30
Years of Film @ International House
SOUND
ON SCREEN
Sound
on Screen gives a home to the growing list of music documentaries,
bio-pics and concert films capturing some of the some of the
most unique sounds from around the globe. Music is an incredibly
influential tool that unites people, while at the same time,
is almost always a uniquely personal journey. These films seek
to bring a deeper understanding of the power music has over
all of us.
Wednesday,
October 1 at 7pm
J'entends
plus la guitare (I Can No Longer Hear the Guitar)
dir.
Philippe Garrel, France, 1991, 35mm, 98 mins, color, French
w/ English subtitles
Philippe
Garrel met Nico, the former model and Velvet Underground chanteuse
in 1968. They then made seven films together. Their turbulent
relationship is stylistically reexamined as lovers Marianne
and Gerard, who burned bright until ultimately burning out.
With J'entends plus la guitare, Garrel
may have crafted one of the most personal and poetic memoirs
to lost love in the history of post-war French cinema.
Wednesday,
October 29 at 7pm
Wild
Combination: A Portrait of Arthur Russell
dir.
Matt Wolf, US, 2008, video, 71 mins, color
Wild
Combination is a
visually absorbing portrait of the seminal avant-garde composer,
singer-songwriter, cellist and disco producer Arthur Russell.
Before his untimely death from AIDS in 1992, Russell prolifically
created music that spanned both pop and the transcendent possibilities
of abstract art. Now over fifteen years since his passing, his
work has once again found its audience. Director Matt Wolf incorporates
rare archival footage and commentary from Russell's family,
friends and closest collaborators –
including
Philip Glass and Allen Ginsberg
- to tell this poignant and important story.
Wednesday,
December 3 at 7pm
Tony
Conrad, DreaMinimalist
dir.
Marie Losier, US, 2008, 16mm, 27 mins, color
Introduced
by Marie Losier
Tony
Conrad, filmmaker, musician, artist and one of the most important
figures of the American avant-garde, sings, dances and frolics
before Marie Losier’s camera. In
an homage to the “anything goes” style of the psychedelic 60’s
filmmakers like Jack Smith, DreaMinimalist is a wonderful
continuation of Losier’s collaborative film portraits that include
Guy Maddin, George and Mike Kuchar and Richard Foreman.
followed
by
Invasion
of Thunderbolt Pagoda
dir.
Ira Cohen, US, 1968, 16mm, 30 mins, color
In
the director’s own words: "It was in 1968, the year before
Woodstock, etween the giant bottle of liquid mercury Tony Conrad
found in a doorway on 42nd Street and the Mylar chamber, we
experienced a shared voyage conceived in three parts: The Opium
Dream, Shaman and Heavenly Blue Mylar Pavilions, an alchemical
journey born of out common consciousness – culminating in the
akashic bindu drop swirling in the sky's reflected azure.”
Filmmaker
and curator Marie Losier was born in France in 1972. Her films
and videos have shown at museums, galleries, biennials and festivals
around the world, including the 2006 Whitney Biennial and the
Museum of Modern Art. In 2000, she became the film programmer
at the French Institute/Alliance ancaise in New York City.
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