Short Block: Honoring our Heroes
Sun. May 17, 2009 10:30am GMT-5 (EST)
Carnegie Institute of Washington
1530 P Street NW
Washington, DC 20005 View map
Ages: All ages
Price: $ 10.00
1530 P Street NW
Washington, DC 20005 View map
Ages: All ages
Price: $ 10.00
Filmmakers Forum
While We Lie Sleeping:
While We Lie Sleeping is a black and white silent short, which pays tribute to the women and men who have served and are still serving in Iraq and Afghanistan. The film juxtaposes Iconic shots of the American landscape (highways, trains, mountains, small towns, American flags, mailboxes, churches, a civilian graveyard) with poetic larger than life portraits of the soldiers symbolically 'getting ready to leave for the box.' We see their boots walking, grabbing a rifle, saluting, standing at attention, staring into camera. America is shown as a grand, majestic, vast and empty landscape
Welcome Home:
An Iraqi Veteran meets his Vietnam counterpart in a subway during a flasback. These two Veterans share a gripping experience, as they remember times when they were at war. Only men like these two Veterans, have a true understanding on what it means to have someone say, 'Welcome Home.'
Most Honorable Son:
After the Pearl Harbor attack, a Nebraska farmer named Ben Kuroki volunteered for the U.S. Army Air Corps. He would become the first Japanese-American war hero, surviving 58 missions as an aerial gunner over Europe, North Africa and Japan. Between his tours of duty he would find himself at the center of controversy - a lone spokesman against the racism faced by the thousands of Japanese-Americans sent to internment camps.
Soldiers of Honor:
WWII Veterans are flown to Washington DC in Honor Flight missions to visit the WWII memorial.
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While We Lie Sleeping:
While We Lie Sleeping is a black and white silent short, which pays tribute to the women and men who have served and are still serving in Iraq and Afghanistan. The film juxtaposes Iconic shots of the American landscape (highways, trains, mountains, small towns, American flags, mailboxes, churches, a civilian graveyard) with poetic larger than life portraits of the soldiers symbolically 'getting ready to leave for the box.' We see their boots walking, grabbing a rifle, saluting, standing at attention, staring into camera. America is shown as a grand, majestic, vast and empty landscape
Welcome Home:
An Iraqi Veteran meets his Vietnam counterpart in a subway during a flasback. These two Veterans share a gripping experience, as they remember times when they were at war. Only men like these two Veterans, have a true understanding on what it means to have someone say, 'Welcome Home.'
Most Honorable Son:
After the Pearl Harbor attack, a Nebraska farmer named Ben Kuroki volunteered for the U.S. Army Air Corps. He would become the first Japanese-American war hero, surviving 58 missions as an aerial gunner over Europe, North Africa and Japan. Between his tours of duty he would find himself at the center of controversy - a lone spokesman against the racism faced by the thousands of Japanese-Americans sent to internment camps.
Soldiers of Honor:
WWII Veterans are flown to Washington DC in Honor Flight missions to visit the WWII memorial.
824 interested in this event
