92YTribeca (Venue Partner)
200 Hudson St
212.601.1000
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Je, Tu, Il, Elle
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Thursday July 30, 2009 (7:30–10pm)
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$12.00
Part of the series Queer/Art/Film. Presented by writer Sarah Schulman.
"Along with the feature Les Rendez-Vous d'Anna, Ackerman's 1974 Ju, Uu, Il, Elle is among her few overtly lesbian works. Ironically, when we showed this in the NY Lesbian and Gay Film Festival in the 1980's, we had to sneak around to get a print because the Belgian genius was not showing her work in explicitly gay festivals. It's a film about what we are willing to endure and accept we must go through to simply be in the presence of the beloved, no matter how problematic she may turn out to be. What makes this singular film especially endearing is that a very young Ackerman herself plays the lead and through performance establishes the fundamentals of her highly original filmic style."
—Sarah Schulman
Director: Chantal Akerman. 90 min. 1974.
Curated by Butt magazine contributing editor Adam Baran and filmmaker Ira Sachs, the Queer/Art/Film series invites some of the most exciting, innovative (and homosexual) artists from the dance/performance/film/visual and literary arts to present and discuss their favorite films, in rare prints, on the big screen.
