{"id":23144,"date":"1998-04-17T15:11:17","date_gmt":"1998-04-17T19:11:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/home.bates.edu\/?p=23144"},"modified":"2017-01-26T14:56:32","modified_gmt":"2017-01-26T19:56:32","slug":"black-maria-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/1998\/04\/17\/black-maria-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Maria film festival to screen winning entries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bates will screen winning entries from the 17th annual Black Maria Film and Video Festival May 2 and May 3 in the Olin Arts Center Concert Hall. The Saturday program begins at 8 p.m., and Sunday&#8217;s different program begins at 2 p.m. Admission is $5 for each screening, and tickets can be purchased at the door. The festival is sponsored by the Bates College Museum of Art with support from the Bates Filmboard.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Named after Thomas Edison&#8217;s experimental tar-paper shack studio, the Black Maria has been an international forum for cutting-edge independent film makers for 17 years. John Columbus, a filmmaker and lecturer at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, directs the festival and will introduce this year&#8217;s selections of films at Bates.<\/p>\n<p>More than 850 artists from around the world competed for six Juror&#8217;s Choice Awards. The festival also recognizes other contributions with Juror&#8217;s Citation and Director&#8217;s Choice awards. Selections from each of these categories will be part of this year&#8217;s program, including a range of genres from documentaries to art films, many with biting social commentary, according to Anthony Shostak, the museum&#8217;s education coordinator, who has organized each Bates screening since the Black Maria first came to the college in 1995.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Black Maria celebrates fiercely independent vision,&#8221; Columbus said. &#8220;The festival exhibits work that is not typically available anywhere else and takes it on national tour. As in the past, I expect that some of our pieces will go on to be nominated for and receive Academy Awards.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Among the approximately 17 films to be screened at Bates are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Creosote<\/em> by Erik Saks. Based on the true story of a Boy Scout who disappeared during a camping trip, this film seeks to connect violence in the family to the spiritual crisis of the end of the millennium.<\/li>\n<li><em>Everyone Must Tighten Their Belts<\/em> by Rohesia Metcalf. A satire in which a late-night TV host attempts to get an unusually wordy guest to explain the relationship between unemployment and inflation.<\/li>\n<li><em>Still Revolutionaries<\/em> by Sienna McLean. A glimpse into the memories of two women who were members of the controversial Black Panther Party.<\/li>\n<li><em>Dream Quilt<\/em> by John Serpentelli. A mystical animated work employing an evolving array of children&#8217;s drawings and a girl&#8217;s recollection of her dream experienced while asleep under her grandmother&#8217;s quilt.<\/li>\n<li><em>What More Could You Ask For? <\/em>by Joan Nidzyn. A powerful experimental film about the physical effects of a compound known to college students as &#8220;The Date Rape Drug.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><em>Zero<\/em> by Joe Kelly. An experimental, animated exploration into the genocide of the Beothuk Nation of Newfoundland.<\/li>\n<li><em>Dancing With Light<\/em> by J.C. Earle. A beautiful study of light and shadow as they glide across interiors, forests and mountains, in foreshortened time.<\/li>\n<li><em>Sea Slugs<\/em> by Adam Lane. Marauding pirate gastropods second-guess their avocation and the vision of their leader.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For more information about the festival, call the Museum of Art at 207-786-6158.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bates will screen winning entries from the 17th annual Black Maria Film and Video Festival May 2 and May 3 in the Olin Arts Center Concert Hall. The Saturday program begins at 8 p.m., and a different program begins at 2 p.m. on Sunday. 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