UVM Film Series 2012

 

UVM Film Series presents An Angel at My Table (Jane Campion, 1990).

Where: Fleming 101

When: 6pm-8:45 pm (March 17th)

Tickets: Just 4$ for students (10$ for regular admittance)

THE FILM: Janet Frame grows up in a poor family with many brothers and sisters and is labeled as “different” from an early age.  She faces great difficulty in adapting to the conventional rural life around her, and her social awkwardness only worsens as she grows older. After she fails in an attempt to become a schoolteacher due to an intense panic attack, she is subject to psychiatric evaluation and shamefully misdiagnosed as a schizophrenic.  Frame is subsequently committed to a mental institution, where she suffers years of unnecessary shock treatments and other horrors.  She only starts to see success when she begins to write.

THE TICKETS: Individual tickets to the film ($10/Adult & $4/Student) are available at the door.  Admission includes a lecture introducing the director and formal aspects of the film and a post-screening Q & A with UVM Film & Television Studies faculty member Hilary Neroni.

THE UVM FILM SERIES: The UVM Film Series is a membership-based program developed as a partnership among UVM’s Department of Film and Television Studies, Lane Series and Fleming Museum of Art.   The 2011-2012 season features International Women Directors and their explorations of the various ways that women struggle with society’s expectations.  Films include: Blackboards (Samira Makmalbaf, Iran, 2000), Rosenstrasse (Margarethe Von Trotta, Germany, 2003), and An Angel at My Table (Jane Campion, New Zealand, 1990).

For tickets, membership, or more information, please visit our website: http://www.uvm.edu/laneseries/film_series.php

The 2010-2011 series was

International Noir: