Guzman's Chile and Eisenberg's Cooperation of Parts

Sun, Mar 5
7:30pm
$8, $5 Cinematheque members, Seniors, Disabled, Students (w. ID)

Back in the Bay Area to take a position at UC Berkeley, longtime =

Cinematheque collaborator Jeffrey Skoller joins us to introduce two =

evenings of films discussed in his new book, Shadows, Specters, =

Shards: Making History in Avant-Garde Film. Tonight's program =

features two very different modes of excavating autobiographical and =

historical memory. In Chile, Obstinate Memory, Patricio Guzm=E1n =

returns to Chile after 25 years to examine re-membered traces of the =

Allende coup and its horrific aftermath, while Daniel Eisenberg =

journeys across Europe to revisit his parents' experience surviving =

the Shoah in Cooperation of Parts. In both, filmmaking becomes a =

process of mourning and a means of tracing the past's continual =

resurfacing. Please join us for a small reception and book signing =

after the screening. Introduced and presented by Jeffrey Skoller.

Venue:

Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
701 Mission Street
San Francisco

Additional Info:

415-552-1990
www.sfcinematheque.org