Good work, Becca! Wish I could be there. Best, Steve On Wed, Jul 28, 2021 at 7:48 AM Becca Keating <keating.be...@gmail.com> wrote:
> This weekend Museum of the Moving Image will present experimental programs > as part of its annual First Look Festival of New York Premieres. > > The programs will feature new work from *Ken Jacobs* (Double Wow and > Other Films by Ken Jacobs > <http://www.movingimage.us/visit/calendar/2021/08/01/detail/double-wow-and-other-works-by-ken-jacobs> > *)* and *James Benning* (Maggie's Farm > <http://www.movingimage.us/visit/calendar/2021/07/31/detail/maggies-farm>). > Additionally, Are We Here, Together? Experimental Shorts > <http://www.movingimage.us/visit/calendar/2021/07/31/detail/are-we-here-together-experimental-shorts> > playing Saturday, Just 31st at 6:30pm presents new short works from 2020 > and 2021 with filmmakers Emily Vey Duke, Cooper Battersby, Talenda Sanders, > Meg Rorison, Peter Burr, Roger Beebe and Ross Meckfessel in person. > > Full details on the programs are as follows: > > *Saturday, July 31st* > 4:00pm Maggie's Farm > <http://www.movingimage.us/visit/calendar/2021/07/31/detail/maggies-farm> > > *Dir. James Benning*. United States. 2020, 84 mins. If landscape is a > function of time as James Benning has held throughout his career, then this > serene study of the parking lot, stairwell, corridors, and rear loading > dock of the CalArts building where Benning has worked for 33 years > comprises more than the sum of its 24 three-and-a-half-minute-long shots, > divided sequentially into eight exteriors, eight interiors, and eight > exteriors again, recorded in a single day. The suggested rhythm of the > filmmaker’s own quotidian life over decades merges dreamily with the > real-time rhythms of this institutional space, where sometimes the music of > Bob Dylan and Linda Ronstadt is overheard. *New York premiere* > *Tickets: $15 / $11 seniors & students / $9 youth (ages 3–17) / Free for > MoMI members. Order online. > <https://1282.blackbaudhosting.com/1282/sslpage.aspx?pid=196&tab=2&txobjid=ae19f444-0a32-46f7-bcfe-59a8446ef3ba>* > *After > your purchase, an electronic ticket will be sent via email. All seating is > general admission. Please review safety protocols > <http://www.movingimage.us/visit/safety-2021> before your visit.* > > *Saturday, July 31st* > 6:30pm Are We Here, Together? Experimental Shorts > <http://www.movingimage.us/visit/calendar/2021/07/31/detail/are-we-here-together-experimental-shorts> > > A mining of perception exploring landscapes, cityscapes, bodies, > sexuality, feminism, anti-capitalism, and anti-authoritarianism in search > of meaning, connection, the self, resolve, and greater ideals. These two > programs of shorts conclude with a projector performance by Roger Beebe > paying tribute to the filmmaker Norman McLaren. > > *Program 1: In These Times* > > *With Emily Vey Duke, Talena Sanders, and Cooper Battersby in person* > > Running time: approximately 60 mins. > > > *We Carry with Us Our Mother * Dir. Olivia Ciummo. United States. 2019, 5 > mins. Planetary events and blood red landscapes blend with ethereal sounds > as text leaves clues about difficulties with the mind and body. *New York > premiere* > > > *Garden City Beautiful * Dir. Ben Balcom. United States. 2019, 12 mins. > One sunny afternoon in the Midwest, suspended in a time between, two > commuters daydream about a life lived otherwise. *New York City premiere* > > *Zen Basketball*. > Dir. Mike Hoolboom. U.S. 2020, 5 mins. In a series of simple frames, the > often misunderstood practice of Zen takes shape as basketball bliss. Now in > retirement, the greatest defensive player of the amateur leagues continues > to practice on a remote island, far from the madding crowds. His techniques > and dedication undergo continual refinement, revealed here in this > startling exposé. *North American premiere* > > > *Eastern State * Dir. Talena Sanders. U.S. 2019, 5 mins. *Eastern State* > brings a found archive of decades of footage documenting the lives of the > patients and employees of one of the oldest mental health institutions in > the United States into dialogue with Barbara Loden's 1970 film Wanda. > Through digital video corruption, VHS artifacting, stroboscopic effects, > direct animation, and overlays, this collage film considers the fidelity of > nonfiction media to lived experiences of isolation. Warning: flicker > effects. *New York premiere* > > > *Standing Forward Full * Dir. Alee Peoples. United States. 2020, 6 mins. > A helter skelter is an amusement ride with a spiral slide built around a > tower. Like this film, an exorcism attempt of an unrequited desire, itʼs > either moving too fast or at a complete standstill. Disorienting but > exciting. *New York premiere.* > > > *Curious Fantasies * Dir. Jesse McLean. United States. 2019, 8 mins.The > language and imagery related to celebrity perfumes (both descriptive and > visual) are a starting point to think about consumer desires and the > corruption of branding. “Give us your songs, your smells, and we will give > you everything.” The rich get richer, everyone smells poorer. *New York > premiere* > > > *BECOMING * Dir. Ariel Teal. United States. 