The Film Society of Lincoln Center
70 Lincoln Center Plz
212.875.5600
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Oct 3, 2008 – Oct 5, 2008
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$11
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Views from the Avant-Garde takes spectators on a sojourn to film's farthest-flung lunar landscape. The 12th edition of this NYFF showcase features both classics and recently completed experiments, ranging from the celebrated entropy of Bruce Conner and Craig Baldwin to the latest names to reach Next Brakhage status. The three-day program's acme (or nadir, depending on your tastes) is Guy Debord's knotty Situationist tract, In girum imus nocte et consumimur igni, a palindrome that unscrambles as "We spin around the night consumed by fire." Afterward, French filmmakers Olivier Assayas and Jean-Pierre Gorin team with cultural critic Greil Marcus for some debate and — thankfully — deciphering.
