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Edouard de Laurot's freewheeling compilation of images and ideas from the late-60s counterculture.
Produced in collaboration with Malcolm X and narrated by Ossie Davis, this call to arms layers revolutionary text from multiple sources with gritty, shot-on-the-streets-of-New York footage of African-American struggle. A forgotten masterpiece from radical filmmaker, theorist and founder of Cinéma Éngagé, Édouard de Laurot.
a 40-minute reel of original footage by the activist and filmmaker Edouard de Laurot, Lund’s partner and collaborator in the early 1980s. Edited by Lund in the context of an event devoted to de Laurot, which took place at the Cinémathèque française in Paris in 1997, it features production footage for films shot in the 1960s and 1970s but never completed. It has not been shown since.
With apologies to a beloved children’s story, the Wichita Grand Opera might well be referred to as “The Little Opera Company That Could.” Friday was the opening night of the WGO’s final production for the 2015 season – Jacques Offenbach’s “The Grand Duchess” – and this little-known comic gem did not disappoint. Offenbach’s operettas inspired and influenced the works of Johann Strauss, Jr. and Arthur Sullivan. So, even though his works are less familiar in the United States, fans of “Die Fledermaus” or “The Pirates of Penzance” will likely find this amusing work familiar territory.
