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