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DESCRIPTION:\nFilm evenings begin with potluck refreshments & social hour at  6:30 
 pm,\nfollowed by the film at  7:30 pm, followed by a discussion after the 
 film.\n\nThe Greater Circulation\nBy Antero Alli\n– appearing in 
 person\n\nRainer Maria Rilke wrote Requiem for a Friend in 1908 over two 
 dream-filled nights — tethered to the netherworld of ghosts, muses, and 
 dreams — at the Hotel Biron in Paris.  It was his tribute to his close 
 friend and fellow artist, Paula Modersohn-Becker, who unexpectedly died 
 eighteen days after birthing her first child.  Rilke transforms his lament 
 over this tragic death and loss into an epic work of literature.  Part 
 pictorial biography and narrative fiction, Antero Alli‘s film is a 
 cinematic treatment of Rilke’s prose/poem addressing the central drama of 
 all women torn between sacrificing their lives to their Art or to 
 Motherhood.  The Requiem (via the lyrical Stephen Mitchell translation) is 
 the heart, soul, and mind of master underground filmmaker Antero Alli’s 
 marvelous drama. \n\nThis poignant film, so full of feeling, has a 
 deceptively simple concept:  an experimental theater company in Berkeley, 
 California, stages a performance ritual based on Rilke’s Requiem and 
 during the course of rehearsals and production the impact of the piece 
 comes to challenge and haunt the people involved in it.  And beyond this 
 concept is a deep, provocative, and often disturbing drama which poses 
 questions of love, art, mortality, and grief with the grace and majesty of 
 Rilke’s work.  This docu-fiction is a marvel of mature emotion and deep 
 wisdom;  few films have been able to explore issues surrounding death with 
 such grace and intelligence.  Rilke himself figures in the film via 
 flashbacks which recreate the physical and emotional circumstances behind 
 Requiem for a Friend.\n\nWheelchair accessible around the corner at  411  
 28th  Street\n\n$10 donations are accepted\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2012/06/09/18715051.php
SUMMARY:The Greater Circulation
LOCATION:Humanist Hall\n390  27th  Street\nuptown Oakland, between Telegraph and 
 Broadway\nhttp://www.HumanistHall.org
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2012/06/09/18715051.php
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