SPANISH FILM SERIES
The Foreign Language Department is once again offering its Spanish Film Series. The Fall kickoff movie is Santitos. Come out Monday night September 20th at 8pm to Brock Hall to see it. The other movie dates will be October 18th and November 22nd.
More information:
Santitos / Esperanza's Box of Saints (1998)
A film by Alejandro Springall
Mexico. Color. 101 min. [1 hour 41 minutes]
<http://images.amazon.com/images/P/6305245886.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg> Spanish
with English subtitles. R. (strong sexual content and language)
Based on the novel “Esperanza’s Box of Saints” by María Amparo Escandón
Synopsis: (from the back cover)
After Esperanza Diaz (Dolores Heredia), a beautiful widow, loses her 12-year-old daughter, Blanca, to a rare virus following a tonsillectomy, she searches her faith for an explanation. When St. Jude appears in the
smudged window of Esperanza’s oven and tells her that Blanca is still alive, the woman is convinced that her daughter was kidnapped from the hospital and sold as a sex slave. Becoming a prostitute herself, Esperanza sets out to find Blanca in Tijuana, and eventually Los
Angeles, where she unexpectedly discovers true love in this uplifting film about faith and undying family love that is a touching as it is hilarious.
Awards: Latin American Cinema Award at the Sundance Film Festival
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ART EXHIBIT IN CRESS GALLERY
Danger / Desire: Photographs by Jane Calvin
"Pet" and other New Work: Michelle Dussault
Social Landscapes: Ann Tyler
Thru October 14, 2004
Three artists, three exhibitions, three visual investigations into difficult issues that face us today. The work is strong in concept and mature in content and has broad interdisciplinary appeal. We encourage you and your students to visit the Cress. Brief descriptions of the exhibitions of each artist are below. For more information please feel free to call the Curator at 425-4600 or email [log in to unmask] Group visits are welcome!
Prof. of Visual Communications at the Art Institute in Chicago, Ann Tyler creates digital prints and limited edition books. Conceptually her work addresses the violent victimization of members of minority groups by members of the majority who choose to see difference as amoral and those different as less than human. While powerful and chilling, most of her imagery is metaphorical, with references to animal faces, trees, and rural landscapes which in turn refer to romantic pastoral notions of nature, the violence within nature, and the larger difficult complexities of the nature of mankind.
Photographer Jane Calvin, also of Chicago "makes" photographs rather than "takes" them by constructing multi-media installations which are documented photographically. The scenes created are inventive and disjointed and the photographs formally tend to compress and rearrange space. These photographs are contextualized by being paired with passages from ads, storybooks, pulp romance, poetry and novels selected by the artist and ranging in source from James Joyce's Ulysses to the lyrics of performance artist / musician Laurie Anderson. Thematically they explore the dichotomous relationships between mystery and menace, love and desire, gender and sexuality.
Michelle Dussault, maintains a studio in Tampa, Fla., where she teaches drawing at the University of South Florida and painting and art appreciation at Hillsborough Community College. Michelle presents two series of paintings and a video installation in an exhibition entitled "Pet"and other New Work . "Pet" looks at the domestication of animals in our urban society, the dogs and cats, symbols and badges of their owners identity and programmed through breeding and training to the loss of their natural and instinctual existence. In the second series of paintings titled "Welcome to Fabulous" Dussault continues to question, through visual associations, the effects of urbanization and development upon all: we, the two-legged animals who walk upright, and the environment for which we have assumed the role of caretakers.
The Gallery is located in the lobby of the Fine Arts Center at the corner of Vine and Palmetto.
GALLERY HOURS: 9:00 am - 5:00 pm Monday - Friday.
Admission is free.
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UNIVERSITY THEATRE ANNOUNCES PRODUCTIONS
The University Theatre announces its fall productions of :
ART by Yazmina Reza
Oct 1, 2, 6, 7, 8, 9
Best Play - Paris: Moliere Prize. London: Olivier Award., New York:
Tony Award.
Best Comedy of the Year -London Evening Standard
BLITHE SPIRIT by Noel Coward
Nov 12, 13, 17, 18, 19, 20
"No Coward comedy is better plotted, more playful or more visually
inventive." -John Lahr
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INDEPENDENT FILM SERIES
The Chattanooga Arts and Education Council announces its independent film series. For more information about the series, which is shown downtown at the Bijou Theater, visit http://www.artsedcouncil.org/indieFilm.html
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