MoMA The Museum of Modern Art (Venue Partner)
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MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
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Thursday Oct 8, 2009 (7pm)
Sunday Oct 18, 2009 (5:30pm)
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Free with museum admission. Film-only tickets: adults $10; seniors $8; members and children under 16 are free; member friends $5. Please visit our website for more details.
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Part of the Looking at Music: Side 2 film exhibition
Held in conjunction with the Looking at Music: Side 2 gallery exhibition
Men in Orbit. 1979. USA. Written and directed by John Lurie. 33 min.
A “sci-fi povera” film shot on Super 8, Men in Orbit features musician Lurie and Eric Mitchell as chain-smoking astronauts in a decrepit New York living room that has been transformed into a spacecraft.
G Man. 1978. USA. Directed by Beth B, Scott B. With Bill Rice, Marcia Resnick. 40 min.
An exploration of social schizophrenia in which terrorists consult their mothers before planting bombs, and the head of the New York City bomb squad succumbs to his dominatrix.
She Had Her Gun All Ready. 1978. USA. Directed by Vivienne Dick. With Lydia Lunch, Pat Place. 28 min.
Set in the Lower East Side, Dick’s short film explores the unequal power dynamic between two people, and the internal conflict between one’s repressive and libidinal sides.
About Looking At Music: Side 2 film exhibition:
In the early 1970s New York was a haven for young, renegade artists, many of whom doubled as musicians and poets. Art and music cross-fertilized with a vengeance, following a stripped-down, hard-edged, antiestablishment ethos. Some artists plastered city walls with self-designed posters or spray-painted monikers, while others commandeered abandoned buildings, turning vacant garages into makeshift theaters for Super-8 film screenings and raucous performances. Many found the experimental music scene more vital and conducive to their contrarian ideas than the handful of contemporary art galleries in the city. This screening series features films made by many of these artists, along with films that capture the spirit of New York City during that tumultuous era.
