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13 October 2009 - Bringing the War Home: Tom Hayden, Jane Fonda, and Naomi Klein

Tuesday October 13th - 7PM
Bluestockings, 172 Allen Street, New York, NY 10002

--Introduction to the Enemy - Christine Burrill, Haskell Wexler, Bill Yahrausr, 1974, 64 minutes
--This Brave Nation: Tom Hayden and Naomi Klein - Christopher Sprinkle, 2008 27 minutes
TOTAL RUNNNG TIME: 91 minutes | Digital Projection

Co-sponsored by the Left Forum


Special thanks to Laura Beatty, Leslie Ward, and Jeff Wexler

(The Wexler film is distributed by the Institute for Cinema Studies. The Sprinkle film is available from the Brave New Foundation.)

12 October 2009 - Labor and Lacan: Stanley Aronowitz, Slavoj Zizek, and the Public Sphere

Monday October 12th - 7:30PM
Brecht Forum
451 West Street, New York, NY 10014

--Stanley Aronowitz Reads the New York Times: A Timely Look at Labor - Paper Tiger TV, 1983, 28 minutes
--United Victorian Workers - Dara Greenwald, 2006, 6 minutes
--Liebe Dien Symptom wie Dich selbst [Love Your Symptoms...] - Claudia Wilke, Katharina Hocker, 1996, 52 minutes
TOTAL RUNNING TIME: 86 minutes | Digital Projection

Co-sponsored by the Left Forum

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27 September 2009 - Apocalyptic Architecture: A 3-Channel Installation

Sunday September 27th - 6:30PM
Convent of St. Cecilia
21 Monitor Street, Brooklyn, NY 11222

--San Francisco Earthquake and Fire - Red Channels, 1906/2009, 17 minutes
--The Atom Strikes! - Army Pictorial Service, 1945, 30 minutes
--September - Dan Meyerson & Matt Peterson, 2008, 29 minutes
30-minute Loop for Three Digital Projectors

Part of the Get Ahead Festival.

Special thanks to Zachary Henson, Nick Shimkin, and Time's Up

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10 September 2009 - The Banality of Disaster: Mapping Materialism

Thursday September 10th - 7:30PM
Brecht Forum
451 West Street, New York, NY 10014

RIGHT TO THE CITY:

--San Francisco Earthquake and Fire - Red Channels, 1906/2009, 17 minutes
--A Tale of Two Cities - Army-Navy Screen Magazine, 1946, 12 minutes
--Night and Fog - Alain Resnais, 1955, 32 minutes
--September - Dan Meyerson & Matt Peterson, 2008, 29 minutes
TOTAL RUNNING TIME: 91 minutes | Digital Projection

Co-curated by Kazembe Balagun and the Brecht Forum
Co-sponsored by Red Channels


(The Resnais film was released on DVD (2003) by Criterion.)

2 September 2009 - Reclamation: Organized Housing in NYC

Wednesday September 2nd - 7:30PM
Brecht Forum
451 West Street, New York, NY 10014

RIGHT TO THE CITY:

--Break and Enter (Rompiendo Puertas) - Newsreel, 1970, 42 minutes
--At Home in Utopia - Michal Goldman, 2008, 57 minutes
TOTAL RUNNING TIME: 99 minutes | Digital Projection

Discussion with:
--Tom Gogan - of the Union of City Tenants
--Esperanza Martell - member of El Comite
--Boris Ourlicht - Coopnik
--Laurie Ourlicht - Boris' daughter, Coops descendant, Westbeth resident, visual artist
--Ed Yellin - Coopnik

C0-sponsored by Red Channels


(All of the Newsreel films are available from Third World Newsreel. The Goldman film is available on DVD (2009) from Filmmakers Collaborative.)

31 August 2009 - Stir Crazy: History in Black and White

Monday August 31st - 7:30PM
Brecht Forum
451 West Street, New York, NY 10014

BLACK AUGUST:

--How Does It Go with the Black Movement? - Warren Steibel, 1973, 60 minutes
TOTAL RUNNING TIME: 60 minutes | Digital Projection

C0-sponsored by Red Channels


(William F. Buckley's "Firing Line" video archives are available from the Hoover Institution at Stanford University.)

26 August 2009 - The Greatest Threat: Black Panthers 68-71

Wednesday August 26th - 7:30PM
Brecht Forum
451 West Street, New York, NY 10014

BLACK AUGUST:

--Huey! - Sally Pugh, 1968, 30 minutes
--Bobby Seale - Newsreel, 1969, 15 minutes
--Black Panthers in Chicago - Videofreex, 1969, 24 minutes
--The Death of a Revolutionary - World in Action, 1971, 25 minutes
TOTAL RUNNING TIME: 94 minutes | Digital Projection

Discussion with:
--Thomas "Blood" McCreary - member of the Black Panther Party (New York Chapter) and the Black Liberation Army


(The Sally Pugh film can be purchased on DVD (2006) from International Historic Films. All of the Newsreel films are available from Third World Newsreel. The Videofreex archives are currently being preserved and distributed by Video Data Bank. Network in the UK released a (PAL) 2-DVD set (2005) of twelve "World in Action" programs from 1967-1991.)

