Fri, 03 Sep 2010 11:53:54 -0400 -
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Iran filmmaker Panahi relies on patience, resistance ‘Why guilt in movies?’
TEHRAN, Sept 2, (AFP): Prominent Iranian director Jafar Panahi is optimistic for the future of filmmaking in his country despite a “restrictive” regime that jailed him for nearly three months.
“There have always been restrictions, but over the past year it was the worst,” said Panahi, who was released on May 25 awaiting trial set for late September.
Authorities have refused to return his passport, revoked nine months ago, and he will be unable to attend the Venice film festival to present his short film “The Accordion” on the opening day Wednesday.
“I cannot be pessimistic though. Limitations have always existed, and this era will eventually come to an end too,” he told AFP in an interview.
“It’s important to have patience and resistance,” said Panahi, 50, a leading figure in Iran’s New Wave cinema movement.
“Even when we are not making movies, the films and stories of our lives are writing themselves, recording a period where we choose not to compromise on the cinema that we believe in or make propagandist movies or easy blockbusters,” said the director, who has been unable to make a movie in five years.
“When a filmmaker does not make films it is as if he is jailed. Even when he is freed from the small jail, he finds himself wandering in a larger jail,” he said.
“The main question is: why should it be a crime to make a movie? A finished film, well, it can get banned but not the director,” Panahi argued.
Panahi’s 2000 film “The Circle” criticising the treatment of women in Iran won Venice’s top prize the Golden Lion.
“The Accordion” was inspired by a story Panahi read as a teenager about a young musician who wants to play in front of a mosque, but a man who works nearby considers the instrument “heretic” and breaks it.
“I was unhappy with its violent ending and wanted to tell it in a way that violence is no longer needed,” Panahi said. “So you could say the theme of my movie is non-violence and rejecting violence, which should be our attitude in this day and age.”
Asserting that the Iranian authorities “have a problem with me personally,” Panahi said they forbade him from making a film about the Iran-Iraq war in the 1980s.
Propaganda
“During a war and shortly after, films tend to be either propaganda, documentaries or justifying the war, but when you take a distance from the war you should be talking about its humanitarian aspects,” he said.
The film Panahi was shooting along with young director Mohammad Rasulof shortly before his arrest — for a second time — in March was “a yet unnamed feature about a family and the post-election developments,” he said, referring to disputed June 2009 polls which were followed by a wave of mass protests that triggered a deadly crackdown.
“We were shooting inside my house. Thirty percent of the work had been shot, all interior scenes. But they seized all my rushes,” Panahi said.
His imprisonment sparked petitions from dozens of cinema figures inside and outside Iran signed by leading directors including Robert Redford, Steven Spielberg, Michael Moore and Oliver Stone.
The Iranian filmmaker was unable to fulfill his role as a member of the jury at the Cannes film festival in May, when his chair was kept symbolically empty.
Panahi said he did not understand why he should face a travel ban.
“I am in love with my country, and despite all its limitations I would never want to live elsewhere,” he said.
Panahi, who won the Berlin Silver Bear in 2006 for “Offside” about girls who disguise themselves as boys to be able to watch a football match, remains committed to his work.
“I am a socially conscious director,” he said. “I get my stories from the society. I have to bear witness to anything that goes on in my country. I could not remain indifferent, shut my eyes and not see.
“So I was witnessing everything even if I was not allowed to carry a camera. I recorded everything in my mind and they will probably find their way to my work.”
Fri, 03 Sep 2010 11:53:57 -0400 -
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A 4 Channel Color Quad Delivers Effective Home Surveillance Protection
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Club manager Ira Weiner, who is also an attorney, argued that the ordinance is too vague in its definition of an “adult cabaret” to be enforced.
Private investigator Glenn Miller, of the Allentown-based Confidential Investigations Inc., testified that he was hired to find out what was going on inside the club. He said he visited Thrills on two occasions and on his second visit April 8, he recorded video using a camera in a cell phone.
As township attorney John Dunn asked questions, Miller narrated three video clips that totaled 26 minutes of silent, black-and-white footage shot from about 8 p.m. to midnight.
“I sat at a bar stool,” Miller said. “I struck up a conversation with a girl named Autumn. She [Autumn] presented me with the opportunity to have a private dance.”
Weiner objected to the introduction of any video in court because it was “obtained illegally,” he said, on the grounds that any person who brings a video camera into the club is a trespasser, a policy stated on signs at the bar. Monroe County President Judge Ronald Vican overruled the objection and allowed the video to be shown in court.
Miller testified that the “V.I.P.” dancing area included several upstairs rooms separated by dark curtains, each with a couch. He positioned his coat, he said, so his cell phone recording video was pointed at the couch and the topless lap dance was clearly caught on video. In that video he is shown repeatedly touching and kissing the dancer's breasts and touching her buttocks.
The first of the three video clips showed about eight minutes of Miller talking at the bar downstairs with the dancer. According to Miller, she suggested they go upstairs for a “private” dance and discussed the prices — a $20 initial fee to go upstairs and $20 for every 15 minutes of lap dancing.
In the second video, which took place from 9:02 p.m. to 9:18 p.m. according to a running clock on the bottom of the footage, the investigator can be seen sitting on a couch and giving the dancer $20. She removed her top and began dancing on his lap and he repeatedly touched her. Miller testified that he she put her breast in his mouth. In the third clip, Miller is downstairs at the bar as one of the dancers removes her top to accept a $1 tip.
“A mouth did get onto a breast,” Weiner said after the hearing. “That would be contrary to club policy. Most of the contact was initiated by the customer. He took some liberties.”
When questioned by Weiner, Miller said there were no sex acts performed in the club during his visits and that the dancers were never completely nude.
Jack Rader Jr., Jackson Township Board of Supervisors chairman, testified that in 1997 the zoning ordinance was amended to allow “adult facilities” in an industrial zone -- not in a commercial zone like where Thrills is located.
An “adult facility” is defined as an establishment that is used for one or more of four specific activities. One of those activities is an “adult cabaret.” Rader said that the township considers exposed breasts and touching of breasts, like that shown on the hidden-camera video in court, to fit the definition of an adult cabaret.
Thrills opened in March featuring girls in bikinis dancing on stage. Just seven weeks after opening, however, the club began offering topless dancers.
Weiner called only one witness, the club's owner and full-time disc jockey, Anastasios Adamides. He testified that he did not think the zoning precluded lap dancing when he bought the club, which was formerly Pub 715. If he had believed the zoning did not allow lap dancing he would not have located there because “that's where the dancers make most of their money,” Adamides said.
At the end of the nearly three-hour hearing, Vican instructed each attorney to draft written arguments. A decision on the township's request to shut down Thrills will be issued after Memorial Day. Until then, the club will continue to offer topless dancing, Weiner said.
