[Chat] Belvedere SpringFest set for tomorrow

[Brad Schlegel]

Belvedere SpringFest set for tomorrow
'Baraka' showings planned during Earth Day event

By Michael Sragow
Sun Movie Critic
Originally published April 23, 2004

Senator Theatre owner Tom Kiefaber jokes that when he and Catherine Evans of
the Belvedere Improvement Association first cooked up their annual Belvedere
SpringFest, "there were tumbleweeds rolling through the site" of Belvedere
Square.

With Belvedere Square thriving and SpringFest attracting more interest each
year, Kiefaber has scheduled special presentations of the Senator's
traditional free offering of Baraka (1992) for tomorrow's SpringFest 2004.

Baraka's director, Ron Fricke, once called his globe-trotting poetic
documentary collage "a journey of rediscovery that plunges into nature, into
history, into the human spirit and finally into the realm of the infinite."
This year it will serve as a tribute to Mother Earth and to the Senator's
exacting standards of film presentation.

After experiencing Baltimore's showcase theater firsthand, Baraka's
producer, Mark Magidson, provided his personal 70mm print for the
celebration. Kiefaber says "the hyper-sharp visual image" and the
multichannel soundtrack will result in "as close to cinematic virtual
reality bliss as we have yet achieved."

The Senator's gratis all-day party kicks off tomorrow at 11:30 a.m. with a
participatory drum circle. There will be two screenings of Baraka at 12:30
p.m. and 5 p.m., and a 3 p.m. performance by the world music group Lucid
Dreamers.

For more information, visit www.senator.com



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