* Dear List, I apologize for not getting this to the events listings today in time. However, we have have a couple of rare screenings this weekend. In addition to tonight's anniversary show, "miroscopic" programmed by Bradley Eros (which was announced in the list), we have on SUN the premiere of Katherin McInnis' slide show "Phantom Highway", along with short videos by Peter Hutton, Jessica Bardsley & Penny Lane, Mary Billyou, & Jem Cohen; and then on Monday, Spanish Filmmaker Adolfo Arrietta visits Microscope in connection with his retrospective at Anthology Film Archives.
Below are a few details. More info is on our website: www.microscopegallery.com under Events. SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 18, 7PM Round Robin Collective presents: Phantom Highway, a slide-show by Katherin McInnis (premiere) plus a short video program curated by Mary Billyou with works by Peter Hutton, Jessica Bardsley & Penny Lane, Mary Billyou, & Jem Cohen Admission $6 Microscope welcomes members of the Round Robin Colllective for the 1st of 2 screenings as part of Live/Work Space events. For this first show, Katherin McInnis premieres her new photographic slide-show Phantom Highwayon the Bushwick Expressway, a project abandoned in an incomplete state in the early 70s. Mary Billyou will also present a short curated video program of related works from Peter Hutton, Jessica Bardsley & Penny Lane, Mary Billyou, & Jem Cohen. “Phantom Highway traces the path of the never-built Bushwick Expressway. Planned by Robert Moses in 1955 as part of federal Interstate 78, the expressway — connecting the Williamsburgh Bridge to routes to JFK — was scheduled for completion by 1975, but shelved by 1971. Following the freeway’s path tells a story of displacement and disinvestment, met with community resilience and reinvention.” – - K M MONDAY SEPTEMBER 19, 7PM* *ADOLFO ARRIETA PRESENTS* *Works by Marguerite Lantz & premiere of his new short made especially for the evening* *Adolfo Arrieta in person – Admission $6* * * * Microscope is thrilled to welcome Spanish film-maker Adolfo Arrieta for a carte blanche night where he will present videos by French artist Marguerite Lantz as well as a new 8-minute short work composed specially for this show. The theme of the evening is ‘angel wings’ – also very much present in Arrieta’s work. The event runs in conjunction with a retrospective of his films at Anthology Film Archives (www.anthologyfilmarchives.org) from Thursday September 15- Sunday Sept 18th. Adolfo Arrieta (b. in Madrid, August 28, 1942) is a Spanish filmmaker, considered to be the pioneer of independent film both in Spain and France, due to the artisan quality and the unique spirit of freedom of his films. He usually uses variations of his name in the credits of his films, such as Udolfo Arrieta, Alfo Arrieta or Adolpho Arrieta. His cinematic language is very poetic, apart from narrative conventions, which has earned it comparisons to the cinema of Jean Cocteau. Having started as a painter, Arrieta began his filmmaking with the short films El crimen de la pirindola (1965) and Imitación del ángel (1966) both shot in Madrid, a milestone for independet cinema in Spain. He moved to Paris in 1967 with Javier Grandes, an usual actor in most of his films, where he would live through the events of May 1968. In 1969 he met Jean Marais, leading actor in La Belle et la Bête (1945), Orphée (1949) and Le testament d’Orphée (1959) by Jean Cocteau, of whom he ad been a former lover. With Marais, Arrieta would shoot his first feature film, Le jouet criminel (1969), that was compared to Cocteau’s cinema for his poetic nature. With Le château de Pointilly (1972), he would receive critical praise from Marguerite Duras. He won the Great Prize at the Toulon Film Festival with Les intrigues de Sylvia Couski (1974), acclaimed by the critics and considered as the first underground Parisian film. He would follow with Tam Tam (1976), the record of an uninterrupted party between New York, Paris and Spain; and Flammes (1978), a story about a sexual childhood fantasy turning into a real passion in the adulthood. In the following years he would make Grenouilles (1983), Kiki, la gata (episode of the TV series Delirios de amor, 1989), Merlín (1990) and Narciso (2004). His next to last film Vacanza permanente (2006), was awarded at the Lucca International Film Festival, and meant for Arrieta a creative rebirth. It was premiered in Madrid at La Casa Encendida de Madrid on May 27 2007, during the polipoetry festival Yuxtaposiciones, and presented by the writer Leopoldo Alas.In March 2008 the venue La Enana Marrón in Madrid held a partial retrospective of Arrieta’s filmography, screening his most outstanding works. French publisher re:voir<http://www.re-voir.com/> has released the first in a series of DVDs dedicated to Arrieta’s film work, beginning with “La trilogía del ángel<http://www.expcinema.com/site/index.php?option=com_virtuemart&page=shop.product_details&flypage=shop.flypage&product_id=388> ” Marguerite Lantz lives and works in Paris, where she did her studies at the ENSAD and Paris 8. Her performances, videos and installations are of very varied forms and techniques. They tend towards the memory of the wonderful, as well as the observation of everyday life. “My work is nurtured by the meeting of different universes. By universes I mean artistic disciplines (cinema, performance, fine arts, dance, kitchen etc.) as well as professional environments (audiovisuals, administration…) or everyday life (the street, nature, garden, apartment, window…). In addition to this, everything is mixed up with layers of fiction, memories of the childhood, dreams.” — M LHer video-perfromances and miniature-films have been shown in France (Centre George Pompidou, Forum des Images…) and abroad (Corea, Japan, US, Russia, Qatar…) either at festivals or in national museums. Microscope Gallery, 4 Charles Place (btwn Bushwick & Evergreen Ave), Bushwick, Brooklyn, NY 11221, tel: 347.925.1433 *
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