JANUARY 31, 2005
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REAL NEBRASKA WEB SITE
Voting on Sixth Round of Real Nebraska
Videos Begins Today
Voting on the sixth round of the Fall
2004 Real Nebraska video contest begins today at 9am on the
Real Nebraska website. Using the theme "There is No Place Like Nebraska," entries
were taken from full time UNL students and/or teams of full time
UNL students.
In addition to three monetary prizes, winners of the contest will
be screened at a film festival that will take place in March at the
Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center. All entries will be shown and
the "Viewer's Choice" winners, as well as the Grand Prize winner,
will be announced at this event. The festival will be open to the
public and the campus.
REAL
NEBRASKA |
145 VET BASIC SCIENCE, 4PM
Veterinary & Biomedical Sciences Seminar - 'Quantitative Epidemiology in FSIS: Examples From a Food Safety Fellow's Perspective'
Dr. Alecia Larew-Naugles, USDA
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KIMBALL RECITAL HALL, 7:30PM
School Of Music Launches New Series With Tribute to Cole Porter
The University of Nebraska-Lincoln School of Music in the Hixson-Lied College of Fine & Performing Arts launches a new 'American Song' concert series with
a tribute to the award-winning, composer and lyricist, Cole Porter. The School of Music's voice faculty, alumni, and current advanced students of vocal performance will fill Kimball Hall with the sophisticated sounds of Porter's ingenious songs, accompanied by Dean Giacomo Oliva at the piano. The performance will take place this evening at 7:30 pm in Kimball Recital Hall. Tickets for the event are $3 for students/senior and $5 for general admission.
UNL's Coordinator of Musical Theatre Studies, Alisa Belflower, will host the evening as we celebrate the wit and passion found in Cole Porter's songs. The evening will be presented in two acts, which will include a variety of songs representing Cole Porter's humorous novelty songs, his knack for storytelling, songs driven by an exotic beat as influenced by Porter's love of travel, and of course his sumptuous love songs.
You will undoubtedly hear songs that you will recognize and hear some less familiar Porter-tunes as well. The varied songs of the evening will reveal at least some of the reasons why Cole Porter has
secured an enduring reputation as one of the finest composers of American Song in the twentieth century.
SCHOOL OF MUSIC
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MARY RIEPMA ROSS MEDIA ARTS CENTER
Continuing this week at the Ross: The
House Of Flying Daggers, Tarnation
UNL's Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center
presents the newest film from acclaimed Chinese director Zhang Yimou, The
House Of Flying Daggers and Tarnation, a re-imagining
of the documentary from young director Jonathan Caouette.
The House Of Flying Daggers takes
place in 859 A.D., when the Tang Dynasty, one of the most enlightened
empires in Chinese history at its height, is in decline. Unrest is
spreading throughout the land, and many rebel armies are forming
in protest. The largest, and most prestigious, is an underground
alliance called the "House of Flying Daggers" and the movie follows
their clashes with local deputies as the gap between rich and poor
grows. Combining breathtaking cinematography, amazingly choreographed
fight sequences, and a romantic plot that ties the whole piece together, The
House Of Flying Daggers is a visual feast for fans of films
like Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and Yimou's earlier
film Hero.
Tarnation begins in 2003 as Caouette learns of his mother's
lithium overdose in his native Texas. Faced with the haunting remnants
of his past, including a family legacy of mental illness, abuse,
and neglect, Caouette returns home to aid in his mother's recovery.
Slipping back into the archives of his youth, we watch Caouette grow
up on camera, seeking escape from family trauma through musical theater,
grade-B horror flicks and the forging of his identity through popular
culture. Having documented his life since he was 8 years old, Caouette
weaves together a psychedelic whirlwind of snapshots, Super-8 home
movies, answering machine messages, video diaries, early short films,
snippets of 80s pop culture and dramatic reenactments to create an
epic portrait of an American family torn apart by dysfunction and
reunited through the power of love.
More information is available at the Ross website.
MRRMAC | THE
HOUSE OF FLYING DAGGERS | TARNATION |
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