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Date: Monday, October 13, 2003
Contact: Michael Marshall, (808) 974-7524
For Immediate Release
University film series continues
The University of Hawaii at Hilo film series, Cinema from Africa and the Diaspora, continues on Thursday, October 23 with an African adaptation of Bizet’s celebrated opera, Carmen, at 6:30 p.m. in UH Hilo’s University Classroom Building 100. General admission is $3.00; there is no admission charge for UH Hilo/Hawai`i Community College students.
Karmen Geï (2001), by Senegalese director Joseph Gaï Ramaka, is in French and Wolof with English subtitles. Like every Carmen, Karmen Geï is about the conflict between infinite desire for freedom and the laws, conventions, languages, the human limitations which constrain that desire. In the opening scene, which is set in a women's prison on Goree Island, Karmen and the other prisoners use dance and music as a weapon of resistance against dehumanizing regimentation. Karmen challenges the formal legal system and the conventional society it supports. In the end, her triumphant sexuality proves to be too large for life itself.
The original score and staging have been completely replaced with indigenous Senegalese music and choreography.
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