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(IN)VISIBLE: AN EVENING OF MOVING IMAGE X-RAYS
SANCTUS
Dir. Barbara Hammer, 1990.
USA. 20 minutes.
THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER
Dir. James Sibley Watson and Melville Webber, 1928.
USA. 13 minutes.
MOVEMENT OF THE JOINTS BY CINERADIOGRAPHY
Dir. Nuffield Institute for Medical Research Oxford, 1945.
UK. 16 minutes.
**LIVE SCORE BY HIGH WATER**
ONE NIGHT ONLY!
In 1990, experimental filmmaker Barbara Hammer explored beneath the surface of the skin. Digging through the archives at the George Eastman House, in Rochester, New York, she found previously unopened 35 mm nitrate films made by a physician in the 1950s. Hammer, through photography and painting, renders an intimacy to these X-rays, which were among the first endeavors to see what it looks like inside a living body when it moves. SANCTUS, in black and white and color with operatic sound by Neil B. Rolnick, was shot by Hammer on 16 mm film.
The program on October 27th will feature three rarely seen films: Barbara Hammer's SANCTUS, an exploration of the experiments in moving image X-rays conducted by Dr. James Sibley Watson; a horror film - an adaptation of an Edgar Allan Poe story - made by Dr. James Sibley Watson; a medical tutorial, never before screened, created at Oxford University of joints moving in flesh and then in X-ray. The film will be accompanied by original, live scoring by High Water.
New York-based musician Will Epstein, aka High Water, is a saxophonist with a psychedelic vibe. A multi-instrumentalist, he also writes and incants his songs. His recent LP - "Crush" - was released on Nicolas Jaar's Other People label and is available on iTunes and Amazon.
Barbara Hammer is a filmmaker and visual artist who has been making groundbreaking films for over forty years. She is a progenitor of Queer Cinema. Retrospectives of her work have been presented at the Museum of Modern Art, the Tate Modern, and the Toronto International Film Festival, among others.
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LocationSPECTACLE THEATER (View)
124 South 3rd Street
Brooklyn, NY 11249
United States
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