Monday, July 03, 2006

LIKE BROADWAY ON MARS: HISTORIC NEW YORK EXPERIMENTAL THEATER


This small survey of documentation and footage, at Anthology Film Archives, by some of the most influential theater-makers of the 60s and 70s is neither an academic attempt to summarize an era, nor an authoritative account of the scene. Rather, it is a collection of some astounding images and moments from a selection of revered masters.

THURSDAY JULY 13
JOHN ZORN
8:00 PM
FIDEL
1980, 57 minutes, video, silent.

FRIDAY JULY 14
7:30PM
JACK SMITH PROGRAM #1
SCOTCH TAPE

1959-62, 3 minutes, 16mm.

OVERSTIMULATED
1960, 5 minutes, sound on tape.

NO PRESIDENT
1968, 45 minutes, 16mm, sound on tape.

FRIDAY JULY 14
9:30PM
JACK SMITH PROGRAM #2
I WAS A MALE YVONNE DE CARLO

1968/70s, 30 minutes, 16mm, b&w, sound on tape from the Jack Smith Record Collection.

MIDNIGHT AT THE PLASTER FOUNDATION
Ca. 1975, 20 minutes, video.

SATURDAY JULY 15
6:00 PM
JONAS MEKAS
THE BRIG
1964, 68 minutes.

SATURDAY JULY 15
8:00 PM
JACK SMITH PROGRAM #3
NORMAL LOVE

1963, 105 minutes, color. Restored by Jerry Tartaglia after Smith's death.

SUNDAY JULY 16
7:00
RICHARD FOREMAN
SELECTIONS FROM RICHARD FOREMAN'S ONTOLOGICAL-HYSTERIC THEATER
2006, 85 minutes, video.

MONDAY JULY 17
8:00
ROBERT WILSON
OVERTURE FOR KA MOUNTAIN AND GUARDENIA TERRACE: A STORY ABOUT A FAMILY AND SOME PEOPLE CHANGING
1972, 80 minutes, 16mm, silent. Filmmaker Unknown.

For Info: Anthology Film Archives

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