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Film/Video BILL DOUGLAS: A MASTER OF POETIC CINEMA FEBRUARY 13 AND 15, 2002 ALL SCREENINGS ARE IN THE WALKER AUDITORIUM. TICKETS ARE $6 ($4 WALKER MEMBERS). 
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When Scotsman Bill Douglas died at age 54, the world lost a filmmaker who should have become one of the most significant figures in modern cinema. Unfortunately, he made only four features. His autobiographical childhood trilogy--My Childhood (1972), My Ain Folk (1973), and My Way Home (1977)--collectively stands as one of the most distinctive bodies of work in film. A director too often forgotten in texts discussing British cinema, Douglas created a screen language as poetic as it is humane. The vision he expressed in his trilogy is distinguished by a visual style that combines formal rigor with elusive, haunting, and often dreamlike expressions of a harsh emotional landscape. Working in the interstices of memory, imagination, and realism, he provides us with glimpses of small shining moments from a single event within the context of an entire life. Rather than drawing us into a world from which we are released when the film finishes, Douglas opens a door to a way of seeing.
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