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Curated by artist and writer Andrew Lampert, this street level exhibition features a panoramic selection of Jacobs’ nearly 70 years of pioneering films and digital videos in the Broadway Windows gallery located on the corner of Broadway and E. 10th Street.
Read MoreAs part the series examining the films that influenced director Chantal Ackerman on her way to creating her masterpiece JEAN DIELMAN, Michael Snow’s LA RÉGION CENTRAL and WAVELENGTH, are being presented, along with Straub and Huillet’s MOSES AND AARON, Carl Th. Dreyer’s GERTRUD, and Jean Luc Godard’s TWO OR THREE THINGS I KNOW ABOUT HER, among other films that impacted the development of JEAN DIELMAN.
Read MoreThis spring, Anthology hosts a long-overdue retrospective of the work of the moving-image artist, writer, and poet Abigail Child. A leading figure of the generation of experimental filmmakers that emerged in the late 1970s-early 1980s, Child has continued to make innovative and challenging work – in a dizzying variety of forms and on a wide range of topics – ever since.
Read More“Cinema of Sensations: The Never-Ending Screen of Val del Omar,” a major exhibition devoted to the work of José Val del Omar (1904–1982), a visionary Spanish artist, filmmaker, and inventor who approached cinema as a multi-sensory experience, is on view at the Museum of the Moving Image through October 1, 2023.
Read MoreTo celebrate Maria Lassnig’s moving-image work, the restoration of her films, and the publication of “Maria Lassnig: Film Works”, Anthology Film Archives is presenting three programs devoted to both her “canonical” films and the newly completed “non-canonical” works that have expanded and enriched our understanding of her cinema.
Read MoreIt’s no exaggeration to say that Michael Snow’s body of moving-image work represents one of the great achievements in the history of the art form – films such as WAVELENGTH, <---> (BACK AND FORTH), and LA RÉGION CENTRALE, each being shown during this short retrospective, are among the seminal works of experimental cinema.
Read MoreThe iconoclastic figurative painter amidst the surging reign of abstract expressionist painters of the 1960, Alfred Leslie was also a noted filmmaker, especially well-known for his films THE CEDAR TAVERN (1952, from his own play of the same title), and the definitive Beat film, PULL MY DAISY (1959), made with Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Robert Frank and other luminaries from the scene.
Read MoreEach of Michael Snow's works, spanning across painting, sculpture, video, film, photography, holography, drawing, publishing and music, invites us to experience, question and contemplate representation, its process and material.
Read MoreCo-presented with the Museum of Sex, and introduced by Sean Price Williams, TIMES FOR (1970, featuring performance artist and filmmaker Carolee Schneemann) depicts an unfulfilled man who renders himself to the unrealized sensuality of four women. In his drifting search he fails and fades in the same loneliness as the women. The film is the reality and a metaphor for the intensities of sexual experience. “… His camera is a never-static instrument of his intrusion into the fantasy/reality of the relationships he is dealing with and forming …. TIMES FOR is one of the few erotic masterpieces.” –Program note, National Film Theatre, London
Read MoreThis semester, Gartenberg Media has presented a number of new selections on the GME Streamline section of our website for the distribution of films and videos, now available as Digital Site Licenses (DSL), exclusively to the academic community for the streaming of moving image works via the university’s own intranet or closed circuit network, in order to further enrich curricula as well as for library and research use.
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