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911 Media Arts Center is Washington's only non-profit media center
supporting film, video and multimedia artists with new technology tools,
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Flava' Fest
(Check out the Flava'ful schedule!)
Thurs-Sun, February 20-23
varies
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My Father The Immigrant Tuesday, February 25th, 8pm $4 / $3 (911 members)
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 PaPaPaPa by Alex Rivera |
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PaPaPaPa by Alex Rivera A modern day Inca reaches into his past by reaching into a bag of potato chips. After watching too much Spanish language television, Alex Rivera's father is transported to "Virtual Lima," a simulated homeland free of imperfect chips. Alex's highly personal work links the importance of junk food and family in a humorous, contemporary short.
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"One of the best of the underground films currently making the festival circuit." - Amy Taubin, Village Voice
Personal Belongings debuted at the 1996 Sundance Film Festival
Bognar's work chronicles the profound displacement of Steven's immigrant dad, Bela Bognar. The film is a home movie gone awry, a funny and painful backyard epic about tumultuous change in one family's life.
In 1956, young Bela Bognar took up a rifle against Soviet tanks in his hometown Budapest. He fought alongside thousands of other women and men. But their revolt failed. With no time to spare, Bela fled Hungary, walking across the border with only the things he could carry.
Decades later, Bela finds himself a middle class American, married, with two kids, a ranch home and an increasing sense he made the wrong decision. Unflinchingly told by his confused, concerned son, Bela's story is at once humorous, heartbreaking and all too relevant to the present changes in Eastern Europe.
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