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STEREO
AFA MEMBERS-
ONLY
SCREENING!
DAVID CRONENBERG’S ‘STEREO’
Once every calendar we offer a special, AFA
Members-Only screening, featuring sneakpreviews
of upcoming features, programs of
rare materials from Anthology’s collections,
in-person filmmaker presentations, and more!
The benefits of an Anthology membership
have always been plentiful: free admission to
over 100 Essential Cinema programs, reduced
admission to all other shows, discounted AFA
publications. But with these screenings – free
and open only to members – we sweeten the
pot even further.
David Cronenberg
STEREO
1969, 65 min, 35mm
Recognized today as one of our most preeminent
auteurs, David Cronenberg has achieved
international critical and popular success in the
many years that followed his little-seen first
featurette, STEREO. As disquieting and multilayered
as many of his better-known works
(which include THE BROOD, VIDEODROME,
DEAD RINGERS, and CRASH, among many
others), STEREO is an early foray into the unique
brand of corporeal and intellectual horror that
gave us the term “Cronenbergian”. Set within
the walls of the Canadian Academy of Erotic
Enquiry, Dr. Luther Stringfellow embarks on a
series of experiments to find a suitable replacement
for the “obsolescent family unit”. His
subjects exhibit pronounced telepathic abilities,
as well as ambiguous sexual desires. STEREO
establishes themes that Cronenberg would
return to many times over the years, and is
clearly related to the early short films he made
in the mid-to-late 1960s under the influence of
the New York experimental film scene. Not quite
a student film, and at 65 minutes only barely a
feature, STEREO is a wonderfully insightful and
rarely seen curiosity.
We are happy to screen STEREO with a secret
short from Anthology’s collection. Expect the
unexpected!
–Tues, March 5 at 7:30.
SPECIAL SCREENINGS
FERLINGHETTI: A REBIRTH OF WONDER
BEATS ON FILM
In conjunction with the NYU Grey Art Gallery’s exhibition ‘Beat Memories:
The Photographs of Allen Ginsberg’, Anthology presents two
programs of films featuring Ginsberg as well as many other luminaries
of the Beat movement.
On view at the Grey Art Gallery, NYU (100 Washington Square East) from
January 15-April 6, ‘Beat Memories’ presents an in-depth look at the
Beat Generation through the lens of Allen Ginsberg, featuring some
110 black-and-white photographs by him including portraits of William
S. Burroughs, Neal Cassady, Gregory Corso, Jack Kerouac, and many
others, along with self-portraits.
For more info, visit www.nyu.edu/greyart
Two other seminal Beat films will be screening at Film Forum in
January: Robert Frank’s PULL MY DAISY (January 12) and ME AND MY
BROTHER (January 14). For more info, visit www.filmforum.org
Special thanks to Lucy Oakley (Grey Art Gallery, NYU), Eric Liknaitzky (Contemporary
Films), Marian Luntz & Tracy Stephenson (Museum of Fine Arts, Houston), and Paul
Marchant (First Run Features).
Robert Frank
THIS SONG FOR JACK
1983, 30 min, 16mm, b&w. With Allen Ginsberg, David Amram, Gary Snyder, William
Burroughs, Carolyn Cassady, and Lawrence Ferlinghetti. © Robert Frank, 1983,
distributed by The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
Based on footage Robert Frank shot at “On the Road: The Jack Kerouac
Conference”, held at the Naropa Institute, Boulder, Colorado, from July
23 to August 1, 1982. The film is dedicated to Kerouac, Frank’s late
friend and collaborator on PULL MY DAISY and THE AMERICANS.
&
Peter Whitehead
WHOLLY COMMUNION
1965, 33 min, 35mm, b&w
Captures the historic event at the Royal Albert Hall on June 11, 1965,
where an audience of 7,000 witnessed the first meeting of American
and English Beat poets. Among the performers featured are Allen
Ginsberg, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Alexander Trocchi, Gregory Corso, and
Adrian Mitchell.
–Sat, March 9 at 7:15 and Sun, March 10 at 8:15.
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Christopher Felver
FERLINGHETTI: A REBIRTH OF WONDER
2009, 79 min, video
This definitive documentary explores the world of Lawrence Ferlinghetti,
San Francisco’s legendary poet, artist, publisher, and civil libertarian.
Felver’s one-on-one interviews with Ferlinghetti, made over the course of
a decade, touch upon a rich mélange of characters and events that began
to unfold in postwar America, including the publication of Allen Ginsberg’s
HOWL, William S. Burroughs’s NAKED LUNCH, and Jack Kerouac’s ON
THE ROAD, as well as the divisive events of the Vietnam War, the sexual
revolution, and this country’s perilous march towards intellectual and
political bankruptcy.
–Sat, March 9 at 9:00 and Sun, March 10 at 6:30.
SCREEN LOUD
FILM FESTIVAL
Since its first edition in 2009, the Screen
Loud Film Festival has been committed
to programming a broad range of short
fiction and documentaries that explore
the theme of being a ‘foreigner’ searching
for a way to express oneself in a new
world. Traversing the barriers of crosscultural
communication, the foreigner is
one who explores ways beyond words
to express him- or herself and SCREEN
LOUD. Emphasizing the universality of
the image over the singularity of each
culture and language, we are screening
a selection of shorts that use film as a
‘visual Esperanto’ that defies linguistic,
cultural, and geographical barriers and
speaks to all through the language of
cinematography.
–Fri, March 15 at 7:30.
UNESSENTIAL
CINEMA
PRESENTS:
IF FILM IS DEAD…LONG
LIVE VIDEO!
The endless hype about the death of
film is frankly very boring. People really
need to get a life, and we are here to
help. Rather than fetishize celluloid
or pretend that it is the most superior
format ever known to mankind, this
edition of UNESSENTIAL CINEMA focuses
on hidden video gems from our deep
and ever-growing collections. Freshly
digitized from antiquated formats or
presented from the original tapes (VHS!),
this program brings together a crazy
array of art, non-art, known, unknown,
really good, and pretty bad works that
have never, ever been shown on film.
And never will be.
–Thurs, March 21 at 7:30.
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