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Screenings: Foreword to Guns for Banta and Domestic Tourism II

Wednesday / 15 / February / 2012 / 7pm
Whenever Wednesday

Explore the revolutionary potential of film and the cinematic archive with a series of screenings, discussions, and performances presented as part of the exhibition Living Document / Naked Reality: Towards an Archival Cinema.

Screenings: Foreword to Guns for Banta and Domestic Tourism II
(Dir. Mathieu Kleyebe Abonnenc, 2010, black-and-white, sound, 29 minutes)
(Dir. Maha Maamoun, 2009, color, sound, 62 minutes)

Retrace Third Cinema director Sarah Maldoror’s lost film through Mathieu Kleyebe Abonnenc’s Foreword to Guns for Banta and experience the complexities of a rapidly changing society in Maha Maamoun’s film Domestic Tourism II , composed of excerpts from Egyptian films that feature the pyramids.

Followed by a conversation between Nora Alter, Professor of Film and Media Arts at Temple University, and Eve M. Troutt Powell, Associate Professor of History at Penn.

@ International House (3701 Chestnut St.)

In collaboration with International House and Penn Cinema Studies.

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