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daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paula E Heaney)
Tue Feb 13 18:26:56 2001
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Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2001 18:26:44 -0500
From: Paula E Heaney <paulyh@MIT.EDU>
On Saturday March 31 as a part of the New England Film & Video Festival
THE MAD SONGS OF FERNANDA HUSSEIN
will be screened at 1pm at the Museum of Fine Arts
Directed by John Gianvito
US 2001, 16mm, color, 168 min.
With Thia Gonzalez, Dustin Scott, Robert Perrea
Shot over a period of six years on a minuscule budget and with
a cast of nonprofessional actors, The Mad Songs of Fernanda Hussein
revisits the experience of the Gulf War through a reverse lens, focusing on
the war's reverberations in America. Set in a different desert, the film
presents three stories in three cities as it follows characters whose lives
are altered as a consequence of the war: a Mexican-American woman who has
acquired the name Hussein through marriage; a teenage boy adrift in his
anger and struggling to affect change; a returning veteran indelibly marked
by what he has witnessed. Working in the space between fiction and
documentary, Gianvito's film seeks to resurrect the memory of a time that
was too quickly filed away but whose tragic consequences continue to be
felt, most profoundly among the twenty-two million people of Iraq.
Historian Howard
Zinn has called it "both a work of art and a critical piece of
history...thoroughly engaging as a story and provocative as an examination
of American values."
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