SCREEN FRESHENER #9: JULY 16, 2012: "TWO LAWS"

[Neil Young Cloaca]

well, hello - i'm back from this year's Flaherty Seminar and i'm pumped to keep freshening up the screen at the Brick House with this rare nugget of radical ethnographic cinema: 

TWO LAWS (1981. 130mins) by the Borroloola Aboriginal Community with Carolyn Strachan and Alessandro Cavadini

...as it is summer & we all need to slow down, i've opted to share with you a film that i have never seen but heard much about.  for many years the film was only distributed as a 16mm film print, with the film-makers insisting that the only way to watch it is projected to a public on a big screen, not at home alone - hence, why i am sharing my first time watching this DVD version with you.  In the early 80's the Borroloola Aboriginal Community sought to make a film of their stories, told in their own way - which from what i've gathered, will challenge our sense of time & logic.  and that excites the hell out of me.  

please come!  read more info below:

http://www.reddirtfilms.com/film.html

http://www.reddirtfilms.com/quarterly.html

http://www.reddirtfilms.com/fischel.html

here's a clip:

http://aso.gov.au/titles/documentaries/two-laws/clip2/?nojs=

(we will have hot water handy, but please bring your favorite mug & teabag combo for pleasurable sipping)

MON JULY 16, 8PM FREE

The Brick House

24 Third St

Turners Falls, MA

01376

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http://www.brickhousecommunity.org/