| Session 21 Tuesday April 21, 9:30pm – 10:30pm AMC/LOEWS Boston Common: 175 Tremont St. Boston |
The Memory Box 52min
Shot entirely on location in Ethiopia, the Memory Box is a
story of tragedy and hope in Africa through the eyes of a
most unique, Chaplinesque, Dawish the Clown. Joining a
volunteer surgical team from the West, Dawish is drawn
beyond the hospital into the villages of rural Africa where the
language of pantomime and wit is a universal tongue. He is
as at home with the primitive tribes-people of the Omo Valley
as he is with the most urbane of the capitol city, Addis
Ababa. Dawish is invited into homes, churches, AIDS centers
and orphanages where he finds the humanity behind the
headlines of poverty, prostitution, hunger, AIDS and
hopelessness. Through the eyes of Dawish the Clown, the
viewer is given a fresh view, a new perspective on the cynical
predictability of the tragedy of Africa.
Producer: Nadia Duguay
Director: Stephen Auerbach
Director, Executive Producer: Wayne Schoenfeld
Shot entirely on location in Ethiopia, the Memory Box is a
story of tragedy and hope in Africa through the eyes of a
most unique, Chaplinesque, Dawish the Clown. Joining a
volunteer surgical team from the West, Dawish is drawn
beyond the hospital into the villages of rural Africa where the
language of pantomime and wit is a universal tongue. He is
as at home with the primitive tribes-people of the Omo Valley
as he is with the most urbane of the capitol city, Addis
Ababa. Dawish is invited into homes, churches, AIDS centers
and orphanages where he finds the humanity behind the
headlines of poverty, prostitution, hunger, AIDS and
hopelessness. Through the eyes of Dawish the Clown, the
viewer is given a fresh view, a new perspective on the cynical
predictability of the tragedy of Africa.
Producer: Nadia Duguay
Director: Stephen Auerbach
Director, Executive Producer: Wayne Schoenfeld
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