Film Screening: Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives – Oakland, 11/15/11

“Join us for Movie Night at the OACC!

This month we will be screening Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (ลุงบุญมีระลึกชาติ) by Thai filmmaker Apichatpong Weerasethakul. Winner of the Palme d’Or at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival, the film centers on the last days of the life of the titular Uncle Boonmee. With his loved ones – including the ghost of his dead wife and his lost son who has returned in non-human form – Boonmee explores his past lives as he contemplates the reasons for his illness.

The film will be introduced by Dena Beard, Curatorial Assistant at the University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive. She managed the MATRIX projects of Desirée Holman and Silke Otto-Knapp and has worked on exhibitions with Tomas Saraceno, Trevor Paglen, Martha Colburn, Tris Vonna-Michelll, Ahmet Ogut, Omer Fast, and Emily Roysdon, and others.”

• WHERE: Oakland Asian Cultural Center
  388 Ninth Street, Suite 290 (btwn. Franklin and Webster Street)
  Oakland, CA 94607
• WHEN: Tuesday, 11/15/11, 7pm
• HOW MUCH: $5 suggested donation, no one is turned away due to lack of funds.
• MORE INFO: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=144196882348511