Film: ‘Halving the Bones’

When:
03/03/2016 @ 6:30 pm – 8:15 pm
2016-03-03T18:30:00-08:00
2016-03-03T20:15:00-08:00
Where:
Pickford Film Center
1318 Bay St
Bellingham, WA 98225
USA
Cost:
Free
Contact:
Pickford Film Center
360-738-0735
Film: 'Halving the Bones' @ Pickford Film Center | Bellingham | Washington | United States
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With Ruth Ozeki in attendance for a Q-A after the film.

Pre-screening reception begins at 5:30 p.m.

Tickets are free, available at the box office only. It’s the year of Ruth Ozeki! A best-selling author, Zen Buddhist priest, filmmaker and more, Ruth Ozeki and her book A Tale for the Time Being were selected for Whatcom READS 2016. In 1995, she released halving the Bones, which she wrote, directed, and produced herself. Skeletons in the closet? Halving the Bones delivers a surprising twist to this tale. The film tells the story of the half-Japanese filmmaker, Ruth, who has inherited a can of bones that she keeps on a shelf in her closet. The bones are half of the remains of her dead Japanese grandmother – the rest are buried in a cemetery in Tokyo. In a narrative and visual web of family lies and stories, home movies and documentary footage, Halving the Bones traces one hundred years of Ruth’s maternal family history, from Japan, to Hawaii, to a suburb in Connecticut.70 min. Unrated.

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