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Filmmakers and Special Guest Speakers accompany four films in February, continuing Cinema Arts Centre’s 30th Anniversary year-long celebration. The series explores themysterious human urge to create. Whether it’s Mozart or the cave people who decorated their tools and painted their history on cave walls- it’s the same driven need that coursed through their lives. Art is defined here as an intensely dedicated commitment to making or creating (e.g.) a novel, a painting, a sculpture, a garden or a film: it is a commitment to personal expression. When, how and why did making art become a self-conscious endeavor, and later a profession with its product a commodity; from being a purely personal exercise of daily life to become a self-conscious part of what we now name The Arts?

LOST IN LA MANCHA explores how in filmmaking there is a meeting of creativity and technology –the use of light passing through lenses that is planted on film & video, capturing the images. Terry Gilliam’s dream was to create a film version of Cervantes’s revered 1605 novel Don Quixote, starring Jean Rochefort and Johnny Depp. In what may be the first ‘un-making of’ documentary, directed by Keith Fulton & Louis Pepe, Gilliam’s remarkable creative juices crash up against the irascible elements Nature, Money and Human Nature.

CHIHWASEON (Painted Fire) a drama about legendary 19th Century Korean Brush Painter JANG Seung-ub shows how historic events and culture intersect in a poor, orphaned Korean boy with an innate gift for drawing and painting. Master Filmmaker IM Kwon-taek won the Cannes Film Festival Best Director of 2002.

In 1993, avid reader Mark Moskowitz rediscovered a 1972 novel: at age 19, Dow Mossman’s The Stones of Summer, a first-time, 541-page novel was written, published and well -reviewed in The Sunday NYTimes Book Review. Then the novel and its creator disappeared. In this suspenseful documentary STONE READER, the stunned Moskowitz set out to find Dow Mossman. Was he dead or alive? Had he written more? How could such an outpouring of talent disappear? The director’s five-year journey takes us into the art of writing, the business of publishing and the high demands of creativity.

In RIVERS AND TIDES, Andy Goldsworthy’s art-making is literally rooted in, and an expression of, Nature: he creates with ice, driftwood, leaves, stone, dirt, and snow in open fields, beaches, rivers, creeks and forest: some pieces last, some do not. He shapes an icicle, attaches it with his own spit to a rock, and then watches it melt in the warming morning sun.

He seeks to understand the energy that flows through him and through the natural landscape.

That rare film about an artist that is, in itself, a work of art, Director Thomas

Riedelsheimer’s film garnered the San Francisco International Film Festival Grand Prize.

RIVERS AND TIDES has been "the hottest ticket in town. The movie is breathtaking!"

(SF Chronicle) Hugely popular with audiences, it has been playing 2 theaters in California for well over 6 months!

CREATIVITY: The Eternal Mystery

SCHEDULE of Films and Special Programs

Friday, February 7

LOST IN LA MANCHA opens

In Person: at 7pm screening, Q&A and reception with David Sterritt, Co-Editor, forthcoming Terry Gilliam: Interviews; long-time Film Critic of The Christian Science Monitor; Professor of Film at C.W. Post and Columbia University; 2000-1 Chairman NY Film Critics Circle; frequent media appearances CNN, Fox, NPR; Author books on Jean-Luc Godard and the Beats.

Revealing documentary about filmmaker Terry Gilliam and the un-making of Don Quixote, starring Jean Rochefort and Johnny Depp explores the inherent fragility of the creative process. Directed by Keith Fulton & Louis Pepe

Friday, February 14

CHIHWASEON (PAINTED FIRE) opens

In Person: at 7pm screening, Q&A and reception with Changboh Chee, Founder-Director The L.I.U. Korea Center at C.W. Post; Asian Studies and Arts Scholar, taught at C.W. Post, Duke and Drew Universities; active in Korean Affairs

Drama about legendary 19th Century Korean Brush Painter JANG Seung-ub

Best Director Cannes Film Festival ’02 - IM Kwon Taek

Friday, February 21

STONE READER opens

In Person: at 7pm screening, Q&A and reception with Director/Producer Mark Moskowitz, award-winning creator of political media, this first feature won

Audience and Special Grand Jury (top prize) ’02 Slamdance Festival.

Suspenseful documentary about the demands of creativity causing the disappearance of the virtually forgotten author of an acclaimed 1972 novel

Friday, February 28

RIVERS & TIDES opens

Saturday, March 1

In Person: at 7pm screening, Q&A with Peter Klove, former assistant to Andy Goldsworthy, and Karen Klove, Film Professor Champlain College, Burlington Vermont.

Award-winning documentary captures the ephemeral environmental sculptures of internationally- reknowned Scottish artist Andy Goldsworthy made on location.