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| John Junkerman's "Power and Terror: Noam Chomsky in our Times" premieres at Cornell Cinema April 2 at 7:30 p.m. Courtesy of Cornell Cinema |
Cornell Cinema heads into the last weekend of its March schedule by hosting the 22nd Annual Black Maria Film & Video Festival with festival director John Columbus tonight, March 27, at 7 in Willard Straight Theatre.
The Black Maria Film & Video Festival is named after the world's first motion picture studio, which was built by Thomas Edison in 1893. The festival is known for its superb collection of experimental, animated and documentary work, and for the fact that Columbus tours with the program to all corners of the United States so the work can be seen. Admission is $6 general, $5 students and seniors, and $4 Cornell grad students. For more information call 255-3522 or visit http://cinema.cornell.edu. The event is co-sponsored with the Cornell Council for the Arts.
The April calendar kicks off with the Ithaca premiere of "Power and Terror: Noam Chomsky in our Times" (2002), a documentary directed by John Junkerman. It will be screened Wednesday, April 2, at 7:30 p.m. and Saturday, April 5, at 5 p.m. in Willard Straight Theatre. After 9/11 and the ensuing developments around the war on terror, Junkerman, an ex-patriate filmmaker living in Tokyo, decided to spread the word on Chomsky to Japan. "As Mr. Chomsky acknowledges in the film, a searching and wide-ranging debate has unfolded about America's response to terrorism and, more broadly, about the history and future of its role in the world. Mr. Junkerman's film is best understood as a necessary, if partisan, text in that continuing argument," said A.O. Scott of The New York Times.