October 26 at 7:30 - Le bois dont les rêves sont faits/The Woods that Dreams are Made of

Documentary by Claire Simon, 2015 (France)

Director Claire Simon offers a contemplative and respectful view of the ordinary people who come to the Bois de Vincennes on the edge of Paris to experience a certain kind of freedom and clarity that is not always offered in today’s society.  In this light and enriching documentary, Simon spends a year observing and interviewing the collection of people who run, walk, paint, write, think, rest and sometimes live within the largest public park in Paris.  Described by Marie-Pierre Duhamel as “a planet of its own made by ordinary people that all become extraordinary”, The Woods that Dreams are Made of harbors people from all walks of life: gay, straight, rich, poor, homeless, prostitutes, French, foreign, spectators, refugees, and parents.  All of whom come to the woods “in search of a utopian freedom” (Cineuropa) within the confines of the park nestled within the rushed and busy streets of Paris.

Programming Partnership with the Mini Microcinema in OTR

We are pleased to announce “UC Center for Film and Media Studies at the Mini.” The mission of the Mini Microcinema is to show experimental film/video/media, highlighting work made by artists and filmmakers outside of the mainstream and the Center has arranged to provide programming throughout the academic year. All films and events will be free and open to the public. Faculty and students will be curating film selections and we hope to bring visiting filmmakers to the Mini as well for screenings and workshops.

Sponsored by the UC Center for Film and Media Studies, the UC School of Planning, and the Mini Microcinema.

Presented by the UC Center for Film and Media Studies

Questions: michael.gott@uc.edu

Twitter: @cincyfilm

Free!

Blindpiecing and Earfolding - Curated By: Britt Hatzius

Doors Open at 7:00, Screening Starts at 7:30

At our new location! 1329 Main St. 

Free! With $5 suggested donation!

This programme has been put together in response to, or in relation to, the performance ‘Blind Cinema’ by Britt Hatzius, in which children describe a film to a blindfolded (adult) audience, presented by the CAC and Mini Microcinema at The Carnegie. The chosen films and videos have in some way informed or inspired the project, all exploring our relationship to language, its potential but also failure to make sense of what we see, hear or experience. Some refer specifically to childhood, the child’s innocent and questioning view of the world, the moment we first assign words to things, to thoughts and feelings. Others reflect on the ambiguities inherent in the process of creation of meaning through our more or less ‘successful’ verbal articulations.

Most of the (mainly European) experimental short films and videos in this selection also in one way or another draw attention to the act of watching films itself, sitting together in a room while being alone in ones mind. Through spoken or projected text, music or silence, there is always an acute awareness of our position as an audience, viewer and listener. Cinema becomes a tool with which to explore the complexity in trying to use language to share, communicate and make sense of the world around us, in at times humorous, sad, frustrating, wondrous and thought-provoking ways.

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