{"id":76961,"date":"2014-04-08T15:12:40","date_gmt":"2014-04-08T19:12:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/?p=76961"},"modified":"2024-07-01T15:59:48","modified_gmt":"2024-07-01T19:59:48","slug":"bates-faculty-featured-in-latest-documentary-by-craig-saddlemire-05","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2014\/04\/08\/bates-faculty-featured-in-latest-documentary-by-craig-saddlemire-05\/","title":{"rendered":"Innovative techniques \u2014 and a faculty couple \u2014 mark film about family by Saddlemire ’05"},"content":{"rendered":"

Featuring what he calls “community-based cinema,” the latest film from Craig Saddlemire ’05 follows four Lewiston families, including that of Bates professors Charles Nero and Baltasar Fra-Molinero.<\/p>\n

The film, Household: Four Stories of Kinship and Curiosity,<\/i> features an extended refugee family from Somalia, a single mother in a housing cooperative, a mother of six who has fostered nearly 50 children in her lifetime, and the family of Nero and Fra-Molinero, a same-gender married couple.<\/p>\n

\"Independent<\/a>

Filmmaker Craig Saddlemire ’05. (Phyllis Graber Jensen\/Bates College)<\/p><\/div>\n

In creating the film, Saddlemire used a participatory technique, inviting a member of each household to narrate what they see in the household of another family.<\/p>\n

The result is a collage of viewpoints, rather than the filmmaker’s single perspective.<\/p>\n

Household<\/i> <\/a>aired Thursday on the Maine Public Broadcasting Network and airs again at 11 a.m. on April 12.<\/p>\n

Like his participants, Saddlemire is a Lewiston resident, and has been one since graduation. He calls what he does \u201ccommunity-based cinema,\u201d where success is measured \u201caccording to the relationships it forms within a community rather than [by] the final product itself,” as he told MPBN’s in-house magazine, Experience<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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