From: john porter (email suppressed)
Date: Tue Aug 08 2006 - 17:20:08 PDT
Thanks Brooke,
Are those film formats listed (all 16mm), also the
projection formats at these screenings?
John.
--- Brooke Holgerson <email suppressed> wrote:
> Hi Frameworkers,
>
> Another night of screenings at the Harvard Film
> Archive that might be of
> interest to some of you. Information is below;
> please feel free to
> contact me with questions. And don't forget - Sidney
> Peterson's films
> are screening Tuesday and Wednesday of this week...
>
> August 14 (Monday) 7 pm
> The City Symphony
> During the 1920s many filmmakers explored the idea
> of the city as the
> central force in modern life. Referred to as "city
> symphonies," these
> works explored the compelling intersection between
> nonfiction and
> avant-grade modes of expression, using real
> locations to construct
> poetic visions.
> __
> _Rain_
> /Directed by Mannus Franken and Joris Ivens/
> /Netherlands 1929, b/w, silent, 12 min./
> A rainy day in Amsterdam provides the inspiration
> for Joris Ivens'
> striking film poem. Although seamless in its
> presentation of a day in
> the life of the Dutch people, the film actually took
> two years to prepare.
>
> _Rien Que Les Heures_
> /Directed by Alberto Cavalcanti/
> /France 1925, 16mm, b/w, silent, 45 min./
> /French Language Version/
> Alberto Cavalcanti presents all walks of life as he
> chronicles a day in
> Paris from dawn to dusk. While faithful to its real
> life subjects, the
> film uses a modernist form which complicates its
> common classification
> as nonfiction. Cavalcanti's film reputedly inspired
> Dziga Vertov to
> create his own city symphony, /Man with a Movie
> Camera./
>
> _Berlin__: Symphony of a __Great__ __City__ ___
> /Directed by Walther Ruttman
> //Germany//, 1927, 16mm, b/w, silent, 65 min./
> Walther Ruttman's impressionistic vision of Berlin
> stands as one of the
> great "city symphonies" of the silent era. A
> day-to-night portrait of
> the city that deploys kinetic editing and a graphic
> mode of
> cinematography to capture the dynamism of the modern
> urban environment,
> the film set a lasting precedent for the
> representation of city life in
> cinema. Although the events appear to take place
> during a single spring
> day, Ruttman spent eighteen months assembling
> footage to produce the
> final film. Whether classified as a work of
> nonfiction or the
> avant-garde, Ruttman's poetic work remains a classic
> of cinema.
> __
> August 14 (Monday) 9:15 pm
> The Films of Ralph Steiner
> Trained as a photographer, Cleveland-native Ralph
> Steiner crafted an
> impressive body of work in the 1930s in both
> experimental and nonfiction
> modes. His first major work, /H2O / is an abstract
> film which focuses on
> the rhythmic flow of water and its interplay with
> light and shadow, and
> was recently selected for the National Film
> Registry. Steiner continued
> in this mode with poetic works such as /Mechanical
> Principles /and /Surf
> and Seaweed/ before turning to more ideologically
> motivated pieces. /Pie
> in the Sky/ is a political satire made with members
> of the Group Theater
> (including Elia Kazan and Nykino), a group dedicated
> to producing
> agit-prop films. Along with Paul Strand and Leo
> Hurwitz Steiner formed
> Frontier Films, which sought to expand the
> possibilities of documentary
> film, most notably seen in /The City/, his
> collaboration with Willard
> van Dyke. In his later career Steiner worked as a
> writer in Hollywood
> studios and eventually returned to commercial
> photography.
> __
> _H2O___
> /Directed by Ralph Steiner
> //US// 1929, 16mm, b/w, silent, 14 min./
>
> _Mechanical Principles_
> /Directed by Ralph Steiner/
> /US 1930, 16mm, b/w, silent, 10 min./
> __
> _Surf and Seaweed_
> /Directed by Ralph Steiner/
> /US 1931, 16mm, b/w, silent, 11 min./
>
> _Pie in the Sky_
> /Directed by Ralph Steiner/
> /US 1935, 16mm, b/w, silent, 22 min./
>
> _The City_
> /Directed by Ralph Steiner and Willard Van Dyke/
> /US 1939, 16mm, b/w, 43 min./
>
> The Harvard Film Archive is located at 24 Quincy St,
> Cambridge MA.
> Tickets are $8 General Admission, $6 Students and
> Senior Citizens
> 617-495-4700 or www.harvardfilmarchive.org for more
> information
>
> --
> Brooke Holgerson
> Publicity/Outreach
> Harvard Film Archive
> 617-496-3211
> email suppressed
> www.harvardfilmarchive.org
>
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John Porter, Toronto, Canada
http://www.super8porter.ca/
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