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RETROSPECTIVES / ONGOING SERIES
THE SUN AND THE MOON KO-KO
OUTSIDE IN / DAS INNERE BLOS
1981, 105 min, 16mm-to-digital video
“[OUTSIDE IN] is nominally about the filmmaker’s experience
of his disability, stricken with polio in early childhood. But is it a
personal reminiscence, a documentary, an essay film, a fictional
recreation, a lyrical abstraction, or a dance/performance piece?
It works through…a series of self-contained tableaux, each one
starkly set against those surrounding it, and each drawing upon a
very different style of cinematic representation. Poetic associations
flit from segment to segment, but it is left to the viewer to draw the
lines and make the connections.” –Adrian Martin, FILM QUARTERLY
–Sun, March 17 at 6:45, Thurs, March 21 at
8:45, and Sun, March 24 at 8:30.
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TRYING TO KISS THE MOON
1994, 96 min, 16mm
“This autobiographical film evolves from the perspective of events
and images over a period of over 50 years. These events are
liberated and interwoven like an inner landscape framing one life,
directly and indirectly, all life-connected and film-connected by
personal associations and rediscovered fragments.” –S.D.
–Sun, March 17 at 9:00 and
Fri, March 22 at 7:15.
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OBLIVION
2005, 78 min, digital video
Depicts an elderly paralytic man’s literally unspeakable monologue
of pain and fury as he finds himself caught in the isolation of dependency
and sexual loss. His mind attempts to regain a certain equilibrium
of desire as the women whom he once loved surround his
shrinking and shrieking mind. They are both real and imaginary and
appear, disappear, and suddenly come back to torment his memory.
–Mon, March 18 at 7:00 and
Fri, March 22 at 9:15.
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THE SUN AND THE MOON
2007, 60 min, digital video
In Dwoskin’s take on BEAUTY AND THE BEAST, an elderly woman
and a girl in an isolated country house are forced to confront the
‘other’, a deformed and fearsome man. Increasingly locked within
their personal solitude and terrorized by the menace that seems to
be looming over them, the two women must decide whether they
should take part in the annihilation of the man or if they should
carry out a final gesture of pity and compassion.
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NIGHTSHOTS (1, 2, 3)
2007, 33 min, digital video, b&w, silent
The first three of a series of intriguingly personal and erotic
engagements seen in the privacy of darkness and transformed by
the iridescence of the night light.
–Mon, March 18 at 8:45 and
Sat, March 23 at 3:45.
SHOW & TELL
Each of our quarterly calendars contains hundreds of films and videos all grouped into a number of
series or categories. Along with preservation screenings, theatrical premieres, thematic series, and
retrospectives, we’re equally dedicated to presenting work by individuals operating at the vanguard
of non-commercial cinema. Each month we showcase at least one such program, focusing on
moving-image artists who are emerging, at their peak, or long-established but still prolific. These
programs are collected under the rubric SHOW & TELL, to emphasize the presence of the filmmakers
at each and every program.
This calendar brings visits by the accomplished animator George Griffin, whose work spans more
than 40 years; Vermont-based artist Leif Goldberg, who represents a later generation of experimental
animators; and Jeanne Liotta, who will present a three-program survey of her prolific career, with
work in Super-8mm, 16mm, 35mm, and digital video.
This series is made possible in part with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts’ Electronic Media
and Film Presentation Funds grant program, administered by The ARTS Council of the Southern Finger Lakes
(www.NYSCA.org, www.eARTS.org).
JANUARY:
GEORGE GRIFFIN
For more than 40 years, George Griffin has explored the capabilities and potentialities of animation
as an art form, through his own film work, his abundant writings for journals such as Cartoons and
EnterText, and through his teaching at Harvard, Pratt, Parsons, and elsewhere. Starting out as an
apprentice in commercial animation studios, Griffin has remained active in that realm, contributing
to television programs including the Great Performances adaptation of Stravinsky’s L’HISTOIRE DU
SOLDAT and producing commissioned animation and public service spots at his studio, Metropolis
Graphics.
Griffin was drawn to animation, though, through his devotion to independent filmmakers such as
Robert Breer, Stan Vanderbeek, and John Hubley, and in the tradition of their work he has produced
over 30 personal films that are irreverent, playful, and vibrant, yet also self-reflexive, both personally
and cinematically. Using imagery familiar from commercial animation, Griffin invests it with a formal
sophistication and a depth of feeling rarely found in such films. This program will feature a selection
of works from throughout Griffin’s career – delightful, affecting, and astonishingly inventive, these are
all-too-rarely-seen gems!
HEAD 1975, 10.5 min, video
VIEWMASTER 1976, 3.5 min, video
FLYING FUR 1981, 7 min, video
KO-KO 1988, 3 min, video
NEW FANGLED 1990, 2 min, video
A LITTLE ROUTINE 1994, 7 min, video
IT PAINS ME TO SAY THIS 2006, 10 min, video
MACDOWELL: A USER’S MANUAL 2007, 14 min, video
THE BATHER 2008, 3 min, video
YOU’RE OUTA HERE 2009, 3 min, video
FLYING FUR FRAGMENTS 2012, 6.5 min, video
Total running time: ca. 80 min.
–Thurs, January 24 at 7:30.
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