CINEGOGUE 2016

Oct. 9-10, 2016
The Second Sex: Tilly Losch, Stella Simon, Maya Deren

Cinegogue 2016 is devoted to the women of experimental film – Jewish filmmakers and protagonists who left their mark on avant-garde cinematography as well as photography (Stella F. Simon, Maya Deren), dance (Tilly Losch, Maya Deren), and film theory (Maya Deren). For the first time we will leave the 1920s, which defined the silent era, and screen short films that were made silent by choice and purely experimental. Apart from Hände: Das Leben und die Liebe eines Zärtlichen Geschlechts, whose original score by Marc Blitzstein has been preserved, all the films will be accompanied by new music composed especially for the occasion and arranged by Petr Vrabel, the artistic director and conductor for Berg Orchestra.

Stella F. Simon (1878–1973), Miklós Bándy (1904–71)
Hände: Das Leben und die Liebe eines zärtlichen Geschlechts / Hands: The Life and Love of the Gentler Sex, 1927-28, USA, 13 min.

Norman Bel Geddes (1893–1958), Tilly Losch (1903–75)
Dance of Hands, 1930–33, USA, 7 min.

Maya Deren (1917–61)
Meshes of the Afternoon, with Alexander Hammid (1907–2004), 1943, USA, 14 min.
At Land, 1944, USA, 15 min.
The Witch’s Cradle, 1944, USA, 12 min.
Ritual in Transfigured Time, 1946, USA, 15 min.