Alternative Visions

9/2/03 to 10/28/03

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Past Films

  • L'AGE D'OR

    Tuesday, September 2 7:30
    Luis Buñuel's Surrealist classic, cowritten by Salvador Dali, represents a golden age of revolutionary cinema, a cinema of humor, eros, and outrage. With shorts: Buñuel's Un Chien Andalou and Jean Painlevé's Le Vampire, nature documentary transfigured into horror.
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  • IN THE MIRROR OF MAYA DEREN

    Tuesday, September 9 7:30
    In this masterfully constructed documentary on the life and work of a prophetic film artist, "Deren emerges as a beautiful, willful, wayward talent with an exceptional vision and a great love for life and for the avant-garde world."-Variety. With Deren's evocative, influential Meshes of the Afternoon.
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  • HY HIRSH AND THE FIFTIES: JAZZ AND ABSTRACTION IN BEAT ERA FILM

    Tuesday, September 16 7:30
    This program from The iotaCenter celebrates the Beat Generation with a selection of films by pioneering artists of that era: Hy Hirsh, Shirley Clarke, Robert Breer, Mary Ellen Bute, Jordan Belson, Harry Smith, James and John Whitney, and Patricia Marx.
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  • THE FILMS OF HANNES SCHÜPBACH

    Tuesday, October 28 7:30
    Hannes Schüpbach in Person. Swiss painter and filmmaker Schüpbach's delicate silent shorts use layered images and impressionistic camerawork to sensually render everyday objects, familiar people, and significant moments.
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