The Bellarmine Film Association is a student-run group dedicated to bringing a wide array of the world's cinema to the Bellarmine campus. The BFA seeks to show films from across the spectrum, from mainstream to avant-garde, from arthouse to drive-in, from blockbusters to micro-cinema, from local to transnational. It also seeks to encourage film and video production in the Bellarmine community and the city of Louisville.

For the 2008-2009 school year, the student director of the Bellarmine Film Association is Seth Dixon and the faculty advisor is Kyle Barnett.

For the second year in a row, Bellarmine will be one of over 120 campuses across the U.S. participating in the Tournées Festival, a French-language film series.  More information on the Tournées Festival is available here.

Bellarmine Film Association screenings begin at 7:00 pm (unless otherwise noted).  All films (including the Tournées festival screenings) are free and open to the public. 

MARCH
Tell No One (Ne Le Dis a Personne)
March12 in Hilary’s – Campus Center 122 at 7:00 pm
Director: Guillaume Canet
Rating: Not rated
Running time: 125 minutes
Production: France
(Tournées Festival screening)

Alex, a pediatrician, has been devastated since his wife Margot, his childhood sweetheart, was savagely murdered eight years ago. One day he receives an anonymous email: when he clicks on the inserted link, he sees a woman's face standing in a crowd, being filmed live. Alex is in shock: he is looking at Margot's face… Is she still alive? Why does she instruct him to tell no one? As soon as Alex raises the lid of this Pandora's box, the police reopen the murder case. They are sure that Alex is the perpetrator of his wife's gruesome murder since he was actually with her when she was killed. He finds himself on the wrong end of the investigation. He must lead his own to prove his innocence and find out what really happened to his wife. The film plunges into the past, stirring old memories of happier times in Alex's mind. The investigation also forces family and friends to remember details they'd rather keep buried. Alex's unrelenting questioning will unravel a sordid story that will incriminate unscrupulous family members and ultimately reunite him with his wife.

Bellarmine Film Association Organizational Meeting
March 19 in Dept. of Communication, Frazier Hall at 11:00 am (free period)

Come share your ideas on future events, screenings, and projects.  We’ll be planning events for the 2009-2010 school year and brainstorming about the Bellarmine Film Association’s future.  Your input is more than welcome.  It is needed!

A Conversation with David Meyers
March 19 in the Fireplace Room, Horrigan Hall at 7 pm
Screening of Wood Diary
Running time: 5.5 minutes
Rating: Not Rated

Bellarmine faculty member, filmmaker and new media artist David Meyers will discuss his experiences directing his short film Wood Diary, which is based on Meyers’ rediscovery of Walker Woods, an old high school classmate who had died and had become a prolific “outsider” artist in the interim.  Meyers’ reconnection with his old classmate was brought about, paradoxically, by that classmate’s death.  Meyers’ film is an imagining of the final years of Woods’ life.  The product of Meyers’ first foray into filmmaking, Wood Diary showcases his interest in a variety of artistic pursuits that coalesce on the screen.  We will screen Meyers’ film and discuss the process of filmmaking from his initial thoughts on producing the project to film screenings on the festival circuit (the film won the coveted Crystal Heart Award at Indianapolis’ Heartland Film Festival).  Please join us for what promises to be an interesting evening.

APRIL
Paris, je t’aime
April 4 in the Hilary's, Horrigan Hall at 7:00 pm
Director: Various directors
Rating: R
Running time: 116 minutes
Production: France
(Tournées Festival screening)

Paris, je t'aime is a patchwork of eighteen short films by different directors. Each one had to tell a story located in one of Paris' “arrondissements” in less than five minutes and on a relatively tight budget. This atypical collective film bears the hallmark of major international filmmakers and the names of stellar actors such as Natalie Portman, Gena Rowlands, Elijah Wood, Ben Gazzara and Catherine Deneuve. Among the many witty and serendipitous narratives that make up this portrayal of Paris, a young foreign worker moves from her own domestic situation into her employer's bourgeois environs; an American starlet finds escape as she is shooting a movie, a man is torn between his wife and his lover, a father grapples with his complex relationship with his daughter. Paris, je t'aime offers an interesting perspective on how foreign directors see Paris. Although they are all different in style, the films find a unity in the theme that they explore. They all tell a story about the sometimes fragile relationships that bind people who have recently met or who have known each other well.

Bellarmine Makes Movies!
April 19 in the Fireplace Room, Horrigan Hall at 7:00 pm

For our final event of the spring semester, we’re asking you to provide the video.  We’ll be screening video shorts from Bellarmine students that run the gamut from the realistic to the abstract, from the comedic to the dramatic, and all point in between. Come join us and see how your friends and colleagues have been spending their creative time. 

For more on the Bellarmine Film Association or the Tournées Festival, contact Kyle Barnett at kbarnett@bellarmine.edu.