Dirty Looks: On Location- Queer Interventions in NYC Spaces
Dirty Looks: On Location is a month-long series of queer interventions in New York City spaces. Over the course of July, Dirty Looks, a roaming series– which typically hosts screenings on the last Wednesday of the month–will install film and video work in queer social spaces and former sites of queer sociality (like shuttered bars,... [ Read More → ]
Carmelo Bene Retrospective at Anthology
By Troy Swain THE FILMS OF CARMELO BENE Beginning this weekend, Anthology will present this retrospective encompassing all five feature films (as well as a couple shorts) directed by the vanguard filmmaker, actor, and playwright Carmelo Bene, one of the greatest figures in Italian avant-garde culture. Renowned for his work in the theater, Bene turned... [ Read More → ]
Moron Movies and Len Cella
Initially aired on Johnny Carson’s ‘Tonight Show’ in 1968, Len Cella’s Moron Movies became a regular feature between 1983 and 1985, then eventually surfaced on ‘TV’s Bloopers and Practical Jokes’ as Len Cella’s Silly Cinema a title which he allegedly despised. Curiously available in every video store in North America in the mid 90s, even... [ Read More → ]
Sand, Skin, Water, Light– Woman in the Dunes, 1964
Celebrated Japanese avant-garde filmmaker, Hiroshi Teshigahara’s 1964 film Woman in the Dunes is available in it’s entirety on youtube. With its psycho-sexual undercurrent from the beginning, the film presents a seamless unity between reality and metaphor in terms of its subject, style, and concept. Suna no Onna‘s literal translation– “Sand Lady” registers much more as... [ Read More → ]
Brakhage + Godard @ MoMA
As part of MoMA’s current exhibition Contemporary Galleries: 1980 – Now, films by Stan Brakhage are being screened daily at 3pm in the Time Warner Screening Room on the 2nd floor of the Museum’s Lewis B and Dorothy Cullman Education and Research Building. The program changes once a week, on Wednesday. Meantime, in another black-box... [ Read More → ]
Artprojx Cinema presents Luke Fowler and “Mystery Show” at SVA Theatre NYC
In association with The Modern Institute, David Gryn’s London-based ArtProjx Cinema will present recent works by Luke Fowler and “Mystery Show,” a selection of work by four Finnish artists. (Liisa Lounila, Erkka Nissinen, Pilvi Takala, Timo Vaittinen) at SVA Theatre in New York. Each program will be screened twice: Friday March 9, 2012 at... [ Read More → ]
FG.Ft: Three Part Project Series, A Tribute to Fad Gadget and Frank Tovey
FGFt
March 1st - April 8th
FGFt commemorates the late Frank Tovey's musical and artistic endeavours with a multi-part exhibition including an art exhibition, a screening of Morgan Tovey-Frost's 'Fad Gadget By Frank Tovey' and musical performances by Xeno and Oaklander and Ike Yard(amongst others). [ Read More → ]
Sympathetic Materialism: An Evening with Allan Sekula
Sunday – 02.12.12 – Sympathetic Materialism – An Evening with Allan Sekula Contents: 1. Introduction to Sunday 2. A note on sympathetic materialism 3. Untitled preface to Waiting for Tear Gas 4. Lottery of the Sea: Prologue and Ending 5. The Forgotten Space – screening at MoMA, Monday, 02.13.11 6. Related readings/viewings 7. Filmography 8.... [ Read More → ]
We Are Cinema: 50 Years of the Film-makers’ Co-op at Microscope Gallery
2/11/12 to 3/5/12 Opening Reception Saturday 2/11, 7-9PM preceded by special 5PM screening of rare shorts by Jack Smith MICROSCOPE Gallery, 4 Charles Place, Bushwick We Are Cinema is a month-long exhibit and screening series celebrating 50 years of the Film-Makers’ Co-op in NYC. It was in January of 1962 that filmmaker Jonas Mekas called... [ Read More → ]
Sacred Bones Records at Spectacle
