[Frameworks] Tonight 9/23, Films by MM Serra & Stephen Broomer curated by Devon Narine-Singh at Microscope

[LBurchill]

Somehow we missed the posting deadline on this show!

Microscope is very pleased to present a screening program of films by MM
Serra and Stephen Broomer curated by filmmaker and curator Devon
Narine-Singh. The evening will include a selection of five films by MM
Serra shown in their original 16mm format – from her 1982 “Reel to Real
Mama” following a first-generation Italian woman immigrant and factory
worker, to her 2002 “Double Your Pleasure”, a film featuring sound by Jen
Reeves that was part of “Ad It Up”, a series of works that parody
commercials – followed by the New York debut of Broomer’s “Resurrection of
the Body” (16mm transfer to digital).

“This program will pair together filmmakers MM Serra and Stephen Broomer’s
work to create a dialogue regarding notions of the body, that focus less on
its ephemeral  qualities, and more on the spiritual and emotional
reactions. Also to be consider is the idea of the archive: What does it
mean when a work such as Broomer’s is both a sequel, tribute
and remembrance to a passed filmmaker? Could an archive be a single work, a
work to be discovered within a production as theorized by Hannah Frank?
Serra’s Real to Reel Mama is an archive on a family’s history. This
question will also be tied to Serra and Broomer’s own work as archivists
connecting links between Archives of Emotion and films of celluloid bodies
that focus on its psychic nature.” DN

A Q&A will follow the screening. Narine-Singh and Serra will be in
attendance.

*General admission $8*
*Students & Members $6*

Further info:
https://microscopegallery.com/emotional-archives-and-corporal-interiors/

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Stephen Broomer is a filmmaker and writer from Toronto, Canada. His work
has screened at the Anthology Film Archives, the Toronto International Film
Festival, International Film Festival Rotterdam, and the Carpenter Center
for Visual Arts (Harvard University). He is the author of Hamilton Babylon:
A History of the McMaster Film Board (University of Toronto Press, 2016)
and Codes for North: Foundations of the Canadian Avant-Garde Film (CFMDC,
2017).

Devon Narine-Singh (b.1997) is a filmmaker, curator and scholar based in
Long Island and Queens. His works have screened at Microscope Gallery,
UltraCinema, The New School, The Trinidad and Tobago Film Festival and the
upcoming 2019 Wrong Biennale . He has presented screening and presentations
at NYU Cinema Studies, The Film-Makers Coop, and Maysles Cinema.

MM Serra is an experimental filmmaker, curator, author, educator and the
Executive Director of Film-Makers’ Cooperative in New York, the world’s
oldest and largest archive of independent media. Her first five films (*NYC*,
1985, *Nightfall*, 1984, *Framed*, 1984, *PPI*, 1986, *Turner*, 1987) were
preserved and digitized by Anthology Film Archives Preservation series
*Re-Visions:
American Experimental Film 1975-1990*. Her film *Chop Off*, premiered at
the Sundance Film Festival and screened among others at the Tribeca Film
Festival and the Museum of Modern Art’s *Documentary Fortnight Series* in
2009. Serra’s film *Bitch-Beauty* premiered at the New York Film Festival
in 2011 in the “Views from the Avant-Garde” section, and her *Breathe
Deep* (2012)
was awarded the Directors’ Choice prize at the Black Maria Film
Festival. In June 2012, Serra had a retrospective of her film work at
Anthology Film Archives, and in 2013 she was a recipient of the Kathy Acker
Award for Lifetime Achievement of Excellence in Avant-Garde Art. She
teaches in the Media Studies program at the New School for Social Research
on topics such as horror films, sex and gender (until 2016) as well as
Avant-garde and Moving Image. Serra lives and works in New York.
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