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.)
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