[OR_Archaeology] Top Archaeology Film Festival films coming to Portland
RPettigrew at aol.com
RPettigrew at aol.com
Thu Jan 13 14:51:01 PST 2011
To friends in and near Portland: The best archaeology-related films in the
world are coming to Portland, starting this Friday night. This is our
annual event, ArchaeologyFest Film Series:Best of 2010! Please come to see
some outstanding films and help us support TAC Festival 2011 by enjoying our
PSU mini-festival at the Fifth Avenue Cinema in Portland for four evenings
(a different 2-hour show each evening), Friday, January 14; Saturday,
January 15; Friday, January 22: and Saturday, January 23. These are the top
films from The Archaeology Channel International Film Festival that took place
in Eugene last May. Most of them are award-winners from this
international competition. And it's just six bucks for two hours of sheer enjoyment.
One of my favorites is tonight: Chumpi's Adventure--a Peruvian film about
a young Achuar boy canoing upriver to his people's sacred waterfall in the
Amazon forest. Read on below for more details on the schedule and films.
Please spread the word where you can. We also have this posted at
_http://www.archaeologychannel.org/content/PortlandSeries2010.shtml_
(http://www.archaeologychannel.org/content/PortlandSeries2010.shtml) , where you can
actually see clips from the films.
Rick Pettigrew
Archaeological Legacy Institute
_www.archaeologychannel.org_ (http://www.archaeologychannel.org/)
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ArchaeologyFest Film Series: Best of 2010
A benefit for The Archaeology Channel
International Film and Video Festival
Portland State University’s
5th Avenue Cinema
510 SW Hall Blvd.
January 14/15 & 21/22, 2011
Doors open at 7 pm and programs begin at 7:30 pm on dates indicated.
Admission $6. Tickets at the door. These are the best films from the 2010
edition of TAC Festival. (The 2011 edition of TAC Festival takes place in the
Recital Hall at The Shedd Institute in downtown Eugene, May 24-28)
Program A: Friday, January 14
• Chumpi's Adventure (Peru) 47 min.
This film focuses on the lives of three generations of Achuar, who live in
the Peruvian Amazon. A young boy, Chumpi, his father, Secha, and his
grandfather, Irar, make an upriver trip to a sacred waterfall, where both
adults received their visions as young men. They travel through the tropical
rainforest in an adventure into the spiritual world of these indigenous
people. Their journey gives insight into the Achuar culture, as they try to
continue their traditions while facing conflicts with oil companies and the
encroaching industrial world. (Special Mention by Jury; Honorable Mention by
Jury for Script, Cinematography, and Inspiration)
• Lost Nation: The Ioway (USA) 57 min.
In 1824, during the twilight of Native American dominion, two conflicted
Ioway leaders met with William Clark, one of the principals of the earlier
Lewis and Clark Expedition, to sign a momentous treaty. White Cloud saw
cooperation as survival for his people, while Great Walker regretted the loss
of their ancestral homeland. This pivotal moment led both men to different
tragic destinies in their battle with epic change. Ioway Elders join
historians and archaeologists to tell the dramatic and true story of the small
tribe that once claimed the territory between the Missouri and Mississippi
Rivers from Pipestone, Minnesota, to St. Louis. What was a quest for
survival in the past has become a struggle to retain a unique Native American
culture and language in the present. (Honorable Mention by Jury in the Best
Film competition)
Program B: Saturday, January15
• Life in Limbo (USA) 40 min.
This film paints a portrait of life in the town of Hasankeyf, in
southeastern Turkey, a dramatic town of caves located near the borders of Iraq and
Syria. It has been inhabited since the 9th Century B.C. and is considered an
archaeological treasure because it is the finest example of a medieval
city in the region. Hasankeyf has endured upheavals through the centuries but
it now faces a seemingly insurmountable threat to its survival; a proposed
dam on the Tigris River that will submerge the town. Through a combination
of verite scenes, lyrical landscape images and interviews, Hasankeyf is
revealed as a town of long traditions, an archaeological treasure and finally,
a community that is fated to be destroyed. (Honorable Mention in the
Audience Favorite competition; Honorable Mention by Jury in the Best Film
competition, Cinematography, and Music)
• Stone Age Artists: The Magdalenian Masters (France) 52 min.
