Featured Screenings
Codes & Consequences
Flickerings at Cornerstone Festival 2003
presents a program of films featuring moral dilemmas connecting otherwise
isolated individuals as they grope forward together in world where right and
wrong are often difficult to discern. Underlying codes of personal conduct
are forced to the surface and examined, along with the consequences for
choosing any given direction.
Code Unknown
Michael Haneke, France, 2000; 118 mins.
Subtitled Incomplete Tales of Several Journeys, this Kieslowski-eque
knot unravels a tale of connected but isolated individuals whose
personal dilemmas challenge our notions of communication and reality.
Safe Conduct
Bertrand Tavernier, France, 2002; 170 mins.
A screenwriter and director at a Nazi-run
film studio in occupied France find the line between collaboration and
resistance is not always clear.
Thirteen Conversations About One Thing
Jill
Sprecher, USA, 2001; 94 mins.
Intersecting lives and a common
quest for happiness in a world that often seems designed to thwart it.
Not of This World
Giuseppe Piccioni, Italy, 1999; 100 mins.
A stressed-out businessman and a nun are pulled from their
respective isolation by an abandoned baby. Sweet and powerful.
Dogma For Beginners
One code we're especially eager to bring into the Flickerings discussion is
that of the Dogma 95 Movement. In 1995, a group of Danish filmmakers
launched a noisy protest against a status quo cinema they deemed
self-indulgent and inauthentic. The Dogma challenge takes center-stage at
Flickerings 2003, in screenings of films made under the movement's "Vow of
Chastity," and in our Deep Focus program, where we hope to provoke similar
self-examination, confession and repentance of individual and collective
filmmaking sins.
The King Is Alive
Kristian Levring, Denmark, 2000; 108 mins.
Stranded in the African desert, a busload of tourists waiting for rescue or
death stage King Lear, which turns into a striptease of their souls.
julien donkey-boy
Harmony Korine, USA, 1999; 94 mins.
From the weird end
of Dogma: an experimental and disturbing film about a mentally-handicapped
man lost in a dysfunctional world.
Italian For Beginners
Lone Scherfig, Denmark, 2000; 97 mins.
The most accessible
Dogma film: lonely hearts in a cold Danish village come together to learn
Italian and dream dreams.
Documentaries
For 2003, we've expanded this part of
the program with some recent and exciting feature-length documentaries sure
to provoke heated discussion along with (in one case at least) some
toe-tapping and tears.
Derrida
Deconstruction of the "Father of Deconstruction" including his questions
about knowing facts about versus true knowledge of the Other. Kirby Dick &
Amy Ziering Kofman, 2002; 84 mins.
Bowling for Columbine
L'enfant-terrible of film documentary takes no prisoners in this
controversial look at America's obsession with violence and guns. Michael
Moore, 2002; 120 mins.
Hell House
Provocative look at that recent twist on the haunted house, a
church-sponsored extravaganza aimed to literally scare the hell out of
people. George Ratliff, 2002; 90 mins.
Amandla! A Revolution in Four-Part Harmony
Joyful and moving story of the songs of the South African liberation
struggle: history with an incredible soundtrack. Lee Hirsch, 2002; 108
mins.
2003 Showcase Films and Schedule
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