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May -
SMALL GAUGE JAPAN
Joss Winn (Japan) has organized yet another intriguing series
of new Japanese experimental films, this time all originating in 8mm. Artists
to include:Tachibana Kaoru, Horikawa Makiko, Shiho Kano, Kurihara Mie, Onishi
Kenji, Saruyama Norihiro and Koike Teruo.
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9
May -
VISUAL ERGONOMICS
Tonight filmmaker and scientist Warren Neidich (NYC) presents
an illustrated lecture entitled "Visual Ergonomics: Formulating a Model
Through Which Aesthetics and Neurobiology Are Linked," accompanied by
several of his films and videos. Historical and antihistorical narratives,
Neidich's films (mis-)use uncanny devices, designed as diagnostic tools
for exploring brain infirmities, in order to expose the aesthetic morality
encoded in their mechanism. From the man himself: " The key to my work
is the belief that through a backward analysis, from the aesthetic object
to the brain, film can inform us on how the mind is constructed."
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16
May -
WHAT'S MY LINE? (GENEALOGY & CRIME)
To fete the second anniversary of the RBMC we present a
special evening of mysterious events centered around our many (semi-)anonymous
founders. Or rather, the adoptee's cinema, the RBMC finds all its unsuspecting
parents. Bring your magnifying glass fellow sleuths as we embark on a
fact finding mission: writers, artists, doctors of quackery and soldiers
of silence. PLUS! the unveiling of the great RBMC treasure hunt!
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23
May -
PICTURE BOOKS FOR ADULTS
While he's in town to show brand-new films at the Walter
Reade, Lewis Klahr (now LA, but always NYC) will drop in the RBMC for
a special screening of his Super-8 serial Picture Books For Adults (83-85),
unseen in NYC for over 10 years. Lewis promises other rare super-8 gems,
including a double-projection film from c. 1982...
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30
May -
NECROREALIST NIGHTS/NEO-NATAL DAYS
With the invaluable help of Masha Godovannaya, the RBMC
presents a program of short films (unfortunately on video, sorry) by notorious
Russian Necrorealist filmmaker Yevgeniy Yufit. An "underground" film movement
which sprouted pre-perestroika (1984-5) in Leningrad, Necrorealist artists
included Yufit, Igor Bezrukov, Yevgeniy Kondratiev, and Konstantin Mitenev.
Necrorealists apparently "affirmed the life of the body abandoned by the
soul and advocated pure idiocy, uncorrupted by instinct or the subconscious.
Characters thickly plastered with zombie clay enact mass brawls, suicides,
and monosexual erotic acts. In such strategies it was easy to discern
provocations towards the Soviet myth of social immortality" Well. This
event was organized in conjunction with other screenings of Necrorealist
films about town, so keep your eyes peeled.
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