[Frameworks] This week [August 6 - 14, 2011] in avant garde cinema
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This week [August 6 - 14, 2011] in avant garde cinema
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$100 Film Festival (Calgary, AB CANADA; Deadline: December 01, 2011)
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Think Tic (London, England; Deadline: September 09, 2011)
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THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMS (SUMMARY):
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* Red Hook Cine Soiree!! [August 6, Brooklyn, New York]
* The Ann Arbor Film Festival Tour – Digital Program A [August 7, Los Angeles, California]
* Paul Swan/Outer and Inner Space [August 7, New York]
* Chicago Underground Film Festival Presents: 2011 Festival Replay [August 8, Chicago, Illinois]
* Screen Test #1 [August 8, New York]
* Screen Test #2 [August 8, New York]
* Joe Gibbons Program [August 10, New York]
* Driven (With Joe Gibbons) [August 10, New York]
* Visible Evidence (Leandro Katz) [August 11, New York]
* Portrait of Jason [August 12, New York]
* Leandro Katz Program 1 [August 12, New York]
* Essential Cinema:Eggeling/Cavalcanti Program [August 13, New York]
* Essential Cinema:Maya Deren Program [August 13, New York]
* Leandro Katz Program 2 [August 13, New York]
* No Japs At My Funeral/A Guided Tour of Edith's Apartment [August 13, New York]
* Visible Evidence: Afa Documentaries [August 14, New York]
* Paul Swan/Outer and Inner Space [August 14, New York]
* Essential Cinema:Conrad/Jacobs & Fleischner Program [August 14, New York]
Events are sorted by CITY within each DATE.
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SATURDAY, AUGUST 6, 2011
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8/6
Brooklyn, New York: BWAC
3PM, 499 Van Brunt Street
RED HOOK CINE SOIREE!!
featuring tropical reveries, flying French pop singers, and chess games
on the roof!!! 3PM - Saturday August 6, 2011 / BWAC / 499 Van Brunt
Street Red Hook, Brooklyn Screening room is on the first floor,
accessible to all. http://www.bwac.org/directions (...right across from
Fairway) / Joel Schlemowitz presents... A salon of experimental and
underground films from cine-artists Jeanne Liotta, Vanessa Renwick,
Bradley Eros & Tim Geraghty, Marie Losier, and a special presentation of
René Clair's "Entr'acte" with live soundtrack by Joel Schlemowitz's
Krupnik Orchestra. / A summer afternoon and short works of avant-garde
cinema? Our agenda is to program our soiree attuned to the enchantment
of the season of Mid-Summer Nights' Dreams, to indulge ourselves in the
hazy and lazy segment of the calendar, to enlighten ourselves lightly
and sprightly, to work Puckish mischief on the screen, to take respite
from the oppressive sun in the magic lantern parlor by the sea. / Expect
red wine and soft cheese, and 78s of 1920s foxtrots played on the
Victrola!
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SUNDAY, AUGUST 7, 2011
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8/7
Los Angeles, California: Filmforum
http://www.lafilmforum.org/
7:30pm, The Spielberg Theater at the Egyptian, 6712 Hollywood Blvd (at Las Palmas)
THE ANN ARBOR FILM FESTIVAL TOUR – DIGITAL PROGRAM A
Filmforum hosts the 2011 edition of the Ann Arbor Film Festival Tour,
giving Los Angeles audiences a chance to see the best new experimental
works from around the world! One digital show now; 16mm coming in
December! Films to be screened include Nulepsy, by Jessica Rinland |
Surrey, England | 9 minutes, Home Movie, by Braden King | New York, NY |
14 minutes, The Mechanism of Spring, by Atsushi Wada | Tokyo, Japan | 4
minutes, I Touched Her Legs, by Eva Marie Rødbro | Denmark | 15 minutes,
Pink, by Soon-Mi Yoo | USA/S. Korea | 6 minutes, It, Heat, Hit, by Laure
Prouvost | London, England | 7 minutes, Jan Villa, by Natasha Mendonca |
India/USA | 20 minutes, and Aliki, by Richard Wiebe | Iowa City, IA | 5
minutes.
