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Overcoming the Spectacle

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All Events Start at 6PM

"Overcoming the Spectacle: A Cinema of Pure Means” will explore the role of cinema as a medium for political transformation by way of an examination of the medium itself and the act of what it means to ‘watch’ a film.

The films included in this series all critique the spectacle / spectator relation inherent in the structure of cinema and attempt to imagine new relationships between the medium and the viewer.  Taking its conceptual grounding from what Giorgio Agamben refers to as the cinema of ‘Pure Means’, this series will look specifically at cinematic strategies that refute fabricated meanings, thoughts and desires.  It is through the work of the cinema that the cinema, too, has to be destroyed.

Overcoming the Spectacle: A Cinema of Pure Means is curated by Lawrence Kumpf.  Some films may be inappropriate for minors. 

Thursday, October 1
6PM
$5 Suggested Donation

Guy Debord
Critique de la séparation (1961)
La Société du spectacle (1973)
Réfutation de tous les judgements, tant élogieux qu’hostiles, qui ont été jusqu’ici portés sur le film La Société du spectacle  (1975)

Thursday, October 8
6PM
$5 Suggested Donation

René Viénet
Can Dialectics Break Bricks (1972)
The Girls of Kamare  (1974)

The Girls of Kamare may be inappropriate for minors

Thursday, November 12

6PM
$5 Suggested Donation

Craig Baldwin
Tribulation 99 (1991)

Bruce Conner
A MOVIE (1958)

Peter Forgacs
Bourgeois Dictionary (1992)
Either Or (1989)

Thursday, December 3
6PM
$5 Suggested Donation

Craig Baldwin
Mock Up on Mu (2008)

Thursday, January 28

6PM
$5 Suggested Donation

Guy Debord
Hurlements en faveur de Sade (1952)

Gil Wolman
L’Anticoncept (1953)

Anonymous
Cine-tracts (1968)

Thursday, February 11
6PM
$5 Suggested Donation

Jean Luc Godard
La gai savoir (1969)

Thursday, March 11
6PM
$5 Suggested Donation

Jack Smith
Flaming Creatures

Kurt Kren
Mama und Papa (1964)
Leda und der Schwan (1964)

These films may be inappropriate for minors.

 

Thursday, April 8
6PM
$5 Suggested Donation

Dušan Makavejev
Sweet Movie (1974)

This film may be inappropriate for minors.

Art As Politics

Both evenings begin at 6PM with a $5 Suggested Donation

This two-day film program explores the symbiotic relationship between politics and artistic expression via two documentaries, Predictions of Fire about the NSK and Bringing Down a Dictator about the fall of Slobedan Milosevic. Curator Dusan Bjelic, Sociology Professor from the University of Southern Maine, will introduce each film and lead the discussion afterward.

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October 27: Predictions of Fire
October 28: Bringing Down a Dictator

((audience))

World Premiere
Experimental Cinema Festival

Individual Events - $10 (The opening of “Last Wishes” is free)

Festival Pass - $20 (allows admission to all events)

((audience)) is a traveling, biennial festival of 5.1 surround sound art work to be presented in movie theaters as “cinema in the dark.” The centerpiece of ((audience)) is a 2½-hour program of surround sound works by eight international artists. This program is making its World Premiere at will travel to partnering organizations from Delhi, India to Providence, RI to Montreal, Canada through 2010.

((audience)) is an unprecedented project that explores the cinema as a 21st century concert hall. Currently, sound artists often must “perform” what are essentially multi-track recordings, interpreting the playback of their compositions to account for technical and acoustic variations in different sites. ((audience)) bypasses this problem by considering the cinema-hall as a standard technical and acoustic platform and site. Conceived in 2006, ((audience)) is dedicated to the advancement of aural arts by providing wide distribution and new contexts for works by emerging and established sound artists and composers.

• September 17, 5PM-8PM – “Last Wishes” mudboy, official th3 gallery opening ((audience)) kick-off! more...

• September 18, 7PM – Live Performances by Loud Objects, Zach Layton & MV Carbon more...

• September 19, 7PM – Main Program, surround sound works by international artists more...

• September 24, 7PM – Music on all Sides, Surround sound music in a darkened theater more...

• September 25, 7PM – Cinema for the Eyes and Ears, experimental cinema & audio in stereo more...

• September 27, 2PM – Karaoke Brunch catered by Funk N' Waffles