calendar fall 2008

Rice University
GLOBAL LENS
FILM SERIES
Film
FILM SYMPOSIUM
The Fish Fall in Love
Luxury Car
Opera Jawa
(Iran, 2006, in Persian with English subtitles,
96 min.)
(China, 2006, in Mandarin with English
Subtitles, 88 min.)
(Indonesia, 2006, in Indonesian with English
subtitles, 120 min.)
Directed by Ali Raffi
Atieh’s singular passion is
food, and her small but popular
restaurant on the sleepy Caspian
coast is her pride and joy. But
when Aziz, her former fiancé,
appears after a twenty-year
absence, she believes he
has intentions of closing the
restaurant. Loosely based on the
Persian fable of Shahrazad and
the Thousand Myths (A Thousand
and One Nights), director Ali Raffi
uses the language of food to paint
a richly textured portrait of life and
love on the northern coast of Iran.
Directed by Wang Chao
Li Qi Ming travels from his small
village to the city of Wuhan, determined to fulfill his wife’s last wish
of seeing her son. But instead of
finding his son, he discovers his
daughter working as a karaoke
bar escort. Director Wang Chao
represents the painful reality of
thousands of parents who have
lost contact with their children
through rural exodus in China.
August 29-30, 8:00 pm
Directed by Garin Nugroho
Setyo and Siti live a peaceful
life as husband and wife, selling
earthenware in their village. But
when Setyo is called away on
business, a flirtatious butcher,
Ludiro, takes advantage of Siti's
loneliness to seduce her. Director
Garin Nugroho bases his deeply
imagistic and dazzling visual
narrative on the “The Abduction
of Sita,” from the Hindu epic, The
Ramayana.
September 6-7, 8:00 pm
Rock the Lockup
Murfee Worsham
Memorial Screening
Ray Hill was sentenced to 160
years in Texas prison. While in
prison he became a jailhouse
lawyer and reformed his sentence
to just eight years. Mr. Hill won
four Federal suits against the
City of Houston, including a
landmark First Amendment U.S.
Supreme Court Case: Houston
v. Hill 107 S. Ct 2502. In 2005,
he was awarded the Lifetime
Achievement Award from the
Texas ACLU.
This year’s Murfee Worsham
screening is two Python classics.
The Prison Reform Film Festival
Let the Wind Blow
Directed by Partho Sen-Gupta
(India, 2004, in English and Hindi with Eng-
(Phillippines, 2006, in Tagalog with English
Subtitles, 98 min.)
Amy, the family matriarch, makes
ends meet by running a small
convenience store out of her
home. But in a struggling economy customers are scarce, and
without the help of her husband or
pregnant daughter, she is forced
to supplement the family income
by collecting bets for an illegal
numbers game. Director Jeffrey
Jeturian presents a captivating
portrait of a once-proud woman,
haunted by memories of a dead
son.
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August 24, 8:00 pm
August 27, 8:00 pm
September 19, 8:00 pm
Monty Python and the Holy
Grail
September 20, 8:00 pm
Monty Python’s Life of Brian
VADA Film Auditorium
Rice Media Center
Each film screening will be
followed by a panel discussion.
August 15
Citizen Provocateur: Ray Hill’s
Texas Prison Show, 5:00 pm
Fighting the Odds: The Marilyn
Gamrell Story, 7:30 pm
Directed by Jeffrey Jeturian
FILM
lish subtitles, 96 min.)
At the height of nuclear tensions
between India and Pakistan, Arjun
and his best friend, Chabia, weigh
their options for the future against
the reality of life on the streets
of Mumbai. Director Partho SenGupta’s gritty, apocalyptic version
of Krishna’s counsel to Arjuna,
from the Bhagavad Gita.
September 3 & 5, 8:00 pm
All films will be shown in
the VADA Film Auditorium,
Rice University Media
Center.
The Global Lens Film Series is a
co-presentation with the Museum
of Fine Arts, Houston and is a
co-sponsored by the Department
of Visual and Dramatic Arts, The
Chao Center for Asian Studies,
and the Transnational China
Project at Rice University.
August 16
Tulia, 2:00 pm
Prison Body - Freedom Soul,
5:00 pm
The Exonerated, 7:30 pm
August 17
Writ Writer, 2:00 pm
The Ultimate Hunt, 5:00 pm
Gang Rejection, 7:30 pm
VADA Film Auditorium
Rice Media Center
This film series is generously supported
by the John Murfee Worsham Memorial
Endowment.
FILM SYMPOSIUM
Cinematheque Series
History and Memory
Margarita de la Vega-Hurtado
Documentaries can tell personal
stories as well as broader
historical subjects depicting a
group, a society, or a country at a
particular time.
