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Thursday, May 8 @ 7:30pm • Bomb It!
Friday, May 9 @ 7:30pm • Bomb It!
Saturday, May 10 @ 7:30pm • Bomb It!
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Wilmington, NC 28401
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Bomb It

Thursday, May 8 @ 7:30pm
Friday, May 9 @ 7:30pm
Saturday, May 10 @ 7:30pm
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Tickets $5, Members Free

BOMB IT is the explosive new documentary from award-winning director Jon Reiss. It investigates the most subversive and controversial art form currently shaping international youth culture: graffiti.

While some believe the roots of graffiti can be traced back to pre-linguistic cave markings and the innate human need for self-expression, graffiti remains a highly controversial issue. Graffiti raises important questions that delve deep into our contemporary social structure such as: Who has the right to express themselves? What is a canvas? Where should art take place? If public space is a forum for discussion, which voices will be heard?

Using a myriad of original interviews from around the world as well as guerilla footage of graffiti writers in action, BOMB IT tells the story of contemporary graffiti from its roots in ancient rock paintings through Picasso to Latino placas through its notorious emergence as a visual adjunct to the rise of hip hop culture in 1970's New York City culminating in its current, varied and highly complex form.

BOMB IT is the most comprehensive documentary about graffiti and street art to date and for years to come.

In 2006 we are as likely to encounter graffiti-influenced art in the Smithsonian as we are on an urban bus ride. How did this radical street art evolve into the ultimate signifier of urban cool?

BOMB IT explores how graffiti has developed worldwide to encompass stenciling, postering, and any unsanctioned graphic "interference in public space.

The controversy surrounding graffiti is an integral part of the story: from anti-tagging groups, to the impact of New York City's infamous "Quality of Life" laws which directly targeted illicit writing, to the proliferation of these laws throughout the world.

BOMB IT also shows how graffiti writers vary in their attitudes to gallery pieces, commissioned work and the effect "sanctioned' writing has on the roots of the art in guerilla tactics and its essentially subversive nature.

BOMB IT is the first film to update the story of graffiti with a truly global perspective. The film features original footage with artists around the world who have taken the form and applied it to their particular cultural and social conditions, from Latin America, where graffiti has been adapted into the mural tradition, to Japan where anime inspired rakugaki juxtaposes with formal calligraphy and conformist societal norms, to Europe where a dadaist/surrealist tradition produces deliberately confrontational prankstering.

Graffiti's inherently kinetic visual style will be brought to life via state of the art animation by young, up-and-coming motion graphic artists. The synergistic relationship between graffiti and hip hop and punk rock provides BOMB IT an unprecedented opportunity for creative collaboration between the filmmakers, the graffiti writers and cutting-edge musicians and poets.

BOMB IT pushes the envelope of traditional documentaries into a truly multi-media non-fiction experience.

Graffiti, postering, stenciling and stickering form a fascinating and radical movement that defies definition except as a voice demanding to be heard. Literally born out of urban blight, graffiti's tough mimetic code consistently defies the forces that try to stop it and thrives today in varied and artistically evolved forms. BOMB IT explores how graffiti writers are expanding into the highest levels of technology including the web, cell phones, and laser projections.

2008 Oscar Winner for Best Documentary:
"Taxi to the Dark Side"

Screening at Jengo's Playhouse
Thursday, April 24 @ 7:30pm • BUY TICKETS NOW!
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Oscar nominated TAXI TO THE DARK SIDE, the latest documentary from now two-time Oscar-nominee Alex Gibney, confirms his standing as one of the foremost non-fiction filmmakers working today. A stunning inquiry into the suspicious death of an Afghani taxi driver at Bagram air base in 2002, the film is a fastidiously assembled, uncommonly well-researched examination of how an innocent civilian was apprehended, imprisoned, tortured, and ultimately murdered by the greatest democracy on earth. Intermingling documents and records of the incident with candid testimony from eyewitnesses and participants, the film uncovers an inescapable link between the tragic incidents that unfolded in Bagram and the policies made at the very highest level of the United States government in Washington, D.C. Combining the cool detachment of a forensic expert with the heated indignation of a proud American who holds his country to a high standard, Gibney’s film reveals how the Bush administration has systematically betrayed the very ideals it professes to uphold.

Local Focus:
Short Films By
Brennan Scott and Tyler Hickman

Screening at Jengo's Playhouse
Thursday, April 17 @ 7:30pm
Friday, April 18 @ 7:30pm
Saturday, April 19 @ 7:30pm
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Brennan Scott and Tyler Hickman (22) are two filmmakers that attend Cape Fear Community College in Wilmington, NC. Both directors share common influences such as Sam Raimi, Tony Scott, Dario Argento, and David Fincher. In 2007, both filmmakers, under the productions Vacant Sky Productions/Republic Films, directed 6 short films ranging from comedy to drama to horror. Each short is also complete with original music composed by the two directors themselves. Of the 6 films made, 5 have succeeded in being selections into many national and worldwide film festivals. With each improved project, the two filmmakers plan to eventually get enough money and support to make their first feature film.
Brennan’s short films started early in 2007 with Phone Calls; a mystery/suspense/thriller that involves a young woman getting harassed by a mysterious caller. In The Studio With: Burrito De Manana is a mockumentary about a Latin influenced rock group trying to make their new record, in the vein of Spinal Tap. House of Echoes is a J-horror influenced horror film where a young man is being stalked by a vengeful ghost. Tyler Hickman’s shorts started with Slipping Away, a drama/thriller where for a young man, life is slipping away. The Big Come Down is an action/drama where a man must fight to find the woman he loves, at all cost. In Complication, the latest short, a man is stuck in an elevator with a psychopath and he finds there is only one way out.

