[Frameworks] Tomorrow in Providence (10/22): COVERING GROUND - FILM AS TERRAIN

[Watter, Seth]

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Magic Lantern Cinema Presents


COVERING GROUND

Film as Terrain



Curated by Seth Watter



Thursday, October 22, 2015 @ 8pm

Cable Car Cinema & Cafe

204 S. Main St, Providence, RI

Admission $5



During 35 years of critical activity, Manny Farber (1917-2008) was wholly
obsessed with the nature and effect of pictorial space; and the metaphor he
most insistently used to describe it was that of “terrain.” In the hands of
a master, space would become both heavy and elastic, objective and
subjective, “prismatic and a quagmire at the same time”: a dynamic entity
with a life of its own. Speaking with the editors of *Cahiers du Cinéma*,
this painter-critic showed little interest in films that “perpetually
reiterat[e] the same space,” like uncles who always tell the same jokes.
Rather, for a work to succeed, “it must go beyond this, it must develop by
moving into a more complex space”—into psychological, emotional, truly
dynamized space.



Each title in this program is an attempt to do just that. Taken together,
they offer deft variations on Farber’s dictum; they extend it in ways
simply outside his purview or, in the twenty-first century, beyond what he
could have reasonably imagined from the vantage of the twentieth. Picking a
space (or two), committing to it wholeheartedly, they cover their ground
and map their terrain—amateur cartographies, every one. Some of them are
thorough; others, capacious; a few, dogged; and the rest are just stubborn.



*Featuring works by* Ephraim Asili, Zachary Epcar, Roberta Friedman &
Grahame Weinbren, Saul Levine, Xander Marro, Marie Menken, William Raban,
Sabrina Ratte, Jacolby Satterwhite.



More information @ http://magiclanterncinema.com/calendar/covering-ground/





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*Upcoming Shows**



*Black Celebration*

Thursday, November 12, 8pm

Cable Car Cinema, Providence, RI



A survey of historic works about black insurgency in America, featuring
Madeline Anderson's* I Am Somebody* (1969), Christine Choy & Susan
Robeson's *Teach Our Children* (1972), and Tony Cokes'*Black Celebration*
 (1988).



*The Music Video Show*

Thursday, December 10, 8pm

Cable Car Cinema, Providence, RI



Using a loose definition of the music video, this program offers a playlist
of music-driven projects from past to present and across different media,
with works by Max Almy, Sadie Benning, Bruce Conner, Jodie Mack, Norman
McLaren, Yoshi Sodeoka, and more.





*Magic Lantern Cinema is generously funded by the Malcolm S. Forbes Center
for Culture and Media Studies at Brown University, the Creative Arts
Council, and the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation.*
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