Bright Lights
Events on Tuesday, October 23, 2012
Bright Lights: Raw Material with Director Hristos Karakepelis
10/23/12
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Paramount Center
Bright Family Screening RoomVast steelworks' dreams of dirt-cheap scrap, Greece's environmental obligations and the Western dream of an army of illegal immigrants meet in a string of shanty towns in the shadow of the Acropolis. Which are trodden underfoot? Three Roma from Albania, two Indians, a Turk and a Greek: a mere sample of the endless army of desperados who recycle the metal of an entire nation; heroes of "Raw Material" and raw material themselves. Nightmarishly, from the dustbins of Athens to the toxic junkyards of downtown Athens and from the foundry furnaces to Lebanon's bombed-out Nachr-Al-Baret refugee camp, the metal they collect becomes the foundations of the insane world in which they-and we-live. Raw Material charts the course of this band of hunter-gatherers in today's Europe. It confronts the smell of an annoying but exploitable savagery. It documents toil in the burning... co-sponsored by the Institute for Liberal Arts and Interdisciplinary studies
Sponsored by Department of Visual and Media Arts with Institute for Liberal Arts and Interdisciplinary Studies, Writing Literature and Publishing
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