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Event of Interest, Monday, Oct 20, 7pm
At Allen Hall, a double screening of two movies that are centrally looking at the intersection of image and place. Style Wars is a highly influential documentary film that looks at the emergence of graffiti as an aesthetic subculture in New York City in the 1970s, along with its connections to hip hop.
Michel Gondry's Be Kind Rewind is the director's recent film set in a fictionalized Passaic, NJ, represented as an anachronistic, deindustrialized, depressed city. Creative, DIY techniques of the town's residents are pitted against the megalithic entertainment monoculture. There is a lot to criticize about how Gondry depicts (or doesn't) place here, but it's worth a view, and is at the least very enjoyable to watch.
If you have the chance, and haven't seen these films, I would make the time.
posted by ryan griffis at 12:38 PM Monday, October 20, 2008
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