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THE EXPERIMENT: Politics of the Image, A night of experimental films followed by discussion
Maysles Cinema
New York, NY
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THE EXPERIMENT: Politics of the Image, A night of experimental films followed by discussion
The Films:
In Order Not To Be Here
Dir. Deborah Stratman, 2002, 30 min.
"An uncompromising look at the ways privacy, safety, convenience and surveillance determine our environment. Shot entirely at night, the film confronts the hermetic nature of white-collar communities, dissecting the fear behind contemporary suburban design. An isolation-based fear (protect us from people not like us). A fear of irregularity (eat at McDonalds, you know what to expect). A fear of thought (turn on the television). A fear of self (dont stop moving)." - Deborah Stratman


Little Flags
Dir. Jem Cohen, 2000, 6 min.

"Cohen shot Little Flags in black and white on the streets of lower Manhattan during an early-'90s military ticker-tape parade and edited the footage years later. The crowd noises fade and Cohen shows the litter flooding the streets as the urban location looks progressively more ghostly and distant from the present. Everyone loves a paradeexcept for the dead." - Video Data Bank

NYC Weights and Measures
Dir. Jem Cohen, 2005, 5 min.

"My film is a simple gathering of New York City street footage. It was shot with a spring-wound 16mm Bolex on, above, and below the streets of Manhattan and Brooklyn and includes footage of the ticker tape parade for astronaut John Glenn." - Jem Cohen

Peggy and Fred in Hell: The Prologue
Dir. Leslie Thornton, 1985, 20 min.
"Peggy And Fred In Hell is one of the strangest cinematic artifacts of the last 20 years, revealing the abuses of history and innocence in the face of catastrophe, as it chronicles two small children journeying through a post-apocalyptic landscape to create their own world. Breaking genre restrictions, Thornton uses improvisation, planted quotes, archival footage and formless timeframes to confront the viewer's preconceptions of cause and effect." - Video Data Bank

Leslie Thornton, Peggy and Fred in Kansas
Dir. Leslie Thornton, 1987, 11 min.
"Peggy and Fred, sole inhabitants of post-apocalyptic Earth, weather a prairie twister and scavenge for sense and sustenance amid the ruined devices of a ghosted culture. The improvised and playful dialogue of the children provides a key to understanding the tape; their distracted sense of make-believe floats between realities, between acting their parts and doing what they wantpatching together identities that, like fidgeting children, refuse to stand still." - Video Data Bank

Discussion with filmmakers to follow screening.

Curated by Peter Buntaine and Lorenzo Gattorna

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Maysles Cinema
343 Lenox Ave.
New York, NY
United States
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Film

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Dog Friendly: No
Non-Smoking: No
Wheelchair Accessible: No

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