Special Screening: Dick Higgins’s Flaming City
September 7 and 10, 2005

MoMA presents a rare screening of Dick Higgins’s avant-garde film The Flaming City (1963), which the filmmaker/poet (1938–1998) directed and shot in the early 1960s in Soho and other New York neighborhoods. Shown is an original Kodachrome 16mm print that Higgins deposited in the Filmmakers’ Cooperative shortly after completion. Presented in conjunction with the DVD release of The Flaming City by Felluss Art Media Services, Centerpoint, New York.

Organized by Laurence Kardish, Senior Curator, Department of Film and Media.

The Flaming City. 1963. USA. Directed by Dick Higgins. "An anti-semantic love story about a marvelous part of New York City and the people who lived there—as the city is destroyed so are they, except that both are indestructible" (Higgins). 121 min.
Wednesday, September 7, 8:30; Saturday, September 10, 4:30. T2

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