From: LBurchill (email suppressed)
Date: Tue Feb 01 2011 - 19:40:03 PST
We missed getting this out in time for the list, so I'm posting it here.
SAT Feb 5, 7PM
*BRIAN FRYE & PENNY LANE*
*From Here to Eternity: Occasional Histories*
*Films & videos by BRIAN L. FRYE and PENNY LANE*
**
Admission $6
This dynamic (recently married) duo present “From Here to Eternity:
Occasional Histories” a night of films (Frye) & video (Lane), concluding
with 15 minutes of their new collaborative work-in-progress *Our Nixon*, a
feature documentary including the Super 8 home movies of some of Nixon’s
aides to be completed this year. Expect found footage, war reenactment,
poetic essay, science, humor and more during the 75-minute program.
*Brian L. Frye* is a filmmaker, journalist, and law professor. His films
have appeared in many museums and festivals, including the Whitney Biennial,
the New York Film Festival, and the San Francisco International Film
Festival. He was awarded a 2000 Jerome Foundation grant. His writing on film
and art has appeared in many books and magazines, including The New
Republic, Film Comment, and Cineaste. He is currently a visiting assistant
professor at Hofstra Law School.
*Penny Lane* is a filmmaker, programmer, writer and art professor usually
found somewhere in New York state. Her films have screened at Rotterdam, AFI
FEST, MOMA’s Documentary Fortnight, Images Festival, Rooftop Films, and
other venues. She’s been awarded grants from NYSCA, ETC, LEF Foundation and
Puffin Foundation. Her award-winning 2005 documentary “The Abortion Diaries”
has become an important organizing tool in the reproductive rights
community, having shown in almost every U.S. state and worldwide.
*PROGRAM*
*From Here to Eternity: Occasional Histories*
*ACROSS THE RAPPAHANNOCK *
*Brian L. Frye, 2002, 11 min., 16mm, color, silent*
In November 2001, I attended a small and relatively informal reenactment of
the battle of Fredericksburg. About a hundred men and women did their best
to illustrate the actions of the thousands of young men who offered their
lives a century earlier. An air of absurd theater suffused the entire event,
which provided the ground for its peculiar truth. Everyone played their part
exceedingly honestly and well, and left something on the film I was myself
surprised to find there.
*OONA’S VEIL** *
*Brian L. Frye, 2000, 8 min., 16mm, b&w, sound*
Using a found screen test of Oona Chaplin (Charlie’s daughter), broken up by
irregular interruptions of black emulsion, Frye creates a continuously
shifting exchange of glances between her image and the audience: ‘a
surpassingly intense meditation on viewing and being viewed.’” Images
Festival (quoting Fred Camper)
*THE ANATOMY OF MELANCHOLY *
*Brian L. Frye, 1999, 11 min., 16mm, b&w, sound*
Sometime in the 1960s, a chiropractor from Kansas City directed a short film
titled “A Portrait in Fear.” In 1999, I bought the outtakes from the
cinematographer. The poetry came naturally.
*HOW TO WRITE AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY *
*Penny Lane, 2010, 4 min., video, color*
The first thing you do when writing an autobiography is start off with a lot
of facts about your life. Try to find interesting facts.
*THE COMMONERS *
*Penny Lane, 2009, 12 min., video, color*
In 1890, one man had the idea to collect every bird ever mentioned in
Shakespeare and release them into Central Park. The only bird to survive in
the New World was the European Starling, now one of the most common birds in
America. Its introduction is widely considered a major environmental
disaster.
*THE VOYAGERS *
*Penny Lane, 2010, 16 min., video, color*
In the summer of 1977, NASA sent Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 on an epic journey
into interstellar space. Together and alone, they will travel until the end
of the universe. Each spacecraft carries a golden record album, a massive
compilation of images and sounds embodying the best of Planet Earth.
According to Carl Sagan, “[t]he spacecraft will be encountered and the
record played only if there are advanced space-faring civilizations in
interstellar space. But the launching of this bottle into the cosmic ocean
says something very hopeful about life on this planet.”
*OUR NIXON: NIXON GOES TO CHINA** *
*Penny Lane and Brian L. Frye, release date 2011, 15 min*
This is a scene from our first collaborative feature film, OUR NIXON. OUR
NIXON is composed of never before seen Super-8 home movies of some of
President Nixon’s closest aides. During the Watergate investigation, the FBI
confiscated more than 3700 hours of Nixon’s secret tape recordings. But the
FBI also confiscated 204 reels of Super-8 film. The confiscated films were
home movies made by Chief of Staff H.R. “Bob” Haldeman, Chief Domestic
Advisor John Ehrlichman, Special Assistant to the President Dwight Chapin,
and Deputy Assistant Larry Higby. Everyone knows about the secret tapes
because they forced Nixon to resign. But the home movies were filed away and
forgotten. For the first time, OUR NIXON presents those home movies to the
public – to tell a familiar story from an unfamiliar perspective.
*TRT: 75 minutes*
*Admission $6 – tickets available at door*
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