8/7
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
8:15 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
PAUL SWAN/OUTER AND INNER SPACE
PAUL SWAN / OUTER AND INNER SPACE by Andy Warhol Share + This screening
is part of: TALKING HEAD Film Notes Andy Warhol PAUL SWAN 1965, 66
minutes, 16mm. PAUL SWAN is Warhol's documentary portrait of the early
20th century American dancer who pioneered 'aesthetic', interpretive
forms of modern dance. The elderly Swan recreates past dance
performances, reciting poetry for the camera, frequently changing
costumes, and leaving the stage empty for long periods while he hunts
for a lost shoe. & Andy Warhol OUTER AND INNER SPACE 1965, 33 minutes,
double-screen 16mm. Shot in August 1965 using videotape equipment loaned
to Warhol by the Norelco Company, OUTER AND INNER SPACE features Edie
Sedgwick seated in front of a large television screen, on which we see
her pre-recorded video image. As the videotape plays, she responds to
her own image and talks with someone off-screen. The result is a
fascinating exercise in double-screen filmmaking which highlights
Sedgwick's beauty as well as her mercurial, fragmented personality.
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MONDAY, AUGUST 8, 2011
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8/8
Chicago, Illinois: Chicago Underground Film Festival
http://www.cuff.org
8pm, Beauty Bar 1444 W Chicago Ave
CHICAGO UNDERGROUND FILM FESTIVAL PRESENTS: 2011 FESTIVAL REPLAY
at the SALONATHON at Beauty Bar (1444 W Chicago Ave) FREE! Monday,
August 8, screening starts at 9pm Hosted bar from 8pm to 9pm!! (with
RSVP to: chicagorsvp at thebeautybar.c​om) Come watch Fantastical,
Funny, Friendly, Freakish Films from the 2011 Festival! Local
Filmmakers! the rock and the roll, animation, humor, drama and a
chromographic 3D movie! Drink Specials: $3 Drafts, $4 Well Drinks, & per
usual $10 Martini + Manicures! For More Info:
http://thebeautybar.com/ch​icago/calendar/calendar.ph​p?mode
=view&id=976 Come celebrate another great year with the Chicago
Underground! The 70 minute program: (not necessarily showing in this
order) Peripetei'em, Andrew Mauset-Mooney, 3 min., 16mm on Video, 2009,
CHICAGO, A sudden reversal of circumstances. (AMM) Lázslo Lassú, Ben
Popp, 3 min., Animation, 2010, PORTLAND, This music film for the band A
Hawk and A Hacksaw recites the story about a couple torn apart by the
recesses of space. Music however can transcend all obstacles and through
it the two lovers are re-united in their hearts. (BP) Uncontrollable Joy
for Life, Kari Corbett and Crispin Rosenkranz, 7 min., Video, 2010,
CHICAGO, Slices of identity, authenticity, complicity, manipulation,
documentary and truth make one weird video pie. "…If you gave an alien,
a camera and a text book on how to make a video, this is what you'd get.
We couldn't decide if it was genius or madness." – the director of the
Glasgow Film Festival. (KC & CUFF) Unicornhole, Lucas Dimick and Dax
Norman, 5 min., Animation , 2011, AUSTIN What started out as an homage
to 1970's b-movies turns into a Public Service Announcement, when a car
race takes a turn toward the unexpected. (LD) Spaceboy, Mike Olenick, 7
min.,Video, 2009, COLUMBUS, While traveling through the cosmos, Spaceboy
encounters the mysteriousand sexy Velana, who only has one thing on her
mind. Will Spaceboy survive Velana's tempting gaze or will he die of
love in a cruel embrace? Featuring a cybernetic score by Jeremy Boyle.
(MO) Mercurial Madness, Kerry Lataila, 7 min.,Chromographic 3D Video,
2010, SAN FRANCISCO, Light/Color Taffy bends and pulls in a vortex of
sinuous delight; forms in space mutate and spin their way into the
retinas of the viewers. (KL) We'll provide special glasses! The
Blockbuster Tapes, Daniel Martinico, 6 min.,Video, 2009, LOS ANGELES,
THE BLOCKBUSTER TAPES documents a three-year endeavor in which VHS tapes
were rented, subtly modified, and returned to the store. (DM) The
Forest, Steven Summers, 16 min., Video, 2010, CHICAGO, A mystical
exploration on the tension within the male psyche involving lust, fear,
temptation, and shame. The story follows two parallel characters, a
young boy discovering the world around him and a deer hunter secluded
alone in the forest. Each struggles with the recognition of who they
truly are and how to face this reality. (SS) Beads, Andrew Rosinski, 8
min., 35mm on Video, 2010, CHICAGO Look to Nature Find Divine Beads
String and set in motion The Earth plants seeds (AR) Moby Dick, Tony
Balko, 8 min., Video, 2010, MILWAUKEE, Revisiting the footage of John
Bonham's classic performance and twisting a solo into a duet, Moby Dick
brings together sincere fandom with a futile attempt to collaborate.
