Alternative Visions

1/20/04 to 2/17/04

  • WonderPain, January 20

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Past Films

  • Remembrance

    • Tuesday, February 17 7:30 pm

    These contemplative, mesmerizing films on a variety of themes evoke a sense of nostalgia or mourning for things past. Works by Diane Bonder, Brian Frye, Alfred Guzzetti, Casey Koehler, Abraham Ravett, Phil Solomon, Mark Street, and Robert Todd.

  • Resist the Present: Yvonne Rainer and Lee Anne Schmitt

    • Tuesday, February 10 7:30 pm

    Splendid and provocative new works celebrate the challenge of making art in a political context. Rainer's After Many a Summer Dies the Swan: Hybrid is a layering of ideas and dance. Schmitt's Awake and Sing examines the legacy of Clifford Odets.

  • Double-Edged Sword

    • Tuesday, January 27 7:30 pm

    From the secret pleasures of propaganda to the stress of decomposing images, the found-footage films in tonight's program work creatively with a sense of unease. Films by Abigail Child, Wago Kreider, Bill Morrison, Matthias Mueller and Christoph Girardet, Vivian Ostrovsky, Mary Beth Reed, and Keith Sanborn.

  • Animation and Anti-animation

    • Tuesday, January 20 7:30 pm

    Inventive approaches include scratching into emulsion and cameraless filmmaking using a flashlight and packets from a Chinese herbalist in films by Stan Brakhage, Devon Damonte, Barry Gerson, Anna Geyer, Courtney Hoskins, Liliana Porter, Michele Smith, and Pearce Williams.