UNSEEN
CINEMA
ON TOUR
Screening of Films and DVDs
Contact venue for specific info
Updated: 10 July 2008
November 19, 2008 - February 2,2009
Manhatta
"Walter Gropius in America 1928"
Bauhaus-Archiv Museum für Gestaltung
Berlin, Germany
http://www.bauhaus.de/english/index.htm
November 19, 2008
Salome with Carlos Garza music score
"Artistic Luxury: Tiffany, Faberge, Lalique"
Cleveland Museum of Art, OH
http://www.clevelandart.org/events/film.aspx
July 3 - September 14, 2008
Manhatta
"Paul Strand: A Retrospective Exhibition 1915-1976"
Fundación Pedro Barré de la
Maza
A Courna, Spain
http://www.fbarrie.org
September 3 & 6, 2008
June 11 & 21, 2008
Manhatta
"291: Photographers in the Circle of Alfred Stieglitz"
Clemenger BBDO Auditorium
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
ngv.vic.gov.au
August 3, 2008
Picturing a Metropolis & Unseen Cinema DVD s
"Publish and Be Damned"
LUX Project Room Artist's Publishing Fair
London, United Kingdom
www.publishandbedamned.org/index.html
July 11 & June 30, 2008
Ballet mécanique aka Images Moblies
"Der absolute Film"
Broadcast recreation of May 1925 Berlin abstract film screening
Press Release
Arte/ZDF TV broadcast in France & Germany
Images Mobiles
Film Dienst review
June 7 & 22, 2008
Ballet mécanique with LEMUR robots
"Antheil's Leggacy " with Charles Amirkhanian
"Frequency Hopping" Play featuring Dudley Murphy & Hedy Lamarr
3-Legged Dog, Art and Technology Center, New York, NY
http://www.hourglassgroup.org/antheilslegacy.html
New York Times review
April 21-May 25, 2008
Picturing a Metropolis
"Helen Levitt"
Sprengel Museum, Hannover, Germany
http://www.sprengel-museum.de
April 18-19, 2008
Unseen Cinema selections
"Aesthetics in the Street Colloquium in Honour of Helen Levitt "
Bruce Posner lectures
Pt. 1: "NYC: A Sense of Place"
Pt. 2: "Influences, Inspirations and Notations on Time's Passing"
Sprengel Museum, Hannover, Germany
http://www.sprengel-museum.de
January 26-April 27,2008
Glens Falls Sequence
"Genesis:The Art of Creation”
Zentrum Paul Klee Bern, Switzerland
www.zpk.org
January 19, 2008
Ballet mécanique & Synchromy No. 4: Escape
ICO's "Essentials: Modernity"
Tate Modern
London, United Kingdom
http://www.icoessentials.org.uk/programme/modernity
January 17, 2008
Ballet Mécanique
Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute
Utica, New York
http://www.mwpai.org
January 9, 2008
Manhatta
Filmmuseum Münchner Stadtmuseum
München, Germany
http://www.stadtmuseum-online.de/filmmu.htm
December 16, 2007 - March 23, 2008
Manhatta, Twenty-Four Dollar Island, Skyscraper Symphony,
Manhattan Medley, Building Up and Demolishing the Star Theatre,
A Bronx Morning
“New York: States of Mind”
Queens Museum of Art, Queens, NY
www.queensmuseum.org
December 9, 2007
Ballet mécanique, Hande, Tilly Losch in Her Dance of the Hands,
Annabelle Dances & Dances, Looney Lens, Oramunde
“Festival of Early Burlesque and Cabaret Cinema”
The Smoking Cabinet, Curzon, Soho, London
www.thesmokingcabinet.com
December 2-11, 2007
"Dada Days: Ballet mécanique Installation”
The Wolfsonian-FIU, Miami Beach, FL
www.wolfsonian.org
The Miami Herald on Ballet mécanique
November 30, 2007
Ballet mécanique
"Crossing Cultural Frontiers/Percussion" Consort Series
New World Symphony, Miami Beach, FL
www.nws.edu/event_overview.asp?EID=371&dateMonth=11
November 10, 2007
Elizabeth Woodman Wright Home Movies
"Documentaries Worth Remembering"
presented by David Shepard
The Ragtag Cinecafe, Columbia, MO
http://www.ragtagfilm.com/
November 7-11, 2007
Pursuit of Happiness
Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur, Switzerland
www.kurzfilmtage.ch
November 1 - December 21, 2007
Children's Party, Pursuit of Hapiness
"Chris Piazza's The Pictures"
Tria Gallery, New York, New York
www.triagallerynyc.com
November 2007
Picturing a Metropolis selections
REMIXED Film concerts by Rui Vargas
Alcala de Henares, Spain
Funchal, Madeira, Portugual
http://ww.curtas.pt/festival/index.php?menu=271&submenu=306
September 13 & August 23, 2007
Manhatta, Twenty-Four Dollar Island , Skyscraper Symphony, Manhattan
Medley, Building Up and Demolishing the Star Theatre, A Bronx Morning
"New York: States of Mind"
House of World Cultures, Berlin , Germany
http://www.hkw.de
