MARCH SCREENINGS

To meet his favorite director David Lynch, aspiring filmmaker
David Sieveking flies to the United States to hear Lynch speak about
his passion for Transcendental Meditation. Sieveking is granted an
interview with Lynch, who encourages him to try TM.  DAVID WANTS TO FLY follows David, and David, in the filmmaker’s journey to understand TM, yogic flying, and to find inner peace.

The film will be followed by a Skype Q&A with the filmmaker,
and an in-person discussion with Judith Bourque, holistic therapist,
filmmaker, author and former lover of the Maharishi Mahesh.

MASSART FILM SOCIETY
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 16 8pm at Massart
Co-respondents Recent work by Lori Felker & Robert Todd (70 minutes, 1 HD video, the rest on 16mm)
http://massartfilmsociety.blogspot.com/

LEF Grantee Robert Todd and fellow artist Lori Felker are showing a
correspondence of works at Massart Film Society, “To Co-respond, or
“respond” together, implies a match, which is (used) to light a flame
or, in other words: to create light together, or to make light, to
lighten, or to illuminate while at the same time unburdening…”

COOLIDGE CORNER THEATRE
THURSDAY, MARCH 24 at 7pm *SPECIAL SCREENING*
 ORGASM INC., Directed by LEF grantee Liz Canner
http://coolidge.org/content/orgasm-inc#special_screening

A post-film discussion with filmmaker Liz Canner, Paula Doress-Worters, one of the original co-authors of Our Bodies, Ourselves and co-author of Our Bodies, Ourselves for the New Century and The New Ourselves, Growing Older,
Harvard Medical School professor Susan Bennett, MD, and Kim Airs, sex
educator and founder of Grand Opening! sexuality boutique. Bennett and
Airs both appear in the film.
NYT review

MIT List Visual Arts Center
THURSDAY, MARCH 31 at 7pm
Stan VanDerBeek: The Culture Intercom: Film Night
http://listart.mit.edu/calendar/date/March-31-2011

Stan VanDerBeek’s film work is now regarded as one of the most
significant contributions to American underground film. Influenced by
Surrealism and Dada, the Beat Generation, and the cinema of Georges
Méliès and Buster Keaton, VanDerBeek’s earliest films utilized
stop-motion animation skills he developed while working on the CBS
children’s television program, Winky Dink and You. Combining innovative animation techniques with filmed sequences and found footage, award-winning films such as A La Mode (1958), Science Friction, (1959), and Breathdeath
(1963), fused experimental film with social critique and anti-war
imagery. VanDerBeek incorporated animated collages, live action, found
footage, and stop-motion in his widely imaginative films throughout the
’60s.