Whitney screenings this week: Nina Sobell, Pat O'Neill, Bas Jan Ader, Morgan Fisher, Jack Goldstein

From: Chrissie Iles (email suppressed)
Date: Tue Aug 12 2008 - 14:55:49 PDT


This week's screenings for Paul McCarthy's curated 'Film List' bring together a group of films and videotapes by major artists working in L.A. in the 1970s, all of whose work had an important impact on McCarthy's thinking. All screenings are daily as listed.
 
FILM LIST 13 - 17 AUGUST
"LOS ANGELES"
 
11am, Friday 1pm
NINA SOBELL (videotapes)
Baby, Chicky!!!, 1978, 9:08 min.
Elastic Equations, 1972-1973, 27:17 min
Elements, 1973, 21:15 min
Interactive Electroencephalographic Video Drawings, 1973-1979, 9:45 min.
Video Performance Compilation, 1973-74, 13 min
Six Moving Cameras, Three Converging Views, 1981, 6:00 min
Nina Sobell: Pioneer in Interactivity, 1992, 25:00 min
 
1pm, Friday 3pm
PAT O'NEILL
Runs Good, 1971, 16mm film, color, sound; 15 min.
Water and Power, 1989, 16mm film, color, sound; 54 min.
Trouble in the Image, 1996, 16mm film, color, sound; 38 min.
 
3 - 3.30pm (10 minute program repeated 3 times)
Friday 5-5.30pm
BAS JAN ADER (all 16mm film on video)
Fall I, Los Angeles, 1970, 0:34 min.
Fall II, Amsterdam, 1970, 0:25 min.
Broken Fall (Organic), Amsterdamse Bos, Holland, 1971, 1:36 min.
Broken Fall (Geometric), West Kapelle Holland, 1971, 1:36 min.
I'm Too Sad to Tell You, 1971, 3:21 min.
Nightfall, 4:16 min.
 
3.30pm, Friday 6.30pm
MORGAN FISHER
Screening Room, 1968/2005
16mm film, 6 min., a site-specific film, made for the Whitney Museum's Film & Video Gallery.
Turning Over, 1975, video, 15 mins
Protective Coloration, 1979, video, 30 mins
 
4.30pm, Friday 7.30pm
JACK GOLDSTEIN (all 16mm film)
The Portrait of Père Tanguy, 1974, 4 min.
A Ballet Shoe, 1975, 0:19 min.
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1975, 2 min.
Shane, 1975, 3 min.
White Dove, 1975, 0:20 min.
The Knife, 1975, 4 min.
The Chair, 1975, 5 min.
Some Butterflies, 1975, 0:30 min.
Bone China, 1976, 2:30 min.
The Jump, 1977, 0:26 min.
 
 

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