Big As Life: An American History of 8mm Films

SCHEDULE

February 6, 1998 - December 17,1998

Time Warner Screening Room

Fifth Floor, The Museum of Modern Art

All programs subject to change. Please call 212/708-9480 to confirm.

Friday, February 6

The Roy and Niuta Titus Theater 2

(hereafter all screenings are in the Museum's Time Warner Screening Room)

6:30 She/Va. Marjorie Keller. 1973. 3 min.

Note to Pati. Saul Levine. 1969. 8 min.

Winter Sky. Ken Jacobs. 1964. c. 20 min.

Kemia. silt. 1994. 10 min.

The Annunciation. Diana Barrie. 1973-4. 8 min.

The Exquisite Hour. Phil Solomon. 1989. 14 min.

8:00 Sylvia's Promise. George Kuchar. 1962. 8 min

Open/Close. Vito Acconci. 1970. 6 min.

Sexual Meditation Number 1: Motel. Stan Brakhage. 1970. 12 min.

The Scary Movie. Peggy Ahwesh. 1993. 9 min.

Clown, Part One. Luther Price. 1991. 13 min.

Thursday, February 12

6:00 One-person presentation: Ken Jacobs.

We Stole Away. 1963. 60 min.

Window. 1964. 8 min.

1st Window. 1964. 4 min.

Lisa & Joey in Connecticut, Jan. 65: "You've Come Back"; "You're Still Here." 1965. 18 min.

Jerry Takes a Back Seat, Then Passes Out of the Picture. 1975. 15 min

Artie and Marty Rosenblatt's Home Movies. 1940. 4 min.

Hi-8. c. 10 min.

New York's illustrious avant-garde filmmaker was among the first serious artists of the underground to recognize the potential of home-movie making as art. Jacobs presents a rare screening of his intimate early chamberworks celebrating home life in Regular 8.

Filmmaker present



Thursday, February 19

6:00 One-person presentation: Stan Brakhage: Songs 1-15.

Song 1-8. 1964. 23 min.

Song 9-14. 1965. 19 min.

Fifteen Song Traits. 1965. 31 min.

Stan Brakhage, pioneering avant-garde filmmaker, began working in 8mm out of necessity but came to regard the small gauge as a sanctuary from large scale works; between 1964-69 he produced thirty Regular 8mm Song films which are among his greatest accomplishments, works of great simplicity and directness, achieved through the small scale image.

Thursday, February 26

6:00 Untitled (aka Aleph). Wallace Berman. 1965. 7 min.

#3. Ellen Gaine. 1980. 28 min.

Le Mois de Fevrier. Diana Barrie. 1979. 6 min.

Remains to Be Seen. Phil Solomon.1989. 16 min.

Suggestions of Memory, Images Past.

Thursday, March 5

6:00 Winter Dream Lieder. Peter Herwitz. 1993. 11 min.

A Knowledge They Cannot Lose. Nina Fonoroff. 1989. 17 min.

Untitled . Marjorie Keller. 1971. 7 min.

The Life of Naomi Lang. Lewis Klahr. 1991. 25 min.

The Bladderwort Document. Janis Crystal Lipzin. 1978. 14 min.

Evidence and ephemera of intimate relationships, real and imagined.

Thursday, March 12

6:00 Earthly Possessions. Pelle Lowe. 1992. 23 min.

Dark, Scenes from the Barn. Robert Huot. 1991-2. 15 min.

Our Us We Bone One So Naked Known. Anie Stanley. 1994. 10 min.

Warm Broth. Luther Price. 1988. 36 min

The Producer. c. 1928. 10 min.

The sexuality of identity displayed, imagined, tried on or discarded.

Thursday, March 19

6:00 In Mother's Way. Jacalyn White. 1981. 32 min.

Martina's Playhouse. Peggy Ahwesh. 1989. 20 min.

Mary Smith. Gail Vachon. 1980. 12 min.

Female-ness fantasized and revealed in three candid portraits.

Thursday, March 26

6:00 Peggy's Blue Skylight. Joyce Wieland. 1965. 11 min.

House Beautiful. Willie Varela.. 1988. 10 min.

Me With Her Movie Camera. Nino Rodriguez. 1991. 5 min.

Age 12: Love with a Little L. Jennifer Montgomery.1990. 22 min.

Nina Hagan. Alan Sondheim. 1988. 18 min.

Going to the Dogs. Joe Gibbons. 1980. 15 min.

Private space as confinement, secret hide-away or imaginary playhouse.

Thursday, April 16

6:00 One-person presentation: Carolee Schneemann.

Selections from Kitch's Last Meal. 1973. 120 min.

Twin-projection . Super 8 diary of country life weaving together textures of daily activities and perceptions evoking life's spontaneity and unpredictability. Filmmaker present.

Thursday, April 23

6:00 Land and Sea. Lee Krugman. 1975. 11 min.

Lace of Summer. Storm De Hirsch. 1973. 4 min.

Aristotle. Storm De Hirsch. 1973. 4 min.

Spring/Fall; Cinesongs: For Storm De Hirsch. Gary Adlestein. 1990. 11 min.

Windows. Anne Robertson. 1984/85. 37 min.

Farm Diary , Reel 2. Gordon Ball. 1970. 30 min.

Observing natural surroundings and landscapes through the nuanced inflection of 8mm recording.


Thursday, April 30

6:00 One-person presentation: Saul Levine

Note to Eric. 1969. 5 min.

