Wednesday, April 03, 2024 - 4 p.m. to 9 p.m.
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 3, 2024
Kummmatty (The Boogeyman)
4PM -Memorial Union Building, Theater 2
Govindan Aravindan 1979 India 90 minlanguage: Malayalamwith English subtitles
?**Introduction by Tejas Aralere (UNH)
An adaptation of a Central Kerala folk-tale featuring a partly mythic and partly real magician calledKummatty, who comes to entertain a group of village children with dancing, singing and magic tricks. In one such game, he changes the children into animals. One boy, changed into a dog, is chased away and misses the moment when the magician breaks the spell restoring the children to their human form. The dog-boy has to wait until Kummatty returns.?
https://www.film-foundation.org/rsr-july-2022
Trailer/Clip:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfOK4iMv-To
Restored in 4K using a vintage 35mm print struck from the original camera negative and preserved at the National Film Archive of India. Restored by The Film Foundations World Cinema Project, Film Heritage Foundation, and Cineteca di Bologna at LImmagine Ritrovata laboratory, in association with General Pictures and the family of Aravindan Govindan. Funding provided by the Material World Foundation.?
Bushman
7PM -Memorial Union Building, Theater 2
David Schickele 1971 USA 73 minlanguage: English **Introduction by Casey Golomski (UNH)
?In 1968, Peace Corps veteran David Schickele enlisted his friend Paul Eyam Nzie Okpokam to star in a light-hearted comedy about the adventures of a young Nigerian intellectual in San Francisco. Using a docu-fictional
style reminiscent of Cassavetes' Shadows, the film observes the foibles of late 1960s African-American culture with an outsider's incisive eye. The result is a vibrant snapshot of the nation's racial politics, from interracial romance to cross-cultural misunderstandings and countercultural joy. The film morphs into a documentary when the director's voice abruptly intrudes to narrate its stars enraging fate.
https://kinolorber.com/film/bushman
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3uA1eP9Nk8c
?Bushman has been restored by the University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive and The Film Foundation. Funding provided by the Hobson/Lucas Family Foundation. Additional support provided by Peter Conheim, Cinema Preservation Alliance. A Milestone Films & Video and Kino Lorber Release.
