Day of Wrath
Saturday , September 14 at 7pm THE JANUS COLLETION Day of Wrath dir . Carl Th . Dreyer , Denmark , 1943 , 35mm , Danish with English subtitles , 97 min .
Filmed during the Nazi occupation of Denmark , Carl Dreyer ’ s Day of Wrath ( Vredens dag ) is a harrowing account of individual helplessness in the face of growing social repression and paranoia . Anna , the young second wife of a well-respected but much older pastor , falls in love with her stepson when he returns to their small seventeenth-century village . Stepping outside the bounds of the village ’ s harsh moral code has disastrous results . Exquisitely photographed and passionately acted , Day of Wrath remains an intense , unforgettable experience .
Tuesday , September 17 at 7pm SCRIBE PRODUCERS ’ FORUM Gideon ’ s Army – Philadelphia Premiere ! dir . Dawn Porter , USA , 2013 , 95 min .
Presented in Partnership with International House Philadelphia Dawn Porter in person for a post-screening discussion
An official selection of the U . S . Documentary Competition at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival , Gideon ’ s Army follows a group of idealistic young public defenders – Travis Williams , Brandy Alexander and June Hardwick – in the Deep South , where lawyers face particularly difficult challenges due to high bonds , minimum mandatory sentencing and a culture that is traditionally “ tough on crime .”
Scribe ’ s Producers ’ Forums are supported by the National Endowment for the Arts , Philadelphia Cultural Fund , and the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts
Wednesday , September 18 at 7pm Fringe Festival Anita Ranjani
Anita Ranjani embodies the maturity , beauty , culture and power of the Bharathanatyam , a dance form known for its grace and purity . She plays a multi-dimensional role as a performer and teacher , with an understanding of the formal beauty of the dance form and its power to express a dancer ’ s personality . She preserves the grandeur of the technique in the fast-changing dance scene ; by keeping her faith in tradition as a point of reference , she has grown out of its binding . Her performance is aesthetic , dignified , and imbued with deep understanding giving it an added dimension . In her solo renderings Anita reveals the Kalakshetra technique , which is exact and precise , laying equal emphasis on the purity of tradition and its correct execution . Illuminating the art form from within , Anita ’ s artistic abilities allow her to provide spiritual selffulfillment , while simultaneously imparting a sense of artistic and visual pleasure to the audience .
$ 10 general admission .
Thursday , September 19 at 7pm EUROPEAN CINEMA REDISCOVERED Cinematic Inclusions : Time , People and Places
The seven films that comprise the film program Cinematic Inclusions are the highlights of 20th century Lithuanian documentary cinema . Like mineral inclusions , these films capture the relics of times gone by . The filmmakers arrested moments from their present , and by so doing , captured the past . Some of these images have become imprinted on the collective memory of the nation , whilst others have been left to obscurity .
Lithuanian documentary filmmakers are particularly interested in what has remained on the margins , or is about to vanish from collective memory . Therefore , marginal , forgotten heroes ( be it a person , or a city district ) have proven precious to Lithuanian documentary filmmakers . Their cameras frequently turn towards those people and places which remain at a distance from the platforms of fame . The films become ‘ inclusions ’ of the quotidian portraits of their heroes . Nonetheless , they tell more than a story of one person or one particular place . The portraits acquire , through the mediation of the lens , metaphorical meanings : in ihousephilly . org