25 August 2009 - Historical Memory: The Library in 1956

Tuesday August 25th - 7:30PM
Brecht Forum
451 West Street, New York, NY 10014

RIGHT TO THE CITY:

--Toute la mémoire du monde (All the Memory of the World) - Alain Resnais, 1956, 21 minutes
--Storm Center - Daniel Taradash, 1956, 86 minutes
TOTAL RUNNING TIME: 107 minutes | Digital Projection

Co-Presented by Radical Reference


(The Resnais film appears as a bonus feature of Criterion's DVD (2009) of Last Year at Marienbad (1961).)

19 August 2009 - The Unbreakable Promise: South Africa and the First Black Precedents

Wednesday August 19th - 7:30PM
Brecht Forum
451 West Street, New York, NY 10014

BLACK AUGUST:

--The Life and Death of Steve Biko - World in Action, 1977, 25 minutes
--A Savage War of Peace - Video News Service, 1993, 50 minutes
--Dear Mandela (excerpt) - Dara Kell & Christopher Nizza, 2009, 6 minutes
--Dear Mandela (excerpt) - Dara Kell & Christopher Nizza, 2009, 17 minutes
TOTAL RUNNING TIME: 98 minutes | Digital Projection

Discussion with:
--Dara Kell - co-director of Dear Mandela (2010)
--Reverend Mavuso Mbhekiseni - a leader of the Rural Network in South Africa
--Christopher Nizza - co-director of Dear Mandela (2010)
--Mazwi Nzimande - president of Abahlali baseMjondolo Youth League

C0-sponsored by Red Channels


(Network in the UK released a (PAL) 2-DVD set (2005) of twelve "World in Action" programs from 1967-1991.)

17 August 2009 - On the Juche Idea: North Korean Propaganda, Theirs and Ours

Monday August 17th - 7:30PM
Brecht Forum
451 West Street, New York, NY 10014

--The Crime of Korea - US Army Signal Corps, 1950, 15 minutes
--The Parade of the Korean People's Army - DPRK, 2002, 30 minutes
--Always Working Together for the People - DPRK, ca. 1993, 60 minutes
--Cunnilingus in North Korea - Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries, 2007, 6 minutes
TOTAL RUNNING TIME: 111 minutes | Digital Projection


(All of the Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries videos are available on their website.)

12 August 2009 - Occupied Territories, the Space Race, and the Public Domain

Wednesday August 12th - 7:30PM
Brecht Forum
451 West Street, New York, NY 10014

RIGHT TO THE CITY:

--For the Living - Lewis Jacobs & Leo Seltzer, 1949, 21 minutes
--Sunday - Dan Drasin, 1961, 17 minutes
--The Social Life of Small Public Spaces - William H. Whyte, 1988, 58 minutes
TOTAL RUNNING TIME: 106 minutes | Digital Projection

Discussion with:
--JH Crawford, author of Carfree Cities (International, 2000), and Carfree Design Manual (International, 2009)
--Garrett Ramirez, from Two Coves Community Garden
--Ben Totushek of the Student Coalition on Expansion and Gentrification
--Teri Tynes of Walking Off the Big Apple


Special thanks to Dan Streible.

(The Whyte film is available on DVD (2005) from Direct Cinema.)

10 August 2009 - (In)Tangible Cultural Heritage: Oral Histories - Moore and Patterson

Monday August 10th - 7:30PM
Brecht Forum
451 West Street, New York, NY 10014

BLACK AUGUST:

--Louise Alone Thompson Patterson: In Her Own Words - Louis Massiah, 2002, 18 minutes
--Queen Mother Moore Speech at Greenhaven Prison - People's Communication Network, 1973, 17 minutes
TOTAL RUNNING TIME: 35 minutes | Digital Projection

Discussion with:
--Louis Massiah, filmmaker, founder of Scribe Video Center
--Dr. Mary Louise Patterson, daughter of Louise Patterson
--Frances Villar, mayoral candidate, from the Party for Socialism and Liberation

C0-sponsored by Red Channels


(The Massiah film is available from Scribe Video Center.)