September 25, 7:00 pm
VADA Film Auditorium
Rice Media Center
Beyond Belief
Directed by Beth Murphy
(US, 2007, 93 min.)
September 24, 7:30 pm
VADA Film Auditorium
Rice Media Center
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September 25-27, 7:30 pm
September 28, 3:30 pm
VADA Theatre
Hamman Hall
October 10, 8:00 pm
October 11, 2:00 pm & 8:00 pm
October 12, 2:00 pm
Hamman Hall
Tickets: $15; Sponsors with ID
(CAH/HWIL/HICH) & Seniors
(65+) $12; Students with ID
$8. Tickets may be purchased
online at www.gentedeteatro08.
eventbrite.com.
General Admission: $10; Rice
Community & Children Under
12, $5
We will see Chile: Obstinate
Memory (directed by Patricia
Guzman), a documentary film
that exemplifies the multiple
possibilities of documentary as
a means of personal and social
expression and representation.
FILM
Susan Retik and Patti Quigley are
two ordinary moms living in the
suburbs of Boston until tragedy
strikes. Rather than turning
inwards, grief compels these
women to focus on the country
where the terrorists who took their
husbands’ lives were trained:
Afghanistan. They dedicate
themselves to empowering
Afghan widows whose lives have
been ravaged by decades of war.
Part of Rice University Common
Reading and sponsored by the
Dean of Undergraduates Office.
Visual & Dramatic Arts
Theatre
We will analyze how a film can
intertwine individual and social
history by focusing on the frailty
and multiplicity of human memory
and how it affects our perception
of individual and national events.
NOTE UPDATED FILM
SCREENING SCHEDULE
August 22-23, 8:00 pm
The Bet Collector
Studio Art
Patricio Guzmán & cameraman filming Chile:
Obstinate Memory.
PRODUCTION
When You Return To
New York (Cuando
regreses a New York)
By Carmen Pombero
We are pleased to welcome
Gente de Teatro as they present
When You Return to New York
(Cuando regreses a New York), a
play about an apparently peaceful
family who hides much as their
lives crumble. This is a drama
about parting, separation, and the
discovery of secrets that shaped
the family into who they are today.
This play in three acts will be
performed in Spanish.
OPEN STUDIO
Making Monoprints
Artist and VADA Professor
Emeritus Basilios Poulos will
produce monoprints in the VADA
print palace open studio from
10 a.m. until 4 p.m. Everyone is
welcome.
OPEN STUDIO
Making Monoprints
Guest artist Pam Longobardi,
professor of art at Georgia State
University, will produce and print
large-scale monoprints for three
days in the VADA print studio from
10 a.m. until 4 p.m. Everyone is
welcome.
October 7, 8. & 9
Printmaking Demonstrations
October 9, 6:00 pm
Artist Lecture & Reception
VADA Print Palace
Sewall Hall 201
PRODUCTION
Trial by Jury
W.S. Gilbert & Arthur Sullivan
Trial By Jury is a comic light opera
ripe with social commentary on
the Victorians. Angelina is suing
Edwin for a breach of promise–he
no longer wants to marry her–but
what will become of them?
Disorder in the courtroom ensues
as they both plead their cases
until the Judge can no longer take
it. A fun one-act for the whole
family.
October 15, 10:00 am
VADA Print Palace
Sewall Hall 201
FILM RETROSPECTIVE
Taiwanese New Wave
Cinema Movement
In partnership with the Taipei
Economic and Cultural Office,
Houston and the VADA film
program, this film retrospective
examines the Taiwanese new
wave cinema movement through
a selection of films by legendary
director Hou Hsiao Hsien.
October 24
Opening Reception, 6:00 pm
City of Sadness, 7:00 pm
October 25
Daughter of the Nile, 7:00 pm
(with panel discussion
following the film)
October 26
Three Times, 7:00 pm
VADA Film Auditorium
Rice Media Center
LECTURE
Kartoon Kings
Animation, Television & Comics
by Grennan and Sperandio
Don’t miss this talk by the newly
appointed Assistant Professor of
Studio Art Christopher Sperandio.
Sperandio will highlight his work
with collaborative partner and
artist Simon Grennan.
Sperandio will show samples of
his animated work and exerpts
from seasons one and two of the
New York based reality TV series
ARTSTAR.
October 16, 6:00 pm
VADA Film Auditorium
Rice Media Center
City of Sadness, 1989.
EXHIBITION
FACE IT
Self-Portrait Exhibition
An open call for work, this
exhibition features self-portraits
by Rice students—both visual
arts majors and non-visual arts
majors. This exhibition is juried
and curated by senior Visual &
Dramatic Arts major Amelia Reiff
Hill and Professor Karin Broker.
