Serendipity: Recent Films

Tonight's program highlights diverse recent works that share an intense appreciation of the possibilities of cinema. In Robert Breer's kaleidoscope animation Time Flies, paintings, drawings, and collaged images delightfully and unexpectedly transform. Lewis Klahr's simple, elegant Green '62 reminds us of the distinct pleasures of viewing, while local filmmaker Kerry Laitala, in Retrospectroscope, mines cinema's pre-history to bring a zoetrope to life. The desire to create a distinctly cinematic space permeates Jerry (corr: Jerome) Hiler's beautiful Gladly Given. Pelle Lowe uses the text from public questionnaires in her devastating portrait of social dispossession, Smoke. In the hand-developed and in-camera edited Ceci N'est Pas, Jeanne Liotta gathers haunting traces of a trip, a lost friend, and cinema itself. Mathias Mueller's Pensão Globo crosses forties psychodramas with Sirkian colors in its evocation of a man with AIDS.-Kathy Geritz

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