this week @ anthology
ANTHOLOGY FILM ARCHIVES
32 SECOND AVENUE NEW YORK, NY 10003
www.anthologyfilmarchives.org
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This week at Anthology Film Archives:
POLICE BEAT – final days
SOLUS AND GUESTS 2006: INTERNATIONAL SHORT AND AVANT-GARDE FILMS
AVANT GARDE FEATURES ESSENTIAL CINEMA
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NEW YORK THEATRICAL PREMIERE RUN!
UNDISCOVERED SUNDANCE MASTERPIECE, ROBINSON DEVOR’S POLICE BEAT
Final 3 days, through Thursday May 4 at 7:00 & 9:00 nightly
POLICE BEAT, “the undiscovered masterpiece of the 2005 Sundance Film Festival”, is both a strikingly poetic examination of displacement and a gently surreal compendium of criminal behavior. Z, a young Senegalese and Muslim man, experiences his adopted city of Seattle through his job as a bicycle cop, leading him to encounters with all manner of strange and troubled people. Z himself, however, is less concerned with his job than with the possibility that his American girlfriend may be cheating on him while on a camping trip with a male friend. Reminiscent of the “floating world” style of Claire Denis and Olivier Assayas, POLICE BEAT is an extraordinarily rich departure from the standard template of American independent films.
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SOLUS AND GUESTS 2006
INTERNATIONAL SHORT AND AVANT-GARDE FILMS
ONE SHOW ONLY!
FRIDAY, MAY 5 at 8:00PM
Solus was formed in 1998 in Dublin, Ireland as an independent film collective and platform for filmmakers working in Super-8mm/16mm/DV. It has the dual aim of showing Irish short and avant-garde films abroad and international short and avant-garde film in Dublin.This program unites some of the original members of Solus with a group of filmmakers from Feenish Productions in Dublin, a young company working bilingually in Irish and English. The program illustrates the wide range of content, technique and medium used by the local and international members of Solus and of Feenish Productions. In true Solus form we are also delighted to show three films by our international associates Zoe Greenberg, Masha Godovannaya and Stom Sogo! For more info about Solus please go to http://www.moiratierney.net/solus.htm
ALL FILMS ARE US PREMIERES.FILMMAKERS PRESENTED:James & Michael Kelly (Feenish Productions) www.spleachadh.com & www.feenish.comRonan Coyle (Feenish Productions) http://www.archipelago.org/vol8-2/phantom.htmMoira Tierney (Solus) www.moiratierney.netDavid Stalling & Anthony Kelly (Solus)Zoe Greenberg (a New York associate of Solus)Dennis Kenny (Solus)Johnny Kelly Dónal Ó’Céilleachair Alan Lambert (Solus)Stom Sogo (veteran of the Solus Snake show)Masha Godovannaya (a St. Petersburg-based associate of Solus)Program running time: ca. 85 minutes.For full schedule and information: http://tinyurl.com/rgw3sA reception sponsored by Jameson Irish Whiskey will follow the screening. www.moiratierney.net <http://www.moiratierney.net>
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AVANT GARDE FEATURES
Thursday May 4 8:00 Humphrey Jennings
I WAS A FIREMAN 1943, 80 minutes, 35mm. The heroic bas-relief and the stirring score behind the opening titles leave us in no doubt that this is a film about heroism, a propagandist documentary using real firemen that doesn't pull its punches. Lives are lost during war and one of the main characters in the film will lose his: a fire sacrifice for the greater good.There are shots that show Jennings' artistic eye – the Thames sailing barge, the munitions ship safely underway at the end – and there are some less lyrical but quirky, such as a horse being led to safety, a disabled man making his way through debris, a penny whistler.Music (and sound) plays a key role. Through most of the early scenes the score helps build the mood and sense of anticipation. At the height of the action, the soundtrack carries the almost relentless noise of war. In more sombre scenes, where Raleigh or Shakespeare (both typifying England) are quoted, there is a respectful silence. – SCREEN ONLINE
Shown with: DIARY FOR TIMOTHY (1945, 40 minutes)
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ESSENTIAL CINEMA A very special series of films screened on a repertory basis, the Essential Cinema Repertory collection consists of 110 programs/330 titles assembled in 1970-75 by the Film Selection Committee – James Broughton, Ken Kelman, Peter Kubelka, P. Adams Sitney and Jonas Mekas. It was an ambitious attempt to define the art of cinema. The project was never completed but even in its unfinished state the series provides an uncompromising critical overview of cinema’s history. EC screenings are FREE for members!!! Join today: http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/membership/
Saturday 6 May
6:30 Carl Th. Dreyer
MICHAEL1924, 89 minutes, 35mm, silent. With Danish intertitles. English synopsis availableUnconsummated love between a painter and his manipulative, larcenous model: a Kammerspielfilm shot by the two great German cinematographers, Karl Freund and Rudolph Maté.
