4 September - EAST SIDE STORY AKA JOHN SMITH IN AMERICA
On a rare NYC visit, tonight legendary English avant-gardist John Smith presents a program of short films and videos at the RBMC. Habitues will recall his fantastically funny The Girl Chewing Gum from the program presented by Karen Mirza in June of this year. In addition, Mr. Smith will show films at Anthology Film Archives and participate in a exhibition at Foxy Productions in Brooklyn. Many thanks to Lauren Cornell and Michael Gillespie, who made this show possible. Films and videos to include: Associations (1975), Leading Light (1975), The Girl Chewing Gum (1976), Om (1986), The Black Tower (1987), Gargantuan (1992), Blight (1996), The Kiss (1999), The Waste Land (1999) and Regression (1999)

11 September - LITTLE BLACK BOX (RECORDER)
Early this summer, the cine-metaphysicans of the RBMC discovered a small, black box containing eight 400' reels of 16mm home movies, hastily purchased for the princely sum of $40. The films in question date from 1929-1932 and were shot in Atlantic City, an unidentified golf course, "Burnett's Camp" (believed to be in Canada) and other unknown locations. A lovely time-capsule from the earliest days of home moviemaking, these films will be accompanied on wind-up Victrola by DJ Bradley Eros, spinning that shellac with aplomb. A beautiful and rare view of America on the cusp of the depression...

18 September - VARIETY LIGHTS
Sandra Gibson and Luis Recoder, New York's newest temporary tenants (at least for the moment) will be on hand to present a host of individual and collaborative films. Themes and variations and unthematic repetitions. Refreshments will be served to welcome the East Coast's newest addition to the filmmaking community. Works on film to be projected at the fabulous RBMC: Soundings (2001), Filmographie (2000-01), Tablecloth (2000), Edgeways (1999), Fin-de-cycle (2000), Nightscrawl (2001), Lure (1998), and many more!

25 September - POSTCARDS FROM BERLIN
"These happy images! There is no plot to figure out, no drama, not even a feeling. They are just there and nothing else and that is a blessing in itself. " - Maria Lang. Visiting from Berlin, filmmaker and curator Ute Aurand shows two of her beautiful films-from-life. Talking Silently (Schweigend ins Gespräch vertieft) and Thirds (Terzen) "Between 1992 and 1998 I kept filming again and again, while travelling, at home, my friends, Tania and Xenia in the Ukraine, one day in Paris, blooming chestnut trees, my nieces in the snow, May in New York... The result is an anthology of short films which, according to the different states of mind, resonate in different ways: minor third, major third, Mama sings at Hiddensee, talking silently, Salut Corinne. Different threads woven into a single pattern without a beginning or an end."

All programs on Tuesdays at 9pm at Collective Unconscious, 145 Ludlow St. NYC $5 Admission