Thursday, September 20, 2007, 8:30 pm
Club B-10
$7
Member tickets are not available via the internet.

Since MASS MoCA opened in 1999, the museum has hosted an annual Cinema Lounge series – a series which focuses on the best documentaries of our time. These films deal with topics that run the gamut from tender to tragic and many feature Q&A sessions with the filmmaker after the screening. The Cinema Lounge series for the 2007-2008 academic year gets underway on Thursday, September 20, 2007 with Greensboro: Closer to the Truth which will be shown in MASS MoCA’s Club B-10 at 7:30PM.

The first two films in the Cinema Lounge series were selected to compliment the performance at Williams College’s ’62 Center of REwind: A Cantata for Voice, Tape, and Testimony. This cantata composed by South African composer Philip Miller is based on the Truth and Reconciliation Commission hearing that came in the wake of South Africa’s transition from apartheid to democracy. It features some of that country’s leading opera stars as well as an international 100- voice choir. It was developed in part during a MASS MoCA residency in September 2006. REwind will be presented at Williams on Saturday, September 29 at 8 PM and Sunday, September 30 at 4 PM.

Directed by independent filmmaker and editor Adam Zucker who will attend the screening and take questions afterwards, Greensboro: Closer to the Truth reconnects the players in the Greensboro Massacre which occurred on November 3, 1979. Members of the Communist Workers Party and the Klu Klux Klan clashed on that tragic day. Zucker captures parts of the only Truth and Reconciliation Commission ever held in the United States which convened in Greensboro from 2004-2006 to investigate the massacre. As the Commission struggles to uncover what actually happened and why, the participants confront the truth of their past, and struggle with the possibility of hope and redemption. After the film premiered at the South by Southwest Film Festival the Austin Chronicle wrote, “More important than the light it shines on the Greensboro Massacre, is the example Zucker's documentary holds out for the possibility of community healing and long-term solutions to racial hatred.”

Joining Zucker for his first feature documentary is an outstanding production team including director of photography Scott Anger, composer Sheldon Mirowitz, and story editor Richard Hankin.

The screening is funded in part by the Oakley Center for Humanities and Social Sciences at Williams College.