Monday | March 6, 2000 9:00 pm

Kautschuk

Screening on Film

Directed by Eduard von Borsody.
With René Deltgen, Gustav Diessl, Roman Bahn.
Germany, 1938, 35mm, black & white, 104 min.
German with English subtitles.

An adventure film produced by the Ufa studio, Kautschuk was released in the United States as Green Hell. It blends elaborate location footage from an Amazon expedition (including tableaux of voracious crocodiles and greedy piranhas as well as a ferocious tropical storm) and interiors shot in the Babelsberg studio to create the historical drama of an English entrepreneur. Henry Wickham, a heroic forerunner of Werner Herzog’s Fitzcarraldo, travels to Brazil in 1876, posing as a butterfly collector as he seeks to elude Portuguese officials and procure rubber seeds for the British colonies.

March 6 – April 25, 2000

Films in the Third Reich: The Power of Images and Illusions Screenings

September 6–November 7

Psychedelic Cinema

September 29–December 1

Fragments of a Faith Forgotten: The Art of Harry Smith

October 18–November 3

António Campos and the Promise of Cinema Novo

sepia photo of Artie Freedman in silhouette with a video camera at show

November 8

Boston Punk Rewound / Unbound. The Arthur Freedman Collection

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 mausoleum that looks like a miniature Spanish cathedral, next to a variety of others, against an evening sky

November 11

The Night Watchman by Natalia Almada

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