Small Projects is delighted to invite you to the screening of "Strange and Sacred Noise" in the presence of the director, Len Kamerling, and with an introduction by Rossella Ragazzi.

** Doors open at 18h30, the screening starts at 19h15. The screening will be preceded by an introduction by Rossella Ragazzi, Associate Professor at UMAK, University Museum.
A Q&A session with Len Kamerling will follow the screening.
Welcome!**

About the film:
"What does it mean to be an Alaskan artist, to live and work amidst the powerful, elemental forces of the Alaskan environment?
Composer John Luther Adam’s monumental six part percussion
opus, born of these forces, journeys to it origins in a rare outdoor, wilderness performance.
In the summer of 2008, four outstanding musicians performed John Luther Adams’ Strange and Sacred Noise, in the dramatic landscape that first inspired its creation - the expansive mountain wilderness of the Alaska Range.
Strange and Sacred Noise invites viewers to look deeply into the complex relationship between an artist and his environment. At its core, this film is an exploration of the creative process and the evolution of a truly organic work of Alaska art."

About the director:
Leonard Kamerling has produced numerous critically acclaimed, award winning documentary films about Alaska Native cultures and Northern issues. His film, Heart of the Country, about an extraordinary elementary school principal in Northern Japan, was nominated for the American Film Institute's prestigious Par Lorenze Award.
Recently his documentary, The Drums of Winter, about Yup’ik Eskimo music and dance, was named to the National Film Registry of the US Library of Congress. Throughout his career, Leonard Kamerling has been concerned with issues of cultural representation in media, cross-cultural communication and the role that film can play in eliminating stereotypes and in credibly translating one culture to another.

Rossella Ragazzi is a filmmaker and currently an associate professor in museum-and media-anthropology at the University of Tromsø (UiT). Between 1999 to 2007 she lectured in visual cultural studies and ethnographic filmmaking at the UiT and since 2009, a visiting associate professor at Freie University in Berlin.