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Film

Tue, Feb 3, 2015, 4:00 p.m.

MoMA, Floor T2, Theater 2

The Roy and Niuta Titus Theater 2

Windows in the Kitchen. 1977. USA. Directed by Elaine Summers. Print courtesy New York Public Library Dance Collection. Preserved with support from the Women's Film Preservation Fund

Program 90 min.

Windows in the Kitchen. 1977. USA. Directed by Elaine Summers. 12 min.

Experimental filmmaker/choreographer Summers worked intensively with film and its inclusion in live performance. Shot by Paula Court at the Kitchen on Broome Street, dancer Matt Turney moves gracefully against the backdrop of large loft windows. Preserved with support from NYWIFT’s Women’s Film Preservation Fund.

Bridges-Go-Round. 1958. USA. Directed by Shirley Clarke. 8 min.

This film, crafted by Clarke from leftover project footage to elicit a sense of motion in inanimate objects that appear to be swaying with the music, incorporates both electronic and jazz scores.

Will. 1981. USA. Directed by Jessie Maple. 70 min.

A former athlete recovers from drug addition with the help of a homeless boy. Will depicts Harlem’s complex, lively early-1980s street life without the sensationalism of earlier Blaxploitation movies. Jessie Maple was the first African American woman member of the IATSE, Moving Picture Technicians, Artists and Allied Crafts, in New York. Print courtesy Black Film Center/Archive, Indiana University. Preserved with support from NYWIFT’s Women’s Film Preservation Fund.

This film accompanies Carte Blanche: Women’s Film Preservation Fund—Women Writing the Language of Cinema.

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