[Frameworks] NY, Oct 1: Cecile Starr Tribute Celebration

[C Keefer]

Thursday, Oct. 1, 6 pm at Lincoln Center - Cecile Starr Tribute Celebration

Center for Visual Music and The New York Public Library for the Performing
Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center, present a Cecile Starr Tribute
Celebration on October 1 at Lincoln Center, New York. As a writer,
educator, scholar, and film distributor, Cecile Starr (1921-2014) was a
tireless champion of experimental animation and independent cinema, firmly
dedicated to the belief that film was an art form. This tribute event
salutes her life and work, with films by Bute, Fischinger, Lye, Richter and
others Cecile promoted, video footage of Cecile, short testimonials by
colleagues, family and friends, plus a new tribute film made for the event
by Devon Damonte. Please join us in celebrating this remarkable woman’s
life. Organized in association with Cecile's family.

*Films include:*

Devon Damonte, Cecilebration, 2015, 35mm, b/w, silent, 3 min. A direct
animation tribute film
Mary Ellen Bute, Tarantella, 1940, 16mm, color, sound. *
Hans Richter, Ghosts Before Breakfast (Vormittagsspuk), 1927, 16mm, b/w,
sound version. *
Len Lye, Colour Flight, 1938, 16mm, color, sound, 4 min *
Mary Ellen Bute, Spook Sport, 1939, 16mm, color, sound *
Oskar Fischinger, Allegretto, 1936-43, 35mm, color, sound, 2.5 min.
Preserved by Center for Visual Music.
Barry Spinello, Sonata for Pen, Brush and Ruler, 1968, color, sound, 10
mins. Digital
Alexeieff at the Pinboard, 1960, b/w, sound, 7:45, 16mm. English version by
Cecile Starr, 1972

* Prints from the Cecile Starr Collection at Center for Visual Music
Fischinger print from CVM, Alexeieff documentary from the Estate of Cecile
Starr


*Speakers include *
--Kit Smyth Basquin, PhD, Art Historian and author of forthcoming biography
of pioneer experimental filmmaker Mary Ellen Bute;
--Drake Stutesman, Writer and Professor, representing The New York Women in
Film and Television Archive and The Women's FIlm Preservation Fund;
--Cindy Keefer, Curator and Archivist, and Director of Center for Visual
Music, an archive devoted to Experimental Animation and Visual Music
--Howard Beckerman, Animation Professor, representing ASIFA-East.
--Suzanne Boyajian, daughter of Cecile Starr

Free admission, reservations through NYPL at
http://www.nypl.org/events/programs/2015/10/01/silent-clowns-film-series-cecile-starr-tribute-celebration

Facebook Event page: https://www.facebook.com/events/782723785172139/

posted by
Cindy Keefer
Center for Visual Music
www.centerforvisualmusic.org
cvmaccess (at) gmail dot com
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