From: Larry Cuba (email suppressed)
Date: Wed Aug 23 2006 - 13:28:06 PDT
The iotaCenter is proud to announce the completion
of its latest film preservation project,
five titles by the late Adam K. Beckett.
The new prints will be screened at The National Gallery of Art
in Washington, DC, on Saturday, August 26th, at 2pm
http://www.nga.gov/programs/filmart.shtm#aug26
The program includes:
Evolution Of The Red Star (1973)
Heavy-Light (1973)
Flesh Flows (1974)
Sausage City (1974)
Kitsch In Synch (1975)
Stills from these films and more information about
Adam Beckett's work can be found on iota's website:
http://www.iotacenter.org/projects/beckett
Adam's biographer, Pamela Turner, will introduce
the program and present images and information
culled from her research over the past three years.
The preservation of these films was sponsored by
The Film Archive of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences,
Mark Toscano, preservationist, Amy Sloper, assistant
(http://www.oscars.org/filmarchive/index.html)
and
The National Film Preservation Foundation
(http://www.filmpreservation.org)
For booking information, please contact
Rebecca Newman or Larry Cuba via
email suppressed
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For info on FrameWorks, contact Pip Chodorov at <email suppressed>.