Double Feature at Visual Arts Center

Join the Richmond Moving Image Co-op on Fri., Dec. 5 at 7 p.m for the final program in our four month documentary film series, When Janey Comes Marching Home: Films about Women and War, co-presented by the Visual Arts Center. The film series is presented in conjunction with the exhibition, When Janey Comes Marching Home: Portraits […]

December 5, 2008; 12:48 PM • by FTRea

Join the Richmond Moving Image Co-op on Fri., Dec. 5 at 7 p.m for the final program in our four month documentary film series, When Janey Comes Marching Home: Films about Women and War, co-presented by the Visual Arts Center.

The film series is presented in conjunction with the exhibition, When Janey Comes Marching Home: Portraits of Women Combat Veterans, a series of large-scale photographic portraits and accompanying oral histories of American women soldiers from the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, on view at the Visual Arts Center of Richmond Sept. 12-Dec. 14, 2008.

Where and When: Visual Arts Center, 1812 W. Main St. at 7 p.m.

Admission: $5.00 for the Double Feature (as part of VisArts:latenight; includes refreshments)

The Movies:

“My Daughter the Terrorist” (2007, Norway, 60 mins. Directed by Beate Arnestad, produced by Morten Daae.)

In this film, Dharsika and Puhalchudar are best friends – sharing secrets, joking, braiding their hair – yet both are Black Tigers, Tamil nationalists in training for these last seven years as suicide bombers. Told from the unique viewpoint of a mother who may lose her daughter forever.

“To See If I’m Smiling” (2007, Israel, 59 mins. Directed by Tamar Yarom.)

This extraordinary film profiles six Israeli women who served in the West Bank. As they tell their stories against the backdrop of footage of their tours of duty, the audience comes face-to-face with the truth of war – it destroys the innocence in everything it touches. Introduction to both films: Dr. Jennifer A. Fronc, Assistant Professor, U.S. Social and Women’s History, Department of History, VCU.

Questions: Call the Visual Arts Center at (804) 353-0094

– The information above was provided by James Parrish with the Richmond Moving Image Coop.