Film Screenings
Oct 28 , 7pm ::
Step Across the Border (1990)
Directed by Nicolas Humber and Werner Penzel
Avant-garde documentary film on English guitarrist, composer and improviser Fred Frith. Shot in black and white, it was filmed between 1988 and 1990 in Japan, Italy, France, Germany, England, the United States and Switzerland, and shows Frith rehearsing, performing, giving interviews and relaxing. "In Step Across the Border two forms of artistic expression, improvised music and cinema direct, are interrelated. In both forms it is the moment that counts, the intuitive sense of what is happening in a space. Music and film come into existence out of an intense perception of the moment, not from the transformation of a preordained plan". The film won "Best Documentary" at the European Film Awards in 1990.
Jan 31, 7pm ::
From the Heart of the World: The Elder Brothers Warning (1991)
Directed by Alan Ereira
A BBC TV production in association with the Goldsmith Foundation.
"Deep in the mountains of Colombia, the Kogi tribe (Kagaba Indians), descendents of an ancient Tairona priesthood, call themselves the Elder Brothers of the human race, and are convinced that we, the Younger Brothers, will soon destroy the balance of life on Earth. They believe that the only hope is for us to change our ways, and have set out to teach us what they know about the balance of mankind, nature and the spiritual world."
Feb 7, 7pm ::
Kogis, the message of the last men (2005)
Directed By Eric Julien
"In Northern Colombia, the Kogis are the last remaining heirs of the great pre-columbian civilizations. Director Eric Julien has known them for almost 20 years and films them with great respect and closeness at their request as they struggle to preserve their identity and their memory."
Public Award and Jury Award, Festival Grandeur Nature, Val d'Isère - 2006
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