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Saturday, February 18 at 8pmExplorations In Music Series

Laetitia Sonami"Composer Laetitia Sonami's WhatHappened 11 was. . .the crowning moment of the opening events . Ahighly dramatic, innovative piece using a text by Melody Sumner Carnahan, . . .Sonami's piece is a

masterly musical statement using new technical resources, something fresh, engaging andunexpected ." -P Form 32

"Sonami is sultry ar~d magical . . .a striking talent . . . .Her combination of French accent, Californiatechnology, and Tibetan perspective is darkly American . . . .expect something inexplicable, compelling

and deeply personal ." -Village Voice

The Pleasures of Perception :Aspects of Art History, Circa 1300 to 1900An 8-part lecture series by Jan F . Adlmann~5 Single Lecture/CCA Members $4

An understanding of the historicaland aesthetic progression of Westernart is essential to understandingcontemporary Western art today .This series, illustrated throughout, isdedicated to surveying keymonuments, personalities and eventsin the history of Western art, from theEarly Renaissance to the edge of ourtime . Jan E. Adlmann is a curator, arthistorian, and art journalist . Mostrecently he was the AssistantDirector for Special Programs at theSolomon R. Guggenheim Museum inNew York . He has studied andworked in both Vienna and Berlin inaddition to his work in the UnitedStates . Adlmann has taught arthistory at many universities in theU .S ., including the University ofColorado and Hamilton College .Currently he is establishing an arthistory visual resources collection forthe College of Santa Fe, and writingfor local and national artspublications . This lecture series isco-sponsored by the following

galleries: Horwitch-LewAllen, Linda Durham, Charlotte Jackson Fine Art, Allene LapidesGallery, Okun Gallery and The Platinum Gallery.

Mon, Jan 16 from > :30 to 6:30pmBrave New WorldThe genius of Giotto, the leap from the Middle Ages into the Renaissance.

Mon, Jan 30 from 5:30 to 6:30pm~'~ The Pinnacle of Perfection

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The Hlgh Renaissance: Raphael, Michelangelo, Leonardo and Titian .

I anon, t'et~ ~from >:3(yto (~:36pmDetails and DemonsThe Northern Renaissance and the Northern sensibility.

Mon. Feb 20 from >:30 to 6 :30pmGlorious ExcessPolitics, religion, pride and passion in the Baroque era.

March/April Lectures

Dates and times to be announced

Some Santa Fe AffinitiesLocal artists in the context of art history

Pleasure and PrivilegeThe Rococco and the good life in the 18th century .

The Discovery of PompeiiThe Classical Revival.

The Earthly ParadiseArt of the European 19th century .

Jan 20 through Feb 24Opening Reception Friday, January 20 from 5 to 7pmSteina Vasulka Video/Audio InstallationsSteina Vasulka, oneof the pioneers ofvideo as an artform, has continuedto be a seminalforce in thedevelopment of theelectronic arts . Herwork has beene x h i b i t e dextensively in theUnited States,Europe and Japan,including at theCentre CacrgesPompidou In Paris,the Whitney Mus-eum of American Artin New York andnumerous othergalleries andmuseums. Steina'sinstallation at CCAwill feature herrecent work Pyro-glyphs, a three-channel video/audioinstallation in whichsix screens arearranged semi- ran-domly in a room .The viewer is invitedto walk up to thescreens and aroundthem as the imagesshow on both sides . Last year Steina spent long hours with Santa Fe blacksmith Tom Joycevideo taping the process of building an iron gate . "I found iron gates a little too concrete, so Iclosed in on' images of torches, files and anvils - the rapid flicker of flames ." Those images, andthe sounds of Joyce's work, in turn inspired him to torch wood, paper and metal specifically forthe camera. The processed sounds became a guide for arranging the work into a composition .The images are often slowed down, backwards or upside down . The initial inspiration forPyroglyphs was the ancient art of blacksmithing, but soon became a musical treatise ofhammering and welding, blowtorches and metal saws . Other pieces included in this installationare Switch! Monitor! Drift!, Borealis, and Matrix.

Stills from Pyroglyphs

Mon. Jan 23 at 7:30pm

S3 Suggested DonationNew Mexico Film & Video Makers' ForumAn evening of work by Santa Fe filmmaker Linda Klosky featuring the premiere of Klosky'srecently finished film Moon Log: Rises and Sets 6/1/92 - 12/23/92, Seven Cycles . MoonLog is a double-screen projection of each day's moon rise and set shot over a period of sevenlunar cycles from a remote location outside Santa Fe . The film is a rich, multi-layered tapestryof constant change : the moon's phases, the atmospheric conditions, the time of day of riseand set, the moon's location along the horizon, and the seasonal changes. By condensing theexpansive temporal phenomenon of the lunar cycles into a 37 minute experience, the lunarpatterns emerge more clearly out of this sea of constant change . Also included on the programis Bosque del Apache, a meditation on the movement of birds that reads like an impressionistpainting as it captures stunning patterns of thousands of birds in flight .

