Liza Davitch's Victory Square

Film/Video WOMEN WITH VISION: ON THE MOVE HISTORY/MIGRATION/TRANSFORMATION: DOCUMENTARY FILMS AND DISCUSSIONS WITH ALYCE MYATT SATURDAY MARCH 15, 2003 1 PM, 3:30 PM, AND 8 PM Series tickets (3 screenings + discussions): $20 ($10 Walker and IFP/MSP members) Individual tickets: $7 ($5) AUDITORIUM

Alyce Myatt

Alyce Myatt conducts informal, salon-style conversations throughout the day to further engage audiences with issues raised by these films and the role of the filmmaker as storyteller for our time. Myatt has consistently championed the voice of documentary filmmakers. Formerly the Grants Officer for Media at the MacArthur Foundation, she is currently Vice President of Programming for PBS. Cosponsored with Independent Features Project Minneapolis/St. Paul.

1 PM
VICTORY SQUARE
Introduced by producer-director Liza Davitch
Victory Square is a contemporary story of a close-knit mother and daughter in Minsk, Belarus, whose relationship suffer when each becomes romantically involved with a man the other despises. This haunting and comedic portrayal of a family feud culminates in the days preceding the daughter's wedding. This is Liza Davitch's first feature since her graduation from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design, where three of her films were finalists for the Student Academy Awards. 2002, U.S., color, video, in Russian with English subtitles, 92 minutes.

SALON WITH ALYCE MYATT AND LIZA DAVITCH, 2:30-3:15 PM. WALKER ART CENTER LECTURE ROOM.

Ning Ying's Railroad of Hope Yasmine Kabir's My Migrant Soul Chantel Ackerman's From the Other Side

3:30 PM
RAILROAD OF HOPE (XI WANG ZHI LÜ)
Directed by Ning Ying
Each year during August and September, several thousand Chinese farmers and peasants leave Szechwan by train for a three-day trip to China's western Xinjiang Autonomous Region. Awaiting them are endless fields of cotton to be harvested. These internal migrations mark a relatively new phenomenon in China by workers who rarely spend time away from their native villages. 2001, China, color, video, in Mandarin with English subtitles, 56 minutes.

Preceded by
MY MIGRANT SOUL
Directed by Yasmine Kabir
My Migrant Soul follows the story of Shahjahan Babu, a young Bangladeshi who leaves his family in search of work in Malaysia and becomes caught in the ugliness of modern-day slavery. Activist-filmmaker Yasmine Kabir studied in San Francisco before returning to her native city of Dhaka, Bangladesh. 2000, Bangladesh, color, video, in English and Bengali with English subtitles, 35 minutes.

SALON WITH ALYCE MYATT, 5:15-6 PM, WALKER ART CENTER LECTURE ROOM.

8 PM
FROM THE OTHER SIDE (DE L'AUTRE COTÉ)
Directed by Chantal Akerman
From the Other Side is Chantal Akerman's hauntingly effective, visually rigorous examination of the difficulties of illegal immigration along the Mexico-U.S. border. With undocumented aliens undertaking increasingly dangerous attempts to cross the border, American landowners are more often confronted with risk-taking trespassers. Akerman's profound affection and concern for these marginalized people, their abandoned families, and even their paid smugglers is evident, especially when the film crew comes upon a group of destitute, stranded individuals. Akerman, who lives in Paris, has a long career of dramatic feature films (La Captive, A Couch in New York). Her documentaries include South, screened during Women with Vision 2001, and D'Est, part of the Walker's Edmond R. Ruben Film Study Collection. 2002, France, color, 35mm, in English, Spanish, French with English subtitles, 99 minutes.

POST-SCREENING DISCUSSION, 9:45 PM
AURIGA RESTAURANT, 1930 HENNEPIN AVENUE SOUTH, MINNEAPOLIS.










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