Water and sky

Looking ahead . . . Nouvelle Vague: Submerged Scientific Films & Firefly Cinema: Somewhere not Here

NOUVELLE VAGUE: SUBMERGED SCIENTIFIC FILMS
Friday, August 25, 7:30 PM, Anthology Film Archives
Curated by Valeria Mogilevich

Though aquatic creatures make some of the most elegant actors,underwater scientific films are hardly ever looked at as cinema. Nouvelle Vague brings six curious and marvelous works of this neglected genre to the big screen on Friday, August 25th. Tending towards the surrealist, these underwater films are more likely to murk things up than make anything transparent, making the familiar strange and the
strange even stranger.
L’HIPPOCAMPE, Jean Painlevé (1934, 15 min.)
AQUARIUM, Bob Gronowski (1978, 10 min.)
LOCOMOTION IN WATER, Hanna Rose Shell  (2005)
FIRE UNDER THE SEA, Lee Tepley (1973)
THE LOVE LIFE OF THE OCTOPUS, Jean Painlevé (1965)
LOBSTERS (The Life of the Lobster), László Moholy-Nagy (1935)

and . . .

FIREFLY CINEMA
6TH ST AND AVE B GARDEN
LOISAIDA NYC
SUNDAY AUGUST 27 AT DUSK, 8 30 ish?
RAIN OR SHINE
FREE FREE FREE
Curated by Jeanne Liotta

This August FIREFLY Cinema is dedicated to all those who wistfully
wished to wander widely this summer but alas! were thwarted in those
desires.  And now the winds have changed.  A cure for the stranded.

SOMEWHERE NOT HERE.
All films projected in glorious 16mm (and maybe some super8)
Special thanks as always to Marie Nesthus and the Donnell Media Center,
NYPL.
BENSDREAM, a film adaptation of the book by Chris Van Allsburg
SKY BLUE WATER LIGHT SIGN. JJ Murphy
IN PARIS PARKS, Shirley Clarke
SUITE OF BERBER DANCES, Serge Debecove
HOW TO BUILD AN IGLOO, National Film Board of Canada
STONE WELCOME MAT, Gina Carducci
CAMERA ROLLS FROM INDIA, Tomas Casas

and some super 8 surprises by
Kevin T Allen , Jeanne Liotta

Comments

[Zach]

How were these programs, Jen? I really wanted to go to the Anthology one, but I was lethargic last Friday--it was no night out for me. If you got to it, wasn't the Painleve octopus film great? (And how was the Moholy-Nagy, one I really wanted to see for the first time!?)

[jmac]

Hi Z. The Nouvelle Vague program was so sensual! My favorites were the Painleve films . . . The lobster doc was pretty straightforward, although in the final scene, a live lobster broke through a paper menu . . . a very surreal image! My friend, Bradley Eros, remarked how this scene must have been a reference to the end of Entre'acte . . . This is the kind of film program I would like to curate in the future - poetic, surreal, elegant, and short!