Sunday 7 May
6:00 Carl Th. Dreyer
VAMPYR 1931-32, 70 minutes, 35mm. In Danish with no subtitles. English synopsis available."Imagine that we are sitting in a very ordinary room. Suddenly we are told that there is a corpse behind the door. Instantly, the room we are sitting in has taken on another look. The light, the atmosphere have changed, though they are physically the same. This is because we have changed and the objects are as we conceive them. This is the effect I wanted to produce in VAMPYR." – C.T. Dreyer
8:00 Hollis Frampton ZORNS LEMMA
1971, 36 minutes. "A major poetic work. Created and put together by a very clear eye-head, this original and complex abstract work moves beyond the letters of the alphabet, beyond words and beyond Freud. If you don't understand it the first time you see it, don't despair, see it again! When you finally 'get it,' a small light, possibly a candle, will light itself inside your forehead." – Ernie Gehrwith
HAPAX LEGOMENA I: (nostalgia) 1971, 36 minutes. “Frampton plays the critic, asynchronously glossing, explicating, narrating, mythologizing his earlier art, and his earlier life, as he commits them both to the fire of a labyrinthine structure; for Borges too was one of his earlier masters, and he grins behind the façades of logic, mathematics, and physical demonstrations which are the formal metaphors for most of Frampton's films." – P. Adams Sitney
32 SECOND AVENUE NEW YORK, NY 10003
www.anthologyfilmarchives.org
–––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––
This week at Anthology Film Archives:
POLICE BEAT – final days
SOLUS AND GUESTS 2006: INTERNATIONAL SHORT AND AVANT-GARDE FILMS
AVANT GARDE FEATURES ESSENTIAL CINEMA
––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––
NEW YORK THEATRICAL PREMIERE RUN!
UNDISCOVERED SUNDANCE MASTERPIECE, ROBINSON DEVOR’S POLICE BEAT
Final 3 days, through Thursday May 4 at 7:00 & 9:00 nightly
POLICE BEAT, “the undiscovered masterpiece of the 2005 Sundance Film Festival”, is both a strikingly poetic examination of displacement and a gently surreal compendium of criminal behavior. Z, a young Senegalese and Muslim man, experiences his adopted city of Seattle through his job as a bicycle cop, leading him to encounters with all manner of strange and troubled people. Z himself, however, is less concerned with his job than with the possibility that his American girlfriend may be cheating on him while on a camping trip with a male friend. Reminiscent of the “floating world” style of Claire Denis and Olivier Assayas, POLICE BEAT is an extraordinarily rich departure from the standard template of American independent films.
––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––
SOLUS AND GUESTS 2006
INTERNATIONAL SHORT AND AVANT-GARDE FILMS
ONE SHOW ONLY!
