| 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 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,
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, between the giant bottle of liquid mercury Tony Conrad
found in a doorway on 42nd St 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 Francaise in New York City.
Free admission members
above Internationalist level; $5 Internationalist members, students
+ seniors; $7 general admission. In advance at TICKETWEB
and 866-468-7619 or 1/2 hour before showtime.
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