A four-day cinema featuring the films of Stefan & Franciszka Themerson, Chris Marker, Jean Pierre Gorin, Eric Van Zuylen, Hollis Frampton, and others. Curated by Angie Keefer and Robert Snowden. Screenings introduced by short talks leading up garden paths.
Monday, November 28 at 6 pm The Eye and The Ear (1944/45) was Stefan and Franciszka Themerson’s last and most ambitious film. Four songs by Polish composer Karol Szymanowski are interpreted visually with voice-over narration. 10 minutes.
Stefan Themerson and Language (1976) is a documentary by Dutch filmmaker Erik Van Zuylen in which Stefan Themerson plays himself, or a version of himself, in a staged dialog with Van Zuylen both madcap and serious. 46 minutes.
Tuesday, November 29 at 6 pmPoto and Cabengo (1979) were the self-given names of identical 6-year-old twins Grace and Virginia Kennedy, who were thought to have invented a language unknown to anyone else. The French filmmaker Jean-Pierre Gorin traveled to Southern California in pursuit of their story, but found quite another. 77 minutes.
Wednesday, November 30 at 6 pm Modern Times (1936) stars Charlie Chaplin as the Little Tramp, making his way in an industrialized America in the midst of the Great Depression. The film is primarily silent, though Chaplin’s voice is heard at one point, singing a song in gibberish. 87 minutes.
Thursday, December 1 at 6 pm Nostalgia (1971) by American writer and filmmaker Hollis Frampton with voice narration by Michael Snow, is a complex meditation on the exchange between words and images. In Frampton’s own, words, “Try to remember the story that fits the image, try to remember the image that fits the story.” 38 minutes.
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