(TB) Come out Monday nights for our latest showcase as artists of all
types descend upon Beauty Bar to bring to life works that defy
traditional genres. SALONATHON strives to support the creation of new,
emerging and underground art in Chicago and beyond.
8/8
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:15 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
SCREEN TEST #1
by Andy Warhol 1965, 66 minutes, 16mm This screening is part of: TALKING
HEAD Film Notes Written by Ronald Tavel. Andy Warhol was in many ways
the TALKING HEAD filmmaker par excellence, as evidenced by several of
his features, as well as the plethora of "talking head" passages
embedded within other films. The first of many Warhol films scripted by
playwright Ronald Tavel, SCREEN TEST #1 stars Philip Fagan as the
subject of Tavel's off-screen examination. In the face of his tester's
increasingly suggestive and campy instructions, Fagan becomes stubbornly
unresponsive, refusing to follow Tavel's lead and falling back instead
on the appeal of his own silent good looks. Although Fagan's wooden
performance prompted Warhol and Tavel to remake the film with Mario
Montez (SCREEN TEST #2), this first version is a fascinating look into
the complexities of queer identity in the 1960s.
8/8
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
8:45 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
SCREEN TEST #2
by Andy Warhol 1965, 67 minutes, 16mm This screening is part of: TALKING
HEAD Film Notes Written by Ronald Tavel; with Mario Montez. As Mario
Montez auditions for the role of Esmerelda in THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE
DAME, Ronald Tavel, again off-screen, subjects the actor to a series of
increasingly humiliating improvisations. But Mario's faith in his
self-created persona sustains the illusion of his character and becomes,
in the end, a triumph of performance art
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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 10, 2011
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8/10
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
JOE GIBBONS PROGRAM
ELEGY (1991, 11 minutes, video) SABOTAGING SPRING (1991, 10 minutes,
video) BARBIE'S AUDITION (1995, 13 minutes, video) FINAL EXIT (2001, 5
minutes, video) CONFESSIONS OF A SOCIOPATH (2002, 37 minutes, video) Joe
Gibbons conveys his dry humor through obsessive monologues that scrape
the bottom of a monomaniacal mind – spilling forth with fantasies of
power, destruction, and death. In his tapes, the hand-held camera allows
Gibbons's alter-ego to surface as he gives vent to tyrannical rants that
comically invert social values. Total running time: ca. 80 minutes
8/10
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
9:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
DRIVEN (WITH JOE GIBBONS)
by Saul Levine 2003, 85 minutes, video This screening is part of:
TALKING HEAD Film Notes "In his ongoing series DRIVEN, begun in 2002,
Levine rides in the front seat of an automobile while one of his friends
talks about his or her life for eighty-two minutes (the maximum length
of a single take using his digital camera). … By having his subjects
drive him around the city at night, he disengages much of the
self-consciousness inherent in the interview genre. … Levine's low-key
mode of inquiry and his genuine passion for listening have an infectious
power. Sometimes his driver makes it easy for him: the filmmaker Joe
Gibbons is an ironic raconteur who does not require Levine's skillful
intervention to fascinate us for almost an hour and a half at a
stretch." –P. Adams Sitney, ARTFORUM
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THURSDAY, AUGUST 11, 2011
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8/11
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
6:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
VISIBLE EVIDENCE (LEANDRO KATZ)
Filmmaker Leandro Katz visits lower Manhattan, his former home, from his
current base in Buenos Aires for a screening and artist's talk. Over the
past fifty years Katz has created a diverse, rigorous, complex, and
thrilling body of work that includes installations, photographs, artist
books, poetry, and experimental films and videos. Tonight Katz presents
his invented alphabets, which use malacology and lunar phases to spell
out witty phrases about language and art.
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FRIDAY, AUGUST 12, 2011
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8/12
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
PORTRAIT OF JASON
by Shirley Clarke 1967, 105 minutes, 35mm This screening is part of:
TALKING HEAD [Milestone Films will be re-releasing PORTRAIT OF JASON,
along with other films by Shirley Clarke, in early 2012.] "Experimental
filmmaker Clarke culled her PORTRAIT OF JASON from a grueling, 12-hour
interview with her subject, Jason Holliday. A complicated examination of
cinéma vérité conventions, the spectacle of the interviewed subject, and
the seeming exoticism (for a mostly white, avant-garde audience) of a
gay, African American performer and sometime hustler, the film is
Holliday's. His difficult performance of self against the filmmaker's
goading and unflinching gaze remains, in the end, his own." –SFMOMA "The
most fascinating film I've ever seen." –Ingmar Bergman
8/12
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
LEANDRO KATZ PROGRAM 1
On the occasion of Leandro Katz's participation in the Visible Evidence
conference, Anthology welcomes him for two additional programs of his
film and video work. Tonight's program includes Katz's short video
documentary PARADOX, a deadpan study of a Honduran banana plantation and
a monumental ancient Maya sculpture nearby, and a silent single-shot
film that may be thought of as a companion piece, LOS ANGELES STATION.
