[inter/meta/trans] Fwd: 8/8: LAAA Presents "My Father My Friend" @ EPFC

[Michele Jaquis]

I hope you will join me and the rest of the Film & Video 825 committee 
at our next screening...
michele

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> From: "Sinead Finnerty" <Sinead at laaa.org>
> Date: July 18, 2007 3:56:59 PM PDT
> Subject: 8/8: LAAA Presents "My Father My Friend" @ EPFC
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> For Immediate Release: 7/12/07
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> Film & Video 825 in association with
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> My Father My Friend
> A film by Nabawia El-Soudani
> Wednesday, August 8, 2007 at 8pm
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> Echo Park Film Center
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>  1200 N. Alvarado Street (@ Sunset Blvd), LA,  CA 90026
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> In a personal dialogue between father and daughter about life, death, 
> love, faith, evolution and creation, My Father My Friend, reveals how 
> monotheistic religion, modernity and scientific perception overlap on 
> common ground.  In casual, everyday settings director Nabawia 
> El-Soudani portrays the life of her father, a Middle Eastern- born 
> American citizen, in thought provoking discussions that shed light on 
> his extensive historical and scientific research of theology.  The 
> filmmaker addresses her father's unwavering faith with questions that 
> challenge consistency of truth and the patriarchal establishment of 
> religion.  Her father approaches these large philosophical questions 
> from a perspective that is innovatively mathematical, scientific and 
> logical, backing up each statement with a chronology of historical 
> evidence of overshadowed truths.  She captures this perspective 
> through a lens that reflects her own internal psychological 
> perspective. As her father draws a diagram of set theory to explain 
> the long debated contradictions between free will and predestination, 
> the ink on paper is transformed into elements that make up an 
> alternate reality beyond that of the physical world.  This is a 
> reality of the mind of the filmmaker that she develops through 
> animation and video feedback.  These images weave together and 
> illustrate her father's complex research into a form that reaches 
> human comprehension yet retains all the mystery of what remains 
> unknown and inconceivable. 
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> In representing her father's humanity and open-mindedness, a feminist 
> and progressive perspective about religion comes into focus.  An 
> exchange between contrasting points of view unify into a thorough 
> search for personal truth where faiths find a common vein of 
> universality based on justice to all genders and ethnicities.  The 
> mystery of both the unseen and the unknown is dealt with in an 
> exploration of ideas about God and all that lies outside of the 
> physical reality of the human experience between birth and death.
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> It is the ongoing mission of Film & Video 825 to provide a forum for 
> presenting experimental film and video in Los Angeles. In a city 
> dominated by Hollywood, programs such as ours become a necessity for 
> artists working in time-based media that is outside the mainstream of 
> narrative cinema. Our curatorial vision is open to both shorts and 
> features in experimental, performance, animation, and documentary 
> forms. We are pleased to be collaborating with the Echo Park Film 
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>  Support emerging artists! Become a Supporting Member. To learn more, 
> please visit: http://www.laaa.org/support/index.html
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Michele Jaquis
Rise Industries: Interdisciplinary Projects
http://www.rise-ind.com
http://www.rise-ind.com/michelejaquis
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