Night Mail (with other shorts)

At 10 am, the T/F train leaves the station with a shorts program that takes you all over the map. it begins with the little-seen gem, Night Mail (dir. Harry Watt and Basil Wright, 23 min., 1936) — With a live original soundtrack by Ken Thomson, New York avant-jazz vikings Gutbucket breathe new life into this classic documentary about the British mail train. Fighting Cholitas (dir. Mariam Jobrani, 20 min.): Dressed in their traditional long, layered skirts, a group of Bolivian women become Lucha Libre wrestlers every Sunday. Fruitloop and Arwegian Rick (dir. Jeff Shroyer, 3 min.) — Animated freight-train hopping. May I Please Speak to Vartan (dir. Alex Jablonsky, 9 min.) — A story about debt, fear and a phone that won't stop ringing. The First Day of Spring (dir. Runa Islam, 2005, 7 min.) — A gorgeous magic-hour look at rickshaw drivers waiting in a park in Dhaka, India, and who are removed from the cacophony of the city. (DW)