Alternative Visions 2018
September 5–November 28, 2018
This expansive season of our avant-garde showcase extends from the beginning of the twentieth century to the present, with many filmmakers and other luminaries in person.
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Kelly Sears: A Tone Halfway Between Lightness and Darkness
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The Washing Society
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As Above, So Below
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Empty Metal
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Tomonari Nishikawa: Tokyo - Ebisu
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The Smiling Madame Beudet and Abstract Shorts by Germaine Dulac
Wednesday, September 5 7 PMView DetailsA program of films by a pioneering French avant-garde filmmaker who aimed “to give more space to sensations and dreams,” including short experimental works and her masterpiece, The Smiling Madame Beudet.
Afterimage: Collage Animations by Kelly Sears
Wednesday, September 12 7 PMKelly Sears and Rick Prelinger in ConversationView DetailsSears’s experimental animations, collaged from materials ranging from first aid handbooks and high school yearbooks to military newsreels and exercise tapes, are “witty, savvy, ironic, poetic, exhilarating, even cosmic” (Craig Baldwin).
Poor Little Rich Girl
Andy Warhol
United States, 1963/65Wednesday, September 19 7 PMView DetailsRevisit Warhol’s famous Factory with this portrait of young heiress Edie Sedgwick, who “was, quite simply, a dazzling film presence” (New York Times). Preceded by a selection of Warhol’s screen tests.
The Book of Wonders: Films by Stan Brakhage and Georges Méliès
Wednesday, September 26 7 PMView DetailsSeemingly poles apart, Brakhage and Méliès were both independent spirits, explorers of the mythic and the everyday. This program features the rarely screened The Loom and other works by Brakhage as well as Méliès’s The Kingdom of the Fairies.
Out of the Vault: Luminous Procuress
Steven Arnold
United States, 1971Restored 16mm Print
Wednesday, October 3 7 PMIntroduction by Steve SeidView DetailsThe legendary, gender-obliterating funfest unleashed by the cantankerous cross-dressing Cockettes shines on in this immaculate restored print.
Ism, Ism, Ism: Recycled Film in Latin America
Wednesday, October 10 7 PMIntroduction by Jesse LernerView DetailsA trip through Latin American films, from polemics to poetics, that use appropriation as a form of critique and a strategy of decolonization. Featuring found-footage works by Luis Ospina, Alfredo Salomón, Enrique Colina, Marisol Trujillo, and others.
The Washing Society
Lizzie Olesker, Lynne Sachs
United States, 2018Wednesday, October 24 7 PMLizzie Olesker and Lynne Sachs in PersonView DetailsOlesker and Sachs fold the history of labor and immigration into this intimate chronicle of the disappearing public space of the neighborhood laundromat. With Sachs’s Carolee, Barbara & Gunvor and Gunvor Nelson’s Old Digs.
Afterimage: EMPTY METAL
Adam Khalil, Bayley Sweitzer
United States, 2018Wednesday, October 31 7 PMAdam Khalil, Bayley Sweitzer, and Diana Ruíz in ConversationView DetailsEmpty Metal takes place in a world similar to ours—one of mass surveillance, pervasive policing, and increasing individual apathy—as it follows the lives of several people attempting to bring about change. With short The Violence of a Civilization Without Secrets.
Underground International: Kurt Kren and Tomonari Nishikawa
BAMPFA Student Committee Pick
Wednesday, November 7 7 PMTomonari Nishikawa, Patrick Harrison, and Megan Hoetger in ConversationView DetailsInterweaving works by a pioneering Austrian and a contemporary US-based Japanese filmmaker, this program highlights connections across continents and generations animating the structural filmmaking tradition.
As Above, So Below
Larry Clark
United States, 1973Wednesday, November 14 7 PMLarry Clark, Ra Malika Imhotep, and Jamal Batts in ConversationView DetailsClark’s drama of post-Watts resistance and black power is a rediscovered masterpiece and a key work of the L.A. Rebellion. With Frances Bodomo’s short Everybody Dies!
The Unimagined Lives of Our Neighbors: Three Films
Wednesday, November 28 7 PMJeffrey Skoller in PersonView DetailsThree works bear personal witness to collective histories, from Auschwitz to the Japanese internment to postwar Japan: Rea Tajiri’s History and Memory, Abraham Ravett’s The March, and Jeffrey Skoller’s recent The Unimagined Lives of Our Neighbors.