5 August 2009 - Buffalo Soldiers: African-Americans and US Militarism

Wednesday August 5th - 7:30PM
Brecht Forum
451 West Street, New York, NY 10014

BLACK AUGUST:

--The Negro Soldier - Stuart Heisler, 1944, 43 minutes
--No Vietnamese Ever Called Me Nigger - David Loeb Weiss, 1968, 68 minutes
TOTAL RUNNING TIME: 111 minutes | Digital Projection


Special thanks to Vivian Gilbert-Strell.

(The Weiss film is available from The Cinema Guild.)

3 August 2009 - Bridges and Tunnels: Art and Efficiency

Monday August 3rd - 7:30PM
Brecht Forum
451 West Street, New York, NY 10014

RIGHT TO THE CITY:

--Manhattan Waterfront - Harold McCracken, 1937, 11 minutes
--Arteries of New York City - Robert S. Lynd, 1941, 9 minutes
--Daybreak Express - DA Pennebaker, 1953, 5 minutes
--Third Ave El - Carson Davidson, 1957, 11 minutes
--The End of the "El" - Pathe News Magazine of the Screen, 1957, 3 minutes
--Stations of the Elevated - Manfred Kirchheimer, 1980, 49 minutes
TOTAL RUNNING TIME: 88 minutes | Digital Projection

Discussion with:
--Peter Derrick of the Bronx Historical Society, and author of Tunneling to the Future (NYU Press, 2001)
--Marty Goodman, MTA Station Agent, and Executive Board Member of Transit Workers Union Local 100
--Manny Kirchheimer, filmmaker and professor, director of Stations (1980), We Were So Beloved (1985), Tall: The American Skyscraper and Louis Sullivan (2004) and Spraymasters (2008).
--Cassim Shepard of Urban Omnibus
--Jon Zazove of Dear MTA


(Pennebaker's film is available on DVD from Pennebaker Hegedus Films).

28 July 2009 - The Apocrypha - Pasolini's Non-Fiction Films: Anger and Disappointment

Tuesday July 28th - 7:30PM
Brecht Forum
451 West Street, New York, NY 10014

--La Rabbia (The Rage) – 1963, 51 minutes
--Sopralluoghi in Palestina per il vangelo secondo Matteo (Seeking Locations in Palestine...) – 1965, 53 minutes
TOTAL RUNNING TIME: 104 minutes | Digital Projection


(La Rabbia was released on DVD (2008) in Italy by Raro Video. Seeking Locations was released on DVD (2005) in the UK by Columbia.)

27 July 2009 - The Beginning of the Cold Season: Mediated Iran

Monday July 27th - 7:30PM
Brecht Forum
451 West Street, New York, NY 10014

--Iran - Kenneth Richter, 1953, 14 minutes
--Iran - Claude Lelouch, 1971, 18 minutes
--Tehran Has No More Pomegranates! - Massoud Bakhshi, 2007, 75 minutes
TOTAL RUNNING TIME: 107 minutes | Digital Projection

Speakers to include:
--Mani Mostofi of United 4 Iran
--Mahyad Toussi of BoomGen Studios


(The Bakhshi film is available on DVD from both SoCiArts and Documentary Educational Resources.)

22 July 2009 - The Cold Dialectic: Brecht on British Television

Wednesday July 22nd - 7:30PM
Brecht Forum
451 West Street, New York, NY 10014

--Lotte Lenya Sings Kurt Weill - Ken Russell, 1961, 17 minutes
--Baal - Alan Clarke, 1982, 64 minutes
TOTAL RUNNING TIME: 81 minutes | Digital Projection

20 July 2009 - Broadway Boogie Woogie: A City Unfinished

Monday July 20th - 7:30PM
Brecht Forum
451 West Street, New York, NY 10014

DOUBLE FEATURE

RIGHT TO THE CITY:

7:30
--New York City “Ghetto” Fish Market - James Blair Smith, 1903, 2 minutes
--Skyscrapers of New York City, from the North River - James Blair Smith, 1903, 3 minutes
--Manhatta - Paul Strand & Charles Sheeler, 1921, 6 minutes
--A Bronx Morning - Jay Leyda, 1931, 11 minutes
--Footnote to Fact - Lewis Jacobs, 1933, 8 minutes
--In the Street - James Agee, Helen Levitt, Janice Loeb, 1948, 16 minutes
TOTAL RUNNING TIME: 46 minutes | Digital Projection

8:30
--Moscow - Mikhail Kaufman & Ilya Kopalin, 1927, 59 minutes
TOTAL RUNNING TIME: 59 minutes | Digital Projection

With live musical accompaniment by Citizens Ontological Music Agenda: David Brahinsky, trumpet; Sten Hostfalt, mandolin; Andy O'Neill, drums; Lex Samu, coronet; Ken Silverman, guitar & percussion; Blaise Siwula, reeds.