Saul's Scarf. 1966-67. 20 min.

Notes of an Early Fall. 1976-77. 40 min.

Notes After Long Silence. 1989. 15 min.

August Moon An See. 1997. 3 min.

A thirty-year overview of intimate portraits of self, friends, colleagues, and a particular social environment by Levine, one of small gauge cinema's influential teachers and practitioners.

Filmmaker present.

Thursday, May 7

6:00 One-person presentation: Pelle Lowe.

Smoke. 1995-96. 24 min.

Film performance

Thursday, May 14

6:00 Net with Water. Melanie Berry. 1983. 5 min.

Waterglass. Melanie Berry. 1984. 3 min.

Winter Counts Number 4. Gary Adkins. 1976. 6 min.

Winter Counts Number 9. Gary Adkins. 1977. 10 min.

Mantilla. Julie Murray. 1991. 17 min.

Night Movie No. 2 (Flashlight). Diana Barrie. 1974. 3 min.

Night Movie No. 1 (Self Portrait). Diana Barrie. 1974. 3 min.

Portrait of Pamela. Diana Barrie. 1974. 2 min.

First of May. Caroline Avery. 1984. 2 min.

Flap. Caroline Avery. 1983. 4 min.

Ready Mades in Hades. Caroline Avery. 1986-87. 7 min.

Thursday, May 21

6:00 Presentation by the silt collective.

Land's End and other film performances. 1995-97. c. 80 min.




Thursday, May 28

6:00 Zig Zag. Martha Colburn. 1995. 6 min.

Asthma. Martha Colburn. 1995. 5 min.

Uberfall. Martha Colburn. 1996. 6 min.

Persecution in Paradise. Martha Colburn. 1997. 4 min.

You haven't Heard the Record, You haven't Read the Book, NOW! Don't see the Movie. Tentatively a convenience. 1988. 28 min.

Blood Poisoning. Leslie Singer. 1983. 3 min.

Fountain of Youth. Leslie Singer. 1984. 3 min.

After God II. Leslie Singer. 1984. 4 min.

Herbie and the Cupcake. Leslie Singer. 1984. 3 min.

Taxi, Taxi. 1992. Bill Creston. 12 min.

Thursday, June 4

6:00 We Imitate, We Break Up. Erica Beckman. 1978. 30 min.

Current Autobiography According to Bargain Basement Sinatra. Natalka Voslakov. 1979. 15 min.

She Had Her Gun All Ready. Vivienne Dick. 1978. 27 min.

SUMMER BREAK

Thursday, September 17

6:00 Brakhage: 'Salon'.

Stan Brakhage selects and presents treasures from his personal collection of small gauge film.

Thursday, October 1

6:00 Conversions, part 1. Vito Acconci

Green. Luther Price.

Pittsburgh Trilogy Part 2: Para Normal Intelligence. Peggy Ahwesh.

Thursday, October 8

6:00 One person presentation: Peggy Ahwesh:

Fragments Project. (Selection). c. 45 min.

From Romance to Ritual. 1985. 21 min.

Filmmaker present.

Thursday, October 15

6:00 Shades and Drumbeats. Andrew Meyers.

Anita Needs Me. George Kuchar.

Erotic Trilogy. Robert Huot.

A Place Called Lovely. Sadie Benning

Detritus. Willie Varela

Me and Joe. Stuart Sherman

Thursday, October 22

6:00 Presentation by George and Mike Kuchar:

Early work (selection, including Home in the Bronx)

Tootsies In Autumn

A Town Called Tempest

Lust for Ecstasy

Filmmakers present.

Thursday, October 29

6:00 Barbara Ward Will Never Die. Barbara Hammer

Ceci N'est Pas. Jeanne Liotta

The Dervish Machine. Bradley Eros and Jeanne Liotta

Goodbye 42nd Street. Richard Kern

Letters To Dad. Beth B and Scott B.

Fuck Face. Julie Murray

Rat Trap. Tessa Hughes-Freeland

Thursday, November 5

6:00 Don't Hang Up the Phone, I am Freezing. Stuart Sherman

Whistling (In the Flesh). Willie Varela

Low Resolution TV. Scott Stark

Apologies. Anne Robertson

Confidential. Joe Gibbons

Thursday, November 12

6:00 One person presentation: Anne Robertson

Five Year Diary (selections).

Filmmaker present.


Thursday, November 19

6:00 Near Windows. Ken Paul Rosenthal

Carrie at Still. Stom Sogo

Departure. Steve Polta

Covered Bridge. Jamie Harrar

'elf. Jamie Harrar.

Cecil in her Garden. Adele Friedman

Doug and his Plants. Adele Friedman

Chris in the LA Night. Adele Friedman

The Boris Spassky High Frequency Comb. Michael Johnsen

Pupae Unison Move. Michael Johnsen

Snow Brakes Pope. Michael Johnsen

Thursday, December 3

Owen O'Toole presentation:

Filmmakers' Almanac

Thursday, December 10

6:00 Fragment. Ellen Gaine

Begonia Room. Michael Mideke

Walk. Michael Mideke..

Train Ride. Michael Mideke

Unconscious London Strata. Stan Brakhage

17 Reasons Why. Nathaniel Dorsky

December 17

6:00 Once Removed. A program of home movies curated by Mark McElhattan.

Please note that the schedule for 1999 screenings featuring the remainder of the selected works in Big As Life: An American History of 8mm Films will be available in late 1998.


 

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