AIC-CYPHER SALON
Thursday, October 19, 2006 at 7pm. NY-born vocalist
and poet Haale weaves Persian melodies through a lush
soundscape. Screening of Abbas Kiarostami & Daniel
Mitelpunkt's Forest Without Leaves, and Oscar
nominated short, Little Terrorist & Contours of
Staying by caraballo-farman. Also, a special screening
of Tala Hadid's Your Dark Hair Ihsan. Jonathan Shorr
Gallery, 109 Crosby St. (off Prince St.) in SOHO, New
York City
POETRY/MUSIC: NY-born vocalist and poet Haale weaves
Persian melodies through a lush soundscape that pays
homage to Sufi musical traditions and pschedelic rock
FILM: Forest Without Leaves. In spring 2005 filmmaker
and artist Abbas Kiarostami presented his installation
Forest Without Leaves at the V&A museum in London. His
interest in people's response to his work led to this
short film with Daniel Mitelpunkt. Abbas Kiarostami is
considered the most influential and controversial
post-revolutionary Iranian filmmaker. He won the Palme
d'or at Cannes Film Festival for Taste of Cherry.
FILM: Everyday, members of the group Falun Gong gather
in front of the Chinese consulate on 42nd St. to
protest & meditate. Contours of Staying by
caraballo-farman captures this superhuman resilience
during a major snow blizzard in New York City.
caraballo-farman is a two-person team based in NYC and
made up of L. Caraballo (Argentina) and A. Farman
(Iran-Canada).
FILM: Little Terrorist. A 10 year old Muslim Pakistani
boy crosses the border into Hindu Brahim, with no way
of getting back. Jamal's only hope is the humanity
shared by a people separated by artificial boundaries.
Directed by Ashvin Kumar, the film was nominated for
Academy Award (2005) and won first prizes at the
Montreal World Film Festival, Manhattan Short Film
Festival, Flanders Intl Film Festival and Grand Prize
at the Tehran Intl Short Film Festival. Film provided
by Filmmovement.com
FILM: Tala Hadid's Your Dark Hair Ihsan. A man returns
from Europe to his native-city in North Africa after
being notified of his mother’s death. As he
rediscovers his city he navigates through the waters
of the past and the present, between dream and memory
and remembers his mother who he lost as a child.
Received an Oscar in the Student Academy Awards and
the Panorama Best short Film Award at the Berlin Film
Festival. Presented by ArteEast.
Cosponsored with Academia Internacional de Cinema,
Pampero Rum, ArteEast & Filmmovement.com
Celebrate NYC Mayor's Office of Film, Theatre and
Broadcasting's 40th anniversary.
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Tarnish and Masquerade LAUNCH READING:
Roger Bonair-Agard's Tarnish and Masquerade Launch
Party. Sol, 609 West 29th St., New York, NY. October
20, 2006, 7PM, Free. Special guests & hosts: Hallie
Hobson, Patricia Smith, Patrick Rosal, Lynne Procope,
& Marty McConnell. Co-sponsored with Terra Nova
Collective.
A veteran of the spoken-word scene, two-time National
Slam Champion Roger Bonair-Agard releases his debut
book, Tarnish and Masquerade, with accompanying CD
full of spellbinding poems. These poems chart an
exile's coming-of-age and an increasingly relevant
immigrant's experience. Whether set in Trinidad,
Washington Heights, Texas, Brooklyn or other
less-fixed locales, these poems written (and spoken)
with equal parts joy and fury are full of clarity,
compassion and unsentimentality.
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