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URL:https://westonmedia.org/hub/events/behind-the-screen-la-bola-negra/
SUMMARY:Behind the Screen: La Bola Negra
DESCRIPTION:ABOUT THE FILM\nLA BOLA NEGRA\, the bold new film from Spanish
 writer-directors Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi\, won the Best Director
 award at Cannes and the People's Choice award at the Toronto International
 Film Festival. Inspired by the surviving pages of an unfinished play by
 Federico García Lorca and by Alberto Conejero's award-winning play La
 piedra oscura\, the film tells the interconnected stories of three gay men
 in Spain in 1932\, 1937\, and 2017. Moving from the years before the
 Spanish Civil War\, through the war itself\, to the present day\, LA BOLA
 NEGRA is a sweeping\, passionate triptych about desire\, repression\,
 historical memory\, and what one generation carries forward to the
 next.\n\nPANEL DISCUSSION FOLLOWS\nOur panel will explore the film's roots
 in Lorca's work\, its portrayal of the Spanish Civil War and the Franco
 era\, and how it brings queer history and historical memory to the
 screen.\n\nCARLOS RAMOS\nMargaret E. Deffenbaugh and LeRoy T. Carlson
 Professor in Comparative Literary Studies and Professor of Spanish\,
 Wellesley College\nCarlos Ramos's teaching and research focus on the
 literature and cultural history of contemporary Spain. His published work
 includes Construyendo la modernidad: Escritura y arquitectura en el Madrid
 moderno (1918-1937) and Poesía insomne.\n\nWAN SONYA TANG\nAssociate
 Professor of Hispanic Studies\, Boston College\nWan Sonya Tang teaches
 courses on Spanish literature and culture from the nineteenth century
 onward. She is the author of Specters\, Monsters\, and the Damned:
 Fantastic Threats to the Social Order in 19th-Century Spain and co-editor
 of Televising Restoration Spain\, which examines how heritage film and
 television explore Spain's relationship to modernity in the late 1800s and
 early 1900s.\n\nModerator:\nFERNANDO ROSENBERG\nProfessor of Hispanic
 Studies and Comparative Literature\, Brandeis University\nFernando
 Rosenberg is the author of After Human Rights: Literature\, Visual Arts\,
 and Film in Latin America\, 1990-2010.
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CATEGORIES:Community,Film Screening
LOCATION:West Newton Cinema\, 1296 Washington Street\, West Newton\, MA\,
 02465\, United States
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