Speakers:
--Cassim Shepard of Urban Omnibus


(The Sheeler, Strand, Leyda, and Jacobs films are available on the Unseen Cinema DVD Picturing a Metropolis (2005) released by Image.)

18 July 2009 - Gently Streaming - History, Poetry, Industry: The Cinema of the River Seine

Saturday July 18th - 3PM
Brooklyn Waterfront Artist's Coalition
499 Van Brunt Street, Brooklyn, NY 11231

--La Seine a recontre Paris (The Seine Meets Paris) – Joris Ivens, 1957, 30 minutes
--Aurelia Steiner (Melbourne) – Marguerite Duras, 1979, 28 minutes
--Death in the Seine – Peter Greenaway, 1989, 45 minutes
TOTAL RUNNING TIME: 103 minutes | Digital Projection


(All of Joris Ivens' films are available from the Joris Ivens European Foundation in Holland, in their 5DVD set Wereldcineast (2008). The set includes English subtitles. All of Marguerite Duras' short films are available on one region-2 DVD (2007) from her son Jean Mascolo, via the Benoit Jacob label. English subtitles are not included.)

16 July 2009 - A Woman's Reply: A Short Introduction to Agnes Varda

Thursday July 16th - 7PM
Bluestockings, 172 Allen Street, New York, NY 10002

--L'opera Mouffe [Diary of a Pregnant Woman] (1958, 16 minutes)
--Les fiances du pont Mac Donald (1961, 5 minutes)
--Salut les cubains (Greetings, Cubans) (1963, 28 minutes)
--Elsa la rose (Elsa the Rose) (1965, 20 minutes)
--Response de femmes: Notre corps, notre sexe (The Response of Women: Our Body, Our Sex) (1975, 8 minutes)
--Plaisir d'amour en Iran (The Pleasure of Love in Iran) (1976, 6 minutes)
--Les dites cariatides (The So-Called Caryatids) (1984, 12 minutes)
TOTAL RUNNING TIME: 85 minutes | Digital Projection


(All of Agnes Varda's short films are available on region-2 DVD directly from her, via her Cine-Tamaris label. The 2DVD set Varda tous courts (2007) includes English subtitles for all the films. Select titles are also available as bonus features on the Criterion Collection's 4 by Agnes Varda set (2008), which collects their single-disc editions of La Pointe Courte (1956), Cleo from 5 to 7 (1962), Le bonheur (1965), and Vagabond (1985).)

28 June 2009 - Call and Response: The Youth International on Trial

Sunday June 28th - 7PM
The Yippie Museum
9 Bleecker Street, New York, NY 10012

--Yippie – Newsreel, 1968, 12 minutes
--Vladimir and Rosa [Grove Press Edit] – Dziga-Vertov Group [Jean-Luc Godard & Jean-Pierre Gorin], 1970, 72 minutes
TOTAL RUNNING TIME: 84 minutes | Digital Projection


Special thanks to Time's Up and the Roz Payne Archives. 

(All of the Newsreel films are available from Third World Newsreel. The original cut of Godard and Gorin's Vladimir et Rosa is available as part of a region 2 4DVD set (2008) from Intermedio in Spain. English subtitles are not available.)

7 June 2009 - Plastic Montage: A Program of Cine-Sculpture

Sunday June 7th - 3PM
The University of Trash at SculptureCenter
44-19 Purves Street, Long Island City, NY 11101

--Visual Variations on Noguchi – by Marie Menken, 1945, 4 minutes
--Thorvaldsen – by Carl Th. Dreyer and Preben Frank, 1949, 10 minutes
--Les Statues meurent aussi (Statues Also Die) – by Alain Resnais, Chris Marker, and Ghislaine Cloquet, 1953, 30 minutes
--Cesaree – by Marguerite Duras, 1978, 11 minutes
--Junkopia – by Chris Marker, John Chapman, and Frank Simeone, 1981, 6 minutes
--Les dites cariatides (The So-Called Caryatids) – by Agnes Varda, 1984, 12 minutes
--Lo Sguardo di Michelangelo (The Gaze of Michelangelo) – by Michelangelo Antonioni, 2004, 18 minutes
TOTAL RUNNING TIME: 91 minutes | Digital Projection


(Menken's film is available on the Avant-Garde 2, 1928-1954 2DVD set released by Kino (2007). Dreyer's film is available as a bonus feature of the Image DVD release (2004) of The Parson's Widow (1920). All of Duras' short films are available on one region-2 DVD (2007) from her son Jean Mascolo, via the Benoit Jacob label. All of Varda's short films are available directly from her on a region-2 2DVD set, Varda tous courts (2007), via her Cine-Tamaris label. Antonioni's film is available as a bonus feature of the Warner DVD release (2006) of the omnibus film Eros (2004).)
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