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	Program-2007

	Day Night Day Night USA, Germany, France (2006) Director: Julia Loktev Screenplay: Julia Loktev Cinematography: Benoît Debie Cast: Luisa Williams, Josh Phillip Weinstein, Gareth Saxe, Nyambi Nyambi, Tschi Hun Kim, Annemarie Lawless, Franko Dattolo Producer:Melanie Judd, Jessika Levin, Julia Loktev Production Company: FaceFilm Runtime: 94 min Format: 35 mm. colour A 19-year-old girl prepares to become a suicide bomber in Times Square. Her accent is not particularly out of place and it's impossible to pinpoint her ethnicity. We never learn why she made her decision -- she has made it already. We don't know whom she represents, what she believes in - we only know she believes it absolutely. The film strips the story down to its existential core. It focuses on microscopic movements, the smallest gestures, an economy of banal details. Inspired in part by a story in a Russian newspaper and playing off a history of Joan of Arc films, the film transpires on the girl's face. The minimalism of the face is confronted with the visual and aural noise of the city. Faith comes face-to-face with the possibility of failure. Julia Loktev was born in St. Petersburg, Russia, and immigrated to the United States at age nine. Julia’s first works were audio art -- she came to film through sound. Her New York University thesis film Moment of Impact, which she shot alone without a crew, won Directing Award at Sundance, Grand Prize at Cinéma du Reél, Best Documentary at Karlovy Vary. She also makes multiple-screen video installations in a museum/gallery context and has shown work at Tate Modern in London, P.S.1 in New York, Haus der Kunst in Munich, Bienal de Valencia, Mito Art Tower in Japan. She lives in New York
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