YWCA Racial Justice Film Series presents:

NO! The Rape Documentary
Friday, April 11 @ 7:30pm
Saturday, April 12 @ 7:30pm
Tickets $5, Members free

www.notherapedocumentary.com

One out of three women in the United States will be sexually assaulted in their lifetime.

Produced and Directed over a period of eleven years, seven of which were full time, by Aishah Shahidah Simmons, an incest and rape survivor, this groundbreaking feature length documentary features riveting testimonials from Black women survivors who defy victimization.

Violence prevention advocates, theologians, sociologists, historians, anthropologists, and other leading scholars and human rights activists provide an interdisciplinary context with which to examine sexual violence in African-American communities.

Impacting archival footage, spirited music, transformational dance, and performances from award-winning poets take viewers on a journey from enslavement of African people in the United States through present day.

Winner of an audience choice award and a juried award at the San Diego Women Film Festival, NO! also explores how rape is used as a weapon of homophobia. Since its official release in 2006, NO! has been screened and distributed to racially and ethnically diverse audiences at film festivals, community centers, colleges/universities, high schools, correctional facilities, rape crisis centers, battered women’s shelters, and conferences throughout the United States, in Italy, Spain, France, Rwanda, Kenya, Nepal, South Africa, Hungary, Jordan, Burkina Faso, Peru, Mexico, and Brazil.

The Favor
Director: Eva Aridjis
110 minutes / usa / color

Thursday, April 3 @ 7:30pm • Buy Tickets
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An unmarried photographer living in New Jersey receives a phone call from a woman who broke his heart 25 years ago. A week later, he has loved her and lost her all over again, and her troubled teenage son is living with him. THE FAVOR is an intimate family drama that explores the fabric of human relationships and what we will do for the ones we love. Variety calls it a "gently wrought tearjerker" with strong performances by Tony Award Winning actor Frank Wood and newcomer Ryan Donowho.

Redacted
Directed by: Brian De Palma

Screening at Jengo's Playhouse, 815 Princess Street
Thursday, February 28 @ 7:30pm BUY TICKETS!
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$5 tickets, Cucalorus Members free

This film is a montage of stories about U.S. soldiers fighting the war in Iraq and how the conflict is covered by the media. Based on true stories, this narrative is told using source materials such as news clips, YouTube confessions, and testimonials.

Based around a small group of soldiers at a checkpoint in Iraq, De Palma constantly switches points of view from the truth as the men see it to the truth as the media portrays it.

The audience will likely question the filters through which we receive information and ask if truth really is the first casualty of war.

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Oscar-Nominated Shorts Weekend and Oscar Party

Screening will be at Jengo's Playhouse, 815 Princess Street

Animated - Thursday, February 21 @ 7:00pm BUY TICKETS!
Live-Action - Thursday, February 21 @ 9:00pm BUY TICKETS!

Animated - Friday, February 22 @ 7:00pm BUY TICKETS!
Live-Action - Friday, February 22 @ 9:00pm BUY TICKETS!

Animated - Saturday, February 23 @ 7:00pm BUY TICKETS!
Live-Action - Saturday, February 23 @ 9:00pm BUY TICKETS!

JOIN THE PARTY!
Sunday, February 24 @ 7:00pm BUY TICKETS!

$5 tickets, Cucalorus Members free


Best Short Film, Animated

Même les Pigeons Vont au Paradis (Even Pidgeons Go To Heaven): Samuel Tourneux, Vanesse Simon
A priest tries to sell an old man a machine that he promises will transport him to heaven.

I Met the Walrus: Josh Raskin
In 1969, fourteen-year-old Jerry Levitan snuck into John Lennon's hotel room with his tape recorder and persuaded him to do an interview.

Madame Tutli-Putli: Chris Lavis, Maciek Szczerbowski
A timid woman boards a mysterious night train and has a series of frightening experiences.

Moya Lyubov (My Love): Aleksandr Petrov
In nineteenth-century Russia, a teenage boy in search of love is drawn to two very different women.

Peter & the Wolf: Suzie Templeton, Hugh Welchman
A young boy and his animal friends face a hungry wolf in Prokofiev's classic musical piece.


Best Short Film, Live Action

Om Natten (One Night): Christian E. Christiansen, Louise Vesth
Three young women share their problems while spending the holidays in a hospital cancer ward.

Supplente, Il (The Substitute): Andera Jublin
The arrival of an unusual newcomer galvanizes the students in a high school classroom.

Mozart des Pickpockets, Le (The Mozart of Pickpockets): Philippe Pollet-Villard
A pair of unlucky thieves find their fortunes have changed when they take in a deaf homeless boy.

Tanghi Argentini: Guy Thys, Anja Daelemans
A man who must learn to dance the tango in two weeks asks an office colleague for help.

The Tonto Woman: Daniel Barber, Matthew Brown
A cattle rustler meets a woman who is living in isolation after being held prisoner for eleven years by the Mojave Indians.

YWCA's Race Relations Film Series presents:

The Wiz
Directed by: Sidney Lumet

Screening at Jengo's Playhouse, 815 Princess Street
Thursday, February 14 @ 7:30pm BUY TICKETS!
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Starring Diana Ross, Michael Jackson, and Richard Pryor, this musical re-imagining of the Wizard of Oz is coming to Jengo's! In this version, Dorothy (Ross) is a 24 year old school teacher in Harlem, who awakens after a snowstorm in the land of Oz - a surreal version of New York City.

The scarecrow is made of garbage, the tin man is a mechanical carnie from Coney Island, and the lion works as a living statue in front of the public library.

Originally released in 1978 to commercial failure, the film has remained a favorite to many and has risen to cult classic status.