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We Will Live to See These Things
We will live to see these things, or, five pictures of what may come to pass
DIR DAVID THORNE, JULIA MELTZER
DOCUMENTARY VIDEO 47:00 MIN
"A documentary video in five parts about competing visions of an uncertain future. Shot in 200506 in Damascus, Syria, each section of the piecethe chronicle of a building in downtown Damascus, a recitation anticipating the arrival of a perfect leader, an interview with a dissident intellectual, a portrait of a Qur'an school for young girls, and an imagining of the world made anewoffers a different perspective on what might come to pass in a place where people live between the competing forces of a repressive regime, a growing conservative Islamic movement, and intense pressure from the United States." - J.M. & D.T.
Victory Over the Sun
DIR MICHAEL ROBINSON
EXPERIMENTAL 16MM 13:00 MIN
"Dormant sites of past World's Fairs breed an eruptive struggle between spirit and matter, ego and industry, futurism and failure. For thine is the kingdom and the power and glory; nothing lasts forever, even cold November rain." - M.R.
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LocationAnthology Film Archives
32 Second Avenue
New York, NY 10002
United States
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