MoMA The Museum of Modern Art (Venue Partner)
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Bruce Conner, Untitled (detail)
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Monday Oct 6, 2008 (7:30pm)
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$10
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The late Bruce Conner was an art star who, like Pluto or Saul Bass, defied classification. A pioneer of collage filmmaking, Conner made towering pieces out of the bric-a-brac he found in curbside crates (broken dolls, jewelry, fur) and fabricated conceptual pranks like his Artforum step-by-step on sandwich making. During the free-thinking '60s, the beatnik and his Bay Area coterie began a film collective that eventually evolved into Canyon Cinema, today's preeminent experimental-film institution. Tonight, author Scott MacDonald signs copies of his book Canyon Cinema and introduces a slate of Conner's shorts alongside radical works from Robert Nelson, Chick Strand, and Bruce Baillie.
