[HvEXAS] Fwd: EMPAC | February 10 - February 17 | Les Glaneurs et la glaneuse (The Gleaners and I)

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Date: February 9, 2009 10:39:02 AM EST

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Subject: EMPAC | February 10 - February 17 | Les Glaneurs et la glaneuse (The Gleaners and I)

SCREENING Unfiction | Les Glaneurs et la glaneuse (The Gleaners and I)  Tuesday, February 10, 7 PM Director: Agnés Varda Departing from Les Glaneuses, Jean-Francois Millet's celebrated 1867 portrait of women picking through a harvested wheat field, French filmmaker Agnés Varda constructs a moving and thoughtful visual essay on the concept and lifestyle of "gleaning," or scavenging, once ubiquitous in rural 19th-century France. Varda's film is both a social documentary and a frank and personal rumination on the experience of marginalization. By focusing on the overlooked, an open view emerges of our own attitudes towards usefulness, aging, decay and the discarded. The intrepid septuagenarian filmmaker embarks on a road trip to find France's contemporary gleaners – young vandalizers, trash artists, a former truck driver – all the while commenting on what she sees with her compassion and wry humor. Varda sees herself is a gleaner of images, objects, people, thoughts. As she travels through this "wandering-road-documentary", gathering the film's images, she collects heart-shaped potatoes that would otherwise be tossed or a silent broken clock that ends up on her mantle. » More Information UPCOMING LECTURE In a Glass Hour | Johannes Goebel Tuesday, February 17, 7 PM In this talk, music will serve as projection screen to reflect thoughts on time. Music is, quite obviously, not language (even though there are many who say music is the universal language). Sound moves differently in time than pictures or touch. A printed book evolves differently in time when we read it than a piece of music when we listen to it. A film can be fast-forwarded differently than a piece of music.  Music in Western culture has dealt with time and rhythm differently than music of other cultures. The Western notation of music in conjunction with the development of clocks influenced how we think and feel time. Time became mechanized, and now computers are lost without their clock. The assumption that time, as we see it governing our lives, allows us to structure future, present and past (in that order) is a political tool, for better and worse.  » More Information EMPAC News + Events Mailing List  You are subscribed to this list as murphj8@rpi.edu. To update your preferences visit this link  If you would like to unsubscribe click this link  EMPAC Box Office: 518.276.3921 http://www.empac.rpi.edu/  Plan your visit to EMPAC! Get directions, maps, parking info, and a visitors guide.  Copyright (C) 2009 EMPAC @ Rensselaer All rights reserved. Forward this email to a friend using this link

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