Netherlands
Migrant women flee their homelands in search of a new country offering security,freedom and peace. They leave families and their cultures behind for a chance to improve their political and personal situations. In February 2007, undocumented migrant women residing illegally in a housing shelter in The Netherlands were given media tools to create six intimate videoportraits offering a brief glimpse into this transient period oftheir lives.
Steel Homes
Eva Weber, 2008, 10 min.
Documentary, UK
A poetic exploration of memory and loss, Steel Homes takes the viewer inside the world of a self-storage warehouse, uncovering the hiddent treasures andsecrets behind closed doors.
Warm Place Tonight
Nic Bettauer, 1996, 7 min.
Documentary, USA
This film documents two homeless men’s Sisyphean struggle to safe the life of their friend on thestreets of downtown Los Angeles. The film expresses the men’s feelings ofhelplessness, hopelessness and powerlessness tied to their grief, loss and homelessness.