January/February events continued on other side

January/February `95

Special EventsMovie NightsBand RehearsalSpace

Friday Music/DanceNights

Films at CCA'i oath Advisory

CommitteeArt Exhibition, opening

Jan 13

, .Laetitia Sonami andher electronic lady's glove

with gestural controllers .Photo: gndreHouezema

Sat, Feb 18 at 8pm

Explorations In Music SeriesLaetitia Sonami

$~/CCA Members $8Laetitia Sonami produces music unlike anythingyou've ever heard, using an instrument unlike anyyou've ever seen . Her work combines text, music and"found sound" from the world in compositions that arebest described as "performance novels" . In order tocreate a strong emotional resonance and escape theformalistic confines of much experimental music,Sonami makes exquisite choices in crafting theinteraction between her sound elements and the waythey tell the story . She performs this work using thehighest tech glove you can imagine-one equippedwith motion, pressure and spatial sensors -whichenables her to literally shape the music as hermovements control a bank of digital samplers andsynthesizers. Sonami's performance becomes a smalldance, where the motions of her fingers, wrist andhand become the music being played, as she speaksthe text. "I have long been influenced by the handlanguage of East Indian singers when they perform,as well as by the expressive aspects of signing usedby the deaf," says Sonami . In her concert at CCASonami will perform What Happened 11, with text bySanta Fe-based writer Sumner Carnahan ; and . . .AndTheyKept Coming Back for More, an abstract musicalrecollection of habitual patterns and abstractattachments . Come take a glimpse into one alternatefuture of contemporary music.

Free WorkshopsPhotographyPublicationGuitarSilkscreenTheaterRadioSupport Groups

Teen project staff

Photo: Andre Houezema

Fri & Sat, Mar 24 & 25 at 8pm

Performance ArtCampfire Diary by Roger Shimomura

$9/CCA Members $8Campfire Diaryrevolves around thediary entries RogerS h i m o m u r a ' sgrandmother wrotewhile interned in one ofthe American concen-tration camps Japan-pco Amorinanc worarelocated to duringWorld War II . CampfireDiary focuses on thesense of pain and lossexperienced by theinternees. The piece isrichly layered, with themeanings of individualevents arising from theinteractions of the

multimedia elements within the piece. Acting as the bearer of cultural memory, Shimomura revealsand indicts racist attitudes with great restraint, trying to go beyond accusation into healing . "Thestrong design of (Campfire Diary) and its precise execution override the story in places, withinteresting effects - they preclude any overt moralizing, they chill irony into sarcasm, and theylend a not unwelcome detachment to the handling of emotionally loaded issues, just as analyzing anightmare gets you past its cold-sweat terror." -The Spokane Spokesman-Review.

Sat, Mar 31 at 8pm at CCA

Explorations in Music SeriesFred Ho's Afro-Asian TrioFred Ho on baritone saxophone, Sam Furnace on alto saxophone and Royal Hartigan onpercussion . Fred Ho and his ensemble are considered by many to be the keepers of the be-bopera Jazz flame. They are not known for their classic renditions of classic jazz, but for beingvisionary musicians working out on the edges of the form . Ho describes his work as "new Americanmulticultural music," combining folk musical elements from China, Japan, the Philippines and theNear East in a contemporary African American jazz context. Come hear music that swings fiercelyand is passionate, soulful, and visionary in its embrace of a multicultural 21st century America."The range of musical directions Ho and company use and their smoothness, sincerity andundisputed talent make them a live event that should not be missed . . . Fred Ho and the Afro-AsianMusic Ensemble offer live jazz as it has not been seen in 30 years." -EAR Magazine.

CCA Warehouse/Teen Project

HAPPY NEw YEAR!

Presentations are available on Warehouse programs and the Rainbow Project (acreative intervention program) for groups and schools.COMING SOON! Conference of the Birds written by Peter Brook and performed by

the Theater of Urgency!!! Coming March 95!For more information, call the CCAWarehouse at 989-4423 . The CCA Warehouse

is located at 1614 Paseo de Peralta .