Ongoing
since
June 26, 2007
RETN - Regional Educational Technology Network
"Burlington College Lecture Series" with Bruce Posner
Unseen Cinema, Pt. 1 (#21017 - 1:09:17)
Unseen Cinema, Pt. 2 (#21018 - 1:23:43)
Show times schedule and program library
April 28, 2007
Rhythm in Light
2007 Visual Music Marathon
Raytheon Amphitheatre, Northeastern University, Boston, MA
http://www.music.neu.edu/vmm
April 26, 2007
Escape
Oxford American's Southern DVD 2007 Premiere
The Capri Theatre, Montgomery , AL
http://www.oxfordamericanmag.com/
April 22, 2007
Viva la Dance selections
Bruce Posner presents
"An American Cinédance Sampler"
WRIF, Center for Cartoon Studies, White River Junction, VT
http://www.wrif.org
April 22, 2007
Victorydance Film Festival
Voorhees, NJ
http://www.victorydancefest.com
April 16, 2007
Viva la Dance
Washington Center for the Performing Arts, Olympia
http://www.washingtoncenter.org
April 14 - June 10, 2007
Ballet mécanique
"Fernand Léger: Contrasts of Forms"
Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, MA
April 26: Curator Matthew Affron lecture
Sackler Auditorium, Harvard University
http://www.artmuseums.harvard.edu/exhibitions/fogg/leger.html
Mary Ellen Bute's Escape featured in Oxford American's First Southern DVD 2007
Now at newstands / Order online
April 4, 2007
Escape
OA's Southern DVD 2007 Premiere - see above
Walton Arts Center , Starr Theater, Fayetteville , AR
http://www.waltonartscenter.org/event.php?eid=287
March 11-31, 2007
Selected films from Viva la Dance
"Cinedance in America" 4 programs
The National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
March 11: "Reaching Beyond the Stage"
March 17: "First Steps and new Directions"
March 17: "Classic Works of Avant-Garde Cinedance"
March 31: "The Post-Modernist Explosion"
www.nga.gov/programs/filmcinedance.shtm#film_list
March 7-11, 2007
Synchromy No 2, Vorkapich's The Furies, Scherzo,
Le Retour a la raison
"Sound of Screen"
Tampere Film Festival, Finland
www.tamperefilmfestival.fi
February 18, 2007
Soul of the Cypress, Danse Macabre, Ballet mécanique,
The Emperor Jones
“Films by Dudley Murphy”
Susan Delson lecture
Museum of Fine Arts Boston, MA
February 10 - May 6, 2007
Manhatta
"Charles Sheeler: Across Media"
DeYoung Museum, Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, CA
http://www.famsf.org/deyoung/exhibitions/exhibition.asp?exhibitionkey=659
San Francisco Examiner, Feb 20, 2007
January 26 - May 6, 2007
Coney Island at Night
"Luminous Buildings: Architecture of Night"
Netherlands Architecture Institute, Rotterdam
www.nai.nl/e/calendar/activities/nightarch_e.htm
January 19 - April 13, 2007
Unseen Cinema 7 programs
Ludwig Múzeum Palace of Art, Budapest, Hungray
http://zartkor.hu/c710/unseen-cinema-early-american-avant-garde-film
January 19, 2007
Soul of the Cypress, Danse Macabre, Ballet mécanique, Black & Tan
Susan Delson lecture
"Dudley Murphy: Hollywood Wild Card"
Anthology Film Archives, New York
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org
October 4, 2006 - Janaury 7, 2006
Manhatta
"Charles Sheeler: Across Media"
Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois
www.artic.edu/aic/exhibitions/sheeler/
Chicago Tribune, Oct. 15, 2006
September 9-10, 2006
Viva la Dance
Oulu Music Video Festival
City of Oulu, Finland
September 3, 2006
Ballet Mecanique with original Antheil music score
Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA
http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/filmseries/
July 28-29, 2006
Film Concert with Unseen Cinema
Festival des courts des Grands
OptiK, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
July 8 - 16, 2006
Unseen Cinema
Re-MIX Concerts
featuring Ana Era Lógica, Dead Combo, Bica e DJ Bullet
Re-MIXED Master Class with Bruce Posner
14 Festival Internacional de Curtas Metragens
Vila do Conde, Portugal
http://www.curtasmetragens.pt/festival/index.php?lang=en
June 17, 2006
"Melodic Meshes: Unseen Cinema"
Film concert with Harold Budd & Robin Guthrie
Seattle International Film Festival
Egyptian Theater, Seattle, WA
http://www.emeraldreels.com/meshes.htm
June 11, 2006
Manhatta, Twenty-four Dollar Island, A Bronx Morning
Live performance by Donald Sosin
National Gallery of Art, Wasington, D.C.