In EL DÍA QUE ME QUIERAS, Katz revisits the much-reproduced 1967
photograph of Bolivian soldiers displaying the corpse of Ernesto "Che"
Guevara. Katz interweaves an interview with the photographer, Bolivian
photojournalist Freddy Alborta, with a text by Borges, music of Carlos
Gardel, and footage of the town of Ilabaya, near where Guevara died. LOS
ANGELES STATION (1976, 10 minutes, 16mm-to-video, silent) PARADOX (2001,
30 minutes, video) THE DAY YOU'LL LOVE ME / EL DÍA QUE ME QUIERAS (1997,
30 minutes, 16mm-to-video) Total running time: ca. 75 minutes.
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SATURDAY, AUGUST 13, 2011
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8/13
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
4:15 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
ESSENTIAL CINEMA:EGGELING/CAVALCANTI PROGRAM
Viking Eggeling SYMPHONIE DIAGONALE 1924, 8 minutes, 35mm, silent.
Alberto Cavalcanti RIEN QUE LES HEURES 1928, 52 minutes, 35mm, silent. A
"city symphony" interweaving documentary, experimental and narrative
elements that provide vivid images of Paris in the mid-1920s. Total
running time: ca. 65 minutes.
8/13
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
6:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
ESSENTIAL CINEMA:MAYA DEREN PROGRAM
MESHES OF THE AFTERNOON 1943, 14 minutes, 16mm, b&w. Co-directed by
Alexander Hammid. Music by Teiji Ito from 1959. AT LAND 1944, 15
minutes, 16mm, b&w, silent. Photographed by Hella Heyman and Alexander
Hammid. A STUDY IN CHOREOGRAPHY FOR CAMERA 1945, 3 minutes, 16mm, b&w,
silent. By Maya Deren and Talley Beatty. RITUAL IN TRANSFIGURED TIME
1946, 15 minutes, 16mm, b&w, silent. Choreographic collaboration with
Frank Westbrook. Photographed by Hella Heyman. With Rita Christiani and
Frank Westbrook. Total running time: ca. 55 minutes.
8/13
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
LEANDRO KATZ PROGRAM 2
Katz returns with a program of short films and videos. SPLITS is an
adaptation of Borges's short story "Emma Zunz" set in New York. The
(unsubtitled) Spanish language documentary EXHUMACIÓN, on the forensic
team charged with the exhumation of Guevara's remains, is paired with a
repeat screening of EL DÍA QUE ME QUIERAS. SPLITS (1978, 25 minutes,
16mm-to-video) THE DAY YOU'LL LOVE ME / EL DÍA QUE ME QUIERAS (1997, 30
minutes, 16mm-to-video) EXHUMACIÓN (2007, 38 minutes, video. In Spanish
without subtitles; an English transcript will be available.) Total
running time: ca. 95 minutes.
8/13
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
8:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
NO JAPS AT MY FUNERAL/A GUIDED TOUR OF EDITH'S APARTMENT
James Nares NO JAPS AT MY FUNERAL 1980, 60 minutes, video. "[A]
deconstructive propaganda piece that demolishes the British version of
events in Northern Ireland. It is an eloquent statement about brutality
and victims, told mainly by Jackie, an IRA man whose personal account is
intercut with images from British television. NO JAPS has the same
formal properties as a typical TV documentary, but is aimed to show the
bias of what is known on TV as 'truth'." –Gary Indiana, EAST VILLAGE EYE
& Jacob Burckhardt A GUIDED TOUR OF EDITH'S APARTMENT 2010, 47 minutes,
video. In his affecting new film, Jacob Burckhardt documents his mother,
the artist Edith Schloss, as, one after the other, and in a non-stop
torrent of commentary, she describes the many objects in her apartment,
including her own paintings and assemblages. Thanks to her long and
fascinating life, and her friendship with some of the 20th century's
most important artists, many of the pieces in her home are of great
cultural interest. But more importantly, they all embody some sort of
emotional or psychological significance for her, making Burckhardt's
deceptively straightforward, home-movie-like film something like his
mother's indirect autobiography, a portrait of a woman through her own
work and the belongings she's gathered over the decades.
