Friday, February 6
The Roy and Niuta Titus Theater 2
(hereafter all screenings are in the Museum's Time Warner Screening
Room)
6:30 She/Va. Marjorie Keller. 1973. 3 min.
Note to Pati. Saul Levine. 1969. 8 min.
Winter Sky. Ken Jacobs. 1964. c. 20 min.
Kemia. silt. 1994. 10 min.
The Annunciation. Diana Barrie. 1973-4. 8 min.
The Exquisite Hour. Phil Solomon. 1989. 14 min.
8:00 Sylvia's Promise. George Kuchar. 1962. 8 min
Open/Close. Vito Acconci. 1970. 6 min.
Sexual Meditation Number 1: Motel. Stan Brakhage. 1970. 12 min.
The Scary Movie. Peggy Ahwesh. 1993. 9 min.
Clown, Part One. Luther Price. 1991. 13 min.
Thursday, February 12
6:00 One-person presentation: Ken Jacobs.
We Stole Away. 1963. 60 min.
Window. 1964. 8 min.
1st Window. 1964. 4 min.
Lisa & Joey in Connecticut, Jan. 65: "You've Come Back"; "You're Still Here." 1965. 18 min.
Jerry Takes a Back Seat, Then Passes Out of the Picture. 1975. 15 min
Artie and Marty Rosenblatt's Home Movies. 1940. 4 min.
Hi-8. c. 10 min.
New York's illustrious avant-garde filmmaker was among the first serious artists of the underground to recognize the potential of home-movie making as art. Jacobs presents a rare screening of his intimate early chamberworks celebrating home life in Regular 8.
Filmmaker present
Thursday, February 19
6:00 One-person presentation: Stan Brakhage: Songs 1-15.
Song 1-8. 1964. 23 min.
Song 9-14. 1965. 19 min.
Fifteen Song Traits. 1965. 31 min.
Stan Brakhage, pioneering avant-garde filmmaker, began working in 8mm
out of necessity but came to regard the small gauge as a sanctuary from
large scale works; between 1964-69 he produced thirty Regular 8mm Song
films which are among his greatest accomplishments, works of great simplicity
and directness, achieved through the small scale image.
Thursday, February 26
6:00 Untitled (aka Aleph). Wallace Berman. 1965. 7 min.
#3. Ellen Gaine. 1980. 28 min.
Le Mois de Fevrier. Diana Barrie. 1979. 6 min.
Remains to Be Seen. Phil Solomon.1989. 16 min.
Suggestions of Memory, Images Past.
Thursday, March 5
6:00 Winter Dream Lieder. Peter Herwitz. 1993. 11 min.
A Knowledge They Cannot Lose. Nina Fonoroff. 1989. 17 min.
Untitled . Marjorie Keller. 1971. 7 min.
The Life of Naomi Lang. Lewis Klahr. 1991. 25 min.
The Bladderwort Document. Janis Crystal Lipzin. 1978. 14 min.
Evidence and ephemera of intimate relationships, real and imagined.
Thursday, March 12
6:00 Earthly Possessions. Pelle Lowe. 1992. 23 min.
Dark, Scenes from the Barn. Robert Huot. 1991-2. 15 min.
Our Us We Bone One So Naked Known. Anie Stanley. 1994. 10 min.
Warm Broth. Luther Price. 1988. 36 min
The Producer. c. 1928. 10 min.
The sexuality of identity displayed, imagined, tried on or discarded.
Thursday, March 19
6:00 In Mother's Way. Jacalyn White. 1981. 32 min.
Martina's Playhouse. Peggy Ahwesh. 1989. 20 min.
Mary Smith. Gail Vachon. 1980. 12 min.
Female-ness fantasized and revealed in three candid portraits.
Thursday, March 26
6:00 Peggy's Blue Skylight. Joyce Wieland. 1965. 11 min.
House Beautiful. Willie Varela.. 1988. 10 min.
Me With Her Movie Camera. Nino Rodriguez. 1991. 5 min.
Age 12: Love with a Little L. Jennifer Montgomery.1990. 22 min.
Nina Hagan. Alan Sondheim. 1988. 18 min.
Going to the Dogs. Joe Gibbons. 1980. 15 min.
Private space as confinement, secret hide-away or imaginary playhouse.
Thursday, April 16
6:00 One-person presentation: Carolee Schneemann.
Selections from Kitch's Last Meal. 1973. 120 min.
Twin-projection . Super 8 diary of country life weaving together textures
of daily activities and perceptions evoking life's spontaneity and unpredictability.
Filmmaker present.
Thursday, April 23
6:00 Land and Sea. Lee Krugman. 1975. 11 min.
Lace of Summer. Storm De Hirsch. 1973. 4 min.
Aristotle. Storm De Hirsch. 1973. 4 min.
Spring/Fall; Cinesongs: For Storm De Hirsch. Gary Adlestein. 1990. 11 min.
Windows. Anne Robertson. 1984/85. 37 min.
Farm Diary , Reel 2. Gordon Ball. 1970. 30 min.
Observing natural surroundings and landscapes through the nuanced inflection
of 8mm recording.
Thursday, April 30
6:00 One-person presentation: Saul Levine
Note to Eric. 1969. 5 min.
Saul's Scarf. 1966-67. 20 min.
Notes of an Early Fall. 1976-77. 40 min.
Notes After Long Silence. 1989. 15 min.
August Moon An See. 1997. 3 min.
A thirty-year overview of intimate portraits of self, friends, colleagues, and a particular social environment by Levine, one of small gauge cinema's influential teachers and practitioners.
Filmmaker present.
Thursday, May 7
6:00 One-person presentation: Pelle Lowe.
Smoke. 1995-96. 24 min.
Film performance
Thursday, May 14
6:00 Net with Water. Melanie Berry. 1983. 5 min.
Waterglass. Melanie Berry. 1984. 3 min.
Winter Counts Number 4. Gary Adkins. 1976. 6 min.
Winter Counts Number 9. Gary Adkins. 1977. 10 min.
Mantilla. Julie Murray. 1991. 17 min.
Night Movie No. 2 (Flashlight). Diana Barrie. 1974. 3 min.
Night Movie No. 1 (Self Portrait). Diana Barrie. 1974. 3 min.
Portrait of Pamela. Diana Barrie. 1974. 2 min.
First of May. Caroline Avery. 1984. 2 min.
Flap. Caroline Avery. 1983. 4 min.
Ready Mades in Hades. Caroline Avery. 1986-87. 7 min.
Thursday, May 21
6:00 Presentation by the silt collective.
Land's End and other film performances. 1995-97. c. 80 min.
Thursday, May 28
6:00 Zig Zag. Martha Colburn. 1995. 6 min.
Asthma. Martha Colburn. 1995. 5 min.
Uberfall. Martha Colburn. 1996. 6 min.
Persecution in Paradise. Martha Colburn. 1997. 4 min.
You haven't Heard the Record, You haven't Read the Book, NOW! Don't see the Movie. Tentatively a convenience. 1988. 28 min.
Blood Poisoning. Leslie Singer. 1983. 3 min.
Fountain of Youth. Leslie Singer. 1984. 3 min.
After God II. Leslie Singer. 1984. 4 min.
Herbie and the Cupcake. Leslie Singer. 1984. 3 min.
Taxi, Taxi. 1992. Bill Creston. 12 min.
Thursday, June 4
6:00 We Imitate, We Break Up. Erica Beckman. 1978. 30 min.
Current Autobiography According to Bargain Basement Sinatra. Natalka Voslakov. 1979. 15 min.
She Had Her Gun All Ready. Vivienne Dick. 1978. 27 min.
Thursday, September 17
6:00 Brakhage: 'Salon'.
Stan Brakhage selects and presents treasures from his personal collection
of small gauge film.
Thursday, October 1
6:00 Conversions, part 1. Vito Acconci
Green. Luther Price.
Pittsburgh Trilogy Part 2: Para Normal Intelligence. Peggy Ahwesh.
Thursday, October 8
6:00 One person presentation: Peggy Ahwesh:
Fragments Project. (Selection). c. 45 min.
From Romance to Ritual. 1985. 21 min.
Filmmaker present.
Thursday, October 15
6:00 Shades and Drumbeats. Andrew Meyers.
Anita Needs Me. George Kuchar.
Erotic Trilogy. Robert Huot.
A Place Called Lovely. Sadie Benning
Detritus. Willie Varela
Me and Joe. Stuart Sherman
Thursday, October 22
6:00 Presentation by George and Mike Kuchar:
Early work (selection, including Home in the Bronx)
Tootsies In Autumn
A Town Called Tempest
Lust for Ecstasy
Filmmakers present.
Thursday, October 29
6:00 Barbara Ward Will Never Die. Barbara Hammer
Ceci N'est Pas. Jeanne Liotta
The Dervish Machine. Bradley Eros and Jeanne Liotta
Goodbye 42nd Street. Richard Kern
Letters To Dad. Beth B and Scott B.
Fuck Face. Julie Murray
Rat Trap. Tessa Hughes-Freeland
Thursday, November 5
6:00 Don't Hang Up the Phone, I am Freezing. Stuart Sherman
Whistling (In the Flesh). Willie Varela
Low Resolution TV. Scott Stark
Apologies. Anne Robertson
Confidential. Joe Gibbons
Thursday, November 12
6:00 One person presentation: Anne Robertson
Five Year Diary (selections).
Filmmaker present.
Thursday, November 19
6:00 Near Windows. Ken Paul Rosenthal
Carrie at Still. Stom Sogo
Departure. Steve Polta
Covered Bridge. Jamie Harrar
'elf. Jamie Harrar.
Cecil in her Garden. Adele Friedman
Doug and his Plants. Adele Friedman
Chris in the LA Night. Adele Friedman
The Boris Spassky High Frequency Comb. Michael Johnsen
Pupae Unison Move. Michael Johnsen
Snow Brakes Pope. Michael Johnsen
Thursday, December 3
Owen O'Toole presentation:
Filmmakers' Almanac
Thursday, December 10
6:00 Fragment. Ellen Gaine
Begonia Room. Michael Mideke
Walk. Michael Mideke..
Train Ride. Michael Mideke
Unconscious London Strata. Stan Brakhage
17 Reasons Why. Nathaniel Dorsky
December 17
6:00 Once Removed. A program of home movies curated by Mark McElhattan.
Please note that the schedule for 1999 screenings featuring the remainder of the selected works in Big As Life: An American History of 8mm Films will be available in late 1998.