Liberation of the Spectacle: Cinema as Contraband
June 30th - July 8th 2010
BAMcinematek
30 Lafayette Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11243
A series of 22 separate programs happening over 9 days, featuring films and videos by Harun Farocki, Spike Lee, Chris Marker, Newsreel, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Jean Rouch, Videofreex, Peter Watkins, Haskell Wexler, and more... Curated with Kazembe Balagun, Jake Perlin, Valeria Mogilevich, James Spooner, and Rebecca Cleman. More information to come.
WEDNESDAY JUNE 30th
6:50
--The War Game - Peter Watkins, 1965, 48 minutes
--The Inextinguishable Fire - Harun Farocki, 1969, 25 minutes
TOTAL RUNNING TIME: 73 minutes
Discussion with:
--Kimber Heinz of the War Resisters League
9:30
--The Animals Film - Myriam Alaux & Victor Schonfeld, 1982, 136 minutes
Introduction by:
--Camille Hankins of Win Animal Rights and Animal Liberation Front Press Office
THURSDAY JULY 1st
6:50
--About Media - Anthony Ramos, 1977, 25 minutes
--La Patria Vacia - Jaime Davidovich, 1975, 15 minutes
--Media Primer for Raindance - Michael Shamberg, 1971, 16 minutes
--Remy/Grand Central: Trains and Boats and Planes - Dara Birnbaum, 1980, 4 minutes
--CBS Lily and Cleaver Tapes - Videofreex, 1971, 16 minutes
TOTAL RUNNING TIME: 76 minutes
Discussion with:
--Rebecca Cleman - director of distribution at Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI)
9:15
--Marat/Sade - Peter Brook, 1967, 116 minutes
FRIDAY JULY 2nd
6:50
--The 10th District Court - Raymond Depardon, 2004, 105 minutes
9:15
--Le joli mai - Pierre Lhomme & Chris Marker, 1963, 149 minutes
SATURDAY JULY 3rd
2
--Inside/Outside Station Nine - John Marshall, 1970, 90 minutes
4:30
--Les Maitres Fous - Jean Rouch, 1955, 36 minutes
--The Holy Ghost People - Peter Adair, 1967, 53 minutes
TOTAL RUNNING TIME: 89 minutes
Discussion with:
--Valeria Mogilevich
7
--The Polymath - Fred Barney Taylor, 2007, 75 minutes
Discussion with:
--Samuel Delany - subject of the film
--Fred Barney Taylor - director of the film
9:30
--Underground - Emile de Antonio, Mary Lampson, Haskell Wexler, 1976, 87 minutes
SATURDAY JULY 4th
2
--Jerusalem Tapes: [Israeli] Black Panther on the Street - Videofreex/David Cort, 1973, 34 minutes
--The Black Panthers (in Israel) Speak - Eli Hamo & Sami Shalom Chetrit, 2003, 53 minutes
TOTAL RUNNING TIME: 87 minutes
4:30
--WAR Stories - Clairmont Chung, 2009, 90 minutes
Discussion with:
--Clairmont Chung - director of the film
7:15
--Eldridge Cleaver - William Klein, 1970, 71 minutes
Discussion with:
--Kathleen Cleaver - subject of the film; former wife of Eldridge Cleaver; author and professor
9:30
--Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom - Pier Paolo Pasolini, 1975, 117 minutes
MONDAY JULY 5th
4:30
--Miracle at St. Anna - Spike Lee, 2008, 160 minutes
8
--She's Gotta Have It - Spike Lee, 1986, 84 minutes
TUESDAY JULY 6th
6:50
--A bientot, j'espere - Chris Marker & Mario Marret, 1968, 44 minutes
--Workers Leaving the Factory - Harun Farocki, 1995, 36 minutes
TOTAL RUNNING TIME: 80 minutes
9:30
--Chameleon Street - Wendell B. Harris, Jr., 1989, 94 minutes
Discussion with:
--Wendell B. Harris, Jr. - director of the film
WEDNESDAY JULY 7th
6:50
--Jeanette Rankin Brigade - Newsreel, 1968, 8 minutes
--Up Against the Wall Miss America - Newsreel, 1968, 8 minutes
--Janie's Janie - New York Newsreel, 1971, 30 minutes
--The Woman's Film - San Francisco Newsreel, 1971, 40 minutes
TOTAL RUNNING TIME: 86 minutes
Discussion with:
--Bev Grant, Stephanie Palewski, Deborah Shaffer - members of the Newsreel collective
9:30
--The Garden - Scott Hamilton Kennedy, 2008, 80 minutes
THURSDAY JULY 8th
6:50
--Sound and Fury - Josh Aronson, 2000, 80 minutes
--Sound and Fury: Six Years Later - Josh Aronson, 2006, 29 minutes
TOTAL RUNNING TIME: 110 minutes
Discussion with:
--Josh Aronson - director of the film
9:15
--Rocky IV - Sylvester Stallone, 1985, 90 minutes
For more information, and to purchase tickets, visit: www.bam.org
Curated with Jake Perlin, Kazembe Balagun, Valeria Mogilevich, James Spooner, and Rebecca Cleman.
