http://blogs.walkerart.org/filmvideo Fri, 09 May 2008 17:00:55 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Apichatpong Weerasethakul was at Walker in November 2004 to present New Language from Thailand Regis Dialogue: Apichatpong Weerasethakul and Chuck Stephens. At that time Walker presented regional premieres of his films Sud pralad (Tropical Malady) and Sud Sangeha (Blissfully Yours.) Lesser known in 2004, especially outside of international cinema circles, this Thai artist ... http://blogs.walkerart.org/filmvideo/2008/05/08/apichatpong-wins-2008-fine-award/ Metaphor alert: The Croatian protagonist of All for Free (Sve Džaba), one of the films in the traveling series known as “Global Lens,” grieves the violent deaths of his buddies by taking his humanitarian show on the road--rolling his tavern on wheels from town to town and giving ... http://blogs.walkerart.org/filmvideo/2008/05/07/global-lens-08/ The Global Lens program - ten 35mm feature films - arrived en masse this afternoon. The shipment looked impressive sitting at our loading dock, so I snapped a quick picture to give you a sense of what 10 films can look like. (Technically, this is nine and ... http://blogs.walkerart.org/filmvideo/2008/04/28/global-lens-entered-building/ We've been hosting the Global Film Initiative's (GFI) touring film program, Global Lens, since its inception five years ago. For the first time, the GFI has made trailers available for all ten of the films included in their program. The Kite (Le Cerf-Volant) [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wetQDj4e1lc[/youtube] All for Free (Sve Džaba) [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6OD9jcSBdk[/youtube] Luxury Car (Jiang Cheng ... http://blogs.walkerart.org/filmvideo/2008/04/25/global-lens-trailers/ The 26th annual Minneapolis/St. Paul International Film Festival is upon us, and Al Milgrom and his cohorts over at the Minnesota Film Arts offices have put together an impressive slate of films to say the least. It's daunting to sort through and pick from the 150 or so programs, ... http://blogs.walkerart.org/filmvideo/2008/04/18/minneapolisst-paul-international/