 Iris Barry and American Modernism
Sunday, November 7 at 4:00 p.m.
Andrew Simpson on piano
Barry, founder of the film department at the Museum of Modern Art, was instrumental in first focusing the attention of American audiences on film as an art form. Classic shorts by Walter Ruttmann, Hans Richter, Walt Disney, Charles Sheeler, and others. (Approximately 75 minutes)
Polanski and the Lodz Film School
Saturday, November 13 at 4:30 p.m.
Live musical accompaniment by the Warsaw-based duo Sza/Za
Films include Usmiech zebyczny (Teeth Smile, 1957), Dwaj ludzie z szafa (Two Men and a Wardrobe, 1958) and other early films by Roman Polanski. (Approximately 106 minutes)
Revolucion
Saturday, November 20 at 2:00 p.m.
10 short stories by 10 filmmakers offer personal reflections on the legacy of the Mexican Revolution viewed a full century later. (2010, 105 minutes)
www.nga.gov/programs/film/index.htm#art-films |
| | |  |  Straub and Huillet: The Work and Reaches of Creation
Artists Jean-Marie Straub and the late Daniele Huillet created an eccentric and personal cinematic style that used existing texts—poetry, plays, letters, music, and political writing—as the foundation for their craft.
Straub and Huillet: From Three Texts
Saturday, November 13 at 2:00 p.m.
Includes L'Itineraire de Jean Bricard (The Itinerary of Jean Bricard, 2008), Le genou d'Artemide (Artemis' Knee, 2008), and Le Streghe: Femmes entre elles (The Witches: Women among Themselves, 2009). French with subtitles, total running time 87 minutes
Klassenverhaltnisse (Class Relations)
Sunday, November 21 at 4:30 p.m.
1984, German with subtitles, 126 minutes
preceded by Straub and Huillet at Work on Kafka's Amerika
Harun Farocki, 1983, German with subtitles, 26 minutes
www.nga.gov/programs/film/straubhuillet.htm |
| | | |  Julien Duvivier: The Grand Artisan
Julien Duvivier, whose work of the 1930s helped define midcentury poetic realist cinema was a master of many genres. This series of ten features samples Duvivier's work from the silent era to the eve of the French New Wave.
Allo Berlin? Ici Paris
Sunday, November 14 at 4:30 p.m.
1932, French with subtitles, 89 minutes
Pepe le Moko
Friday, November 26 at 2:30 p.m.
1936, French with subtitles, 94 minutes
Voici le temps des assassins
Saturday, November 27 at 1:00 p.m.
1956, French with subtitles, 114 minutes
Pot-Bouille
Sunday, November 28 at 4:30 p.m.
1958, French with subtitles, 115 minutes
www.nga.gov/programs/film/julienduvivier.htm |
| | | |  Harun Farocki: Essays
For more than four decades German artist, writer, and one of Europe's most articulate theorists of visual culture, Harun Farocki has analyzed the uses and purposes of contemporary image-making.
In Comparison
2009, 61 minutes
preceded by Immersion
Saturday, November 20 at 4:30 p.m.
Farocki and Matthias Rajmann, 2009, 20 minutes
Straub and Huillet at Work on Kafka's Amerika
1983, German with subtitles, 26 minutes
precedes Klassenverhaltnisse (Class Relations)
Sunday, November 21 at 4:30 p.m.
Images of the World and the Inscription of War
Saturday, November 27 at 4:00 p.m.
1988, German with subtitles, 75 minutes
www.nga.gov/programs/film/harunfarockiessays.htm |
| | | |  Open a Door
Saturday, November 13 at 10:30 a.m.
Sunday, November 14 at 11:30 a.m.
recommended for ages 5 and up
Open a Door is a series of short international films, each showing, without dialogue, a simple event during one day in the life of a small child. (Ragdoll Limited, United Kingdom, 1992, total running time approximately 40 minutes)
www.nga.gov/programs/flmchild/ |
| | | Films are shown in the East Building Auditorium, 4th Street at Constitution Avenue NW. There is no charge for admission but seating is on a first-come, first-seated basis. Doors open approximately 30 minutes before each show time. Programs are subject to change.
For more information call (202) 842-6799, e-mail film-department@nga.gov or visit www.nga.gov/programs/film/
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