West Coast Underground Various Directors October 25 - Friday - 7:00 p.m. New York City has historically served (and still serves) as an important center of experimentation for American film artists. But many influential figures of the American Underground created work informed by the unique cultural perspectives found on the Pacific Coast. Representative of this diversity of craft and influence, this program will include Maya Deren’s Meditation on Violence (1948), Kenneth Anger’s Invocation of My Demon Brother (1969), Barbara Hammer’s Menses (1974), James Broughton’s Devotions (1983), and recent independent short works from James Franco. Reflecting on issues such as sexuality, gender, religion, and ritual each film records the personal explorations of a time and a place from the other coast of the American Underground. Histoire(s) du cinema (1998) Directed by Jean-Luc Godard November 1 - Friday - 6:30 p.m. See page 38 for details. (Digital. 266 min. Not Rated.) Two Films by Su Friedrich Directed by Su Friedrich December 6 - Friday - 6:30 p.m. This program presents two short films by American experimental filmmaker Su Friedrich. Friedrich's lucid and artful employment of cinematic form is well highlighted by these films, frequently as intelligent and provocative as they are affecting and evocative. Sink or Swim (1990), an alphabetic meditation on the forces and vicissitudes of being (especially the experience of being certain things), might best be described as an autobiographical ecology in 26 parts. Rules of the Road (1993) unfolds as a poignant and lyrical cinema-essay on the emotional life of things; it considers the ways relationships saturate the world of objects - and vice versa - via early 90's pop music and the sudden omnipresence of wood-paneled station wagons on New York City streets. (16mm. 79 min. Not Rated.) 26 Underground Film Series Tickets: (812) 855-1103