CANADA IS BIGGER THAN THE U.S.
A MONTHLY SERIES OF FILMS, MUSIC, PERFORMANCES AND VISUAL ART celebrating the innovative, utterly bizarre and extremely vast body of work from our neighbors to the north. Their films may be smaller, but at least their country is bigger!
Size does matter. CANADA IS BIGGER THAN THE U.S.
presented by
ZEITGEIST MULTI-DISCIPLINARY ARTS CENTER
1618 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd.
(between Euterpe & Terpsichore, across from Cafe Reconcile)
New Orleans, Louisiana 70113
(504) 827-5858 info line (504) 352-1150 real person
www.zeitgeistinc.net rene@zeitgeistinc.net
$7 general / $6 students & seniors / $5 Zeitgeist members & Canadians with a passport or ID
unless otherwise noted. Hey, we will even accept Canadian money.
“I have been attending the Toronto Film Festival regularly since 1990. Aside from seeing films from all the world, it has given me a profound appreciation of the work of Canadian filmmakers. Due to my love for the work of filmmaker Guy Maddin, in 1991 I programmed the largest exhibition of works by the Winnipeg Film Group outside of Canada, THE MONDO MANITOBA MARATHON which I presented at Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center in Buffalo, N.Y. as well as here in New Orleans. As part of the marathon, I produced a 30 minute video on the working relationship between filmmaker Guy Maddin and screen-writer George Toles entitled STRANGLED BY A LARGE INTESTINE. Then from 1995 to 1997, Zeitgeist presented an on-going series of films and performances entitled QUEERLY CANADIAN, which celebrated works and artists from Canada that personified both definitions of the word “queer”, meaning either “gay” or “odd”. Over the years Zeitgeist has hosted Canadian performers and filmmakers Bruce La Bruce, David Bateman, Michael Achtmann, and David Roche. We have screened hundreds of films from Canada, but we didn't actively advertise that it was from Canada. That’s not enough. This work needs to be celebrated and exposed to new audiences. We need bigger!” - Rene Broussard, Zeitgeist Founder/Director
According to Canadian author and Prespyterian minister Tristan Emmanuel, Canada is looking to destroy America. In his new book, WARNED: CANADA'S REVOLUTION AGAINST FAITH, FAMILY AND FREEDOM THREATENS AMERICA, Emmanuel writes:
“Canada is being used as a staging ground to export radical liberalism and its being aimed right at America: everything from gay ‘marriage' to polygamy to lowering the age of sexual consent and strengthening ‘human rights' laws to protect prostitution. If it's radically liberal, Canada is involved.”
Well if this is true, it’s all the more reason for Zeitgeist to celebrate and to help promote their agenda.
I'm not saying that Canada is trying to turn America Gay, but not only is Canada bigger than the U.S. (and we all know size does matter!), when you look at the map, it's on top...
COMING SOON:
January 26 thru 30 + February 1 thru 3 @ 6:00 p.m.
NURSE.FIGHTER.BOY by Charles Officer. NURSE.FIGHTER.BOY is an urban love story about the soul of a mother, the heart of a fighter, and the faith of a child. JUDE (Karen LeBlanc) is a single mother who descends from a long line of Jamaican caregivers. SILENCE (Clark Johnson, Homicide and The Wire) is a ‘past his prime’ boxer who fights illegally to survive. CIEL (Daniel J. Gordon) is a boy who delves into music, conjuring dreams for his mother. During the last week of summer, a late-night brawl finds the fighter in the nurse's care causing their three fates to be forever entwined. INGRID VENINGER (who came to Zeitgeist in May of 2009 to present her brilliant coming of age film ONLY) is the films co-writer and producer. Featuring original music by Mikey Dread, Ndidi Onukwulu, Traditional with John Welsman, The Maytones, K’Naan, Tumi & The Volume, The Shieks, Zaki Ibrahim & Hallie Switzer, Hymn, Waleed Audulhamid with Daniel J. Gordon, Terry Callier, Citizen Cope, Bright Black Morning Light and Noel Ellis. Audience Award + Special Jury Prize for Cinematography – Sarasota Film Festival, Audience Award – Mannheim-Heidelberg Int. Film Festival, Genie Award (Canada’s Oscar) – Best Original Song, Best original score. Screens as part of our monthly series CANADA IS BIGGER THAN THE U.S.
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Saturday & Sunday, March 12 + 13 @ 7:00 p.m.
ARCHANGEL by Guy Maddin. This is quite simply Zeitgeist founder Rene Broussard’s all-time favorite film and Guy Maddin his favorite living director. Zeitgeist first screened Archangel @ the Contemporary Arts Center in 1991 with Rene Broussard’s 30 minute documentary on Canadian filmmaker Guy Maddin (Tales From The Gimli Hospital, Saddest Music In The World, My Winnipeg) entitled Strangled By A Large Intestine. A tale of amnesiacs divorced from history whose traumas are inflicted by history. The setting, appropriately, is a generally forgotten piece of history when, at the end of World War One, and the beginning of a Civil War sparked by the Bolshevik revolution, a coalition of international armies, including Canada's, grouped in Archangel, at the Arctic north of Russia, to fight the “White” (anti-Communist) cause. The “hero” of the film, Lieutenant John Boles (Kyle McCulloch), shell-shocked and amputated, clutching the ashes of his dead Iris, arrives February 1919 to an Archangel still fighting the Great War. There he encounters Iris' lookalike Veronkha (Kathy Marykuca), pestered by the promiscuous amnesiac (Ari Cohen) who claims to be her husband, and who herself is shocked into forgetfulness; and the mother with whom Boles billets (Sarah Neville) is trying to forget her cowardly husband (Michael Gottli) who dies saving his son Geza (David Faulkenburg) from being raped by Bolsheviks. Watch out for the electric sodomizer! Subtitled: “How Sweet To Die For One’s Country!”, Archangel certainly is the most lyrical of war films, and its release brought Maddin the U.S. National Society of Film Critics’ prize for Best Experimental Film of the Year. The film displays many of the elements and aesthetics of what would become known as “Steampunk”. We are proud to bring it back as the second installment in our new monthly series THE ANACHRONISTIC WORLD OF STEAMPUNK as well as the centerpiece of our limited series RELEASED IN 1991 – 20th ANNIVERSARY. The film also screens as part of our monthly series CANADA IS BIGGER.
For the complete schedule of monthly events being presented at Zeitgeist (trailers, photos, descriptions) please go to:
www.zeitgeistinc.net
