From: Thomas Beard (email suppressed)
Date: Sun Oct 26 2008 - 14:16:46 PDT
Light Industry
http://www.lightindustry.org
Far From Vietnam
Jean-Luc Godard, Joris Ivens, William Klein, Claude Lelouch, Chris Marker,
Alain Resnais, Agnes Varda, 16mm, 1967, 120 minutes
Tuesday, October 28, 2008 at 8pm
55 33rd Street, 3rd Floor
Brooklyn, New York
"One of the most powerful documentary statements about the opposition to the
U.S. involvement in Vietnam. In fact, I would cite Emile de Antonio's 1968
In the Year of the Pig and the collectively made 1972 Winter Soldier as its
only real competitors." - Jonathan Rosenbaum, Moving Image Source
Organized under the aegis of SLON (Société pour le Lancement des Oeuvres
Nouvelles) and overseen by Chris Marker as a protest of the US involvement
in Vietnam, this legendary portmanteau, which features contributions by
seven iconic artists, stands as watershed moment for political cinema as
well as collective filmmaking. A melange of fictional and documentary
elements shot across the US, France, Cuba, and Vietnam, it was a source of
some controversy in its time, and remains a provocative and resonant essay
on global conflict and life during wartime.
"Far from Vietnam is a film of question marks, of questions we ask ourselves
as often perhaps as you. It's for that reason that we put them on the
screen: after all, it is as natural for filmmakers to speak on a white
canvas as in a cafe." - Alain Resnais
"On the corner of 42nd Street and 8th Avenue in New York, a guy is reciting
a poem consisting of the syllables na-palm. And no one knows what napalm is.
It showed me how blind people become to something they hear referred to all
day long. So, we decided to do something a little like Picasso confronted by
the bombing of Guernica." - William Klein
Tickets - $6, available at door.
About Light Industry
Light Industry is a new venue for film and electronic art in Brooklyn, New
York. Developed and overseen by Thomas Beard and Ed Halter, the project has
begun as a series of weekly events at Industry City in Sunset Park, each
organized by a different artist, critic, or curator. Conceptually, Light
Industry draws equal inspiration from the long history of alternative art
spaces in New York as well its storied tradition of cinematheques and other
intrepid film exhibitors. Through a regular program of screenings,
performances, and lectures, its goal is to explore new models for the
presentation of time-based media and foster an ongoing dialogue amongst a
wide range of artists and audiences within the city.
About Industry City
Industry City, an industrial complex in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, is home to a
cross-section of manufacturing, warehousing and light industry. As part of a
regeneration program intended to diversify the use of its 6 million square
feet of space to better reflect 21st century production, Industry City now
includes workspace for artists. In addition to offering studios at
competitive rates, Industry City also provides a limited number of
rent-stabilized studios for artists in need of low-cost rental space. This
program was conceived in response to the lack of affordable workspace for
artists in New York City and aims to establish a new paradigm for industrial
redevelopment--one that does not displace artists, workers, local residents
or industry but instead builds a sustainable community in a context that
integrates cultural and industrial production.
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