REALLY WHAT IS REALLY IMPORTANT TODAY ask yourself as did Bertolucci's "The sheltering sky" end scene (Paul Bowles quote)

Artists ask the real questions ..and our individual responsibility is to watch , listen and think about community  ... ah Berto and Bowles

TRAPPED arrives! With a Supreme Court case challenging a woman's right to choose, Dawn Porter's TRAPPED Trailer

TRAPPED arrives! With a Supreme Court case challeging a woman's right to choose, Dawn Porter's TRAPPED Trailer

How a documentary can change history . With a case on the March Supreme Court calendar that challenges Roe vs Wade  and a woman's right to choose, Dawn Porter's TRAPPED recent Sundance award winner will be released in select theaters on March 4th (IFC in NYC). TRAPPED exposes how thestealth religious right, anti-choice activists and the Republican party has used aggressive lobby efforts in State Legislature to pass laws and regulations which make it almost financially impossible for Women's health clinic that offer a woman abortions to terminate unwanted pregnancies. All across the South as a result closures have taken place. Porter goes to Alabama and follows two Southern women who each own a Woman's Health Clinic that offer abortion as a woman's choice who refuse to be intimidated  and one Doctor from the North East who is not afraid.  TRAPPED is a mother/daughter film. It is also a film for men who support the right of women to control their own bodies. Go! Spread the Word... thanks

TRAPPED arrives! With a Supreme Court case challeging a woman's right to choose, Dawn Porter's TRAPPED Trailer

How a documentary can change history . With a case on the March <b>Supreme Court</b> calendar that challenges<b> Roe vs Wade </b>&nbsp;and a woman's right to choose, <b>Dawn Porter's TRAPPED </b>recent Sundance award winner will be released in select theaters on <b>March 4th (IFC in NYC).</b> <b>TRAPPED</b> exposes how the <b>stealth religious right, anti-choice activists and the Republican party</b> has used aggressive lobby efforts in State Legislature to pass laws and regulations which make it almost financially impossible for Women's health clinic that offer a woman abortions to terminate unwanted pregnancies. All across the South as a result closures have taken place. Porter goes to <b>Alabama</b> and follows two Southern women who each own a <b>Woman's Health Clinic</b> that offer abortion as a woman's choice who refuse to be intimidated &nbsp;and one Doctor from the North East who is not afraid. &nbsp;<b>TRAPPED is a mother/daughter film</b>. It is also a film for men who support the right of women to control their own bodies. Go! Spread the Word... thanks

TRAPPED arrives! With a Supreme Court case challeging a woman's right to choose, Dawn Porter's TRAPPED Trailer

How a documentary can change history . With a case on the March Supreme Court calendar that challenges Roe vs Wade  and a woman's right to choose, Dawn Porter's TRAPPED recent Sundance award winner will be released in select theaters on March 4th (IFC in NYC). TRAPPED exposes how the stealth religious right, anti-choice activists and the Republican party has used aggressive lobby efforts in State Legislature to pass laws and regulations which make it almost financially impossible for Women's health clinic that offer a woman abortions to terminate unwanted pregnancies. All across the South as a result closures have taken place. Porter goes to Alabama and follows two Southern women who each own a Woman's Health Clinic that offer abortion as a woman's choice who refuse to be intimidated  and one Doctor from the North East who is not afraid.  TRAPPED is a mother/daughter film. It is also a film for men who support the right of women to control their own bodies. Go! Spread the Word... thanks

https://youtu.be/kXFo0ELvGsg

WOW .. lost video tapme imterview with Na


http://jimfourattsreeldealmoviesthatmatter.blogspot.com/2016/02/history-lesson-and-sapphic-legend.html

Born to Fly: Eizabeth Streb vs Gravity: REVIEW + jim fouratt chats w Eizabeth Streb and Catherine Gund ...

.Reel Deal : Movies that Matter review : 

Born to Fly, Elizabeth Streb vs. Gravity,  director Catherine Gund

One of the earliest heartbreaks a child has is when she realizes she will not be able to fly. Choreographer Elizabeth Streb never let go of that dream. Influenced by 60's Judson Dance members Steve Paxton and Trisha Brown, Grand Union and the magic of circus trapeze acts feats of wonder, STREB has devoted much of her career making visual what was said could not be done. She is today, to dance, what Jerzy Grotowski was to experimental theater in the ‘60’s. She is not afraid to listen to her own muses and inner artist voice. STREB caries on Grotowski edict that her dancers, like his actors, must be able to accomplish what we have been told is impossible for human beings to do. For STREB it is to soar through the air like a bird with no fear. Gathering together a group of well disciplined dancers with a heightened desire for adventure and endorphin reward Streb founded her own company and school. What Gund successful accomplishes is that we become that fly on wall that goes goes with STREB on a commissioned adventure to London to document walking up the curved wall of a modern building, kissing the sky and leaping off of buildings and bridges in a disciplined choreographed work, It was conceived for an Olympic mindset and rightly so given the skill and athletic commitment athletes and her dancers share.. Born to Fly is a heart stopping, thrill seeking attempt to do the impossible. You watch her push her dancers who are quite thrilled and sometimes scared to push the boundaries of human physical endeavor and in doing so they redefine the borders of dance. Gund captures and builds the cinematic tension when they face unexpected detours and the challenging adversarial weather conditions. Born to Fly sometimes makes one feel one is not absorbing an artfully directed and edited documentary but smack dab in the middle a Tom Cruise action film. Watching Born to Fly was more more thrilling than a roller coaster ride that is seeming out of control but not. It is the STREB exploration of how far can the body be pushed and still be called dance. that challenges the audience and puts them subjectively in flight. Brava!

( version of this review first appeared in Westview News September 1st)

Watch my interview .it is a perfect window on the brilliance of Born to Fly , Elizabeth Streb and Director Catherine Gund

and here is the trailer

http://youtu.be/-kMaWkAPHBQ

(cc with attribution)