Unless otherwise noted, all programs are at the Center for Contemporary Arts, 291East Barcelona Road in Santa Fe, 982-1338 .

Tickets for performing arts events may be purchased by phone with a Mastercardor Visa, in advance at CCA and at the door. Tickets for films go on sale 1/2 hourbefore showtime. Gallery Hours: Monday through Friday, 10am to 5pm; Saturday12 to 4pm.

If you are handicapped or have special needs and would like to attend CCA'sevents, please contact us so that we may accommodate you.

January/February events are made possible in part by funds from the NationalEndowment for the Arts, New Mexico Arts Division, The John D. and Catherine T.MacArthur Foundation, Pinewood Foundation, Culpepper Foundation, Frost Foundation,McCune Foundation, Nathan Cummings Foundation, City of Santa Fe Human Services,City of Santa Fe Children & Youth Services, Santa Fe Community Foundation, and theWindfall Foundation . Special thanks to Smallwood, Inc., Catellus Corporation and TheCandyman .

CCA is partially funded by the 1% lodgers tax and the City of Santa Fe Arts Commission.

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Sun, Dec 25 through Thur, Jan 5The Last Seduction(USA, 1994) Directed by John Dahl. Director Dahlfollows up his highly praised Red Rock West withanother witty and suspenseful modern film noire .Linda Fiorentino gives the year's most chillingperformance as Bridget Gregory, the mostcold-hearted and ruthless femme fatale to everexecute a double-cross . After persuading herhusband (Bill Pullman) to pull off a dangerousdrug deal, she takes off with the cash,abandoning him to face the brutal loan shark whobankrolled the scheme . At the advice of hersleazy lawyer, Bridget stops to rest in a smalltown to throw her husband off her trail .Meanwhile, hubby has hired a private investigatorto find his wife and the money. Rest assured this is only the beginning of Dahl's trademarkrollercoaster twists and turns . The script is full of fast, funny dialogue with a black, razor-honededge to its humor. 110 minutes .

(USA, 1994) Directed by Tom Noonan . WinnerGrand Jury Prize Sundance Film Festival .Everyone remembers their first date . On anordinary evening, a couple of urban professionalsendure the requisite nervousness and clumsyattempts at intimacy . What ensues is aprovocative series of personal revelations thatnot only make for an unusual date, but anevening they will never forget . What HappenedWas features two people (Karen Sillas and TomNoonan), one apartment and a single Fridaynight in this affecting and surprising examinationof amorous rituals in an age of dating anxiety.

Alternately appealing and disturbing, Noonan (who also wrote the script) manages theunimaginable - a "date movie" that goes for substance, not surface . 90 minutes .

Folldoric Visions and Fairy Tales :The Fantastical Cinema ofJuraj Jakubisko"Jakubisko is to Slovakia what Gabriel Garcia Marquez is to Latin America: It's unrepressed,unfettered soul that speaks the language of allegory and fantasy." - Deborah Young,International Film Guide.

"In Jakubisko's films the irrational, the miraculous and the fairy tale appear just as naturally asin life itself." -Federico Fellini .

Juraj Jakubisko is the most exciting and boldly imaginative filmmaker to emerge from Slovakia,indeed one of the most original in all of Europe . He rose to prominence as part ofthegeneration that spawned the Czechoslovak New Wave in 1960s Prague, along with suchCzech (as distinctive from Slovak) directors as Milos Forman, Vera Chytilova, Jiri Menzel andJan Nemec, After the Soviet invasion in 1968 Jakubisko was excluded from filmmaking, andhis features The Crucial Years (1967) and Birds, Orphans and Fools (1969) were banned until1990 . Jakubisko reemerged in the late seventies with some shorts and reclaimed his stature in1983 with The Millennial Bee, named "Best Czech Film of the Decade" by that country's critics .Virtually unknown in this country, his wildly inventive style is a delightful mix of the naturalisticand the poetic, the folkloric and the surreal . The result is an unusual kind of film poetics not farremoved from absurdity. This retrospective includes the banned films, a sampling of shorts,plus later yvorks heretofore unseen in this country, including the much beloved The FeatherFairy (1985), an ambitious reworking of the Brothers Grimm story starring Fellini's wife GiuliettaMasina (La Strada) as the fairy godmother . All prints are 35mm .