Thursday, January 26th, 8pm Brooklyn-based label Sacred Bones Records will present a selection of material and a rare-screening of Jacqueline Castel’s Twelve Dark Noons at Spectacle Theater. Expect an unearthed collection of underground weirdness, music videos, short films, works-in-progress. The evening will conclude with the presentation of a secret feature film. [ Read More → ]
Charles Atlas at Judson Church and Light Industry
“New York City 1988. Raging homophobia. A killer on the loose. Disco dancing till dawn. Performers struggle to survive. Delilah seduces Samson in song. Gender illusionists go shopping.” Samson and Delilah, 1991. Charles Atlas at Judson Church January 25th, 8:30 – 10:30 PM -Filmmaker in Person- Dirty Looks presents an evening of video work by... [ Read More → ]
Ken Russell (1927–2011)
Ken Russell, the legendary British filmmaker responsible for provocative and iconoclastic films like The Devils (1971), Crimes of Passion (1984), Women in Love (1969), and Tommy (1975), has died at the age of eighty-four. He was born in Southhampton, England and attended naval college until studying photography at Walthamstow Art College. He later worked as... [ Read More → ]
FOUR ADVENTURES OF REINETTE & MIRABELLE
Film Forum presents Eric Rohmer’s 1987 feature, Four Adventures of Reinette and Mirabelle, the sister piece to his 1986 film, Le Rayon Vert (aka Summer). Over the course of four chapters, two young women –Reinette, from the city, and Mirabelle, from the country– meet when Reinette fixes Mirabelle’s flat bike tire. After bonding immediately, Reinette... [ Read More → ]
Kuchar and MoMA
Tonight: MoMA presents A Celebration of George Kuchar: Rambunctious Rarities, Moody Masterpieces to coincide with the exhibition Pagan Rhapsodies, opening this weekend at PS1 Planned prior to the artist’s recent death, this past September, George Kuchar: Pagan Rhapsodies includes many of the artist’s most important works, including films, videos, and works on paper. A presentation of Kuchar’s films... [ Read More → ]
Mono No Aware-2011 Program Lineup
Mono No Aware is an exhibition that will present an international program of expanded cinema performances. The program will present ephemeral works that emphasize the cinematic and phenomenological experience. Now that the internet, television, and cellphones have become an everyday vehicle for the moving image; audience experience and connectivity is significantly altered, and the basic... [ Read More → ]
Public Video: The High Line Channel
The High Line park recently announced they will host a daily program of outdoor video art this winter. Called the “High Line Channel,” a curated series of art films, videos, recorded historic works, and new video pieces will be screened from dusk to 10pm on various buildings just east of the High Line at West... [ Read More → ]
Nunvember NYC
So, I recently re-formatted this site, and for whatever reason– I lost a significant amount of content. One of the missing posts listed the details about the Flying Nun 30th Events in NYC.So I will re-post the latest below. Here’s the latest: 11/8: Open Deck DJ Night at Daddy’s Bar, BK. Bring yr favorite... [ Read More → ]
Luke Fowler
Fowler’s latest work, ALL DIVIDED SELVES considers the legacy of radical psychiatrist R.D. Laing. Following his celebrated WHAT YOU SEE IS WHERE YOU’RE AT (2001) and BOGMAN PALMJAGUAR (2007), this is the third of Fowler’s works invested in the reconfiguration of self and society proposed by Laing. Developed during his 2010 residency at the Center... [ Read More → ]
Show and Tell with Steina
October 16, 2011 7:30p Anthology Film Archives October 17, 2011, 6:00p Clocktower Gallery Anthology welcomes video pioneer Steina for a special presentation and screening. Born in Reykjavik, Iceland in 1940, Steina studied violin and music theory, and in 1959 attended the Czechoslovak State Music Conservatory, where she met her husband Woody Vasulka. Together they moved... [ Read More → ]
