I got an email invite today to a screening of a film called Be Like Others. The tag line is: An intimate and unflinching portrait of the previously undocumented world of Iranian transsexuals. That’s right. I had to go back and read the email to make sure it wasn’t a prank.
Read More..>>As you may or may not know, I write and edit while sitting at my computer in my studio apartment in New York. I do everything myself, and then Mick gives me some old music he has laying around. If you donate then I can pay him to create a grand score for the finale.
“… eighteen extraordinary and exciting minutes. Rarely has found footage revealed so many intimate issues.” - Thierry Méranger, Cahiers Du Cinema
“… disturbing echoes of “Capturing the Friedman’s” and Michael Powell’s “Peeping Tom.” - Glenn Lovell, Film Critic/Author
“… a chilling document of psychological abuse and fractured survival.” - John Ginn, daVinci Film Festival
“... brilliantly intense and the message is penetrating.”
Carol Mandel, Dean of the NYU Libraries
“… violently honest and haunting.” - J.R., Lovedox
“… controversial and overwhelmingly powerful ... it brought tears to my eyes.” - Paul Hawkins & Dug Degnin
“… harrowing” - Ernesto Zelaya, UrbanCinefile
“… eerie and infinitely fascinating … intelligent and absolutely unique…” - Mads Mikkelsen, CPH:DOX
© 2009 Wendy Joy MorrisseyBRYN MAWR (Pennsylvania)
Nov 7, 2010 at 7:00 pm
This screening is for a course called "Identification in the Cinema" about the ways that the self is defined in and through images.
NYU (New York)
June 8, 2010
“Emotion, Memory, and the Brain” screening and discussion at The Center for Neural Science, whose research is aimed at understanding the biological mechanisms of emotional memory and how the brain learns and stores information about danger.
THE SORBONNE (Paris)
Film Analysis, “Études cinématographiques et audiovisuelles”
WIMBLEDON COLLEGE OF ART (London)
Document 7 Human Rights Film Festival Retrospective
AUSTRALIAN CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY (Melbourne)
SAN FRANCISCO STATE UNIVERSITY
© 2009 Marcia HymanDEATH BE KIND June 29 2010 to July 30 2011
Melbourne, AUSTRALIA
a twelve month curatorial project called “The Memorial” will reproduce text and images from the film in a magazine devoted to objects inherited from the dead.
WIMBLEDON COLLEGE OF ART March 9, 2010
London, UNITED KINGDOM
TABAKALERA Int'l Contemporary Culture Centre
Feb 23 to 27, 2010
San Sebastian, SPAIN
CHAIR AND THE MAIDEN Art Gallery
Sept 30, 2009
New York, NEW YORK
(NY DAILY NEWS - EDITOR'S PICK)
