Introduced by Sheldon Renan.
A selection of classic short films drawn largely from the BAMPFA collection, ranging from the hand-drawn, animated "Sisyphus" by Hungarian director Marcell Jankovics to Bruce Baillie’s elegiac "Mass for the Dakota Sioux", which contrasts formal qualities of a mass for the dead with images of urban America. Jordan Belson’s "Re-Entry" is a visually abstract recreation of bardo, or the three states of being at the moment of death as defined by the Tibetan Book of the Dead. Chris Marker's "La Jetée" is an exploration of emotions in the scientific (and post-scientific) age, dealing with the depths of nostalgia associated with memory, time, and time-travel. Len Lye’s ecstatic "Free Radicals" uses the technique of drawing and scratching designs directly onto film. The program ends with Bruce Conner's extraordinary "Cosmic Ray", one of the great examples of found footage collage cut to Ray Charles's "What'd I Say."
Part of the Cinema Mon Amour series at the BAM/PFA.
Free gallery admission with same-day film ticket!
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A selection of classic short films drawn largely from the BAMPFA collection, ranging from the hand-drawn, animated "Sisyphus" by Hungarian director Marcell Jankovics to Bruce Baillie’s elegiac "Mass for the Dakota Sioux", which contrasts formal qualities of a mass for the dead with images of urban America. Jordan Belson’s "Re-Entry" is a visually abstract recreation of bardo, or the three states of being at the moment of death as defined by the Tibetan Book of the Dead. Chris Marker's "La Jetée" is an exploration of emotions in the scientific (and post-scientific) age, dealing with the depths of nostalgia associated with memory, time, and time-travel. Len Lye’s ecstatic "Free Radicals" uses the technique of drawing and scratching designs directly onto film. The program ends with Bruce Conner's extraordinary "Cosmic Ray", one of the great examples of found footage collage cut to Ray Charles's "What'd I Say."
Part of the Cinema Mon Amour series at the BAM/PFA.
Free gallery admission with same-day film ticket!
Introduced by Sheldon Renan.
A selection of classic short films drawn largely from the BAMPFA collection, ranging from the hand-drawn, animated "Sisyphus" by Hungarian director Marcell Jankovics to Bruce Baillie’s elegiac "Mass for the Dakota Sioux", which contrasts formal qualities of a mass for the dead with images of urban America. Jordan Belson’s "Re-Entry" is a visually abstract recreation of bardo, or the three states of being at the moment of death as defined by the Tibetan Book of the Dead. Chris Marker's "La Jetée" is an exploration of emotions in the scientific (and post-scientific) age, dealing with the depths of nostalgia associated with memory, time, and time-travel. Len Lye’s ecstatic "Free Radicals" uses the technique of drawing and scratching designs directly onto film. The program ends with Bruce Conner's extraordinary "Cosmic Ray", one of the great examples of found footage collage cut to Ray Charles's "What'd I Say."
Part of the Cinema Mon Amour series at the BAM/PFA.
Free gallery admission with same-day film ticket!
read more
A selection of classic short films drawn largely from the BAMPFA collection, ranging from the hand-drawn, animated "Sisyphus" by Hungarian director Marcell Jankovics to Bruce Baillie’s elegiac "Mass for the Dakota Sioux", which contrasts formal qualities of a mass for the dead with images of urban America. Jordan Belson’s "Re-Entry" is a visually abstract recreation of bardo, or the three states of being at the moment of death as defined by the Tibetan Book of the Dead. Chris Marker's "La Jetée" is an exploration of emotions in the scientific (and post-scientific) age, dealing with the depths of nostalgia associated with memory, time, and time-travel. Len Lye’s ecstatic "Free Radicals" uses the technique of drawing and scratching designs directly onto film. The program ends with Bruce Conner's extraordinary "Cosmic Ray", one of the great examples of found footage collage cut to Ray Charles's "What'd I Say."
Part of the Cinema Mon Amour series at the BAM/PFA.
Free gallery admission with same-day film ticket!
show less
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