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SUNDAY, AUGUST 14, 2011
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8/14
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
4:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
VISIBLE EVIDENCE: AFA DOCUMENTARIES
A selection of several short non-fiction masterpieces from Anthology's
collection, including the classic TOBY AND THE TALL CORN, by documentary
legend Ricky Leacock (who passed away this spring); the exceedingly rare
film EYES ON RUSSIA, by the photographer Margaret Bourke-White; RITUALS
AND DEMONSTRATIONS, a fascinating record of Jewish religious rituals in
1970s Brooklyn by the gifted Jerry Jofen; and FILM MAGAZINE OF THE ARTS,
a sponsored film by Anthology's own co-founder Jonas Mekas. Margaret
Bourke-White EYES ON RUSSIA: FROM THE CAUCASUS TO MOSCOW 1934, 9
minutes, 16mm, b&w. Ricky Leacock TOBY AND THE TALL CORN 1953, 30
minutes, 35mm-to-video. "Made for OMNIBUS, TOBY is a heartwarming and
entertaining portrait of one of the last traveling variety shows in the
U.S. Leacock captures the heat of the summer night on the faces of the
appreciative audiences, the thrill of the live performances, and the
challenge of the set-up. … Its candid style caught the eye of filmmaker
Robert Drew [with whom Leacock would make] PRIMARY, a film that launched
the American vérité movement." –Shannon Abel, HOTDOCS Jonas Mekas FILM
MAGAZINE OF THE ARTS 1963, 20 minutes, 16mm. "In Spring, 1963 SHOW
MAGAZINE called me and asked that I make a film on arts in New York. I
told them, why did they want me to make it – didn't they know I was a
bit unusual? … 'We want something unusual', they said. So I went out and
made a newsreel on arts. SHOW people looked at the rough cut of the film
and became very angry. 'But there is nothing about SHOW MAGAZINE and
DuPont fabrics in the movie', they said. 'What has that to do with the
arts in New York!' I said. The battle was short. The film was destroyed.
Really, I have no idea what they did with it. This workprint of the
first FILM MAGAZINE OF THE ARTS is the only print in existence, as far
as I know." –J.M. Jerry Jofen RITUALS AND DEMONSTRATIONS 1977, 42
minutes, 16mm. A record of authentic religious rituals – circumcision,
upsherung (the cutting of the boy's hair at age three), Bar mitzvah,
betrothal, children learning Aleph-Beth and Chumash, young men studying
Talmud, celebrations of festivals, and a farbrengen, a gathering of the
Lubavitcher Rebbe addressing thousands of his disciples on Chassidic and
Kabbalistic interpretations of the particular occasion. "[The film's]
most effective scenes celebrate the collective energy of Chassidic life.
There are some wonderfully observed street scenes of Purim in
Williamsburg…and a particularly lovely wedding ceremony; a sequence of
an elderly Torah scribe carries so great a sense of tradition and awe as
to render explanation superfluous…. Jofen's film testifies to the
inexhaustible richness of his subject matter." –J. Hoberman, VILLAGE
VOICE Total running time: ca. 105 minutes.
8/14
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
5:45 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
PAUL SWAN/OUTER AND INNER SPACE
See notes for Aug. 7, 8:15 pm.
8/14
New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:00 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
ESSENTIAL CINEMA:CONRAD/JACOBS & FLEISCHNER PROGRAM
Tony Conrad THE FLICKER 1966, 30 minutes, 16mm, sound. Mathematical and
rhythmical orchestration of white and black frames. & Ken Jacobs & Bob
Fleischner BLONDE COBRA 1959-63, 35 minutes, 16-to-35mm blow-up.
Featuring Jack Smith. Preserved by Anthology, with the generous support
of the Film Foundation, the National Film Preservation Foundation, Simon
Lund and Cineric, Inc. "BLONDE COBRA is an erratic narrative – no, not
really a narrative, it's only stretched out in time for convenience of
delivery. It's a look in on an exploding life, on a man of imagination
suffering pre-fashionable Lower East Side deprivation and consumed with
American 1950s, 40s, 30s disgust. Silly, self-pitying, guilt-strictured
and yet triumphing – on one level – over the situation with style…
enticing us into an absurd moral posture the better to dismiss us with a
regal 'screw off.'" –K.J. Total running time: ca. 70 minutes.
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