Music by George Antheil, Steve Reich, and Don Druick

Film

No upcoming events

Dementia. 1955. Directed by John Parker. With Adrienne Barrett, Bruno VeSota, Ben Roseman. Courtesy of Exploitation Pictures/Photofest

Three portraits of psychic disintegration, culminating in the midcentury American indie cult feature Dementia, a wordless noir foray into a woman’s psychosexual nightmares.

My Name Is Oona. 1969. USA/Sweden. Directed by Gunvor Nelson. Composed by Steve Reich. 16mm. 10 min.

Courtesy Canyon Films.

Variations on a Cellophane Wrapper. 1970. Canada. Directed by David Rimmer. Composed by Don Druick. 16mm. 9 min.

Dementia [Director’s Cut]. 1955. USA. Directed by John Parker. Composed by George Antheil. With Adrienne Barrett, Bruno VeSota, Ben Roseman. DCP. 61 min.

Director’s Cut, without dialogue, courtesy Cohen Film Collection.

This film accompanies Point Counterpoint: Avant-Garde Film Scores, 1955–1973.

Past events

Sun, Mar 18, 2018, 1:00 p.m.

MoMA, Floor T1, Theater 1

The Roy and Niuta Titus Theater 1
Wed, Mar 14, 2018, 4:30 p.m.

MoMA, Floor T2, Theater 2

The Roy and Niuta Titus Theater 2

Licensing

If you would like to reproduce an image of a work of art in MoMA’s collection, or an image of a MoMA publication or archival material (including installation views, checklists, and press releases), please contact Art Resource (publication in North America) or Scala Archives (publication in all other geographic locations).

MoMA licenses archival audio and select out of copyright film clips from our film collection. At this time, MoMA produced video cannot be licensed by MoMA/Scala. All requests to license archival audio or out of copyright film clips should be addressed to Scala Archives at [email protected]. Motion picture film stills cannot be licensed by MoMA/Scala. For access to motion picture film stills for research purposes, please contact the Film Study Center at [email protected]. For more information about film loans and our Circulating Film and Video Library, please visit https://www.moma.org/research/circulating-film.

If you would like to reproduce text from a MoMA publication, please email [email protected]. If you would like to publish text from MoMA’s archival materials, please fill out this permission form and send to [email protected].