FILM + VIDEO

    Global Lens Film Series: A USEFUL LIFE (Uruguay)

    Global Lens Film Series: A USEFUL LIFE (Uruguay)

    Presented by Indie Memphis at Memphis Brooks Museum of Art

    August 21, 2011

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    Presented by Indie Memphis and the Brooks Museum of Art, the 2011 Global Lens Film Series is sponsored by the Friends of the Library, the Memphis Public Library & Information Center, the Memphis Flyer and the Global Film Initiative. The series promotes cross-cultural understanding through cinema and opens a window into the diverse world in which we live. In recent times, no medium has been as effective at communicating the range and diversity of the world's cultures as the cinematic arts.

    After twenty-five years, Cinemateca Uruguaya's most devoted employee, Jorge (real-life Uruguayan critic Jorge Jellinek), still finds his inspiration in caring for the films and audiences that grace the seats and screen of his beloved arthouse cinema. But when dwindling attendance and diminishing support force the theater to close its doors, Jorge is sent into a world he knows only through the lens of art—and suddenly forced to discover a new passion that transcends his once- celluloid reality. Stylishly framed in black-and-white with brilliantly understated performances, Federico Veiroj's sly and loving homage to the soul of cinema is a universally appealing gem and knowing charmer about life after the movies.


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        Memphis Brooks Museum of Art

        1934 Poplar Avenue
        Memphis, TN 38112

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        $7 per film / $5 for members of The Brooks / FREE for Indie Memphis members or with a Brooks VIP Film Pass

        Info Phone: 901-544-6208

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        August 21, 2011

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        2 pm

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