21c and LFS Present Monthly Film Series with Visiting Filmmaker Elizabeth Barret
Tuesday, December 15, 2009, 8pm
In Gallery 2, off the Atrium
Free and open to the public
Cash bar
Filmmaker Elizabeth Barret concludes 21c &' LFS' presentation of the The Al Smith
Fellowship Filmmaker Tour this December with a screening of Stranger with a Camera
(2000). The film follows the story of Canadian filmmaker Hugh O'Connor who went
to Central Appalachia in 1967 to document poverty. A local landlord, who resented
the presence of filmmakers on his property, shot and killed O'Connor, in part because
of his anger over the media images of Appalachia that had become icons in the nation's
War on Poverty.
A native of Appalachia, Barret uses O'Connor's death as a lens to explore the complex
relationship between those who make films to promote social change and the people
whose lives are represented in such media productions. Through first-person accounts
of the killing and the perspective of three decades of reflection, Stranger with
a Camera leads viewers on a quest for understanding - a quest that ultimately
leads Barret to examine her own role as both a maker of media and a member of the
Appalachian community she portrays.
The Kentucky Arts Council, the state arts agency, supports this screening of the
Al Smith Fellowship Filmmaker Tour with federal funding from the National Endowment
for the Arts, which believes that a great nation deserves great art.
About LFS
21c is proud to partner with the Louisville Film Society in the continuing Monthly
Film Series since August of 2007. LFS is a publicly supported non-profit organization.
Support comes from memberships, event admission, advertisement, contributions, donated
materials, and services. For more information about the LFS, please visit visit
www.louisvillefilm.org.
21c Monthly Film Series is funded by: