Monthly art-house films at a price anyone can afford: free!
Can't get to Cannes? Or the Sundance Film Festival? Can't even afford the Sundance cable Channel? You can still enjoy the best in documentary and art-house films once a month, and it's completely free!
Every third Thursday of the month, the Community Cinema Series offers two showings of an independent film, most often an award-winning documentary. The film series, free and open to the public, began in October 2009. It's a joint project of Fern Creek Traditional High School Film Club, the Louisville Film Society and KET. The movies of the Community Cinema Series are slated to be broadcast on PBS' "Independent Lens" series, but they're shown first at Fern Creek and at more than 50 other locations across the country.
Showings are at 3:30 p.m. and 6 p.m. in the school's auditorium. You can view the film schedule online and even view trailers for each movie.
Recent films include "Young @ Heart," the 2007 documentary on a Northampton, Mass., chorus made up seniors more likely to break out into Coldplay and Sonic Youth than Crosby or Sinatra; "Garbage Dreams," the award-winning 2009 documentary that explores the lives of the Christian garbage collectors of Cairo and the threat foreign corporations pose to them; and the 2009 documentary, "Copyright Criminals," on the creative commercial value of musical sampling that features some of today's top hip-hop artists.
One of the first films in the series was the award-winning "Between the Folds," a 2008 documentary on artists, mathematicians and scientists who have abandoned conventional jobs to devote themselves to origami, the Japanese art of paper folding. The film contained one intricately crafted paper beauty after another. One of the primary subjects in the movie, Dr. Erik Demaine, actually won a MacArthur "Genius" Award for his work in computational origami; his work is now on exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City.
Said Vanessa Gould, director, producer and writer on "Between the Folds": "When I first learned about the curious phenomenon of fine artists, scientists and mathematicians from all over the world working in the very same medium of origami, I knew there had to be something special about it — that in the simplicity of a square must be hiding some untold potential for creativity and new ideas."
Posted by Ivonne Rovira
