"Nearly every shot contains a revelation, sneaky or overt, cosmic or mundane." A.O. Scott, New York Times
(The Four Times). Described by J. Hoberman as “grave, beautiful, austerely comic, and casually metempsychotic,” Le Quattro Volte is set in southern Italy in the ancient mountainous region of Calabria. Virtually wordless, it chronicles cycles of life in a small village, from the death of an elderly sheepherder to the birth of a baby goat, from the falling of an aged tree to the making of charcoal. In the times between, we observe daily life—mundane details are seamlessly intermixed with imaginative moments, both made magical in Frammartino’s minimalism.
Written by Frammartino. Photographed by Andrea Locatell. (88 mins, In Italian with English subtitles, Color, 35mm, From Kino Lorber, Inc.)
Documentary Voices is presented in conjunction with the UC Berkeley course History of Documentary Film, taught by Jeffrey Skoller during the spring semester. The series begins with a screening of PFA’s recent preservation of the legendary cinema verité-style fiction film David Holzman’s Diary. We also present three programs of animated documentaries: The Green Wave, which uses animation and a range of new technologies to document the 2009 Iranian "Green Revolution"; Kongo, which combines animation and historical footage to trace the history of Congo; and a program of documentary animation shorts. These latter works commemorate the publication of Animation: An Interdisciplinary Journal, guest edited by Jeffrey Skoller, who will introduce two of the programs. The special issue Making it (Un)real: Contemporary Theories and Practices in Documentary Animation features essays and reflections by a range of contemporary scholars and filmmakers on, in Skoller’s words, “this hybrid form that mixes fact and fiction, analysis and speculation, and the high seriousness of documentary nonfiction with the playfulness of animation.” It features articles by Karen Beckman, Steve Fore, Annabelle Honness-Roe, Laura U. Marks, and Tess Takahashi and artworks by filmmakers including Lewis Klahr, Abraham Ravett, and Jacqueline Goss. This series continues in March and April with more programs that explore new directions in documentary film.
Theater Admission Prices
Single Feature
$5.50 BAM/PFA Members, UC Berkeley Students
$9.50 Adults (18-64)
$6.50 UC Berkeley faculty, staff, and retirees
Non-UC Berkeley students
Senior citizens (65 & over)
Disabled persons
Youth (17 & under
Additional Feature $4.00 All Patrons
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