Loring-Greenough House's Film Night: Film Night: Nora, Ready & a surprise short!

Join us March 27 at 7pm for the Tuesday Night Club’s monthly Film Night! Suggested donation: $5.00, free for members. We’ll watch three short films:

NORA by Alla Kovgan (from Boston) and David Hinton (USA 2008, 35 min)

“Nora” is based on true stories of the dancer Nora Chipaumire, who was born in Zimbabwe in 1965. In the film, Nora returns to the landscape of her childhood and takes a journey through some vivid memories of her youth. Using performance and dance, she brings her history to life in a swiftly-moving poem of sound and image. The result is a film about family dramas, difficult love affairs and militant politics, which moves back and forth between the comic and the tragic, the joyful and the mournful. It is a film about a girl who is constantly embattled – struggling against all kinds of intimidation and violence – but who slowly gathers strength, pride and independence.

Shot entirely on location in Southern Africa, “Nora” includes a multitude of local performers and dancers of all ages, from young schoolchildren to ancient grandmothers, and much of the music is specially composed by a legend of Zimbabwean music – Thomas Mapfumo.

READY by Eva Heldmann, Germany 2004 (2008 re-edit), 6:30 min

This experimental documentary intercuts a ballroom dancing competition in Francistown, Botswana, the Mogwana Dancers in Gaborone, Botswana, and more.

AND a surprise short film about human & animal life in a small village in Hungary.