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The Toe Tactic
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July 1, 2010 – Sep 17, 2010
Daily (schedule)
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$10 / Free with museum admission
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“The MoMA's film collection may not be as old as the Declaration of Independence but it does embody similar principles. Perhaps that's why it's using this weekend to start a run of some of the library's recent acquisitions. Among the films that met MoMA's artistic and creative criteria are Miranda July's quirky ode to romance, You And Me And Everyone We Know; Ondi Timor's documentary We Live in Public, about Internet pioneer Josh Harris and the burst of the dot.com bubble; and Brodre (Brothers), the dogme-like Danish film directed by Susanne Bier that inspired the Jake Gyllenhaal and Toby Maguire English-language remake. Check back in with this series over the coming months as more MoMA-deemed cinematic artainment will be revealed.”
Mindy Bond, Flavorpill
Founded in 1935 as the Film Library, MoMA’s Department of Film now oversees the strongest international film collection in the United States. In her essay “Nothing Sacred: The Founding of The Museum of Modern Art Film Library” (in Studies in Modern Art 5), Chief Curator Emerita Mary Lea Bandy wrote, “The Film Library faced the challenge of articulating a pastime as art (it still does), and throughout its history, the department has felt it necessary to point out its awareness that film is at once art and entertainment.” Purchased on July 10, 1935, the Museum’s first two film acquisitions—Edwin S. Porter’s The Great Train Robbery (1905) and Fernand Léger’s Ballet mécanique (1924), representing “entertainment” and “art,” respectively—perfectly encapsulated the collection’s founding principles. The second in a series initiated in 2009, Continuum 2 illustrates the breadth of acquisitions made by the Department of Film since 2007, utilizing the fundamentals of collection development that were established long ago.
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