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.
LAU NOAH'S "A DECADE OF MIRACLES" - A FOLK OPERA IN DEFENSE OF HUMAN ART
Classical, jazz and folk musicians trade songs by ear and memory, never written down and never improvised. Expect a short film, an early listen to the record, and a live set.
Manual Cinema: The 4th Witch
Watch a film get made live: overhead projectors, paper puppets and tiny sets build the screen image, with a live score. The story begins where Shakespeare's play ends.
SI OFFSITE | Rafał Skoczek: Kino Drift
Marching with the Kasama plays beside two related films, in a project that folds exchanges with audiences and militants into how the material is interpreted and distributed.
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.
All the Mornings of the World + Live Performance | Instruments of Desire
All the Mornings of the World screens alongside a live performance called Instruments of Desire, so the evening is more than watching a film in the dark.
The Downtown Festival: ART/New York & 3 Downtown Artists + Q&A
Puts Robert Mapplethorpe, Jean-Michel Basquiat and Nan Goldin together on one bill with ART/New York, and a Q&A rounds it out. A screening for anyone drawn to downtown art.
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.
