There’s No Place Like Home Shorts Program @Brooklyn Academy of Music

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There’s No Place Like Home Shorts Program @Brooklyn Academy of Music: "

Part of the BAMcinématek series Creatively Speaking

Sun, Sep 26, 2010, 4:30pm

75min

The hot-button issue of land ownership in post-apartheid South Africa, the relocation of some of the world’s first environmental refugees, and the role of race in the Haitian-Dominican conflict are all explored in this program.

Promised Land (2009, 57min)

Directed by Yoruba Richen

This film reveals that the most explosive issue in a post-Apartheid South Africa remains the ownership of the land. The film follows two black communities as they struggle to reclaim land from white owners amid rising racial tensions and wavering government policies. As Promised Land shows, the land issue remains South Africa’s “ticking time bomb,” with far-reaching consequences for all sides.

The Next Wave (2009, 8 mins)

Directed by Jennifer Redfearn and Tim Metzger

Sun Come Up follows the relocation of some of the world’s first environmental refugees—the Carteret Islanders, a community living on a remote island chain in the South Pacific Ocean. When rising seas threaten their survival, the islanders reach a painful decision: they must leave their beloved land in search of a new place to call home.

Shades of the Border (2009, 10min)

Directed by Patrick William Smith

Shades of the Border explores a commonly-held notion that race does not play a role in the Haitian-Dominican conflict. This short documentary confirms with no doubt that the shade of someone’s skin speaks volumes in relation to racial relations and individual beliefs among those living on the same, discrete island with two distinctive cultures.

BAM Rose Cinemas

General Admission: $12

BAM Cinema Club members: $8

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Pushing the Elephant

Part of the BAMcinématek series Creatively Speaking

Sun, Sep 26, 2010, 6:50pm

Directed by Beth Davenport and Elizabeth Mandel

(2010) 84min

Rose Mapendo lost family and home to the violence that engulfed the Democratic Republic of Congo, yet she emerged from the suffering as an advocate of peace and reconciliation. After helping numerous survivors rebuild their lives, there is one person Rose must still teach to forgive—her daughter Nangabire.

Preceded by The Wash

Directed by Eve Sandler

(1999) 9min

An autobiographical video narrative, this painterly work examines the artist’s own body and memory for scars of childhood sexual abuse.

BAM Rose Cinemas

General Admission: $12

BAM Cinema Club members: $8

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