Anthology this week
Abigail Child in Millennium Film Journal, No. 22 (Winter/Spring 1989/90) There’s tons of great stuff happening at Anthology this week: Tuesday, Oct 11: FixC presents “Fixation” (programs 1&2) FixC is an independent artist cooperative based in Helsinki, which was launched to generate, distribute, and promote video art, media art, and experimental cinema, and to... [ Read More → ]
Hero’s dead
“I work on my tan in isolation” George Kuchar http://mubi.com/notebook/posts/george-kuchar-1942-2011 [ Read More → ]
Art in America Profiles Thomas Beard
Thomas Beard Co-Founder, Light Industry New York 7/26/11 Co-Founder and Director of Light Industry, a venue for film and electronic arts in Brooklyn, Thomas Beard recently curated “The Unfinished Film,” on view at Barbara Gladstone Gallery [through July 29]. The exhibition showcases films that appear as fragments in their final form either deliberately or... [ Read More → ]
Kuchars Rooftop Screening
Wednesday, August 31 · 8:30pm – 11:00pm Silvershed’s [GORGEOUS] Roof 119 West 25th Street New York, NY GEORGE & MIKE KUCHAR Lovers of Eternity, 1964 Lust for Ecstasy, 1964 GEORGE KUCHAR Hold Me While I’m Naked, 1966 …MARIE LOSIER Electrocute Your Stars, 2004 (starring George Kuchar) Program approx. 95mins. Since the age of 12,... [ Read More → ]
Light Industry presents a McLuhan screening at the New Museum
Light Industry at the New Museum: This Is Marshall McLuhan: The Medium Is the Massage Thursday, August 11, 2011 at 7pmThis Is Marshall McLuhan: The Medium Is the Massage Ernest Pintoff, 16mm, 1967, 54 mins Introduced by Alex KitnickThis Is Marshall McLuhan: The Medium Is the Massage premiered in 1967 as one of the... [ Read More → ]
NZ on Screen presents: Artists on Screen Series
For this showcase of NZ visual arts talent, critic Mark Amery selects his top documentaries profiling artists. From the icons (Hotere, McCahon, Lye ) to the unheralded (Edith Collier) to Takis the Greek, each portrait shines light on the person behind the proverbial canvas. Amery introduces the collection of Kiwi artists as framed onscreen, in... [ Read More → ]
E.S.P. TV at Silvershed
Sat. July 9, 8pm-12am SILVER SHED 119 West 25th Street, PH New York , NY 10001 Tel: 1-646-322-332 E.S.P. TV is coming to Silvershed this Saturday with a rooftop screening of highlights and outtakes from Episodes 1-4 and a sneak preview of Episode #5. If you’ve never seen the show this is a great chance... [ Read More → ]
Bring to Light NYC brings Nuit Blanche to Greenpoint, Calls for Artists
Early this spring, New Yorkers were treated to a unique and unprecedented spectacle, with “Let Us Eat Cake,” a program where projected images filled the facade of the New Museum on the Bowery. Following along this trajectory, the same collective will present a one night festival of ephemeral, site-specific, public projections and performances in Greenpoint... [ Read More → ]
Guy Maddin to adapt Sparks’ tribute to Ingmar Bergman
Josiah Hughes reports: Back in 2009, legendary pop outsiders Sparks followed up their 21st studio album, Exotic Creatures of the Deep, with The Seduction of Ingmar Bergman, an album that doubled as a musical, following a fictionalized version of the filmmaker’s life story. Now, the album will be expanded into a film by Canadian... [ Read More → ]
Fassbinder’s World on a Wire
Janus Films will be distributing new digitally restored 35mm prints of Fassbinder’s epic 1973 film ‘World on a Wire.’ Appearing at MoMA twice in the last 2 years, it was somewhat expected that Janus would restore the work. If the film generates enough profit and attention during national circulation, it is also probable that... [ Read More → ]