The first annual Silver Images Film Festival, “celebrating images of aging on film,” presented by Terra Nova Films, a Chicago-based production and distribution company specializing in films and videos of this nature, runs Friday through Sunday, May 19 through 22, at Facets Multimedia Center, 1517 W. Fullerton. For more information call 881-8491.
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A 1992 French feature by Jacques Fansten that concerns an encounter between residents of an old folks’ home in southern France and two teenage thieves who briefly hold them hostage. The twist here is that the teenagers are caught and sent to prison, but the residents want them set free. (9:00)
Short Videos, program one
A 1990 feature about a 65-year-old Japanese American woman who ends her unhappy marriage and becomes involved with a recent widower; directed by Michael Toshiyuki Uno. (5:15)
Three films about women and aging: Suzanne Lacy and Kathleen Laughlin’s Whisper, the Waves, the Wind (1987), which documents a performance piece; Michal Aviad’s nearly hour-long documentary Acting Our Age (1988); and Nicole Mitchell’s brief Australian narrative Egg (1991). (1:00)
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