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| Brian Frye of the Robert Beck Memorial Cinema Presents SUNSET IN THE CITY OF GOD | |||
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us assume that film is to duration as architecture is to extension, the
dreamer of the former analogous to the peripatetic of the latter. At the
intersection of these forms we discover a curiously complimentary pair:
the landscape film and the garden. A dreamed landscape versus the landscape
of a dream, each realizes the irrational extremes of its medium. The landscape
film reduces events to pure duration; the space of the garden is both open
and enclosed. If they appear self-contradictory, we must remember that they
serve many masters, each fashioning a Truth according to its needs. While
the dimensions of our world are well definded, we perceive them as indefinite,
features blurring off toward the horizon. Duration, of which our lives are
the first expression, neither recognizes our presence nor concerns itself
with our chronology. In the intersection of the two, we might discover some
intimation of the terrible sublime at the moment when the Garden knows death,
the unspoken name of Time. OPUS 53 - Eric Anderson (16mm, b/w, silent, 3m.) UR-HAUS - Francois Boue (Super-8, color, sound on tape, 8m.) FLOWERS or THE WHITE ROSE - Stanley Swantz (R8mm, b/w, silent, 3m.) ATHENS - Luke Sieczek (Super-8, b/w, silent, 3 m.) TWELVE - Astria Suparak (16mm, color, silent, 3m.) THE CIRCLE I - James Fotopoulos (16m, b/w, silent, 8m.) DAME PERE - Bradley Eros (Super-8, color, sound on tape, 3m.) TANGIERS - Kodak (16mm, b/w, silent, 3m.@ 16fps) CARGO OF LURE - J. Hoberman (16mm, color, silent, 12 m. @ 16fps) SCENIC TOUR OF BROWNSVILLE SLUM, 1968 - Mike Olshan (16mm, b/w, silent, 3m.) HELD IN CUSTODY, BUT NOT ARRESTED - Bruce McClure (16mm, color, silent, 3m.) CEMETARY - Paul Bollaro (R8mm, color, silent, 3m.) MINNESOTA LANDSCAPE - Steve Polta (16mm, color, silent, 10m. @ 16fps) LACHRYMAE - Brian Frye (16mm, color, silent, 3m. @ 16fps) A panel discussion will follow the screening. Contact: Brian Frye/The Robert Beck Memorial Cinema Cooper Station Box 499 NYC 10276-0499 718-706-6697 |
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