WOMEN'S INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2005


(Image from Cynthia Madansky's Devotion)	JANUARY 27 - MARCH 3, 2005 International Women's Film Festival 2005 Thursdays at 7 p.m. at the Market Arcade Film & Arts Centre 639 Main Street, Buffalo University at Buffalo’s Gender Institute's International Women's Film Festival will run every Thursday night at 7 p.m., January 27 to March 3, 2005, at the Market Arcade Film & Arts Center. The festival’s film committee has selected films made or filmed in Argentina, France, Georgia, Hungary, Pakistan, Senegal, Turkey and the United States. Thursday, February 3 at 7 p.m. SHORTS NIGHT Organized by Joanna Raczynska, Hallwalls Media Arts Program Director Director Cynthia Madansky in person A/K/A MRS. GEORGE GILBERT (USA, 2004, 31 min.) Directed by Coco Fusco This hybrid video blends fictional and documentary source material in an imaginative re-creation of a crucial political moment in U.S. history. Co-scripted by Rick Moody (THE ICE STORM), it tells the story of an FBI agent who confesses to his involvement in the nationwide search for Angela Davis, the famous radical philosopher and black activist who was on the FBI's "Ten Most Wanted" list in 1970 and an underground fugitive for two months. IT'S NOT MY MEMORY OF IT: 3 RECOLLECTED DOCUMENTS (USA, 2003, 25 min.) Directed by Julia Meltzer & David Thorne IT'S NOT MY MEMORY OF IT is a documentary about secrecy, memory, and documents. Mobilizing specific historical records as memories that flash up in moments of danger, the tape addresses the expansion and intensification of secrecy practices in the current climate of heightened security. DEVOTION (USA, 2004, 34 mins.) Directed by Cynthia Madansky, who will attend the screening DEVOTION is a meditation on nationalism and Islam shot in Istanbul and woven through with a story of love and loss.
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