Eternal Beach. 2021. USA. Filmmaker Nisi Jacobs with Ken Jacobs. Sound by Feels Like Rita. 12 min. Digital.
“To dream of that beach
For the sake of an instant in the eyes
The absolute singular
The unearthly bonds
Of the singular
Which is the bright light of shipwreck”
- George Oppen from Of Being Numerous
“All hallucinations of Paradise Lost come from the longing to levitate.
Vision is lightship and shipwreck”
- Herbert Postl from Ideal Forms of Vanishing
The Snowman. 1995. USA. Filmmaker Phil Solomon. 8 min. 16mm.
A meditation on memory, burial and decay - a belated kaddish for my father.- Phil Solomon
Scrapbook. 2015. Canada. Filmmaker Michael Hoolboom. 18 min. Digital.
Made from images shot in 1967 in the Broadview Developmental Center, Ohio.
“We are part of the same face”
“I didn’t have a body that came later”
“I couldn’t tell whether my emotions were a place in my body or a place in the city”
“I liked to look at the glass of a window, but not what was on the other side of the glass”
Wasteland No. 3: Moons, Sons. 2021. USA. Filmmaker Jodie Mack. 5 min. 16mm.
A world tender and unhatched, Future chaos in repose, in slumber. Yggdrasil. Microcosmos. Batter in a bowl. A living wreath. Oleander hyacinth blow away dandelion, particles of an interplanetary lullaby.
Dedicated to the one I love.
Desiccated attic must
momento mori in grace engraved.
With the loss of the imaginary and the real, I am unspeakable
as one remembers I once was this...
before myself, and then nothing, before I could touch the envelope that is right before me, translucent,
When I could cry but could not answer. - Darcy Shreve
Buried Alive in a Fairy Fort, Ireland. 1966. 8 min. Digital.
The House is Black. 1963. Iran. Filmmaker Forough Farrokhzad. 22 min. DCP. In Persian; English subtitles.
Farrokhzad was one of Iran’s greatest, most candid and outspoken poets This is her only film. The cornerstone of the new Iranian cinema. A searing song of humanity, where her heart and formal invention is a penetrating light that dispels shadows and shame. - Mark McElhatten
Department of the Interior. 1986. USA. Filmmaker Nina Fonoroff. 8 min. 16mm.
“I had been thinking about the nature of "echo," as both an acoustical and visual phenomenon. I had hoped to defamiliarize material which seemed to adhere to the demand for wholeness. My aim was not to "represent" or "express" a particular state of mind or emotion, but to endeavor to generate a set of possibilities for new connections between sensory experience and the experience of meaning.” - Nina Fonoroff
The Hart of London. 1970. Canada. Filmmaker Jack Chambers. 79 min. 16mm.
“If I named the five greatest films [ever made] this has got to be one of them”; “Jack Chambers changed the entire history of film.” - Stan Brakhage
“The Hart of London was not merely to illustrate suffering, but to redeem perception through old and new myths. It joined a haunting vision of his [Chamber’s] life, his perceptions and rituals, to an anonymous record of his hometown, a stage for paradise and inferno.” - Stephen Broomer
Program run time: 160 min.