Brecht Forum
Electronic Arts Intermix
Peter Watkins' The War Game was released on DVD (2006) by New Yorker. Peter Brook's Marat/Sade was released on DVD (2001) by MGM. Raymond Depardon's 10th District Court was released on DVD (2006) by Koch Lorber. Emile de Antonio, Mary Lampson, and Haskell Wexler's Underground was released on DVD (2008) by Home Vision. Pier Paolo Pasolini's Salo was released on DVD (2008) by Criterion. Spike Lee's She's Gotta Have It was released on DVD (2008) by MGM. Lee's Miracle at St. Anna was released on DVD (2009) by Touchstone. Wendell B. Harris, Jr.'s Chameleon Street was released on DVD (2007) by Home Vision. Scott Hamilton Kennedy's The Garden was released on DVD (2009) by Oscilloscope. Josh Aronson's Sound and Fury was released on DVD (2002) by New Video. Sylvester Stallone's Rocky IV was released on DVD (2005) by MGM.
Red Channels has previously screened Chris Marker's Les statues meurent aussi (1953) and Junkopia (1981); Newsreel's Bobby Seale (1969), Break and Enter (1970), Community Control (1969), San Francisco State: On Strike (1969), The Case Against Lincoln Center (1968), and Yippie (1968); Pier Paolo Pasolini's La Rabbia (1963) and Sopralluoghi in Palestina per il vangelo secondo Matteo (1965); Jean Rouch's Chronicle of a Summer (1961) and Gare du Nord (1965); Videofreex's The Black Panthers in Chicago (1969); Peter Watkins' Evening Land (1977); and Haskell Wexler's Introduction to the Enemy (1974).
From 2004-2009 BAMcinematek's "Afro-Punk" series presented films and videos by St. Claire Bourne, Shirley Clarke, Haile Gerima, William Greaves, Spike Lee, Don Letts, Newsreel, D.A. Pennebaker, and James Spooner. And presented rare screenings of Stewart Bird, Rene Lichtman and Peter Gessner's Finally Got the News (1970); St. Claire Bourne's In Motion: Amiri Baraka (1983), New Orleans Brass (1989), and Making of Do the Right Thing (1989); Larry Clark's Passing Through (1977); Shirley Clarke's The Cool World (1964) and Portrait of Jason (1967); Herbert Danska's Right On (1969); Jules Dassin's Uptight (1968); Cinda Firestone's Attica (1974); Haile Gerima's Child of Resistance (1973) and Wilmington 10-USA 10,000 (1979); William Greaves' Still a Brother (1968); Spike Lee's Joe's Bed-Stuy Barbershop (1983); Horace Ove's Pressure (1975); Thomas Reichman's Mingus (1968); Gloria Rolando's Eyes of the Rainbow (1997); Pierre Schoendoerffer's Anderson Platoon (1967); Joseph Seargant's The Man (1972); Videofreex's The Black Panthers in Chicago (1969); and David Loeb Weiss' No Vietnamese Ever Called Me Nigger (1968).