This weekend...!!! ArchaeologyFest Film Series:Best of 2013 A benefit for The Archaeology Channel International Film and Video Festival Lane County Historical Museum 740 W. 13th St., Eugene October 25 & 26, 2013 Doors open at 7 pm and programs begin at 7:30 pm on dates indicated. Admission $6. Tickets at the door. These are the best films from the 2013 edition of TAC Festival. (Film screenings for the 2014 edition of TAC Festival take place in the Recital Hall at The Shedd Institute in downtown Eugene, May 9-11, 2013–see below.) Program C: Friday, October 25 Ethiopia: In the Footsteps of the First Christians (France) 53 min. Northern Ethiopia is the birthplace of Ethiopian Christianity, a religion practiced by almost half of the country’s 80 million people. In the northern province of Tigray lies a remote territory dedicated completely to the monastic life, the Waldeba. The Waldeba is home to about a thousand monks and hermits that lead secluded lives of abstinence, fasting and prayer. For these religious people, dying in Waldeba is the way to gain direct access to heaven. In this film, the first documentary on the region, François Le Cadre goes to Waldeba to observe the religious practices of the monks and learn about Saint Samuel, the founder of the most important regional monastery called “the land of the monks.” (Best Cinematography by Jury; Honorable Mention by Jury in Best Film competition and for Narration, Public Educatiion Value, Script, and Music) 6 Generations (USA) 57 min. Ernestine De Soto is a Chumash Native American whose mother, Mary Yee, was the last speaker of her native Barbareño language. In 6 Generations, she tells her family history, reaching back to the days when the Spanish made first contact in Santa Barbara. Famous anthropologist John Peabody Harrington, whose work focused on native peoples of California, started research with her family in 1913 and continued with three generations for nearly 50 years. This inspired Ernestines mother to begin taking notes and, combined with mission records (which survived intact from the late 1700s), they form the heart of this story. The impact of loss of land, language, culture, and life itself is made all the more clear as this story is told in Native American voices describing the events as they experienced them. Ultimately, it is a story of survival and the fierce endurance of Ernestines ancestors, particularly the women. (Honorable Mention by jury in Best Film competition and for Narration, Public Education Value, Script, Music, and Inspiration; Special Mention by Jury for increasing the awareness of the ethnographic record; Honorable Mention in Audience Favorite competition) Program D: Saturday, October 26 Unburying the Past (Malaysia) 46 min. Malaysia’s archaeological heritage stretches back more than a million years. This ancient culture has attracted world attention in exhibitions abroad and in the media for the last two decades. Sites all over the country have revealed their ancient secrets, providing important evidence on Malaysia’s earliest habitation sites. This documentary explores Malaysia’s most important sites and their link to the rest of the world. It showcases Southeast Asia’s oldest nearly complete Paleolithic human skeleton, the iconic Perak Man, whose discovery also has caught the attention of medical archaeology as probably the earliest example of a congenital deformity. It also demonstrates how Malaysia has been connected over thousands of miles and thousands of years with other cultures in south and east Asia and the Pacific. (Best Narration and Best Public Education Value by Jury; Honorable Mention by Jury in Best Film competition and for Animation and Effects; Honorable Mention in Audience Favorite competition) The 2000 Year Old Computer (UK) 59 min. More than a hundred years ago, sponge divers found an extraordinary mechanism at the bottom of the sea near the island of Antikythera. It astonished the international community of experts on the ancient world. Was it an astrolabe? Was it a mechanical model of the solar system? An astronomical clock? Or something else? This film tells the extraordinary story of how, more than 2,000 years ago, the ancient Greeks built a computer. A scientific detective investigation set against the glories of a classical Greece, The 2000 Year Old Computer follows a mysterious trail of numbers to solve the puzzle of the spectacular Antikythera Mechanism. (Best Film and Most Inpirational Film by jury; Honorable Mention by jury for Animation and Effects, Script, and Cinematography; Special Mention by jury for best representation of archaeology; Audience Favorite Film) TAC Festival 2014 to be held in the Recital Hall at The Shedd Institute ALI announces the next edition of The Archaeology Channel International Film and Video Festival, May 9-13, 2013, in the Recital Hall at The Shedd Institute, 868 High Street (for film screenings May 9-11), and at the University of Oregon Baker Downtown Center, 975 High Street (for our Conference on Cultural Heritage Film, May 12-13), in downtown Eugene, Oregon. TAC Festival will bring to Oregon the world’s best films on archaeology, ancient cultures, and the world of indigenous peoples. Our Keynote Speaker will be Dr. Jean Clottes, a world-leading specialist in European cave are, speaking on “Early Cave Art in Europe: Chauvet Cave and Other Sites.” Please join us in welcoming to Eugene the people of the world for this cinematic celebration of the human cultural heritage. Details at bit.ly/16c1ice.
Posted on: Fri, 25 Oct 2013 19:16:05 +0000
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