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Converge at York Square
The screening at York Square Cinema "has got to be a raucous event, a modern-day civic ritual," according to Elihu Rubin, SY '99. He's premiering the documentary he made with Elena Oxman, MC '99. The film, Convergence and Other Rituals of the New Haven Green, features the commentary of Professor Vincent Scully, JE '40, GRD '49, juxtaposed with a cacophonous performance held in New Haven this summer, intended to document the history of the Green."The musical event [we filmed] was a piece by Connecticut composer Neely Bruce," Oxman explained. "He was inspired by Charles Ives, who, as a boy, had heard his father march two marching bands through each other and recreated the sound in his music. Neely wanted to do this on a much larger scale—using around 30 musical ensembles, [of] marching bands, choirs, bagpipes—and parade them all through each other on the New Haven Green." The result inspired the two filmmakers to investigate the over 350-year-old history of performance on the Green. Funding materialized when the Yale Digital Media Center of the Arts awarded Rubin and Oxman its first ever Emerging Artist Fellowship last fall.
The filmmakers hope that the draw of Scully—whom Rubin describes as a "shaman...with this ability to open your eyes, to take you on a transcendental journey"—as well as the prospect of learning about New Haven, will draw students out of their academic regimens. "Hopefully," Rubin said,"maybe after grabbing a cocktail," students will arrive this weekend, "happy, excited, ready to see a movie...it [becomes] our own civic ritual."
York Square Cinema. Free. Donations accepted. Sat., Oct. 28, 4:00 p.m. and Sun., Oct. 29, noon and 10:30 p.m.
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