2020 39th Season Black Maria Film Festival Program
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Take Off Your Skin<br />
Animation<br />
by Luke Jaeger<br />
Northampton, MA. 3 min.<br />
“After spending a<br />
week in the hospital<br />
with a severe<br />
viral infection that<br />
caused most of my<br />
skin to fall off, I<br />
found myself humming<br />
this 1929 pop<br />
song that my mom used to sing. This film is dedicated to her<br />
memory.” – Luke Jaeger<br />
The #1 Bus Chronicles<br />
Documentary<br />
by Joel Katz<br />
Montclair, NJ. 58 min.<br />
“The #1 Bus Chronicles”<br />
uses a small sociological<br />
microcosm – a bus<br />
stop on an industrial<br />
highway in New Jersey<br />
– to portray some of<br />
the most marginalized<br />
lives in America today<br />
- the ‘working poor’, the recently incarcerated, and immigration<br />
asylum seekers. Strangers share their hopes and dreams<br />
as well as resiliency, suffering and loss. Some are fleeting<br />
encounters; others draw us deeply into their lives. The film<br />
interweaves portraits of people whose lives intersect at this<br />
single bus stop.<br />
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