May 30
The Divine David Presents
Frenzy
4.30.13
Tom Rhoads | Three Films
3.26.13
Have you ever seen a transsexual before?
2.26.13
The Lollipop Generation
1.29.13
The Inner Scar
12.19.12
HEDY
10.28.12
Dirty Looks Selects:
The First 25 years of MIX NYC
10.15.12
Thrillers
Tom Rubnitz / Dynasty Handbag
09.25.12
Yesterday Once More
06.27.12
Race d'Ep
05.18.12
Sonbert Chomont
04.25.12
Yonemotos
03.28.12
Dependent Art Fair
03.10.12
Anger/ Handelman
02.29.12
Charles Atlas!
01.25.12
Curt McDowell's
Sparkle's Tavern
12.28.11
LA Plays Itself
a special screening at Spank Party
12.4.11
An Unseen Cloud:
Thornton, Leventhal, Dougherty
w/ Women Make Movies
11.30.11
Dirty Talk: a cinematic reading event
in conjunction w/ MIX NYC
11.27.11
Gary Indiana/ A Coupla White
Faggots Sitting Around Talking
w/ Queer Text
11.1.11
Fancy Days, Fancy Times
films by Luther Price
10.26.11
Rosa von Praunheim's
City of Lost Souls
w/ Translady Fanzine
9.28.11
KUCHARS!
a rooftop screening
8.31.11
Under the Stars
A rooftop screening
7.27.11
Newfest Screening:
The Ballad of Genesis & Lady Jaye
7.24.11
FEMALE TROUBLE
(Genderfuck program)
6.29.11
Taxi Zum Klo
w/ Little Joe and Ronald Gregg
5.25.11
Michael Robinson/Jack Smith
4.20.11
Madame X - An Absolute Ruler
w/ Gary Indiana
3.30.11
The Sex Garage by Fred Halsted /
Finished by William E. Jones
2.23.11
The Films of Curtis Harrington
1.26.11
An Unseen Cloud: Thornton, Leventhal, Dougherty
in partnership with Women Make Movies
Wednesday November 30th, 8pm
253 E. Houston Street
New York, NY 10002
PROGRAM
Dani Leventhal, Tin Pressed, 2011
Cecilia Dougherty, Laurie, 1998
Leslie Thornton, There Was An Unseen Cloud, Moving, 1987
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An Unseen Cloud collects three intimate video portraits that capture their subjects in varying, extreme states. Leventhal opens Tin Pressed with a sequence of intense violence that illuminates the subtler kinds of daily violence, which go unnoticed in the world around her. Dougherty's subject, Laurie Weeks, recounts the drug-fueled prose of her recently-published junkie's novel, Zipper Mouth. And Thornton's near-feature-length, There Was An Unseen Cloud, Moving restages the plight of Isabelle Eberhardt, a Victorian writer who masqueraded in mens attire in order to move freely about Moslem regions. Each video presents an ode to life lived on the edge.
More about There Was An Unseen Cloud, Moving: A fragmented, experimental biography of the 19th-century poet and writer Isabelle Eberhardt, whose brief, unusual life ended abruptly in a flash flood in the desert. The tape makes no claims to telling the "truth" about Isabelle, choosing rumors about her tyrannical, nihilistic father, and her flight to Armenia, where she dressed as a man and "wrote one of the strangest documents a woman has ever given to the world." Following Eberhardt's travels and the strangely syncretic vision of her father, Thornton creates a portrait of cultural cross-breeding in which "neither this world nor the other remains." In all, There Was An Unseen Cloud, Moving is an arresting mixture of rare and iconic images that undermines its authenticity through re-enacted "historical" scene and deliberate anachronisms that place Neil Armstrong in 19th-century Geneva.
Dirty Looks is a roaming screening series, a salon of influences, an open platform for inquiry, discussion and debate.
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Director / Bradford Nordeen
Assistant Director / Karl McCool
Associate Director / David Everitt Howe
Design / Deric Carner
Projectionist / Alex Lake
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