Kabul Transit at Images Cinema, with Local Filmmaker
Williamstown - Images Cinema is presenting a free screening of KABUL TRANSIT on Monday, March 10 at 7pm. Co-director David Edwards, a Williams College Anthropology professor, will be present to discuss the film after the screening. Images Cinema is located at 50 Spring Street, Williamstown, MA.KABUL TRANSIT
Since its premier at the Full Frame Film Festival in 2006, KABUL TRANSIT has screened all over the world at colleges and film festivals.
"One of the most important films on the Middle East in recent years." -- Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University
In the broken cityscape of Kabul, Afghanistan, amid the dust and rubble of war, Westerners and Afghans adjust to the uncertain possibilities of peace. Kabul Transit shuttles through the broken streets of the city, moving between public space and private, listening in on conversations, posing questions, probing the darker alleys mainstream media avoids. The result is a unique cinematic experience-- a shifting mosaic of encounters and raconteurs, captured glances and telling gestures, all beautifully shot and woven together by the music and the found sounds of a city sluggishly coming to life. Rejecting the usual device of narration and portraiture, the film asks the viewer to experience Kabul as a newly arrived visitor would-- with a freshness born of apprehension on finding oneself in a place that is at once hauntingly strange and altogether familiar.
The only one of its kind in Berkshire County, Images Cinema is a year-round non-profit, member-supported community film house that presents a wide range of films that impact filmmaking and our culture. Images continuously seeks to entertain, educate and engage the community with quality programming, while maintaining its dedication to independent film and media. Images Cinema is supported in part by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state agency. Check for up-to-date happenings at www.imagescinema.org
