THE ROBERT BECK MEMORIAL CINEMA PRESENTS...

5 SEPTEMBER - PICTURE BOOKS FOR ADULTS + more!
Second time's the charm. Lewis Klahr is once again on hand to present his four-part Super-8mm cycle PICTURE BOOKS FOR ADULTS in its original format, and tonight, no bait and switch, as the film is available as well. Proving that the machines of acculturation are but dreams in another guise, he leads us through the wilderness of a liberal education and well into the land of milk and honey... Lewis promises some special surprises to accompany this seldom seen, and fragile treasure.

12 SEPTEMBER - THE ANGEL AND THE INFERNO
In anticipation of autumn, and Persephone's return to her other home, Tom Chomont presents five recent videos: THE HIDDEN STAIRCASE (1994, 11m.), PENGUIN POOL (1998, 8m.), THE CAT MUSIC (1998, 8m), THE BATH (1992, 6m.) and TWILIGHT (with Matthew Yokobosky, 1994, 11m.) and one rather older film, MORPHEUS IN HELL (1967, 15m.)

19 SEPTEMBER - PUTTING THE SPARK TO AN ATOMIC CINEMA
Inaugurating version Mark II of our class in the history of 8mm filmmaking, Ken Jacobs - one of small gauge cinema's finest exponents - presents three of his 8mm films, in their current 16mm versions: WINDOW, JERRY TAKES A BACK SEAT, THEN PASSES OUT OF THE PICTURE, and THE WINTER FOOTAGE. Ken will likely demonstrate how the cosmos may yet turn on the fact of Jerry Sims, just how real the residue of always-but-no-longer present New York City remains, and the perfect appositeness of a window which opens onto another, opening again onto the sky. Or as he put it, "I was interested in composing film only inasmuch as it served to compose me. It was my film, my necessary respite dream."

26 SEPTEMBER - HIS TYPEWRITER TALKS ANY LANGUAGE...
Tonight, cine-clast Stuart Sherman presents a selection of his "old" films in B&W punctuated by himself in color "perfilming" (being a "live performance 'translation' of the film just seen into a performance"). IN ADDITION ! - Mr. Sherman informs us that Robert M. Beck himself has "graciously consented to suspend his eternal movie-viewing to come to New York and 'reveal' his true identity," and shall appear LIVE and IN PERSON during the course of the program.