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Tuesday, Aug 10, 2004
7:30pm
Existing on Its Ruins
The destruction wrought by violence and natural disasters is the backdrop to this group of moving films and videos. Tirtza Even and Bosmat Alon's Kayam al Hurbano (Existing on Its Ruins) (1999, 35 mins, Video) was shot in the Deheishe Palestinian refugee camp and among the demolished homes of the Hebron area in 1998 and 1999. Abigail Child's Dinkinsville (1991, 12 mins, Video) records daily life in, and the ultimate demolition of, a New York tent city populated by the homeless. Yervant Gianikian and Angela Ricci Lucchi's Transparencies (Italy, 1998, 6 mins, In Italian with live English translation, Video) documents decaying film materials to comment on the relationship between film and war. Louise Bourque's beautiful miniature Going Back Home (2000, 1 min, Toned, 35mm) conveys a sense of loss and upheaval with just a few images. Untitled (Light) (Julie Murray, 2002, 5 mins, 16mm) memorializes the World Trade Center site. An affecting document of the violence in his native Colombia, Juan Manuel Echavarria's Mouths of Ash (Bocas de Ceniza) (Colombia, 2003–04, 30 mins, Video) comprises songs written and sung by witnesses to the destruction of their villages.
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