Gently Streaming - History, Poetry, Industry: The Cinema of the River Seine
Saturday July 18th - 3PM
Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition
499 Van Brunt Street, Brooklyn, NY 11231
Inspired by Red Hook’s Erie Basin, GENTLY STREAMING is a program of films about the water: a place of leisure, a metaphor for time’s passing, and a battleground for territory and industry. Though the program continues Red Channels’ early but unintentional Francophilia, it was clear that there was no better place to look for the realization of our theme than the River Seine, the major waterway of Paris and its surrounding areas. With films by the Dutch Joris Ivens (1898-1989), the French Marguerite Duras (1914-1996), and the British Peter Greenaway (born 1942), GENTLY STREAMING is a survey of the variety of cinematic approaches to a single subject; just as PLASTIC MONTAGE did with sculpture, GENTLY STREAMING does with the Seine.
--La Seine a recontre Paris (The Seine Meets Paris) – Joris Ivens, 1957, 30 minutes
--Aurelia Steiner (Melbourne) – Marguerite Duras, 1979, 28 minutes
--Death in the Seine – Peter Greenaway, 1989, 45 minutes
TOTAL RUNNING TIME: 103 minutes | Digital Projection
Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition
(All of Joris Ivens' films are available from the Joris Ivens European Foundation in Holland, in their 5DVD set Wereldcineast (2008). The set includes English subtitles. All of Marguerite Duras' short films are available on one region-2 DVD (2007) from her son Jean Mascolo, via the Benoit Jacob label. English subtitles are not included.)