Wednesday, January 16 at 7pm
L.A. Rebellion
A Different Image (New print!) dir. Alile Sharon Larkin, 1982, 16mm, color, 51 min.
An African-American woman contemplates self-identity, heritage and perception on the streets of the sprawling Los Angeles metropolis in a film by Alile Sharon Larkin. Grey Area (New print!) dir. Monona Wali, USA, 1981, 16mm, b/w, 38 min.
From Black Panthers to Young Urban Professionals, several members of a blighted neighborhood debate the causes and experience the stresses of cyclical poverty in Monona Wali’s bracing drama, as a monolithic bank commissions a film about its own supposedly good work in the community. Cycles dir. Zeinabu irene Davis, 1989, digital video from 16mm, b/w, 17 min.
MEETINGS
Sunday, January 13 at 8pm
Cage: Beyond Silence
Meetings Pauline Oliveros, Christian Wolff, Keith Rowe, Michael Pisaro Cage: Beyond Silence is a major festival celebrating the music of John Cage taking place at the Philadelphia Museum of Art and venues across the city.
As a woman anxiously awaits her overdue period, she performs Africanbased rituals of purification in this short by Zeinabu irene Davis. Water Ritual #1: An Urban Rite of Purification, (New restoration!) dir. Barabara McCullough, 1979, 35mm, b/w, 6 min.
In collaboration with performer Yolanda Vidato, Barbara McCullough presents a Black woman’s attempt to expel the putrefaction she has absorbed from her blighted urban environment, while symbolically cleansing the environment itself.
Preservation funded with a grant from the National Film Preservation Scored for a quartet with “any way of producing sounds,” Four6 Foundation’s Avant-Garde Masters Grant Program funded by The Film is perhaps the most open of Cage’s Number Pieces. Offering no Foundation. other directives than a series of time brackets, Four6 invites its players to individually choose and number 12 sounds that they are willing to make, and to begin and end them sometime during a set of fixed durations. As each performer has no knowledge of the others’ sounds beforehand, the result is unexpected and magical Composed in 1992, and dedicated to Pauline Oliveros on the occasion of her 60th birthday, this performance brings together four preeminent post-Cagean composer-performers.
Cycles
$15 General Admission
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