I Hear Music: Global Rhythms on Screen

Past Films

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  Step Across the Border

  Wednesday, July 5 19:30

  Experimental musician and Bay Area resident Fred Frith travels around the globe to turn noise into music, with help from John Zorn, Arto Lindsay, Robert Frank, and Jonas Mekas, among many others, in this joyfully anarchic documentary. Chosen by Cahiers du cinéma in 2000 as one of the hundred most important movies in film history.

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  Mahaleo

  Saturday, July 8 18:30

  The natural beauty and history of Madagascar come alive through the music of Mahaleo, its most famous band, with soaring guitars, lilting vocal melodies, and hard-hitting political lyrics. The film follows the group onstage, during a raucous thirtieth-anniversary concert, and off, in their daily lives as doctors, politicians, and activists. Repeated on July 9.

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  Mahaleo

  Sunday, July 9 17:30

  The natural beauty and history of Madagascar come alive through the music of Mahaleo, its most famous band, with soaring guitars, lilting vocal melodies, and hard-hitting political lyrics. The film follows the group onstage, during a raucous thirtieth-anniversary concert, and off, in their daily lives as doctors, politicians, and activists.

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  A Tickle in the Heart

  Wednesday, July 12 19:30

  Three elderly but very lively Brooklyn brothers, immigrants from Eastern Europe, reclaim their rightful crowns as "Kings of Klezmer Music" in this joyful documentary about memory, melody, and migration. "A thoroughly captivating film. . . . Irrestistible music . . . irrestistibly earthy personalities."-N.Y. Post

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  Ombres

  Wednesday, July 19 19:30

  Discover how contemporary classical music is made in this elegant behind-the-scenes depiction of Swiss composer Heinz Holliger's two-year endeavor to create a musical homage to 1920s outsider artist and musician Louis Soutter. A fascinating glimpse into the creative process.

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  Accordion Tribe

  Wednesday, July 26 19:30

  "The appliance that thinks it's a musical instrument" seizes center stage in this rollicking tribute to that most maligned of instruments, the accordion. Five eclectic musicians wheeze and squeeze their way across Europe in search of the accordion's history, and point the way to its lively future.

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