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A program by Light Cone and Le BAL
In the '50s, Dave Heath discovers New York and chooses Washington Square as a focal point. His experience of the city and the feeling of isolation in public spaces will be determining factors in the evolution of his photographic work. A frequent visitor to Greenwich Village, he immerses himself in the political and cultural context of the era, where the first signs of an underground cinema – figurative without being narrative – begin to emerge. This very questioning of cinematographic conventions is explored in this series by way of two themes dear to Dave Heath: the city and solitude.
Cinéma des Cinéastes 7, avenue de Clichy – 75017 Paris
Entrance : 9,50 euros / 7,50 euros (reduced rate)
Screening + entrance for Dave Heath's exhibition at le BAL: 11,50 euros (grouped tickets available for purchase only at Le BAL)
The Glorious Thirties, consumerism, the Vietnam War, civil rights battles... Cinema becomes a sounding box of the era and, in the vein of the New Wave, examines a society doubtful of itself. Within 10 years of each other, Stan Brakhage and Robert Frank film boredom and frustration over the course of a party or a day, while Jack Smith, in one of his very first films, articulates the constraints of the urban space with a dance in a vacant lot hindered by wire rope. The constrained staging of bodies and their difficult interaction is taken to the next level in the face-to-face proposed by Stephen Dwoskin. In turn, Standish Lawder compellingly and humorously brings into play the kind of solitude born from anonymity, in a film that Jonas Mekas has called "one of the strongest and grimmest comments upon the contemporary society that cinema has produced."
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OK END HERE
by Robert FRANK 1963 / Video / b&w / sound / 32' 00 |
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DESISTFILM
by Stan BRAKHAGE 1954 / 16mm / b&w / sound / 6' 48 |
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SCOTCH TAPE
by Jack SMITH 1959-1962 / 16mm / color / sound / 3' 00 |
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NAISSANT
by Stephen DWOSKIN 1964 / 16mm / b&w / sound / 14' 00 |
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NECROLOGY
by Standish LAWDER 1969-1970 / 16mm / b&w / sound / 11' 00 |
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Cinéma des Cinéastes 7, avenue de Clichy 75017 Paris France |
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| metro | Place de Clichy |
| tel | 01 53 42 40 20 |
| lightcone@lightcone.org | |
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| rates |
reduced rate: 7.50 € full rate: 9.50 € screening & exhibition at LE BAL: 11.50 € |