Film Evenings

Film Evenings at Moderna

– in conjunction with the exhibition Gunvor Nelson

Tuesday 2 October
American Experimental Film
Introduced by tonight’s guest, filmmaker and curator Claes Söderquist

Claes Söderquist: Porträttbilder från en resa, 1969 (30’00)
Len Lye: Rhythm, 1957 (2’30)
Joyce Wieland: Rat Life and Diet in North America, 1968 (14’00)
Pat O’Niel: Saugus Series, 1974 (18’00)
Bruce Conner: Valse Triste, 1978 (5’30)

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Tuesday 16 October
Free Radicals – the (r)evolution of free and radical filmmaking
Introduced by tonight’s guest, Pip Chodorov, Re:Voir Vidéo Editions, Paris

 
Bruce Baillie: All My Life 1966, (3’00), Castro Street, 1966 (10’00)
Stan Brakhage: Mothlight, 1963 (4’00)
Robert Breer: Recreation, 1957 (2’00)
Oskar Fischinger: Allegretto, 1936 (3’00)
Peter Kubelka: Schwechater, 1957-58 (2’00)
Len Lye: Particles In Space, 1979 (4’00), Swinging the Lambeth Walk, 1939 (4’00)
Hans Richter: Rythmus 21, 1922-24 (4’00)
Paul Sharits: T,O,U,C,H,I,N,G , 1968 (12’00)
James Whitney: Lapis, 1963-66 (10’00)


Tuesday 30 October
Women Filmmakers
Introduced by tonight’s guest, writer and Professor, Dept of Cinema Studies, Stockholm university Astrid Söderbergh Widding

Shirley Clarke: Portrait of Jason, 1967 (105’00)


Tuesday 6 November
American Experimental Film
Introduced by tonight’s guests, artist and filmmaker Gunvor Nelson and freelance curator Monica Nieckels

Bruce Conner: Report, 1963-67 (9’30)
Bob Nelson: Bleu Shut, 1970 (33’00)
Stan Brakhage: Burial Path, 1978 (11’00)
Landow: New Improved Institutional Quality, 1976 (10’00)
Robert Breer: Fist Fight, 1964 (11’00)


Tuesday 20 November
Women Filmmakers
Introduced by tonight’s guest, dean of the School of Film/Video, California Institute of the Arts (CalArts), Los Angeles, Steve Anker

Maya Deren: Meshes in the Afternoon, 1943 (18’00)
Yoko Ono: Fly, 1970 (25’00)
Nina Fonoroff: Dept. of the Interior, 1986 (8’50)
Dorothy Wiley: Miss Jesus Fries on Grill, 1973 (12’00)
Abigail Child: Covert Action, 1984 (10’00)
Chick Strand: Kristalnacht, 1979 (7’00)


Tuesday 27 november
Introduced by curator Magnus af Petersens, Moderna Museet

Jonas Mekas: Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania, 1971-72 (82’00) 

Programme subject to change.

All Film Evenings will be held at

6 pm in Moderna Museet´s Cinema.

Free admission!

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