Howdy NYC Frameworkers,
We posted this to TWIAG already, but really want to make sure the NYC
community is aware of these special screenings starting tonight and
through the weekend.
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ANTHOLOGY FILM ARCHIVES
32 SECOND AVENUE NEW YORK, NY
Retrospective-In Memoriam
OWEN LAND AND ROBERT BREER
December 2-4
This year has been a tragic one for the avant-garde film community. In
addition to the passing of Adolfas Mekas and David Stone (whose work
we will be honored previously this season) we lost two of the seminal
figures of American independent cinema: Robert Breer and Owen Land
(aka George Landow), both of whom are prominently included in
Anthology’s Essential Cinema repertory collection. To honor each
filmmaker, we will be presenting these comprehensive programs of their
filmwork, with special speakers to be announced.
GEORGE LANDOW, AKA OWEN LAND
“His remarkable faculty is as maker of images.... [T]he images he
photographs are among the most radical, super-real and haunting images
the cinema has ever given us.” –P. Adams Sitney, VISIONARY FILM
“Film is a complex medium, combining elements of many other media. The
ideal film artist would be a great poet, great painter, great
playwright, great composer, great inventor – and maybe even a great
business man or woman (most probably a woman – all the artists of the
future may be women, men having long given up that profession to
become soldiers or mystics). Such a composite genius has yet to
appear.” –George Landow, IMAGE FORUM
EARLY FILMS BY GEORGE LANDOW (ca. 1961-62, ca. 15 minutes, 8mm-to-16mm
blow-up. Preserved with support from Cineric, Inc.)
These films are not part of the Essential Cinema. According to Jonas
Mekas, Landow used to show these films along with FLEMING FALOON at
early screenings before he pulled them from his repertoire. They seem
to be studies for FLEMING FALOON, more raw, less concise, messy
split-screens, and footage re-filmed off the screen. Talking heads
(including Mike Wallace and film historian Richard Kraft) blur,
stretch, fade; what Jonas says is a festering arm wound that Landow
had at the time is shot at various blurry exposures.
FLEMING FALOON (1963, 6 minutes, 16mm)
FILM IN WHICH THERE APPEAR SPROCKET HOLES, EDGE LETTERING, DIRT
PARTICLES, ETC. (1965-66, 5 minutes, 16mm, silent)
DIPLOTERATOLOGY: BARDO FOLLIES (1967, 7 minutes, 16mm, b&w, silent)
THE FILM THAT RISES TO THE SURFACE OF CLARIFIED BUTTER (1968, 9
minutes, 16mm, b&w)
INSTITUTIONAL QUALITY (1969, 5 minutes, 16mm)
REMEDIAL READING COMPREHENSION (1970, 5 minutes, 16mm)
WHAT’S WRONG WITH THIS PICTURE? (1972, 13 minutes, 16mm)
THANK YOU JESUS FOR THE ETERNAL PRESENT (1973, 6 minutes, 16mm)
Total running time: ca. 80 minutes.
–Friday, December 2 at 6:45 and Saturday, December 3 at 3:00.
A FILM OF THEIR 1973 SPRING TOUR COMMISSIONED BY CHRISTIAN WORLD
LIBERATION FRONT OF BERKELEY, CALIFORNIA (1974, 11.5 minutes, 16mm)
NO SIR, ORISON! (1975, 3 minutes, 16mm)
WIDE ANGLE SAXON (1975, 22 minutes, 16mm)
NEW IMPROVED INSTITUTIONAL QUALITY: IN THE ENVIRONMENT OF LIQUIDS AND
NASALS A PARASITICVOWEL SOMETIMES DEVELOPS (1976, 10 minutes, 16mm)
ON THE MARRIAGE BROKER JOKE AS CITED BY SIGMUND FREUD IN WIT AND ITS
RELATION OF THE UNCONSCIOUS, OR CAN THE AVANT-GARDE ARTIST BE WHOLED?
(1979, 17.5 minutes, 16mm)
NOLI METANGERE (1984, 6 minutes, video)
THE BOX THEORY (1984, 15.5 minutes, video)
Total running time: ca. 95 minutes.
–Friday, December 2 at 9:00.
