VIKA KIRCHENBAUER PGM 1
Six experimental shorts by Vika Kirchenbauer, from a seductive address out of a black void to a work on the impossibility of tickling yourself. She is there in person.
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VIKA KIRCHENBAUER PGM 2
Four shorts by Vika Kirchenbauer that take on the art economy's labor politics and its complicit institutions, from a welcome address to a study of early public art exhibitions. The filmmaker attends.
VACANCES
Filmed over ten years at a Provence villa, this documentary follows a bohemian countess grandmother and her strained family around the pool. The filmmaker will be there in person.
PLAYING WITH FIRE: AN ECOSEXUAL EMERGENCY
Annie Sprinkle and Beth Stephens close their ecosexual climate trilogy with a film about fire, narrated partly by a white peacock, and they open each show with a performative "Ecosex 101."
WOMEN IN ANIMATION PGM 1: ANIMATED ANIMALS
Ten shorts spotlighting women in animation, from a silent flower-fairy film to Mary Ellen Bute and Sally Cruikshank, many from 35mm and 16mm. Mindy Johnson and Rachael Guma introduce.
AVATARS: THE DOMINATRIX SLEEPS TONIGHT
Six shorts spanning four decades, by or with people from the leathersex scene, treat the dominatrix as an elusive figure of artifice. Includes Beth B's band video and overlooked and censored work.
WOMEN IN ANIMATION PGM 2: ON BEING A WOMAN
Nine animated shorts by women, from a 1930s Lotte Reiniger film to Signe Baumane's Birth, with Faith Hubley and Caroline Leaf in between, all on the subject of being a woman.
MULTI-MEDIA RESOURCE CENTER PGM 1: CONFESSIONS AND SEX HISTORIES
Candid, playful erotic portraits from the National Sex Forum, anchored by Wardell Pomeroy, a former Kinsey collaborator, interviewing a sexologist-in-training about her history.
MULTI-MEDIA RESOURCE CENTER PGM 3: GAY LIBERATION ON 16MM
A set of short 16mm films from the 1970s on gay liberation, from a parade documentary to loose, unstructured conversations among gay men and lesbians, plus Jan Oxenberg's comedy.
THE PERSONAL AND THE POLITICAL: SEXUALITY, ROMANCE AND WOMEN’S LIB
Six short films from the 1970s feminist moment, from playful sendups of gender roles to Self-Health and an early Penelope Spheeris short, about 90 minutes in all.
EROTIC FANTASY: BEESON AND BEYOND
Three experimental Coni Beeson films for the National Sex Forum, layered in double exposure and pastoral imagery, framed by Rodriguez-Soltero's JEROVI and Chick Strand's FEVER DREAM, all on 16mm.
MULTI-MEDIA RESOURCE CENTER PGM 5: BROUGHTON EC+
Three 16mm James Broughton films from the late 1960s and early 1970s, shown as sex educators once saw them, after a short where Broughton gets bathed and massaged by an erotic masseur.
MULTI-MEDIA RESOURCE CENTER PGM 7: PATTERN FILMS, PART 1
Laird Sutton's unscripted 16mm portraits of ordinary people's sexual patterns, made for therapy sessions, with a mood-easing short first. Introduced by archivist Oscar Becher.
SEDUCTION: THE CRUEL WOMAN
Monika Treut and Elfi Mikesch's film follows Wanda, a dominatrix and gallerist who lets patrons watch her scenes, and uses Sade's "Venus in Furs" to question the spectator's role.
WOMEN IN ANIMATION PGM 3: SUNFLOWER LANE
A new film by six artists plays alongside shorts by Caroline Leaf, Sandy Moore, and Faith Hubley, including a digital restoration of a 16mm work and a Hubley film on 35mm.
NARROW ROOMS: LES FANTÔMES DU HARD + FISTULE
Experimental documentaries dig through the videotape archive of a pioneering gay BDSM club's founder, paired with Emre Busse's tragic, camp short built around an anal fissure.
MULTI-MEDIA RESOURCE CENTER PGM 2: ACTIVE PARTNERS
Four 16mm shorts from the 1970s that speak frankly about sex and disability, two of them directed by Laird Sutton. It's a subject rarely tackled in erotic or educational film.
BATTLESHIP POTEMKIN
Eisenstein's silent landmark has no hero, only the masses, and builds its power from montage and parallel action. Shown at Anthology as part of its Essential Cinema program.
STRIKE
Eisenstein's silent film casts non-actors who look out at the viewer, choosing "being real" over realism. The only finished part of a planned series on the road to revolution.
OCTOBER
Eisenstein's silent film staged as a cosmic newsreel and film poem, which J. Hoberman calls the Soviet equivalent of the Sistine Chapel. A chance to see it on a big screen.