Larry Gottheim Shorts I

Film

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Your Television Traveler. 1991–2024. USA. Directed by Larry Gottheim. Courtesy the filmmaker

Blues. 1969. USA. Directed by Larry Gottheim. 16mm. Silent. 9 min.
Your Television Traveler. 1991–2024. USA. Directed by Larry Gottheim. 16mm. 18 min.
Harmonica. 1971. USA. Directed by Larry Gottheim. 16mm. 10 min.
Mnemosyne Mother of Muses. 1987. USA. Directed by Larry Gottheim. 16mm. 18 min.
ALA. 1969. USA. Larry Gottheim and Rodney Young. DCP. 12 min.

History, memory, music, ritual, and language are motifs that run like a thread through this retrospective, and in particular this program, which covers more than five decades of Gottheim’s life and work. It includes the recently restored Your Television Traveler, a work of complex collage and counterpoint, superimposing Cuba’s colonial and revolutionary history with actual and fictional footage of space exploration. Guided by the figure of the “TV Traveler” and Gottheim’s keen eye for imaginative, revealing juxtapositions, the film collides the constructs and hidden truths underpinning our political, geographical, and historical realities. This program also features Gottheim’s earliest film work, ALA. Made in 1968 with a group of Black and Latino students, Gottheim’s first completed film also marks the beginning of a lifelong preoccupation with using cinema as a conduit for exploring educational and political possibilities.

This film accompanies The Red Thread: Larry Gottheim’s Films.

Past events

Mon, May 19, 4:30 p.m.

MoMA, Floor T2/T1, Theater 1

The Roy and Niuta Titus Theater 1
Thu, May 15, 7:00 p.m.

Followed by a conversation with Larry Gottheim and Steve Anker

MoMA, Floor T2/T1, Theater 2

The Roy and Niuta Titus Theater 2

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