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DESCRIPTION:The Goddess Animated:\nNina Paley and Zsuzsanna Budapest\n\nDouble feature 
 of Nina Paley animation! Each screening followed by dialog with Zsuzsanna 
 Budapest and question-and-answer with audience.\n\n1pm: Sita Sings the 
 Blues, 2009, Dir. Nina Paley\nPaley’s award-winning 2009 animated musical 
 interpretation of the Hindu epic Ramayana has earned widespread critical 
 praise, a 100% rating on RottenTomatoes, and continued places on best-of 
 lists. Roger Ebert wrote of it, “I am enchanted. I am swept away. I am 
 smiling from one end of the film to the other.”\n\n4pm: Seder-Masochism, 
 2018, Dir. Nina Paley\nLoosely following a traditional Passover Seder, 
 events from the Book of Exodus are retold by Moses, Aharon, the Angel of 
 Death, Jesus, and the director’s own father. But there’s another side 
 to this story: that of the Goddess, humankind’s original deity. 
 Seder-Masochism resurrects the Great Mother in a tragic struggle against 
 the forces of Patriarchy.\n\nSuggested donation (at door): $20\nProceeds 
 benefit the Women’s Spirituality Forum\n\nPlease carpool. Parking is 
 limited. \n\nAmazons encouraged to attend!\n\nCapsule reviews of 
 Seder-Masochism:\nhttps://www.straight.com/movies/1138721/viff-2018-seder-masochism\n"The 
 Venus of Willendorf, Moses, and brilliant animator Nina Paley’s late 
 father all join hands, Busby Berkeley–style, in a kaleidoscopic take on 
 Judaism and the ways it and other monotheisms gradually displaced worship 
 of female divinity. Covering millennia of religious wars, plus lots of 
 plagues and pestilence, it also has the highest body count of any film in 
 the festival. Of course, the violence is mostly regulated into shockingly 
 beautiful patterns and repetitive motifs, all set to the music of Louis 
 Armstrong, Led Zeppelin, the Bulgarian Women’s Choir, and 10cc. (Picture 
 a mass circumcision set to “The Things We Do for Love”, and you get 
 some idea of the rigorous madness here.) Paley, who does almost all her own 
 incredibly detailed design work, mixed ’20s jazz with Hindu cosmology in 
 the wonderful Sita Sings the Blues. No masochism required for this one, 
 which is funnier and even more primally 
 human."\n\nhttps://animationisfilm.com/film/sedermasochism/\n"Back in 2008 
 the brilliant and irrepressible Nina Paley blessed the world with her 
 one-woman masterpiece Sita Sings the Blues, one of the most enjoyable and 
 best-reviewed films of all time. Ten years later she is back with the 
 playful, irreverent, politico-feminist Seder-Masochism, a musical retelling 
 of the old testament Exodus that is provocative on oh-so-many levels. The 
 film is a no-holds-barred takedown of patriarchal religion and the 
 suppression of pluralistic female fertility goddesses in favor of a 
 violent, wrathful, misogynist, monotheist deity – but done in a cheeky 
 Busby Berkeley-style, with singing Moses, Pharaoh, and Angel of Death 
 belting out hits from Gloria Gaynor to Led Zeppelin to the Beatles. Some 
 will be offended, the rest of us will sing along in giddy merriment."\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2018/10/09/18818115.php
SUMMARY:The Goddess Animated
LOCATION:Brookvale Terrace Club House, 300 Plum Street, Capitola CA 95010
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2018/10/09/18818115.php
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