November 6-28
November 6, 7:00 pm
Exhibition Reception
VADA Main Gallery
Rice Media Center
Monoprint Exhibition
Students and guest artists
participating in the Monotype
class will exhibit their prints
produced during the fall semester.
December 4-18
December 4, 6:00 pm
Exhibition Reception
VADA Mezzanine Gallery
Rice Media Center
November 13, 7:00 pm
VADA Film Auditorium
Rice Media Center
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Brian Huberman
Associate Professor & Chair
Big Prints
Department of Visual & Dramatic Arts
P.O. Box 1892, MS-549
Houston, Texas 77251-1892
We will discuss how the
director can place his imprint
on the representation of reality
after watching God’s Country
(Louis Malle, 1986, 55 min.), a
documentary about a small town
in Minnesota, directed by a
French filmmaker who explores
the town and its people, using
interviews and other cinemaverite elements and conveying
clearly his personal point of view.
EXHIBITION
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We extend our heartfelt gratitude to Professor Karin Broker
for her visionary leadership as the first chairman of the
Department of Visual and Dramatic Arts. Without her hard
work, creativity, dedication, and love of the visual arts and
theatre over the past five years, the department would not
be where it is today.
The idea of directors as authors
who express their personal
interest by choosing certain
themes while using specific
stylistic elements, is generally
used for fiction films.
Rachel Boyle
Department Coordinator
Documentary and Authorship
Margarita de la Vega-Hurtado
Pricked Off, Karin Broker.
Gaylon Denney
Administrator & Assistant to the Chair
Cinematheque Series
Charles Dove
Lecturer and Film Advisor
FILM SYMPOSIUM
We also wish to thank Marian Luntz and Tracy Stephenson
of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston for their continued
support and collaboration, and to Mary Lampe and Michelle
Mower from the Southwest Alternate Media Project, who
receives support from the City of Houston and the Texas
Commission on the Arts. Special thanks to Russell Pitman
and the Worsham family for their generosity and continued
financial support of the arts at Rice University.
For tickets, call: 713-348-PLAY
VADA Print Palace
Sewall Hall 201
Jeff Fegley
Photography Coordinator
General Admission, $10; Rice
Alumni, Staff, & Faculty, & Sr.
Citizens, $8; Students $5
December 1-2
9:00 am-7:00 pm
VADA Print Palace
Sewall Hall 201
Christina Keefe
Director of Theatre & Lecturer
Opening Night Only: $5
November 13, 6:00 pm
Artist Reception
Visit the Print Palace at Rice to
purchase fine art prints made
by students, faculty, and guest
artists.
Admission to VADA and Rice Gallery events and exhibitions
is free and open to the public unless otherwise noted.
VADA gallery hours are 11:00 am-5:00 pm Monday-Friday.
Rice Gallery hours are Tuesday-Saturday 11:00-5:00 pm;
Thursday 11:00-7:00 pm; and Sunday 12:00-5:00 pm.
November 7-8, 8:00 pm
November 9, 2:00 pm
November 13-15, 8:00 pm
VADA Theatre
Hamman Hall
November 11, 12, & 13
2008 Print Sale
Randall McCabe
Studio Shop Supervisor
The audience itself plays the
role of detective in this hilarious
“relationship thriller” about love,
lust, and the power of deception.
The Rice Theatre Program has
invited Ms. Julia Traber, director
of the Young Performers Studio
at the Alley Theatre to direct this
production.
Patricia Bellan-Gillen, printmaking
professor at Carnegie Mellon
University, will produce and print
large-scale monoprints for three
days in the VADA printmaking
studio from 10 am until 4 pm.
Everyone is welcome.
Where Santa Shops
Matthew Schlief
Theatre Production Manager,
Lecturer, and Rice Players Faculty Advisor
Rice Theatre Program and the
Rice Players are teaming together
for the first time to produce
Steven Dietz’s comedy of
suspicion in which nothing is ever
quite what it seems. Who’s really
having an affair with whom? Or, is
it all part of the play that’s being
rehearsed?
Making Monoprints
Tish Stringer
Film & Video Technician
Written by Steven Dietz
Directed by Julia Traber
PRINT SALE
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Private Eyes
OPEN STUDIO
For parking information, campus maps, and
shuttle bus routes and schedules, please
visit: http://www.park-trans.rice.edu.
PRODUCTION
Film & Events Informaton Line: 713-348-4853
Theatre Box Office: 713-348-7529
Visual & Dramatic Arts Off ice: 713-348-4882
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