Howdy NYC Frameworkers, We posted this to TWIAG already, but really want to make sure the NYC community is aware of these special screenings starting tonight and through the weekend.
---------------------------------------------------------- ANTHOLOGY FILM ARCHIVES 32 SECOND AVENUE NEW YORK, NY Retrospective-In Memoriam OWEN LAND AND ROBERT BREER December 2-4 This year has been a tragic one for the avant-garde film community. In addition to the passing of Adolfas Mekas and David Stone (whose work we will be honored previously this season) we lost two of the seminal figures of American independent cinema: Robert Breer and Owen Land (aka George Landow), both of whom are prominently included in Anthology’s Essential Cinema repertory collection. To honor each filmmaker, we will be presenting these comprehensive programs of their filmwork, with special speakers to be announced. GEORGE LANDOW, AKA OWEN LAND “His remarkable faculty is as maker of images.... [T]he images he photographs are among the most radical, super-real and haunting images the cinema has ever given us.” –P. Adams Sitney, VISIONARY FILM “Film is a complex medium, combining elements of many other media. The ideal film artist would be a great poet, great painter, great playwright, great composer, great inventor – and maybe even a great business man or woman (most probably a woman – all the artists of the future may be women, men having long given up that profession to become soldiers or mystics). Such a composite genius has yet to appear.” –George Landow, IMAGE FORUM EARLY FILMS BY GEORGE LANDOW (ca. 1961-62, ca. 15 minutes, 8mm-to-16mm blow-up. Preserved with support from Cineric, Inc.) These films are not part of the Essential Cinema. According to Jonas Mekas, Landow used to show these films along with FLEMING FALOON at early screenings before he pulled them from his repertoire. They seem to be studies for FLEMING FALOON, more raw, less concise, messy split-screens, and footage re-filmed off the screen. Talking heads (including Mike Wallace and film historian Richard Kraft) blur, stretch, fade; what Jonas says is a festering arm wound that Landow had at the time is shot at various blurry exposures. FLEMING FALOON (1963, 6 minutes, 16mm) FILM IN WHICH THERE APPEAR SPROCKET HOLES, EDGE LETTERING, DIRT PARTICLES, ETC. (1965-66, 5 minutes, 16mm, silent) DIPLOTERATOLOGY: BARDO FOLLIES (1967, 7 minutes, 16mm, b&w, silent) THE FILM THAT RISES TO THE SURFACE OF CLARIFIED BUTTER (1968, 9 minutes, 16mm, b&w) INSTITUTIONAL QUALITY (1969, 5 minutes, 16mm) REMEDIAL READING COMPREHENSION (1970, 5 minutes, 16mm) WHAT’S WRONG WITH THIS PICTURE? (1972, 13 minutes, 16mm) THANK YOU JESUS FOR THE ETERNAL PRESENT (1973, 6 minutes, 16mm) Total running time: ca. 80 minutes. –Friday, December 2 at 6:45 and Saturday, December 3 at 3:00. A FILM OF THEIR 1973 SPRING TOUR COMMISSIONED BY CHRISTIAN WORLD LIBERATION FRONT OF BERKELEY, CALIFORNIA (1974, 11.5 minutes, 16mm) NO SIR, ORISON! (1975, 3 minutes, 16mm) WIDE ANGLE SAXON (1975, 22 minutes, 16mm) NEW IMPROVED INSTITUTIONAL QUALITY: IN THE ENVIRONMENT OF LIQUIDS AND NASALS A PARASITICVOWEL SOMETIMES DEVELOPS (1976, 10 minutes, 16mm) ON THE MARRIAGE BROKER JOKE AS CITED BY SIGMUND FREUD IN WIT AND ITS RELATION OF THE UNCONSCIOUS, OR CAN THE AVANT-GARDE ARTIST BE WHOLED? (1979, 17.5 minutes, 16mm) NOLI METANGERE (1984, 6 minutes, video) THE BOX THEORY (1984, 15.5 minutes, video) Total running time: ca. 95 minutes. –Friday, December 2 