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SATURDAY, MAY 6, 2006

PROGRAM 9 - Heavy Lifting Zone

MAY 6 - 12:00 p.m. - Laemmle's Sunset 5 Theatre

Whether literal or figurative, the task of enacting change is not for the meek. Just ask the protagonists of this quintet of revealing short works, who must deal with a changing of the guard, the passage of time, emotional disconnection, and finding a human connection in the age of AIDS. When the weight of the world is on one's shoulders, there is nothing else to do but lift.

TRT: 83 minutes

CHESSMEN, THE

(United States, 2004) Dir.: Ken Kokka

An aging Japanese American nurseryman befriends a young carnation grower, inadvertently hastening his own downfall in this intimate portrait of life in California after internment.

16mm, 18 minutes, color, narrative

MUSIC PALACE

(United States, 2005) Dir.: Eric Lin

Once a central part of community life, Chinatown's movie palaces are nearing extinction. As New York's last Chinatown movie theater is about to close, its caretakers ruefully look back at the life that was.

35mm, 9 minutes, black & white, documentary

UNDER CONSTRUCTION (Gong sa joong)

(South Korea, 2005) Dir.: Lee Hyung-suk

A man conducts covert construction activities in his apartment, going so far as to lease increasingly elaborate power tools at the local hardware shop to get the job done. But what was the ultimate result of his "construction?" A unique take on the task of recovering one's lost humanism.

35mm, 22 minutes, color, narrative, in Korean w/E.S.

MISSING

(United States, 2005) Dir.: Kit W. Hui

Trying to uncover the disappearance of his girlfriend, Samuel follows a mysterious trail of notes she has left behind, and catches a haunting glimpse of New York.

35mm, 14 minutes, color, narrative, in Cantonese w/E.S.

LUCKY

(United Kingdom, 2005) Dir.: Avie Luthra

Lucky is an AIDS orphan desperate to leave his rural Zulu village for the bright lights of Durban. He is full of excitement and hope until he moves in with his uncle who just wishes he wasn't there. As so Lucky has to learn about life the hard way, not through school or education, but through an unlikely bond with a racist Indian neighbor.

35mm, 20 minutes, color, narrative
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