Date,
Show poster |
Title |
Program
information |
May
3, 5, 10, 12, 1998
|
"Endurance"
Program booklet |
An
international survey of contemporary video and performance artists whose
works test the physical, mental, and spiritual endurance of the body.
Series programmed by Video Data Bank.
1) "Revolving Upside Down," Bruce Nauman, 1968,
10 min. excerpt of 60 min., b/w
2) "Waterways: 4 Saliva Studies," Vito Acconci,
1971, 22:24, b/w
3) "The Singing Sculpture a film by Philip Haas,"
Gilbert & George, 1968/88, 23:00
4)"Material Interchange and Nail Sharpening," Dennis Oppenheim,
1970, 6 min.
5) "Body/Hair," Geoffrey Hendricks, 1971, 10
min (edited excerpts) |
1) "Public
Parks 1-3," Bonnie Sherk, 1970-71, 14 min. excerpt
2) "Up to and Including Her Limits," Carolee Schneemann,
1973-76, 10 min. excerpt
3) "Black & White Tapes," Paul McCarthy,
1970-75, 33 min. |
1) "San
Francisco Walk," Kim Jones, 1979, 6 min. excerpt
2) "Mitchell's Death," Linda Montano, 1978, 22
min., b/w
3) "Becoming Bald; Full Jar, Empty Jar; The Perpetual Napkin,"
Barbara Smith, 1974-84, total time 4:09
4) "Clock Shower," Gordon Matta-Clark, 1976,
13:50, silent
5) "Punch," 1992, 10 sec.; "Marks," 1984, 13:23.
Skip Arnold |
1) "AxVapor,"
Sherman Fleming, 1989, 10 min.
2) "Autopsy," Bob Flanagan, Sheree Rose & Kirby Dick,
1994, 15:40
3) "Seven Years of Living Art," Linda Montano,
1994, 13:13
4) "Operation Reussie (Successful Operation)," Orlan,
1994, 8 min. |
May 17+19,
1998
|
"Fast,
Cheap & Out of Control" |
By Errol
Morris, 1997, 82 min.
Eerie, whimsical documentary interweaving stories of four obsessive men,
each driven to create eccentric worlds of their dreams: a lion tamer, a
topiary gardener, a mole-rat specialist, and a robot scientist. |
April
5+7, 1998
|
"Office
Killer" |
By
Cindy Sherman. With Carol Kane, Molly Ringwald, Jeanne
Tripplehorn.
Campy horror film from the famous photographer. "Offbeat and decidedly
arty, 'Office Killer' looks like an animated Sherman photograph. It's Normal
Rockwell meets Norman Bates." - Mirabella |
April 12+14,
1998
|
"Alphaville,
une étrange aventure de Lemmy Caution" |
By Jean-Luc
Godard.1965, 99 min, France / Italy.
French New Wave on futuristic society. |
April 19+21,
1998
|
"Beauty
and the Beast" |
By Jean
Cocteau. 1946. 96 min.
La Belle et la bête. |
April 26+28,
1998
|
"Spice
World" |
By Bob Spiers.
1997, 93 min, UK.
Aren't you curious? (how "girl power" is being packaged and sold?) |
March
22+24, 1998
|
"A
Tale of Love" |
By Trinh
T. Minh-ha, 1995, 108 min.
"An understanding of the allusive and powerful connections between
love, sensuality, voyeurism and identity." Berkeley-based filmmaker,
writer, composer, and professor of Women's Studies and Film at UC Berkeley.
The recipient of several grants and awards including Sundance Film Festival,
NY Film Festival, Whitney Biennial, NEA. |
March
15+17, 1998
 |
"Not
Your Typical Porn" |
Erotic
films that aren't degrading to women.
- "Fuses," Carolee Schneemann, 1967: Since the
1960s, Schneemann has been a key figure in the development of body art,
performance, and installation. This painted-on, scratched film shows an
intimate portrayal of sex between a loving couple. A beautiful visual and
emotional experience.
- "Sex Fish/Sex Bowl": A furious montage of oral sex... "Verbal
Masturbation is a required language... Power to the Pussy" + "Fingers
& Kisses/Coming Home," Shu Lea Cheang: Heading
down to Japan, these films show exactly where girls plant those fingers
and kisses.
- "Anthem," Marlon Riggs, 1994: A collage of
erotic images and a call to arms, with a feverish hip-hop energy that celebrates
the lives of African-American men.
- "Age 12: Love With a Little L," Jennifer Montgomery,
1990: "Raw 12-year old lesbian memories.. hidden stash of Playboys...staged
scenes exploring mechanisms of power and submission.."
- "Downs are Feminine," Lewis Klahr: Seventies
porn grafted onto Good Housekeeping, hermaphroditic inventions.
- "Taste it 9 Times," Jennifer Reeves. |
March
8+10, 1998
 |
"Seven
Women, Seven Sins" |
An
omnibus project by seven of the most respected, award-winning women directors
from around the world.
1986. 109 min. France / Austria / Belgium / USA / West Germany.
- "Anger," Maxi Cohen: Maxi put an ad in the
Village Voice looking for angry people to interview. Among others: a four
time murderer who had never been caught, a Wall Street sadist, a cop framed
by the police department, a hermaphrodite angry at herself for choosing
to become a woman.
- "Sloth," Chantal Akerman: Godard-ian in its
intellectual, personal point of view.
- "Lust," Valie Export: rock video style, about
sex and consumerism.
- "Envy," Laurence Gavron: a jealous opera lover
assumes the identity of his hero.
- "Pride," Ulrike Ottinger: Avant-garde play
juxtaposed with archival footage.
- "Gluttony," Helke Sander: Studio-bound cartoon
style.
- "Greed," Better Gordon: "Twilight Zone"
in a bathroom in the Palladium. |
About:
The Pratt Film Series was a weekly program dedicated to showing media
work not easily accessible to the public, and to forging ties across art disciplines
including performance, music, painting, sculpture, technology, animation,
theater, and architecture.
Over the last three years work from eighteen countries, spanning nearly the
history of cinema (1901 to works in progress and premieres), have been exhibited
here. We also featured guest filmmakers and performers, traveling film and
music festivals, and collaborations with other New York City venues.
Astria Suparak, Pratt Film
Series Director 1998-2000
Sundays and Tuesdays, 9pm
Dekalb Ave, betw. Hall + Classon St.s
A/C train to Clinton-Washington
