2008 Films

Salim Baba / The Horseman

• Salim Baba

  
  2007. USA/India. 15 mins. Directed by Tim Sternberg. Produced by Francisco Bello, Scott Mosier, Raja Dey.

  On the streets of Kolkota, India, Salim Baba runs a “cinema cart”—a one-hundred-year-old hand-cranked projector that has been modernized for sound, modified with found materials, and mounted on a pushcart. He shows scraps of 35mm film, creatively edited into a brief montage of songs, fights, and dialogue. Children trail this enchanting relic of an earlier age, trading their coins for a glimpse beneath a black curtain of a flickering, magical world of scratchy sights and sounds. Nominated for an Academy Award. LB

• The Horseman

  
  2006. Sweden. 84 mins. Directed by Tell Johansson, Peter Gerdehag. Produced by Johan Miderberg, Malcolm Dixelius.
  North American Premiere

  Cameraman Peter Gerdehag and editor Tell Johannsson tell the story of Stig-Anders, an old-fashioned farmer in a remote village in Sweden, in pictures as big and grand as all outdoors. Stig-Anders continues to farm his family’s land with his team of trusting horses and care for the great trees of his forest as if they were tender seedlings. He lives on the bread he bakes for himself and nearly dies in a Lear-like storm. Epic and intimate at once, The Horseman captures a rapidly vanishing way of life. RR

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