Fri, Jan 13 through Mon, Jan 16The Millenial Bee(1983) This masterpiece is a tremendousperiod epic that follows the residents of aSlovak mountain village over severaldecades from the 1890s through World Warf . Starring Jozef Kroner (The Shop on MainStreet) as Samo ("Bee"), the village's heroicbeekeeper-bricklayer, it's a greatcomic-dramatic family tale, a lyrical mix ofdream and reverie, a tart political satire, arich period re-creation and a movinganti-war statement . Indeed * Jakubiscoconveys the preciousness and fragility of lifeso powerfully in The Millenial Bee-through

-rhapsodic landscapes, slapstick funerals and two tragi-comic bricklaying odysseys - that warseems an obscenity. 145 minutes .

Tues & Wed, Jan 17 & 18Birds, Orphans, and Fools

Sitting Pretty On A Branch

Fri, Jan 6 through Thur, Jan 12What Happened Was. . .

The Feather FairyFri, Jan 13 through Mon . Jan 16

(1985) This is both a marvelous children sfantasy and an exuberant provincial romance.Guiletta Masina plays Mother Halle . the fairygodmother of winter_ It centers on a duel of anodand evil between sturdy little Masina and thecackling crone Death over the lives of MotherHolie's ward Jakob and the peasant girl - aSlovak Cinderella - with whom he falls in love .Full of soaring balloon flights, wild sled rides,revelry, magic and last minute rescues, TheFeather Fairy is a gourmet ice cream cake of amovie, wonderful for children, but perhaps morefully appreciated by their parents . 90 minutes .

(Czechoslovakia, 1969) In a bombed-out church, decorated with the detritus of life (oldfurniture, a bathtub, a tinny piano, bits of lace and lots of birds), two friends, Yorick and Ondrejlive apart from the world . They take in a young woman, Martha, a Jewish orphan . All three aredevoted to playing the fool as a measure of distance from the horrors they have alreadyabsorbed;they recreate a family and a home, a version of their coveted "white house' . This isnot a madman's Jules et Jim; it might have been set in any age, but a beautiful three-way love(not sex) scene sets it firmly in our own. "When soldiers invade your country and steal yourhouse and your language, if you build a house in your soul, you will be happy." 88 minutes

(1989) This recalls Jakubisko's great Czech New Wave years . It is actually a reworking ofBirds, Orphans and Madmen because he was convinced that film would never reach thescreen . Set in the chaotic aftermath of World War II, Sitting Pretty On A Branch follows thedarkly humorous adventures of Pepe, a circus performer released from a concentration camp,and Prengel, a returning soldier. After the two steal a bicycle stuffed with gold . they set upshop in an abandoned bakery, turning out loaves of bread in Stalin's likeness . One day a mute,pregnant young woman appears. The men vie for her affections and accept her new-borndaughter like doting fathers . Sharing similarities with its predecessor, Sitting Pretty recasts itsevents from a calmer, sadder and more compassionate perspective . Now we see the eventsas emblematic of the whole post-World War II era. Jakubisko s satiric jibes at the communistregime, for all their gentleness, gain a devastating bite . 108 minutes .

Thur, Jan 19The Crucial Years(1967) The Soviet invasion in 1968 was an enforced discouragement to the new wave ofCzechoslovakian filmmakers, and The Crucial Years - Jaku bsko's first feature film and thefirst internationally acclaimed Slovakian film - was not exempt . Banned only a year after itsrelease, The Crucial Years follows two brothers through `the years of Christ" - symbolicallythe period in life between boyhood and full manhood. Here an artist and his pilot brother try toassess their personal attainments and stature. but must re-assess when the married pilotbecomes attracted to a woman the artist begins seeing . Jakubisko's ebullient direction of theactors in his studio was something quite new-the craziness verging onfantasy and the useof shimmering insets of color in black and white. 90 minutes .

January/February `95

Cinema ofJuraj Jakubisko, continuedThur, Jan 19An Evening of Shorts(1964-1989) This program of shorts by and about Jakubisco spans most of his remarkablecareer . Three years before his first feature film, he created The Emigrant (1964), a lyrical pieceinspired by Josef Gresak's songs of emigration . His thesis project for the Prague FilmAcademy, They Are Waiting For Godot (1966), accounts for the last free hours of a militaryrecruit. The Rain (1965), an experimental portrait of a young girl coming to terms with her past,stands as an intriguing formative work in Jakubisko's st,,list'c development. With deliberatestylization, The Drummer of the Red Cross (1977) demorstrates his maturation over ten yearsof filmmaking, probing the lives of abandonedchildren . Finally, Matej Minac's Portrait of JuraiJakubisko (1989) documents great filmmakers, such as Fellini, paying homage to Jakubiscoand his extraordinary gifts . 100 minutes .

