UCI's Room Gallery continues its film screening series with The Pursuit of Silence, curated by Adrià Julià.  The ad hoc film series starts with Elie Wiesel's assertion that silence has its own bone structure, its own labyrinths and its own contradictions - the assassin's silence being neither the victim's nor the spectator's.  In all 14 films, silence plays a leading role.  Each director introduces the artificial presence or absence of silence to reveal an emotional structure and authority of cinema. 

WEEK I

Tuesday, November 13, 2007

Juha – Aki Karusmaki (1999)
Blackmail – Alfred Hitchcock (1929)

Wednesday, November 14, 2007

Pushpak – Srinivasa Rao Singeetham (1988)
A Nous la Liberté – Rene Clair (1931)

Thursday, November 15, 2007

Silent Movie – Mel Brooks (1976)
Made in USA – Jean-Luc Godard (1966)

Friday, November 16, 2007

Persona – Ingmar Bergman (1966)
My Dinner With André – Louis Malle (1981)

WEEK II

L'Age D'Or – Luis Buñuel (1930)
Porcile – Pier Paolo Pasolini (1969)

Tuesday, November 20, 2007

Vampyr - Der Traum Des Allan Grey – Carl Theodor Dreyer (1932)
Last Days – Gus Van Sant (2005)

Wednesday, November 21, 2007

Mon Oncle – Jaques Tati (1958)
Vive L'Amour – Tsai Ming-liang (1994)