Main Programming B, Friday 1:45 PM
Theater 222, 2nd Floor — Innis Town Hall, Innis College,
2 Sussex Street, U of T Campus (1 block South of St. George Subway)
Our Founding Mudder Who Art In Heaven: 
A Workshop With Peter Voulkos
Director, Martin Holt, USA
Peter Voulkos arrives in the mud room at Ringebu. He is old, a yellow eyed lion, fierce, reeking of last night’s Red Label, an eternal fag billowing smoke across his face. He squints, puts a flamenco tape into a grimy deck and punches the play button. Spectators keep their distance, wary of this unwholesome attraction to earth and slime. The clay mound spins, wet like a gyrating pole dancer. A fist presses into the glistening ball, down the center, encircled by enough twisting mud to tear your arm off; until, like a primordial harlot, like some miraculous genesis from biblical clays, it opens.
Website http://www.montanaartworks.biz
Crowded with Voices
Director, Anya Belkina, RUS/USA
‘Crowded with Voices’ is an experimental short created by Moscow artist Anya Belkina and composer Scott Lindroth. It is inspired by the poetry of Rumi, whose 800th birthday is being celebrated this year. The film is intended as a tribute to Rumi’s teachings and art that appealed to people of many faiths in his lifetime and united them at his funeral. Rumi’s message of love, tolerance and acceptance is as relevant as ever in our era of high-speed connectivity, nuclear weapons, global pandemics, terrorism and large-scale natural disasters. The central visual motif of the film is an image of a whirling dervish whose revolving motion is in harmony with the motion of the smallest particles in nature and the largest galaxies in the universe.
Rain Falls from Earth:
Surviving Cambodia’s Darkest Hour
Director, Steve McClure, USA
Narrated by Academy Award nominated actor, Sam Waterston (Law & Order, The Killing Fields), this film gives a voice to those whose lives were senselessly lost.
Rain Falls from Earth is a story of courage, a story of survival and a story of eventual triumph over the Communist regime that was responsible for the deaths of over 2 million people. The voices of many Cambodians are heard as they convey their thoughts, ideas and emotions˜the very things they were forced to abandon in the killing fields of Cambodia.
Website http://www.rainfallsfromearth.com/
Trailer http://www.rainfallsfromearth.com/
