On Screen/In Person Film Series
On Screen/In Person is a touring film series designed to provide exhibition opportunities for independent filmmakers. Each documentary screening in the Chrysler Museum’s Kaufman Theatre will include a question-and-answer session with the filmmaker.
Cost: $5 (free for Chrysler Museum Members)
Wednesday, February 8, 2012 • 7 p.m.
Concrete, Steel, and Paint
Cindy Burstein and Tony Herziga, Directors
When men in a prison art class agree to collaborate with victims of crime to design a mural about healing, their views on punishment, remorse, and forgiveness collide. At times the divide seems too wide to bridge, but as the participants begin to work together, mistrust gives way to genuine moments of human contact and shared purpose. Their struggle to find creative common ground raises challenging questions about punishment, justice, and reconciliation. The insights they gained are reflected in the art they produce in Concrete, Steel, and Paint.
(55 mins., 2009, unrated documentary)
Movie website: http://concretefilm.org/
Download the Concrete, Steel and Paint promotional poster. (PDF)
Sunday, March 31, 2012 • 2 p.m.
Proceed and Be Bold!
Laura Zinger, Director
Amos Paul Kennedy, Jr. is a printing press and book artist, but he used to live a middle-class life, like many other Americans, with a family and a job as a computer programmer at an international telecommunications company. Today, he is located in Alabama and is widely known for his controversial posters and book art. In Proceed and Be Bold!, we follow Amos through art galleries to promote his work, and meet the people who “understand him even better than he can,” as he puts it, in an effort to learn what causes him to create his charged works of art, and how people react to them.
(90 mins., 2008, unrated documentary)
http://www.20kfilms.com/filmsites/proceedandbebold/index.php
Wednesday, April 25, 2012 • 7 p.m.
Milking the Rhino
David E. Simpson, Director
The Maasai tribe of Kenya and Namibia’s Himba—two of Earth’s oldest cattle cultures—are in the midst of upheaval. Emerging from a century of “white man conservation” that turned their land into game reserves and fueled resentment towards wildlife, they are now vying for a piece of the wildlife-tourism pie. Charting the collision of ancient ways and Western expectations, Milking the Rhino tells intimate, hopeful, and heartbreaking stories of people facing deep cultural change.
(85 mins., 2009, unrated documentary)
On Screen/In Person is made possible with support from the Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation with funding from the National Endowment for the Arts Regional Touring Program.
