6:00 pm
Sunday, November 13
Little Roxie
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Director: Shireen Pasha
Country/Year: Sri Lanka/US, 2009
Running Time: 50 mins
Language: English and Sinhala with English subtitles
Format: Digital
Shireen Pasha in Person
How do you answer a question like “What is time”? Director Shireen Pasha comes up with possible replies by visiting post-tsunami Sri Lanka. Interviewing survivors of the catastrophic phenomenon that hit the country three years ago, as well as volunteers and officials working toward the rehabilitation of the people who were severely affected, the filmmaker asks this deceptively simple question and ends up with very interesting observations. In Western culture time is most often equaled to money, overshadowing all other possible interpretations. No matter how hard government representatives try to sell the myth of what Pasha calls the coconut man, the peaceful Sri Lankan who doesn’t ask for much in life, the fishermen who offer testimony in her film don’t buy into it. Equally intriguing is the film’s suggestion that starting fresh should also entail a change in our way of thinking. -SF Bay Guardian
Preceded by:
METTA (Loving Kindness)
Director: Kirthi Nath
Country/Year: US, 2011
Running Time: 10.5 mins
Language: In English
Format: Digital
Kirthi Nath in Person
Part of a trilogy of experimental documentaries about Spirituality and the Dharma, Metta is a cinemagical journey through the landscape of 10 years, 35 notebooks, a universe of collected stories, sounds, imprints, and mindful attention. |
