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Film series at MoMA

Posted By: Suzanne Pancrazi
Date: Friday, 27 May 2005, at 8:33 a.m.

On June 3, the Women’s Film Preservation Fund (WFPF) will show two programs of films, restored through their grants, at the Museum of Modern Art as part of MoMA’s “To Save and Project” preservation festival. Each program, one in 16mm and the other in 35mm, runs approximately 2 hours and covers a range of genres, eras and artists. The WFPF was established in 1995, in association with MoMA, to preserve American films in which women have made a significant creative contribution. The only fund of its kind in the world, WFPF is dedicated to saving our cultural legacy and highlighting the importance of women in film history. These MoMA sponsored programs are a valuable first for WFPF, helping to raise WFPF’s public profile and to showcase some of the astounding work produced by women throughout cinematic history.
Meredith Monk will introduce the second program.
PROGRAM 1 (16 mm) 6:00 pm
MARY ELLEN BUTE three rare shorts from this groundbreaking animator’s interpretation of image and sound
Tarantella (1940), Imagination (1958), New Sensations in Sound (1959) color
GUNVOR NELSON an excerpt from the work of this major avant-garde filmmaker whose art plumbs, as Stan Brakhage has said, the “most intrinsic possibilities of film”
Natural Features (1990) (excerpt) color
LOUISE ALAIMO, JUDY SMITH & ELLEN SORIN this still powerful feminist documentary emerged from the issues of social justice confronted in the 1960s and 70s
The Women’s Film (1971) B/W
STORM DE HIRSH two “cine poems” from one of the New American Cinema’s germinal figures
The Reticule of Love (mid1960s) color
Aristotle
MAYA DEREN a never before seen, newly edited, work that had been a life long interest of Deren’s
Divine Horsemen: The Living Gods of Haiti (1947-1951) B/W
PROGRAM 2 (35 mm) 8:30 PM (introduced by Meredith Monk)
ALICE GUY-BLACHE directs this silent, hi-jinks classic about marriage
Matrimony's Speed Limit (1913) B/W silent
GRACE CUNARD, the “Queen of the Serials,” stars in a charming heist romp
Unmasked (1917) B/W/ tints silent
MEREDITH MONK, composer and director, has made a haunting elegy to emigrés
Ellis Island (1979) color
FRANCINE EVERETT, a pioneering star in an all African-American version of “Rain”
Dirty Gertie from Harlem USA (1946) B/W
The programs show at 6 pm and 8:30 pm on Friday, June 3. Entrance to the museum and the films are free.
To see program details go to the MoMA web site: www.moma.org
For pictures and descriptions go to WFPF link: www.nywift.org/article.aspx?id=21
This event is made possible in part by a grant from the NEA.

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