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SUMMARY:The Hip-Hop Waltz of Eurydice
DESCRIPTION:The Hip-Hop Waltz of Eurydice (1990) 96 minutes. \nWriter/Director: Reza Abdoh\nCamera/Film Editor: Adam Soch\nVideo documentation of live performance presented at Los Angeles Theatre Center.\nCourtesy Reza Abdoh and Adam Soch \nReza Abdoh (1963 – 1995) was an Iranian-born American director\, and playwright\, founder of the theatre ensemble Dar a Luz\, known for large-scale\, site-specific experimental theatrical productions. His work often confronted issues such as race\, class\, and the AIDS crisis. He belonged to the next generation of Iranian theatre-makers who followed on from the legacy of the Festival of Arts\, Shiraz-Persepolis. He died from AIDS in New York in 1995. \nIn this piece\, Abdoh\, adapts the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice. In the original\, Orpheus journeys to Hades and persuades the Lord of the Underworld to let his wife\, Eurydice\, go. The condition is that Orpheus mustn’t look back at her as they’re leaving. But he does . . . and loses her. \nAt the time labelled “a gut reaction to systemic repression and erosion of freedom”\, it is the director’s first production that was presented outside of the US. \n“What Reza’s done is tell a myth about the force of faith – faith in love – in a time of repression and fear\,” said LATC’s new dramaturg\, Morgan Jenness\, who came to LATC in September from New York\, where she had been literary manager at the Public Theatre. “Orpheus and Eurydice have a forbidden love\, and the Lord of the Underworld is a sort of fascist symbol. There are undertows of the Jesse Helms situation\, the connection of love and sexuality\, the fact that sex is (treated as) a bad thing.” \n– Janice Arkatov\, L.A. Times\, 9 December 1990. \n\nTrailer: \n \n  \n\nTHIS FILM IS AVAILABLE ON DEMAND \nAdmission to this online event is Free / Pay What You Wish. REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED. You will receive a link to view the film after registering online. \n\nThis event is part of Beyond Borders: The Shiraz Festival \n\n\n\n\nMajor support for BEYOND BORDERS has been provided by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage. Presented in collaboration with Slought.
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SUMMARY:The Color of Pomegranates
DESCRIPTION:The Color of Pomegranates (1969) 78 minutes \nWriter/Director: Sergei Paradjanov\nEditors: Sergei Parajanov\, M. Ponomarenko\, S. Yutkevich\nCinematographer: Suren Shakhbazyan\nCourtesy Parajanov-Vartanov Institute. \nSergei Paradjanov (1924 – 1990) was a Soviet film director of Armenian descent who made a substantial contribution to Soviet cinematography through Ukrainian\, Armenian and Georgian cinema. He pioneered his own cinematic style by stepping outside socialist realism\, which was the only sanctioned art style within the USSR. His filmmaking and controversial lifestyle meant he was persecuted with his films regularly banned by Soviet authorities between 1965 and 1973.  \nThe Color of Pomegranates is based\, in part\, on the life and poetry of the eighteenth-century Armenian poet\, Sayat Nova (‘The King of Song’). Sergei Parajanov writes\, directs\, edits\, choreographs\, designs and creates every aspect of the film. It remains a masterpiece of cinema on account of being devoid of dialogue or camera movement and for its alluring imagery. The film was not seen internationally until 1977 due to Soviet censorship. It was screened at the Festival of Arts\, Shiraz-Persepolis in 1976 and subsequently smuggled to Paris where it was received to great acclaim. \n\n\n  \n\nTHIS FILM IS AVAILABLE ON DEMAND \nAdmission to this online event is Free / Pay What You Wish. REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED. You will receive a link to view the film after registering online. \n\nThis event is part of Beyond Borders: The Shiraz Festival \n\n\n\n\nMajor support for BEYOND BORDERS has been provided by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage. Presented in collaboration with Slought.
URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/the-color-of-pomegranates/
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SUMMARY:Reza Abdoh -  Theater Visionary
DESCRIPTION:Reza Abdoh: Theater Visionary (2015) 104 minutes. \nDirector: Adam Soch\nCo-Producer: Sandy Cleary\nExecutive Producers: Alan Mandell\, Diane White\, Marta Holen\, Anita Durt\, John McDuffie\nAssociate Producers: Daniel Mufson\, Sid Montz\, Sarah and Peter Mandell\nCourtesy Adam Soch \nAdam Soch is a producer and director\, and long-time collaborator and video archivist of Reza Abdoh. His film Reza Abdoh: Theater Visionary is an intimate portrait of the world and work of Abdoh and his company. It features excerpts from Abdoh’s most important productions alongside interviews with Abdoh himself\, his collaborators\, critics\, friends\, and family\, including: Peter Sellars\, Alan Mandell\, Diane White\, Morgan Jenness\, Anne Hamburger\, Norman Frisch\, Tal Yarden\, Tony Torn\, Tom Fitzpatrick\, Ken Roht\, Peter Jacobs\, Sabrina Artel\, Tom Pearl\, Anita Durst\, Alix Hester\, John Jahnke\, Laurel Meade\, Alyson Campbell\, Sid Abdoh\, Salar Abdoh and other close collaborators. The film illuminates Abdoh’s legacy\, his ground-breaking work\, and his visionary\, theatrical genius.  \nSoch is award-winning filmmaker and producer who fled communist Eastern Europe in 1980 to seek creative freedom in the United States. He has worked on projects on Placido Domingo Jessica Lange\, Vanessa Redgrave\, Desmond Tutu and Mikhail Gorbatchev. He is a co-founder of the television channel Classic Arts Showcase.  \n  \n \n\nTHIS FILM IS AVAILABLE ON DEMAND \nAdmission to this online event is Free / Pay What You Wish. REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED. You will receive a link to view the film after registering online. \n\nThis event is part of Beyond Borders: The Shiraz Festival \n\n\n\n\nMajor support for BEYOND BORDERS has been provided by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage. Presented in collaboration with Slought.
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SUMMARY:Desert Equations: Azax Attra
DESCRIPTION:Desert Equations: Azax/Attra (1986) \nPerformers: Sussan Deyhim & Richard Horowitz\nProducers: Sussan Deyhim & Richard Horowitz\nAlbum Released by: Crammed Discs \nSussan Deyhim (1958 – ) is an Iranian American composer\, vocalist\, performance artist and activist. Deyhim is internationally acclaimed for creating a unique sonic and vocal language imbued with a sense of ritual and the unknown\, encompassing music\, theatre\, dance\, media and film. Deyhim’s career began as an intern at the Festival of Arts\, Shiraz-Persepolis and training with the Iranian National Ballet Company before joining the Bejart Ballet School\, Mudra. Deyhim’s early iconic work Desert Equations: Azax/Attra combines her sublime voice and solo performance and the electronic wizardry of US composer Horowitz\, wonderfully blending the duo’s multiple sources\, including their experiences at the epicentre of New York’s early ‘80s avantgarde music and theatre scene. The haunting and futuristic Azax/Attra album prompted writer Paul Bowles to wonder: “Was this composed under the influence of Majoun?”. It led to a series of music/theatre performances including Desert Equations: Azax/Attra at New York’s important experimental La MaMa Theatre. In 2010\, the LA Times critic Mark Swed called Deyhim “one of Iran’s most potent voices in exile for the simple reason that she possesses a marvellously potent voice.”  \n\nTHIS FILM IS AVAILABLE ON DEMAND \nAdmission to this online event is Free / Pay What You Wish. REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED. You will receive a link to view the film after registering online. \n\nThis event is part of Beyond Borders: The Shiraz Festival \n\n\n\n\nMajor support for BEYOND BORDERS has been provided by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage. Presented in collaboration with Slought.
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SUMMARY:The First World Festival Of Negro Arts
DESCRIPTION:The First World Festival of Negro Arts (1968) 40 minutes  \nWriter/Director: William Greaves\nProducer: Motion Picture and Television Service of the United States Information Agency\nCinematographer: Georges Bracher\, William Greaves\nCourtesy William Greaves Productions  \nWilliam Greaves (1926 – 2014) was a Harlem-born American documentary filmmaker\, writer\, producer and a pioneer of African American filmmaking. His film The First World Festival of Negro Arts is a Black history treasure and documents the landscape of the seminal performance festival held in Dakar\, Senegal\, in 1966\, one year prior to the inauguration of Shiraz-Persepolis. The festivals at Dakar and Shiraz-Persepolis shared a similar decolonising ethos. The film was officially commissioned to document the events that attracted over two thousand writers\, artists and performers from Africa and the African diaspora\, including: Duke Ellington\, Langston Hughes\, Alvin Ailey\, Aime Cesaire\, Leopold Senghor and other artists\, performers and dignitaries from thirty countries.  \nGreaves began his career as a Broadway actor and a member of The Actor’s Studio. He later served as executive producer and co-host of the Black Journal television programme for which he was awarded an Emmy in 1970. His recent film\, Ralph Bunche:  An American Odyssey (2001)\, documents the life and historic achievements of Dr. Ralph Johnson Bunche (1903-1971) the legendary African American Nobel prize-winning\, scholar turned statesman who contributed to international diplomacy\, decolonization\, peacekeeping\, and human rights in pre-civil rights America. His film From these Roots (1974) provides an in-depth study of the Harlem Renaissance. \n\n\n\n\n\nTHIS FILM IS AVAILABLE ON DEMAND \nAdmission to this online event is Free / Pay What You Wish. REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED. You will receive a link to view the film after registering online. \n\n\n\nThis event is part of Beyond Borders: The Shiraz Festival \n\n\n\n\nMajor support for BEYOND BORDERS has been provided by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage. Presented in collaboration with Slought.
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