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Underground Film Series
Blue
(1993) Directed by Derek Jarman
Friday - September 28 - 9:30 p.m.
In his final--and most daring--cinematic statement,
Jarman the romantic meets Jarman the iconoclast
in a lush soundscape pulsing against a purely blue
screen. Laying bare his physical and spiritual state in
a narration about his life, his struggle with AIDS and
his encroaching blindness, Blue is by turns poignant,
amusing, poetic and philosphical.
(35mm. 76 min. Not rated.)
Truly FILMIC Shorts Program
Multiple Directors
Friday - November 9 - 6:30 p.m.
With the demise of film perpetually looming
as major movie studios move "forward" to the
digital future (some having already announced
the end of celluloid distribution), critics,
scholars, and media practitioners have spent
copious time and column inches debating the
value of digital and what should be done about
film. For those who love the look of film, and for
those who wholeheartedly embrace digitality,
this program presents a selection of truly
filmic films, works that highlight the particular
characteristics of that beloved medium.
Shirley Clarke's
Bridges-Go-Round is a
kaleidoscopic take on several New York City
bridges, which are made by turns ominous,
classical, and futuristic.
Variations, one of
Nathaniel Dorsky's silent masterpieces, renders
the small details of everyday life with images
of exquisite, delicate beauty. Janie Geiser's
The
Fourth Watch uses old movies re-photographed
from a video monitor as the material for a
meditation on the lives and deaths of media
forms and their use by avant-garde artists.
Finally,
Looking for Langston is Isaac Julien's
widely celebrated examination of black gay
identity during the Harlem Renaissance,
developed through a combination of stock
newsreel footage and staged scenes.
(16mm. 82 min. Not Rated)
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