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).)