Fri, Jan 20 through Thur, Jan 26 (No show Mon, Jan 23)La Scorta (The Bodyguards)(Italy, 1993) Directed by Ricky Tognazzi . LaScorta is a slick, well-paced political thrillerdrawing on contemporary Italy for its ideas andimpact . When a state attorney working on apolitical case is assassinated by the mafia, amagistrate is sent to Sicily to continue theinvestigation . His safety is entrusted to four cops,all with different motives and ideals, who do theirbest to protect him so that he can conduct theinvestigation . Tognazzi's Italy is a high-tensionworld of informers and hitmen, phone taps andthreats, fear and violence, where brave peopleattempt to stem the tide of corruption . It is also aworld where the judiciary and the police, theintelligentsia and the working man have to workhand in hand to accomplish anything . A hugebox-office hit in Italy, La Scorta displays acompassion and intelligence uncommon tothrillers . 92 minutes .

Fri Jan 27 thrnunh Thur, Feb 2bCaro Diario (Dear Diary)

(Italy, 1994) Directed by Nanni Moretti .Dear Diary won Moretti the bestdirector prize at the 1994 Cannes FilmFestival and is a real treat both fornewcomers and those familiar with hiswork . Moretti's films are intenselypersonal, made more so by hispresence at center stage. Dear Diaryfollows him through three radicallydifferent moods. In the first segment"On My Vespa," he drives around alush and empty summertime Romecommenting on the neighborhoods,dropping into a screening of Henry,Portrait of a Serial Killer and making amoving pilgrimage to the site of PierPaolo Pasolini's murder . In "Islands"

Moretti riotously muses on how the politicized sixties generation has become lost and isolated .Finally in "Doctors," he turns the camera on his own struggle with cancer, as he visits doctor afterdoctor in an attempt to discover what ails him. The ending is a perfect punctuation mark to aprofound, meditative and gently humorous work by one of Europe's most imaginative directors .100 minutes .

Fri, Feb 3 through Thur, Feb 9Mamma Roma

Coming Soon

(Italy, 1962) Directed by Pier PaoloPasolini . Never before released in theUnited States - and now here in a brandnew print - this marvelous discovery wasPasolini's second film . When the marriageof her pimp releases Mamma Roma (AnnaMagnani) from a life of reluctantprostitution, she is re-united with herteenage son Ettore, who has been broughtup in the country. In spite of her pimp'scontinuing demands for money she isdetermined to become respectable anddreams of a middle-class life for her son.Magnani is a force of nature . Although herraw flamboyance and emotional daringmight seem at odds with Pasolini'sneo-realism, their work together here issensational . "Thirty seconds into the movie, Mount Magnani is sputtering, singing, screaming, andotherwise spewing lava . As a movie actress Magnani stands alone. As always, Pasolini can tossoff an image of startling poetry." -J . Hoberman, Village Voice. 110 minutes . This screening madepossible through the generosity of Risforante La Traviata.

A Place in the World

Starts Fri, Feh 10The Wooden Man's Bride(Taiwan, 1994) Directed by Huang Jianxin .In the tradition of such Chinese FifthGeneration films as Red Sorghum and Raisethe Red Lantern, this film forgoescontemporary issues to confront the sociallyendorsed crimes of the past. Director HuangJianxin tells this stirring tale of a bride in anarranged marriage and a family servant whois delivering her to her husband-to-be.When she is kidnapped by maraudingbandits, the loyal and courageous youngman sets out to rescue her. Recalling theepic adventure spectacle of Seven Samuraiand the potent emotional drama of Ju Dou,The Wooden Mans Bride speaks eloquently

against cruelly oppressive traditions where any chance of happiness is dwarfed by obstacles andcustoms centuries old. 105 minutes .

(Uruguay/Argentina, 1992) Directed byAdolfo Aristarain . Winner of 40international awards, A Place in theWorld is a sensitive, highly intelligentcoming of age story set against apastoral background of collectivefriendship and Argentine politics .Aristarain uses a subtle backdrop ofpolitical themes to examine the lives offour disparate individuals - a nun, adoctor, a geologist and a teacher -who are all trying to come to terms withtheir lives in the Bermejo Valley . Thecharacters struggle to attain justice anddignity in a universe where amulti-national company can suddenlyappear and irrevocably changeeverything it touches. But A Place inthe Worldworks on other levels as well :as a moving father and son story, as astory of unrequited love and as an examination of friendship . Aristarain acknowledges that his filmparallels the American western and has compared 4 Place in the World to a mix of Shane andHow Green WasMy Valley. 120 minutes.