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CITY SYMPHONIES: TIME LAPSE (AND OTHER DISTORTIONS) film series at Anthology Film Archives 2/25 includes a screening of Marie Menken’s masterpiece of single frame cinematography GO! GO! GO! (1964).
Read MoreThe Mothering Heart is a 1913 American short drama film directed by D. W. Griffith starring Lillian Gish. It will be accompanied by the Vivo Chamber Players, faculty members at Simpson College.
Read MoreCITY SYMPHONIES film series Anthology Film Archives 1/14-3/10 is showing several outstanding, dynamic and lyrical examples of the genre also distributed on DVD by Gartenmberg Media.
Read MoreSilent era gem THE ANCIENT LAW screens with live piano and violin accompaniment at the New York Jewish Film Festival.
Read MoreHall of Mirrors: Four Films by Warren Sonbert will be showing at The UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive Sunday, 1/13, introduced by experimental poet Alan Benheimer, also in conversation with Steve Anker.
Read MoreRetrospective of avant-garde filmmaker Marie Losier opens at the Museum of Modern Art on November 1.
Read MoreGME is participating in global Home Movie Day on October 20 by featuring stills and clips from films in our collection that celebrate these amateur films.
Read MoreJames Benning’s first feature-length film announced the arrival of a radical new voice in the evolution of moving image art, and remains a landmark of the American avant-garde.
Read MoreLooking to the past while investigating the present, the mathematician-turned-filmmaker condenses three distinct Californian landscapes into a total of 105 shots, each exactly 2½ minutes long.
Read MoreWriter/artist Dennis Cooper & filmmaker Zac Farley: “We love James Benning’s films and thought about them when imagining our film’s possibilities. What makes his great 1987 documentary LANDSCAPE SUICIDE feel particularly like an elder kin to Permanent Green Light is how it eschews the psychological rhetoric that usually accompanies filmic accounts of crime, caring only about the mysterious vacancy of the film’s people and locations, and their relationships to each other.”
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