CNYPG welcomes Experimental Filmmaker Mark Lapore

Ithaca College, Ithaca, NY, Sunday, March 28
Binghamton University, Binghamton, NY, Tuesday, March 30
Cornell Cinema, Ithaca, NY, Wednesday, March 31
Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, Thursday, April 1

The Central New York Programmers Group is pleased to host experimental filmmaker Mark Lapore on a tour of four venues in upstate New York. Lapore is a Professor of Filmmaking at Massachusetts College of Art, and his work is regularly featured in the New York Film Festival’s Views From the Avant-Garde and the Rotterdam International Film Festival. The films he will screen include Mekong (2002, 10 mins), an investigation of the overlapping sensations of intimacy and erotic desire in the Mekong delta; The Glass System (2000, 20 mins), a visually ravishing piece of personal anthropology shot almost entirely on the streets of Calcutta; and A Depression in the Bay of Bengal (1996, 29 mins), in which Lapore’s typically subtle observations of quotidian life in Sri Lanka are threatened by the brutal reality of ethnic war.