Science Is Fiction: The Films of Jean Painlevé
Thursday, November 21, 2002, 8pm
1934—1976, Jean Painlevé, France, ca. 71 min, 35mm
The director of more than 200 nature films, Jean Painlevé (1902-1989) scandalized the scientific world with a cinema designed to entertain as well as edify. Advocating the credo “science is fiction,” he endowed seahorses, vampire bats, and fanworms with human traits — erotic, comical, [...]
6 Easy Pieces
Thursday, November 14, 2002, 8pm
2001, Jon Jost, USA, 68 mins, video
Jon Jost in person!
Jon Jost numbers among the first and most adventurous of American independent filmmakers to explore non-film methods of production. He is in the forefront of the movement to create a new aesthetic and a new visual vocabulary for the electronic image-making [...]
Film and Video by Eleanor Antin
Thursday, November 7, 2002, 8pm
1972—1989, Eleanor Antin, USA, ca. 90 min, various formats
Eleanor Antin in person!
The career of pioneering multimedia artist Eleanor Antin spans four decades of film, video, photography, writing, performance and installation. Exploring what she calls “the slippery nature of the self,” Antin invents a unique mixture of real and imagined autobiography, recreations [...]
