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The Invisible War

Investigative documentary "The Invisible War" will be screening at Harwood's Bell Auditorium on Saturday, in a program honoring women veterans as part of the Remarkable Women of Taos & Northern New Mexico series. The Sundance Audience Award-winning film heads an evening to raise awareness of Military Sexual Trauma that also features speaker retired Army Col. Ann Wright. The program will offer methods / local resources for Veterans healing from MST, PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder), TBI (Traumatic Brain Injury), and disabling injuries, that can bring positive results for anybody overcoming trauma.

The event co-sponsored by Taos Veterans for Peace, Code Pink and the Harwood Museum of Art. General admission is $5 and is Free for Veterans. Doors will open at 6pm and tickets are available at the door the evening of the event.

Call Carrie Leven at 575-586-1480 for details.

"William Kentridge: Anything Is Possible" gives viewers an intimate look into the mind and creative process of William Kentridge, the South African artist whose acclaimed charcoal drawings, animations, video installations, shadow plays, mechanical puppets, tapestries, sculptures, live performance pieces, and operas have made him one of the most dynamic and exciting contemporary artists working today. With its rich historical references and undertones of political and social commentary, Kentridge's work has earned him inclusion in "Time" magazine's 2009 list of the 100 most influential people in the world.

This documentary features exclusive interviews with Kentridge as he works in his studio and discusses his artistic philosophy and techniques. In the film, Kentridge talks about how his personal history as a white South African of Jewish heritage has informed recurring themes in his work—including violent oppression, class struggle, and social and political hierarchies. Additionally, Kentridge discusses his experiments with "machines that tell you what it is to look" and how the very mechanism of vision is a metaphor for "the agency we have, whether we like it or not, to make sense of the world." We see Kentridge in his studio as he creates animations, music, video, and projection pieces for his various projects, including Breathe (2008); I am not me, the horse is not mine (2008); and the opera The Nose (2010), which premiered earlier this year at New York's Metropolitan Opera to rave reviews.

This program is presented in collaboration with ART21. Tickets $8 Harwood Museum Alliance Members; $10 non-members. Available at the Admissions Desk. Click here for more information.

SÉRAPHINE is the story of Séraphine Louis aka Séraphine de Senlis (Yolande Moreau), a simple and profoundly devout housekeeper who in 1905 at age 41, self-taught and with the instigation of her guardian angel began painting brilliantly colorful canvases. In 1912 Wilhelm Uhde (Ulrich Tukur), a German art critic and collector - he was one of the first collectors of Picasso and champion of naïve primitive painter Le Douanier Rousseau - discovered her paintings while she worked for him as a maid in his house in Senlis outside Paris. A moving and unexpected relationship develops between the avant-garde art dealer and the visionary cleaning lady leading to Séraphine’s work being grouped with other naïve painters – the so-called “Sacred Heart Painters” - with acclaimed shows in France, elsewhere in Europe and eventually at New York’s MOMA . Martin Provost’s poignant portrait of this now largely forgotten painter is a testament to the mysteries of creativity and the resilience of one woman’s spirit.

A sleeper hit in France, SÉRAPHINE went on to a surprise win of the Best Picture and Best Actress for Yolande Moreau along with five other awards at the Cesars - the French Academy Awards.

Tickets $8 Harwood Museum Alliance Members; $10 non-members. Available at the Admissions Desk 2 weeks before date of program. click here for more information.

PINA is a feature-length dance film  by Wim Wenders with the ensemble of the Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch, featuring the unique and inspiring art of the great German choreographer. Wenders  takes the audience on a sensual, visually stunning journey of discovery into a new dimension: straight onto the stage with the legendary Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch ensemble, he follows the dancers out of the theatre into the city and the surrounding areas of Wuppertal - the place, which for 35 years was the home and centre for Pina Bausch's creativity.

During the preparation of the documentary in 2009, Pina Baush died unexpectedly. Wenders cancelled the film production, but the other dancers of Tanztheater Wuppertal convinced him to make the film anyway. It showcases these dancers, who talk about Pina and perform some of her best-known pieces, inside the Tanztheater Wupperthal and in various outdoor locations around the city of Wuppertal.

The film presents extracts from some of the most noted dance pieces by Pina Bausch in the Tanztheater ("dance theater") style of which Bausch was a leading exponent of Tanztheater. The extracts are from four pieces: Le sacre du printemps (The Rite of Spring), Café Müller, Kontakthof, and Vollmond. These are complemented with interviews and further dance choreographies, which were shot in and around Wuppertal, Germany; the film includes scenes showing the Wuppertal Schwebebahn, an elevated railway, and some dances sequences take place inside its carriages.

Tickets to this program are $8 for Harwood Alliance Members; $10 non-members. Tickets available 3 weeks prior to the program at the Museum Admisisons Desk.

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