Friday | March 31, 2006 9:15 pm

August, A Moment Before the Eruption
(Aout, avant l’explosion)

Directed by Avi Mograbi.
With Meital Dohan, Adi Ezroni, Avi Mograbi.
Israel/France, 2002, digital video, color, 72 min.
Hebrew with English subtitles.

Avi Mograbi, a filmmaker known for both his strong political opinions and his sense of humor, decides to document the anger and unrest he witnesses in his homeland of Israel during August of 2001. Using only a video camera—no script, no cast, no crew—Mograbi tries to make sense of the complex problems facing Israel. A deeply personal film, August: A Moment Before the Eruption is, like its director, at turns tragic and comic.

March 24 – April 5, 2006

Contested Realities: Pseudodocumentary and Other Staged Events

September 29–December 1

Fragments of a Faith Forgotten: The Art of Harry Smith

November 9–December 9

The Yugoslav Junction: Film and Internationalism in the SFRY, 1957 – 1988

November 10–24

From the Jenni Olson Queer Film Collection

a double-exposed image that includes a 16th century Russian man being fed grapes by another amid decadent decor

November 23

Wings of a Serf

a close-up of a Bissau-Guinean woman wearing a scarf on her head and looking directly at the camera with a slight smile

November 25

Le Dépays + Sans soleil

Peter Sellers wearing a large hat with "ME" embroidered on it, and gripping a Pilgrim-like collar

December 12

Carol for Another Christmas

December 13–16

Satyajit Ray’s Apu Trilogy