June 8 - October 1, 2006
Coney Island at Night
"Lumunous Buildings: Architecture of Night"
Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, Germany
www.kunstmuseum-stuttgart.de/en/index2.php
May 31 - June 5, 2006
Triptych Film Poem
Split/Screen und Polyvision retrospective
22. Internationales KurzFilmFestival
Hamburg, Germany
www.shortfilm.com
May 18, 2006
Tomatos Another Day
Xcentric Screening
CCCB Auditorium, Barcelona, Spain
www.cccb.org/xcentric
May 7 - August 27, 2006
Manhatta
"Charles Sheeler: Across Media"
Curated by Charles Brock
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
www.nga.gov/press/exh/221/index.shtm
The New York Times, June 2, 2006
April 30, 2006
Viva la Dance - 5 films
"The Sensual Woman" - Curated by Amy Greenfield
Galapagos Art Space, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY
http://www.galapagosartspace.com
Sponsored by Dance Films Association, Inc.
http://www.dancefilms.org
April 24-26, 2006
Viva la Dance
Let's Dance Film Festival
Cinema Niagara, Pirkanmaa Film Centre, Tampere,
Finland
April 23, 2006
Ballet mécanique
"Man Ray, Dudley Murphy, and the Making of Le Ballet mécanique"
Susan Delson lecture
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
http://www.nga.gov/programs/lecture.shtm
April 1 - June 11, 2006
Manhatta
"Paul Strand: Three Roads Taken"
Muséed'Art Américain Giverny d'Art Américain
Giverny, France
31st Annual Awards, January 17, 2006
Los Angeles Film Critics Association
Special Citation: Unseen Cinema
Bruce Posner, David Shepard and Anthology Film Archives
Remarks by Robert Koehler published in program booklet:
It isn't often that a film, let alone a DVD release, can be said to rewrite history, but that's the case with the new seven-disc box set, "Unseen Cinema: Early American Avant-Garde Film 1894-1941." The sheer mass alone—155 films, eighteen-plus hours—plus the curatorial collaboration between 60 film archive collections coordinated by the Anthology Film Archives, curator Bruce Posner and producer/preservationist David Shepard, places this project in extremely rarefied air. But what makes Unseen Cinema essential for any serious film lover is the argument it makes: That long before the post-war period of Maya Deren, Stan Brakhage and Jonas Mekas, Americans were experimenting with film form and subject matter. This runs against received wisdom, which insists that a true American avant-garde in film, as in painting, didn't exist before World War II. Posner and company have compiled enough contrary evidence to shatter this notion. Consider this set's collection of wild dance films shot in Thomas A. Edison's studio in the 1890s; Jerome Hill's mind-blowing La Cartomancienne ; Orson Welles's first actual film, Hearts of Age , that foreshadows all of his subsequent work; abstract films such as Ralph Steiner's H20 , and the visually rhythmic projects of Mary Ellen Bute, Douglas Crockwell and Dwinell Grant; or radical narrative experiments like Boris Deutsch's Lullaby and David Bradley's Sredni Vashtar. There's no more transparently false idea in film criticism than the notion that everything in cinema has been seen and written about—that there are no new discoveries. Unseen Cinema deliciously, deliriously puts a firm stop to this falsehood.
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