FRIDAY, MAY 5 at 8:00PM
Solus was formed in 1998 in Dublin, Ireland as an independent film collective and platform for filmmakers working in Super-8mm/16mm/DV. It has the dual aim of showing Irish short and avant-garde films abroad and international short and avant-garde film in Dublin.This program unites some of the original members of Solus with a group of filmmakers from Feenish Productions in Dublin, a young company working bilingually in Irish and English. The program illustrates the wide range of content, technique and medium used by the local and international members of Solus and of Feenish Productions. In true Solus form we are also delighted to show three films by our international associates Zoe Greenberg, Masha Godovannaya and Stom Sogo! For more info about Solus please go to http://www.moiratierney.net/solus.htm
ALL FILMS ARE US PREMIERES.FILMMAKERS PRESENTED:James & Michael Kelly (Feenish Productions) www.spleachadh.com & www.feenish.comRonan Coyle (Feenish Productions) http://www.archipelago.org/vol8-2/phantom.htmMoira Tierney (Solus) www.moiratierney.netDavid Stalling & Anthony Kelly (Solus)Zoe Greenberg (a New York associate of Solus)Dennis Kenny (Solus)Johnny Kelly Dónal Ó’Céilleachair Alan Lambert (Solus)Stom Sogo (veteran of the Solus Snake show)Masha Godovannaya (a St. Petersburg-based associate of Solus)Program running time: ca. 85 minutes.For full schedule and information: http://tinyurl.com/rgw3sA reception sponsored by Jameson Irish Whiskey will follow the screening. www.moiratierney.net <http://www.moiratierney.net>
––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––
AVANT GARDE FEATURES
Thursday May 4 8:00 Humphrey Jennings
I WAS A FIREMAN 1943, 80 minutes, 35mm. The heroic bas-relief and the stirring score behind the opening titles leave us in no doubt that this is a film about heroism, a propagandist documentary using real firemen that doesn't pull its punches. Lives are lost during war and one of the main characters in the film will lose his: a fire sacrifice for the greater good.There are shots that show Jennings' artistic eye – the Thames sailing barge, the munitions ship safely underway at the end – and there are some less lyrical but quirky, such as a horse being led to safety, a disabled man making his way through debris, a penny whistler.Music (and sound) plays a key role. Through most of the early scenes the score helps build the mood and sense of anticipation. At the height of the action, the soundtrack carries the almost relentless noise of war. In more sombre scenes, where Raleigh or Shakespeare (both typifying England) are quoted, there is a respectful silence. – SCREEN ONLINE
Shown with: DIARY FOR TIMOTHY (1945, 40 minutes)
––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––
ESSENTIAL CINEMA A very special series of films screened on a repertory basis, the Essential Cinema Repertory collection consists of 110 programs/330 titles assembled in 1970-75 by the Film Selection Committee – James Broughton, Ken Kelman, Peter Kubelka, P. Adams Sitney and Jonas Mekas. It was an ambitious attempt to define the art of cinema. The project was never completed but even in its unfinished state the series provides an uncompromising critical overview of cinema’s history. EC screenings are FREE for members!!! Join today: http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/membership/
Saturday 6 May
6:30 Carl Th. Dreyer
MICHAEL1924, 89 minutes, 35mm, silent. With Danish intertitles. English synopsis availableUnconsummated love between a painter and his manipulative, larcenous model: a Kammerspielfilm shot by the two great German cinematographers, Karl Freund and Rudolph Maté.
Sunday 7 May
6:00 Carl Th. Dreyer
VAMPYR 1931-32, 70 minutes, 35mm. In Danish with no subtitles. English synopsis available."Imagine that we are sitting in a very ordinary room. Suddenly we are told that there is a corpse behind the door. Instantly, the room we are sitting in has taken on another look. The light, the atmosphere have changed, though they are physically the same. This is because we have changed and the objects are as we conceive them. This is the effect I wanted to produce in VAMPYR." – C.T. Dreyer
8:00 Hollis Frampton ZORNS LEMMA
1971, 36 minutes. "A major poetic work. Created and put together by a very clear eye-head, this original and complex abstract work moves beyond the letters of the alphabet, beyond words and beyond Freud. If you don't understand it the first time you see it, don't despair, see it again! When you finally 'get it,' a small light, possibly a candle, will light itself inside your forehead." – Ernie Gehrwith
HAPAX LEGOMENA I: (nostalgia) 1971, 36 minutes. “Frampton plays the critic, asynchronously glossing, explicating, narrating, mythologizing his earlier art, and his earlier life, as he commits them both to the fire of a labyrinthine structure; for Borges too was one of his earlier masters, and he grins behind the façades of logic, mathematics, and physical demonstrations which are the formal metaphors for most of Frampton's films." – P. Adams Sitney
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