2018, 8 mins. Embodying a > body after trauma. Blowjobs, *Buffy the Vampire Slayer*, and memory are > interwoven in an attempt to process and find bodily autonomy. Content > warning: The film contains text dealing with sexual trauma. *New York > premiere* > > > *Civil Twilight at the Vernal Equinox * Dirs. Emily Vey Duke, Cooper > Battersby. U.S, 12 mins. “What would another world look like, one that is > carried by this feeling of empathy, of mutual love between humans and > animals, between species? How would our relationship with a largely > domesticated nature and environment change? How would established > relationships of power and strength be redefined with this thought?”—Tasja > Langenbach. *New York premiere* > > *Program 2: Perceptual States* > > *With Peter Burr, Margaret Rorison, and Ross Meckfessel in person* > > Running time: approximately 75 mins. > > > *Black Square * Dir. Peter Burr. U.S. 2020. 7 mins. An assembly of human > figures writhe and squares strobe in rhythm to audio sampled from the > opening of the 1965 Op Art exhibition "The Responsive Eye." Through the > friction of this contrast, a portrait emerges of an anxious divided society > testing the boundaries of awareness. Warning: flicker effects. *New York > premiere* > > > *Another Horizon * Dir. Stephanie Barber. U.S. 2020. 9 mins. The horizon, > where the sky and the earth meet, is always elsewhere, a promised place > where these two elements come together. A metaphor, an orienting, a promise > of transition, change, transcendence. A place where the corporeal and > spiritual meet, or are cleaved apart. *New York City premiere* > > > *Zero Length Spring * Dir. Ross Meckfessel. U.S. 2020. 16 mins. A walk > through corridors and rooms culminates in a familial Reiki session—what’s > underneath and within. An apotropaic film, imprinted by rituals and > symbols, basking in ruptures of the body and the earth. Through ASMR brush > tracks and the language of self-help therapy, film surface abrasions and > alleged paranormal photos, the film gives shape to various unseeable > forces. You’re worth it, you deserve love, you can grow. *New York > premiere* > > > *The I and S of Lives * Dir. Kevin Jerome Everson. United States. 2021, 7 > mins. The “I” and “S” of “Lives” are the smoothest area of resistance. A > rollerblader (Jahleel Gardner) navigates the letters on the pavement of > Black Lives Matter Plaza in Washington D.C. on a summer afternoon, 2020. *New > York premiere* > > > *Baltimore * Dir. Margaret Rorison. United States. 2021, 22 mins. A > montage of the underpopulated streets, shuddered storefronts, and crumbling > cornices of Baltimore City suggests a disturbed, mind’s eye recollection of > social neglect and physical decay. *New York premiere.* > > > *Live Performance Lineage (for Norman McLaren) * Dir. Roger Beebe. U.S. > 2019. 15 mins. 16mm projector performance. Lineage is a loop-based > “orchestral” film performance for four 16mm projectors. Using as a point of > departure Norman McLaren’s abstract animations in *Lines Horizontal* as > well as reworked footage from two documentary portraits of McLaren in his > prime and in his later life, the film explores how abstract marks made in a > variety of ways—laser printing and etching, contact printing and > hand-processing—result in strange and surprising sounds. *New York > premiere.* > > *Tickets: $15 / $11 seniors & students / $9 youth (ages 3–17) / Free for > MoMI members. Order online. > <https://1282.blackbaudhosting.com/1282/tickets?tab=2&txobjid=d0eccf03-d611-464a-9169-33478e236690>* > *After > your purchase, an electronic ticket will be sent via email. All seating is > general admission. Please review safety protocols > <http://www.movingimage.us/visit/safety-2021> before your visit.* > > *Sunday, August 1::* > 4:00pm Double Wow and Other Films by Ken Jacobs > <http://www.movingimage.us/visit/calendar/2021/08/01/detail/double-wow-and-other-works-by-ken-jacobs> > > *With Ken Jacobs in conversation with David Schwartz* > > Dir. Ken Jacobs. United States. 1969–2021, 70-minute program. MoMI’s 1989 > Ken Jacobs retrospective celebrated three decades of pioneering work by the > New York avant garde icon. Always inventing new forms and bending > technology to his unique artistry, Jacobs embraced digital cinema and has > become even more prolific in the subsequent three decades. In this program, > two celluloid portraits of his young son and daughter and a digital > exploration of 19th-century stereographic imagery of children laboring at a > thread factory, are presented along with the world premiere of a 40-minute > 3D work, Double Wow, whose title evokes the wonderment and impact of so > many of his films. The screening, with First Look favorite Ken Jacobs in > person, celebrates the release of The Ken Jacobs Collection by Kino Lorber > on Blu-ray. > > *Nissan Ariana Window* (1969, 14 mins., 16mm) > > *Spaghetti Aza* (1976, 1 min., 16mm) > > *Opening the 19th Century* *1896* (1991, 9 mins., 16mm) > > *Capitalism: Child Labor* (2006, 14 mins.) > > *Double Wow* (*World Premiere*. 2021, 40 mins., 3-D) > > *Tickets: $15 / $11 seniors & students / $9 youth (ages 3–17) / Free for > MoMI members. 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