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Cosford Screening: La Boheme

Mar
18
12:00 pm
Mar
20
7:00 pm

One of Puccini’s most beloved operas, La Boheme follows four young friends in the Latin Quarter of Paris in 1830. Colline, the philosopher; Schaunard, the musician; Marcello, the painter; and Rodolfo, the journalist, struggle to live and celebrate life against the background of industrialization, the supremacy of bourgeois values, and an intellectual climate dominated by secular materialism. The film screens Sunday, March 18 at 12 p.m. and Tuesday, March 20 at 7 p.m. Admission is $18 for seniors, University of Miami alumni, faculty, non-UM students, and staff. General admission is $22. Free for UM students. To purchase tickets online or for more information, visit www.cosfodcinema.com or call 305-284-4861.

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Cosford Screening: The Rescuers: Heroes of the Holocaust

Mar
16
9:15 pm
Mar
17
2:00 pm
Mar
17
6:30 pm
Mar
18
6:00 pm

The Rescuers, the latest film from Emmy Award-winning filmmaker Michael King, uncovers the largely unknown stories of 13 heroic and courageous diplomats who, at tremendous personal cost, saved tens of thousands of Jews during World War II. The film follows Sir Martin Gilbert, a renowned historian of the 20th century and the Holocaust, and Stephanie Nyombayire, a young Rwandan anti-genocide activist who lost 100 members of her family in the Rwandan genocide of the 1990s, as they travel across 15 countries and three continents interviewing the survivors and descendants of the diplomats. Nyombayire and Gilbert explore and contemplate the past in a quest, in part, to understand what should be done to stop the ongoing genocide in Darfur and elsewhere.

The film screens Friday, March 16 at 9:15 p.m.; Saturday, March 17 at 2 p.m. and 6:30 p.m.; and Sunday, March 18 at 6 p.m. Admission is $7 for seniors, University of Miami alumni, faculty, non-UM students, and staff. General admission is $9. Free for UM students. To purchase tickets online or for more information, visit www.cosfordcinema.com or call 305-284-4861.

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Cosford Screening: La Rafle (The Roundup)

In picturesque Montmarte, three children wearing a yellow star play in the streets, oblivious to the darkness spreading over Nazi-occupied France as Hitler demands that the French government round up its Jews and put them on trains bound for extermination camps in the East. Within a short time, 13,000 of Paris’s Jews, among them 4,000 children, will be rounded up and sent on a road with no return.

With a meticulously constructed script based on extensive research and firsthand accounts, writer/director Rose Bosch brings to the screen one of the most moving dramas of the year. Powered by a string of stars, from Jean Reno (The Da Vinci Code, Leon: The Professional) to Mélanie Laurent (Inglourious Basterds, The Concert), La Rafle (The Roundup) became a box-office hit in France in the first half of 2010.

In French with English subtitles, the film screens Friday, March 16 at 7 p.m.; Saturday, March 17 at 4 p.m. and 8:30 p.m.; and Sunday, March 18 at 3:30 p.m. and 8 p.m. Admission is $7 for seniors, University of Miami alumni, faculty, non-UM students, and staff. General admission is $9. Free for UM students. To purchase tickets online or for more information, visit www.cosfordcinema.com or call 305-284-4861.

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Cosford Screening: La Rafle (The Roundup)

Mar
16
7:00 pm
Mar
17
4:00 pm
Mar
17
8:30 pm
Mar
18
3:30 pm
Mar
18
8:00 pm

In picturesque Montmarte, three children wearing a yellow star play in the streets, oblivious to the darkness spreading over Nazi-occupied France as Hitler demands that the French government round up its Jews and put them on trains bound for extermination camps in the East. Within a short time, 13,000 of Paris’s Jews, among them 4,000 children, will be rounded up and sent on a road with no return.

With a meticulously constructed script based on extensive research and firsthand accounts, writer/director Rose Bosch brings to the screen one of the most moving dramas of the year. Powered by a string of stars, from Jean Reno (The Da Vinci Code, Leon: The Professional) to Mélanie Laurent (Inglourious Basterds, The Concert), La Rafle (The Roundup) became a box-office hit in France in the first half of 2010.

In French with English subtitles, the film screens Friday, March 16 at 7 p.m.; Saturday, March 17 at 4 p.m. and 8:30 p.m.; and Sunday, March 18 at 3:30 p.m. and 8 p.m. Admission is $7 for seniors, University of Miami alumni, faculty, non-UM students, and staff. General admission is $9. Free for UM students. To purchase tickets online or for more information, visit www.cosfordcinema.com or call 305-284-4861.

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‘Borrowed People | Constructed Places’ on View at UM Wynwood Project Space

MarMar
523
Mar
10
2:00 pm

Borrowed People | Constructed Places, on view through March 23 at the UM Wynwood Project Space, explores the creation of identity through the use of appropriated familial and found imagery. Anne Leighton Massoni, Libby Rowe, and Kris Sanford each create new stories from found photographs, taking something discarded and nearly lost and creating story anew. Rooted in photographic processes, their work takes form in both 2D and 3D pieces.

With her Holding series, Anne Leighton Massoni utilizes created images and found photographs to present a place between truth and fiction. These contrasting images sit side by side with a thin line painted across their surface, drawing imagined connections. The artist combines photographs of empty spaces (once inhabited or currently inhabited, but with no one present) with found photographs of times that no longer exist (images that are empty of personal memory). Appropriated images are stripped of their tone and cropped, but nothing else in the image (scratches, imperfections, contrast, etc.) is disturbed, whereas the “space” images are adjusted as darkroom prints would be.

In (sub)Division, Libby Rowe seeks to create a societal identity through the exploration of the preconceived and perceived intimacy of “the neighborhood” in comparison to the reality of experience lived within planned communities. These fabricated neighborhoods are ideally fashioned to create community, but in practice separate residents with walls from the outside world of imagined security threats. Inside the walls, residents relate to their neighbors through a series of well-manicured facades. While in reality they are further separated by fences erected for privacy and streets arranged in rat-like mazes that end in cul-de-sacs, made to create intimacy between those families who are part of the sacred circles. (sub)Division is an installation of found imagery built into three-dimensional house structures arranged in a double-ended cul-de-sac.

In Kris Sanford’s Between the Lines, a 1954 diary from a grandfather she never met serves as the inspiration and background for many of the photographs. The figures that emerge from the pages, taken from found photographs, represent the memories contained in the text. The photographs and diaries are personal and detailed, yet hopelessly incomplete at telling the whole story. Shallow focus reveals small details while obscuring the larger story. The individuals pictured serve as characters in a search to uncover lost stories of life, family, and love.

Artist bios:

Anne Leighton Massoni is a specialist professor of photography at Monmouth University in New Jersey. She holds a M.F.A. in photography from Ohio University and a B.A. in photography and anthropology from Connecticut College. Her work relates to both real and fabricated memories.

Libby Rowe holds an M.F.A. from Syracuse University and a B.F.A. from the University of Northern Iowa. Her work addresses issues of identity and belonging. Rowe is an assistant professor and the head of photography at University of Texas, San Antonio.

Originally from southeast Michigan, Kris Sanford lives in Mt. Pleasant, Michigan. She received her M.F.A. in photography from Arizona State University in 2005. Sanford has exhibited work nationally and received a Contemporary Forum Artist Grant from the Phoenix Art Museum in 2010. She is a lecturer at Central Michigan University.

 

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