at 9:00. DIALOGUES, OR A WAIST IS A TERRIBLE THING TO MIND 2007-09, 120 minutes, video. Land’s final film – the first he had produced in more than 20 years – consists of an episodic series of short films informed by his study of folklore, myth, history, and the theology of all major religions, including Gnosticism and cabala. With a healthy dose of irony and a proudly irreverent attitude toward all kinds of orthodoxies, Land readily applies the structure of the Platonic dialogue toexplore themes of reincarnation, art criticism, and Tantra. “On one level, DIALOGUES is a parody of SCORPIO RISING, using era-specific hit records to locate scenes in time and mood; on another level, it’s an interpretation of Plato’s dialogue ‘Phaedo’, in which Socrates proves the doctrine of re-incarnation; on still another level, it is a polemic for the Tantric belief in the sacredness of male-female polarity. With music by Meredith Monk, Laurie Anderson, Joan Baez, Patti Smith, The Byrds, Phil Collins, Alice Cooper, Genesis, The Human League, et al. Rated R: Restricted to audiences with a knowledge of Art History.” –O.L. –Saturday, December 3 at 5:00. ROBERT BREER, PROGRAM 1 With the exception of BREATHING, all of the films in this program were preserved by Anthology with generous support from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts. Unless otherwise noted, all films in this program are 16mm blown-up to 35mm. FORM PHASES I (1952, 2 minutes, 16mm) FORM PHASES II (1953, 2 minutes, 16mm) UN MIRACLE (1954, 30 seconds) Made with Pontus Hulten. RECREATION (1956, 1.5 minutes) A MAN AND HIS DOG OUT FOR AIR (1957, 2 minutes) JAMESTOWN BALOOS (1957, 6 minutes) LE MOUVEMENT (1957, 14 minutes) EYEWASH (1959, 3 minutes) EYEWASH (ALTERNATIVE VERSION) (1959, 3 minutes) BLAZES (1961, 3 minutes) PAT’S BIRTHDAY (1962, 13 minutes, 16mm) BREATHING (1963, 5 minutes, 16mm) 66 (1966, 5.5 minutes) 69 (1969, 4.5 minutes) Total running time: ca. 70 minutes. –Sunday, December 4 at 5:00. ROBERT BREER, PROGRAM 2 With the exception of GULLS AND BUOYS, all of the films in this program were preserved by Anthology with generous support from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts. Unless otherwise noted, all films in this program are 16mm blown-up to 35mm. 70 (1970, 5 minutes) 77 (1970, 6.5 minutes) FIST FIGHT (1964, 9 minutes) GULLS AND BUOYS (1972, 8 minutes, 16mm) FUJI (1974, 9 minutes) SWISS ARMY KNIFE WITH RAT AND PIGEON (1981, 6.5 minutes) BANG (1986, 10 minutes) Total running time: ca. 60 minutes. –Sunday, December 4 at 7:00. ROBERT BREER, PROGRAM 3 HOMAGE TO JEAN TINGUELY’S HOMAGE TO NEW YORK (1960, 9.5 minutes, 16mm, b&w) INNER AND OUTER SPACE (1960, 4 minutes, 16mm) HORSE OVER TEA KETTLE (1962, 8 minutes, 16mm) PBL NO. 2 (1968, 1 minute, 16mm) RUBBER CEMENT (1975, 10 minutes, 16mm) LMNO (1978, 9.5 minutes, 16mm) T. Z. (1979, 8.5 minutes, 16mm) TRIAL BALLOONS (1982, 5.5 minutes, 16mm) A FROG ON THE SWING (1988, 5 minutes, 16mm) SPARKILL AVE! (1993, 5 minutes, 16mm) TIME FLIES (1997, 13.5 minutes, 16mm) ATOZ (2000, 5 minutes, 16mm) WHAT GOES UP (2000, 4 minutes, 16mm) Total running time: ca. 95 minutes. –Sunday, December 4 at 8:45. ** Web: http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org Twitter:http://twitter.com/anthologyfilm Facebook:http://www.facebook.com/AnthologyFilm _______________________________________________ FrameWorks mailing list [email protected] https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks
