The Museum of Modern Art
11 West 53 Street
New York 10019
212.708.9400
CINEPROBE SCHEDULE
January-June 1998
Monday, January 12 at 6:30
Cineprobe
Su Friedrich (New York City). Su Friedrich presents Hide and Seek
(1996, 65 min.), a provocative and highly personal exploration of lesbian
adolescence in the 1960s. An investigation of gender identity and its construction,
Hide and Seek interweaves the story of Lou, a 12-year-old girl, with
old scientific and sex-education films.
Monday, February 9 at 6:30
Cineprobe
Alan Berliner (New York City). Alan Berliner presents Nobody's Business
(1996, 60 min.), a portrait of his reclusive father and a follow-up to his
previous film, Intimate Stranger. Exploring family history, Berliner's
film succeeds in transforming the personal into a story of universal resonance.
Monday, February 23 at 6:30
Cineprobe
Jim Jennings (New York City). Jim Jennings presents short films surveying
his work of the 1970s (Proximity, Leaves) and 1980s (Fall,
St. Christobal) and his most recent work, including Passage,
a starkly photographed record of a journey to Rome and The School of
Athens (both New York premieres.)
Monday, March 2 at 6:30
Cineprobe
Seth Michael Donsky (New York City). Seth Michael Donsky presents Twisted
(1996, 100 min.), a 1990s revision of Oliver Twist. Donsky's debut feature
tells the story of Lee, a 10-year-old boy entering a world of drugs and
male prostitution. Also of notice: Twisted is William Wicley's last
film.
Monday, March 16 at 6:30
Cineprobe
Betzy Bromberg (Tujunga, California). Betzy Bromberg presents Ciao Bella
(1979. 13 min.) and Divinity Gratis (1996, 59 min.). On the verge
of the new millennium, Bromberg's Divinity Gratis invites its spectators
to look back at the beginning of the world and rethink everything that came
after.
Monday, May 18 at 6:30
Cineprobe
Joel Schlemowitz (New York City). Joel Schlemowitz presents many of his
short experimental films from 1989 to 1996. The works are mostly semi-abstract
pieces of 2 to 6 minuteswith the exception of Weimar, an ambiguous
story with actors playing characters.
Monday, June 1 at 6:30
Cineprobe
Dominic Angerame (San Francisco, California) presents A City Symphony
(70 min.), a collection of four separate and distinct films made between
1987 and 1997. Influenced by the avant-garde filmmakers of the 1920s and
1930s, A City Symphony centers around the city environment in a constant
state of change.