DIALOGUES, OR A WAIST IS A TERRIBLE THING TO MIND
2007-09, 120 minutes, video.
Land’s final film – the first he had produced in more than 20 years –
consists of an episodic series of short films informed by his study of
folklore, myth, history, and the theology of all major religions,
including Gnosticism and cabala. With a healthy dose of irony and a
proudly irreverent attitude toward all kinds of orthodoxies, Land
readily applies the structure of the Platonic dialogue toexplore
themes of reincarnation, art criticism, and Tantra.
“On one level, DIALOGUES is a parody of SCORPIO RISING, using
era-specific hit records to locate scenes in time and mood; on another
level, it’s an interpretation of Plato’s dialogue ‘Phaedo’, in which
Socrates proves the doctrine of re-incarnation; on still another
level, it is a polemic for the Tantric belief in the sacredness of
male-female polarity. With music by Meredith Monk, Laurie Anderson,
Joan Baez, Patti Smith, The Byrds, Phil Collins, Alice Cooper,
Genesis, The Human League, et al. Rated R: Restricted to audiences
with a knowledge of Art History.” –O.L.
–Saturday, December 3 at 5:00.
ROBERT BREER, PROGRAM 1
With the exception of BREATHING, all of the films in this program were
preserved by Anthology with generous support from the Andy Warhol
Foundation for the Visual Arts and the National Endowment for the
Arts. Unless otherwise noted, all films in this program are 16mm
blown-up to 35mm.
FORM PHASES I (1952, 2 minutes, 16mm)
FORM PHASES II (1953, 2 minutes, 16mm)
UN MIRACLE (1954, 30 seconds) Made with Pontus Hulten.
RECREATION (1956, 1.5 minutes)
A MAN AND HIS DOG OUT FOR AIR (1957, 2 minutes)
JAMESTOWN BALOOS (1957, 6 minutes)
LE MOUVEMENT (1957, 14 minutes)
EYEWASH (1959, 3 minutes)
EYEWASH (ALTERNATIVE VERSION) (1959, 3 minutes)
BLAZES (1961, 3 minutes)
PAT’S BIRTHDAY (1962, 13 minutes, 16mm)
BREATHING (1963, 5 minutes, 16mm)
66 (1966, 5.5 minutes)
69 (1969, 4.5 minutes)
Total running time: ca. 70 minutes.
–Sunday, December 4 at 5:00.
ROBERT BREER, PROGRAM 2
With the exception of GULLS AND BUOYS, all of the films in this
program were preserved by Anthology with generous support from the
Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and the National Endowment
for the Arts. Unless otherwise noted, all films in this program are
16mm blown-up to 35mm.
70 (1970, 5 minutes)
77 (1970, 6.5 minutes)
FIST FIGHT (1964, 9 minutes)
GULLS AND BUOYS (1972, 8 minutes, 16mm)
FUJI (1974, 9 minutes)
SWISS ARMY KNIFE WITH RAT AND PIGEON (1981, 6.5 minutes)
BANG (1986, 10 minutes)
Total running time: ca. 60 minutes.
–Sunday, December 4 at 7:00.
ROBERT BREER, PROGRAM 3
HOMAGE TO JEAN TINGUELY’S HOMAGE TO NEW YORK (1960, 9.5 minutes, 16mm, b&w)
INNER AND OUTER SPACE (1960, 4 minutes, 16mm)
HORSE OVER TEA KETTLE (1962, 8 minutes, 16mm)
PBL NO. 2 (1968, 1 minute, 16mm)
RUBBER CEMENT (1975, 10 minutes, 16mm)
LMNO (1978, 9.5 minutes, 16mm)
T. Z. (1979, 8.5 minutes, 16mm)
TRIAL BALLOONS (1982, 5.5 minutes, 16mm)
A FROG ON THE SWING (1988, 5 minutes, 16mm)
SPARKILL AVE! (1993, 5 minutes, 16mm)
TIME FLIES (1997, 13.5 minutes, 16mm)
ATOZ (2000, 5 minutes, 16mm)
WHAT GOES UP (2000, 4 minutes, 16mm)
Total running time: ca. 95 minutes.
–Sunday, December 4 at 8:45.
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