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SUMMARY:THE DREAM & THE LIE
DESCRIPTION:In-person: Q&A with filmmaker Elena Dorfman\; Ariel West\, 
 artist-in-residence\, UCLA Film & Television Archive.\n\n\nAdmission is 
 free. No advance reservations. Your seat will be assigned to you when you 
 pick up your ticket at the box office. Seats are assigned on a first come\, 
 first served basis. The box office opens one hour before the event.\n 
 \n\nTHE DREAM & THE LIE\n\nU.S.\, 2024\n\nFor over four decades\, from 
 1944–1991\, Albania was ruled by one of the most repressive dictatorships 
 anywhere in the world. For most of that time\, the Marxist-Leninist regime 
 was led by Enver Hoxha\, who ruthlessly suppressed any opposition and kept 
 his fearful population isolated from the outside world. Throughout that 
 period\, Albanians could see images of themselves and their country only as 
 represented in the fiction features and documentaries produced by the 
 state-run New Albania Kinostudio. In 1993\, two years after the end of the 
 regime\, Albanian American visual artist and photographer Elena Dorfman 
 began regularly visiting her mother’s home country and in 2018 she was 
 granted unprecedented access to the collection of the Albanian National 
 Film Archive. The result of her archival research\, Dorfman’s 
 experimental feature documentary\, THE DREAM & THE LIE brings scenes from 
 the archive’s film holdings together in a widescreen triptych image that 
 can feel both epic and intimate in scale all at once. A captivating 
 exploration of how movies were used by the regime to construct a powerful 
 national mythology that penetrated deep into daily life\, THE DREAM & THE 
 LIE is also a visually arresting example of how artists can creatively and 
 productively engage with archival material. The UCLA Film & Television 
 Archive is pleased to host Elena Dorfman at the Billy Wilder Theater for a 
 screening of THE DREAM & THE LIE followed by an in person conversation with 
 the Archive’s 2025 Artist-in-Residence Ariel West about the film and 
 relationship between the artist and the archive.\n\nDCP\, color and b&w\, 
 70 min. Director: Elena Dorfman. \n\n\nProgrammed and note written by 
 Senior Public Programmer Paul Malcolm\n\nJoin Meeting: 
 https://cinema.ucla.edu/events/the-dream-and-the-lie-2026-03-21/
LOCATION:Billy Wilder Theater\, UCLA Film & Television Archive
ORGANIZER;CN="Suzy Lee":MAILTO:szlee@library.ucla.edu
CATEGORIES:Screening
CONTACT;CN="Suzy Lee":MAILTO:szlee@library.ucla.edu
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