This year, Redhouse will host two distinct Film series:
 
The Unsung Heroes Series is a series of documentaries celebrating the lives of some very inspiring & unusual heroes.
 
The Syracuse International Film Festival and theRedhouse continue their collaboration with Science and Magic in Film beginning January 2012, on the fourth Tuesday of each month at 7:00 pm.Each screening includes a discussion.
 
Unsung Heroes Film Series - A Piece of Work
Tuesday, February 21st
7:00 pm, Teen and Adult Event
$8 / $5 Members
Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work takes the audience on a year long ride with legendary comedian Joan Rivers in her 76th year of life. Peeling away the mask of an iconic comedian and exposing the struggles, sacrifices and joy of living life as a ground breaking female performer.
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Science and Magic of Film: Fellini Satyricon
With guest speaker Jeffrey Gorney (writer, photographer and actor)
Tuesday, February 28th
7:00 pm, 18 and up
$8 / $5 Members
This Oscar Nominated, Italian fantasy drama film written and directed by Federico Fellini, is loosely based on Petronius’s work, Satyricon, a series of bawdy and satirical episodes written during the reign of the emperor Nero and set in imperial Rome. Fellini has described this film as ‘science fiction of the past,’ as though the Romans of that decadent age were being observed by the astounded inhabitants of a flying saucer. Curiously enough, in this effort of objectivity, the director has created a film that is so subjective as to warrant psychoanalysis.
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Unsung Heroes Film Series - Man on Wire
Tuesday, March 6th
7:00 pm, Teen and Adult Event
$8 / $5 Members
On August 7th, 1974 a young Frenchman named Philippe Petit stepped out onto a wire illegally rigged between New York’s twin towers. After nearly an hour dancing on the wire, he was arrested, taken for psychological evaluation, and brought to jail before he was finally released.
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Science and Magic of Film - The Last Wave
with guest speaker Owen Shapiro (Professor and filmmaker in the Department of Transmedia in the College of Visual and Performing Arts at Syracuse University)
Tuesday, March 27th
7:00 pm, Rated PG
$8 / $5 Members
Directed by Peter Weir, “The Last Wave” is about a white Australian lawyer whose seemingly normal life is disrupted after he takes on a murder case for Aborigine defendants.
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Unsung Heroes Film Series - A Mother’s Courage
Tuesday, April 17th
7:00 pm, Family Friendly Event
$8 / $5 Members
This documentary by Fridrik Thor Fridriksson, tells the story of Margret, a mother who has done everything in her power to help her son. She embarks on an inspirational journey that leads her to realize that perhaps it is possible to break down the wall of autism and get to know the individual behind it.
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Science and Magic of Film - Blade Runner
with guest speaker Jim Loperfido (CEO for the Syracuse International Film Festival, founded the Auburn Cinefile Society, and he has been at the fore-front nationally of independent video dealers’ efforts to regulate and lobby for their industry)
Tuesday, April 24th
7:00 pm, Rated R
$8 / $5 Members
Blade Runner depicts a dystopian Los Angeles in November 2019 in which genetically engineered organic robots called “replicants”—visually indistinguishable from adult humans—are manufactured by the powerful Tyrell Corporation as well as other mega manufacturers around the world. Their use on Earth is banned, and replicants are exclusively used for dangerous, menial or leisure work on Earth’s off-world colonies. Replicants who defy the ban and return to Earth are hunted down and “retired” by police special operatives known as “Blade Runners.”
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