The inception of art in prehistoric times is a much debated issue. Some
believe it coincides with a revolution of the mind, which is thought to have
started about 40,000 years ago. Others think it is the result of gradual
evolution that began with the very first human beings, some two million
years ago. Our forefathers gradually devoted more and more time to art,
decorating their objects and their places of residence. As for the
Magdalenians, ancestors that settled in large areas of Europe between 18,000 and 10,000
years B.C., art was amazingly developed. The sculpted bas-relief of the
Roc-aux-Sorciers site in southwestern France is proof that a golden age of
prehistory did actually exist. For the first time ever, this film reveals
Lascaux Cave, a showcase that suggests that the Stone Age may well have had
its share of “Michelangelos.” (Best Script by Jury; Honorable Mention in
the Audience Favorite competition; Honorable Mention by Jury in the Best
Film competition, Narration, Animation, Cinematography, and Inspiration)
Program C: Friday, January 21
• Standing with Stones (UK) 135 min.
Produced and directed by documentary film-maker Michael Bott and presented
by naturalist and explorer Rupert Soskin, this is a first-hand account
from Rupert of a journey taken through the British Isles and Ireland, starting
at the tip of Cornwall and ending on the Scottish Isles, visiting more
than 100 Neolithic and Bronze age monuments en route. Beautiful to look at
and aiming to be enlightening, the film explores the diversity and wonder of
these extraordinary enigmatic structures. It also looks at some of the
explanations and absurdities which attach to them. Rupert Soskin has a deep
knowledge of the subject, but also a refreshingly open-minded attitude to
the whos, the hows and especially the whys of the stone construction. The
entire project was conceived and realized entirely by Michael Bott and Rupert
Soskin, with a camera, a camper van, two very understanding wives, and a
passion for stones. (Best Narration by Jury; Most Inspirational by Jury;
Honorable Mention in the Audience Favorite competition; Honorable Mention by
Jury in the Best Film competition, Animation, Script, and Music)
Program D: Saturday, January 22
• Herculaneum: Diaries of Darkness and Light (Italy) 52 min.
This film tells the story of the excavations at Herculaneum, following
Amedeo Maiuri, the archaeologist who in little more than 30 years brought to
light the Roman city, which had been destroyed along with Pompeii by the
eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79. Today, two-thirds of the ancient city
still lies under the modern city of Ercolano. In order to continue the
excavations, large parts of the modern city would have to be knocked down, as
Maiuri had started to do a few years before his death. The diaries of
Maiuri, together with interviews and unseen footage, lead us in the discovery of
the archaeological site and invite us to consider the relationship that
humans have with their past along with our desire to discover it, to
understand it and to preserve it in time.
• Paddle Ship “Patris”Lost in 1868... (Greece) 63 min.
This documentary concerns the historic steam engine paddle ship Patris,
which sank in 1868. This type of boat is unique because it used wheels for
movement. It was manufactured at a time before the advent of the screw
propeller, when most ships were made of wood. This particular boat was one of
very few made of metal and for this reason it was preserved. It was a
luxurious vessel that had a paddle-wheel steam engine, but also had sails.
Patris was property of “Hellenic Steam Navigation Company,” the first coastal
shipping company that was founded in Greece. The film was made with the
collaboration of the Museum of Industrial Heritage of Syros, subordinate to
the Municipality of Syros, Greece, and the Greek Ministry of Culture, the
National Institute of Research, the Department of Underwater Antiquities,
and the Underwater Filming Research (UFR) diving team. (Best Film by Jury;
Best Cinematography by Jury; Honorable Mention by Jury for Narration,
Animation, Special Effects, Script, Music, and Inspiration)
TAC Festival 2011 Moves to the Recital Hall at The Shedd Institute
ALI announces the next edition of The Archaeology Channel International
Film and Video Festival, May 24-28, 2010, in the Recital Hall at The Shedd
Institute, 868 High Street, in downtown Eugene, Oregon. TAC Festival will
bring to Oregon the world’s best films on archaeology, ancient cultures, and
the world of indigenous peoples. Our Keynote Speaker will be Dr. Tom King,
speaking on his archaeological research in the continuing search for
aviation pioneer Amelia Earhart. Please join us in welcoming to Eugene the
people of the world for this cinematic celebration of the human cultural
heritage. Details at
_http://www.archaeologychannel.org/content/TACfestival.shtml_ (http://www.archaeologychannel.org/content/TACfestival.shtml) .
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