SCREEN FRESHENER #10: AUGUST 6, 2012: "Is This What You Were Born For?" - PLEASE NOTE: EARLIER DATE THIS MONTH!

[Neil Young Cloaca]

PLEASE NOTE: EARLIER DATE THIS MONTH! - IN SEPT WE'LL RETURN TO THE 3RD MON OF THE MONTH 

now we radically shift gears, push the machine into overdrive, & look at this glorious cycle of short films by punk polymath Abigail Child: 

IS THIS WHAT YOU WERE BORN FOR? series of 7 films (1989. approx 70mins) by Abigail Child

Dazzling blasts of kaleidoscopic image/sound, meticulously stitched together from found & original fragments, these layered films play are wildly playful and quite a workout for the eyes/mind!

"The Born For cycle has been described by film scholar P. Adams Sitney as “one of the most important and original sequences in the American avant-garde.” Quite right he is, and yet it’s many other things as well: a cinematic corollary informed by, if not identical to, the work of the Language poets; a direct challenge to the prudish misapplication of feminist film theory, especially that laid out in Laura Mulvey’s 1975 essay “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema”; a paean to the sights, sounds, and artistic spirit of the 1980s Lower East Side; and a collaboration with some of the leading lights of that neighborhood’s musical scene, itself a truly golden age within the larger history of American music."

http://www.brooklynrail.org/2011/12/film/is-this-what-you-were-born-for

(we will have hot water handy, but please bring your favorite mug & teabag combo for pleasurable sipping)

MON AUGUST 6, 8PM FREE
The Brick House
24 Third St
Turners Falls, MA
01376

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