Wednesday,
December 14 at 6:00pm
Rodney
Graham: A Little Thought
Presented
by the Institute of Contemporary Art at the University
of
Pennsylvania
Since
the late 1970s, Rodney Graham has taken a conceptual approach
to making art to explore modes of perception in particular altered
states and themes of location. Rodney Graham: A Little Thought,
on display at the ICA
until
December 23rd, is the first major survey
of the Canadian artist’s work to travel North America. International
House is pleased to host two unique film screenings to coincide
with this retrospective –
Graham’s
own Two Generators and the very first James Bond movie
Dr. No –
a
touchstone for Graham’s work.
Two
Generators
dir.
Rodney Graham, Canada, 1984, 16mm, 4 mins, b/w
 Rodney
Graham says of Two Generators, "This film documents
the night-time illumination of a river – Gold
Creek, near Vancouver – by means of
diesel-generator-powered lighting units of a kind used by paving
crews and on logging camps. My intention was to create a burlesque
travesty and a spectacle that would inspire negative thoughts
about cinema, which I neurotically hated at the time. . ."
This film will be shown several times consecutively.
followed
by
Dr.
No
dir.
Terence Young, UK/USA, 1962, 35mm, 110 mins, color
 This
screen debut of James Bond, follows 007 (Sean Connery) to Jamaica
where a fellow agent has disappeared. With the help of crack
CIA agent Felix Leiter (Jack Lord), Bond eventually makes his
way to Crab Key Island , headquarters of
the prime suspect, Dr. No. Once on the island, Bond meets the
beautiful Honey Ryder (Ursula Andress), and discovers why no
one ever leaves Crab Key.
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