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One solution may be
partnerships. At Cinema
Lamont, Gardner collabo-
rated with Dearborn’
s Arab
American National Museum
and Detroit’
s Mexican con-
sulate. He expresses similar
hope for extending the Film
Lab’
s reach.
“It’
s something we’
re still
working on, and
perhaps people
aren’
t necessar-
ily used to the
opportunity to
see films like
that or used to
coming to places
like this,” he said. “I think
there’
s still a lot of work to
be done. We certainly hav-
en’
t reached our goals.”
Gardner describes engag-
ing the broader community
— not just in Hamtramck
or Detroit, but across coun-
ties — as a welcome chal-
lenge and a chance to give
others the same feeling of
recognizing their identity
through film that he saw in
his parents early on.
“(There’
s) the importance
of seeing yourself represent-
ed on-screen and how that
can mean something to you
when you saw, like, some-
one saying a Hebrew prayer
and you recognized yourself
in it. And it seemed kind of
weird and special,” he said.
“And that’
s kind of imparted
on me that other people
might feel the same way.”
A project like the Film
Lab takes a
leap of faith to
try. But both
Gardner and
Sfire express a
faith, too, that
world cinema
can touch people
— and that taking the time
to showcase what Gardner
calls “divergent experiences”
is valuable and worth the
risk.
“People had told me that
there wasn’
t such an audi-
ence for foreign-language
cinema, perhaps outside of
the DIA,” he said. As the
Film Lab’
s audience grows,
Gardner reasons, so, too,
will their trust in its pro-
gramming.
“If they see something,”
he said, “they’
ll take a
chance on it.”
Housed in a former Polish Legion of American Veterans hall, the exterior
offers little indication of the world cinema inside.
The Film
Lab
3105 Holbrook Ave.,
Hamtramck
thefilmlab.org
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