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Cover Image: Thoughts That Once We Had Wednesday, August 10 at 7pm
July Friday, July 15 at 7pm
Saturday, July 23 at 7pm
Not RecoNciled, oR oNly VioleNce Helps WHeRe VioleNce Rules
itiNeRARy of JeAN BRicARd
Jean-Marie Straub & Daniele Huillet
Jean-Marie Straub & Daniele Huillet
Dir. Jean-Marie Straub & Daniele Huillet, France, 2008, 35mm, French w/ English subtitles, 40 min
Dir. Jean-Marie Straub & Daniele Huillet, France, 1977, DCP, French w/ English subtitles, 55 min
Thursday, July 7 at 7pm
i ViNti (tHe VANquisHed)
Dir. Michelangelo Antonioni, Italy, 1953, digital, b/w, Italian w/ English subtitles, 114 min
Director Michelangelo Antonioni’s unique triptych film features three murders, one taking place in Paris, another in Rome, and another in London. All of the perpetrators are affluent youths, each killing for dubious motives. In the France segment, a group of adolescents kill for money, even though they don’t need it; in the London segment, a poet uncovers a woman’s body and tries to profit from the discovery; and in the Italian segment, a student becomes tangled in a smuggling ring, with deadly results.
Straub and Huillet attempt to unmoor their audience by denying them the soothing reassurances of conventional storytelling as they hopscotch across the chronologies of Heinrich Böll’s novel, moving freely between the Kaiser autocracy of the 1910s and the Adenauer economic miracle of the 1950s. In doing so, they chart the origins and legacy of Nazism, and the moral demands of obedience and sacrifice within the German bourgeois family. Followed by:
tHe BRidegRoom, tHe ActRess, ANd tHe pimp
Dir. Jean-Marie Straub & Daniele Huillet, West Germany, 1968, 35 mm, German w/ English subtitles, 23 min
Friday, July 15 at 9pm
Jean-Marie Straub & Daniele Huillet
eyes do Not WANt to close At All times oR peRHAps oNe dAy Rome Will peRmit HeRself to cHoose iN HeR tuRN (otHoN)
Friday, July 8 at 7pm
Notfilm
Dir. Ross Lipman, USA, 2015, DCP, 128 min
In 1964, author Samuel Beckett set out on one of the strangest ventures in cinematic history: his embattled collaboration with silent era genius Buster Keaton on the production of the short, avant garde work known as Film. Notfilm is the feature-length movie on Film’s production and its philosophical implications, utilizing outtakes, audio recordings of the production meetings, and rare archival elements. Preceded by:
film
Dir. Samuel Beckett & Alan Schneider, USA, 1964, DCP, 22 min
eVeRy ReVolutioN is A tHRoW of tHe dice
Dir. Jean-Marie Straub & Daniele Huillet, France, 1977, DCP, French w/ English subtitles, 10 min
Followed by:
Straub and Huillet invited friends to recite Stéphane Mallarmé’s 1897 poem A Throw of the Dice Will Never Abolish Chance, with its radically modern use of free verse, in a park alongside the wall in Père Lachaise cemetery where the last 147 men and women of the Paris Commune were lined up and shot dead in 1871. It is not hard to understand why these ambitious filmmakers were drawn to Mallarme’s late-19th-century poem, which casts readers adrift in a sea of elusive meanings, a playfully and hermetically cubist constellation of words that can assume myriad visual, aural, and symbolic forms.
Dir. Jean-Marie Straub, France, 2009, video, French w/ English subtitles, 27 min
Followed by:
too eARly/too lAte
Dir. Jean-Marie Straub & Daniele Huillet, France/Egypt, 1981, DCP, 100 min
A faithful adaptation of Pierre Corneille’s Othon. The film depicts the power vacuum that followed Emperor Nero’s death. Against a crowd of scheming pretenders to the throne, Corneille has Camille as his epic heroine, the mother of all conscientious objectors.
Friday, July 22 at 7pm
Tuesday, July 19 at 6:30pm Special Event
cultuRe & cuisiNe IHP and the Board of Delegates invite you for an evening of Culture & Cuisine, to meet and share a meal of Middle Eastern and African dishes with IHP residents and friends from around the world. We will enjoy a delicious dinner and hookah on IHP’s outdoor patio as we honor the first ever International Refugee Olympic Team, composed of 10 refugee athletes from Africa and the Middle East.
Jean-Marie Straub & Daniele Huillet
fRom tHe cloud to tHe ResistANce
Dir. Jean-Marie Straub & Daniele Huillet, Italy, 1979, DCP, Italian w/ English subtitles, 105 min
Straub and Huillet’s From the Cloud to the Resistance bridges history and myth, and modernity and antiquity. Based on six mythological encounters in Cesar Pavese’s Dialogues with Leucò, and on Pavese’s last novel, The Moon and the Bonfires, about the savage murders of Italian anti-Fascist resistance fighters during World War II. Preceded by:
coRNeille-BRecHt
Friday, July 29 at 7pm DNC Past and Present
tHe WoRld’s lARgest tV studio Dir. TVTV, USA, 1972, video, 60 min
Co-presented with PhillyCAM (Philadelphia Community Access Media). In 1972, TVTV brought its low-budget, freeform journalistic techniques to the floor of the Democratic National Convention in Miami. Using lightweight, Portapak equipment, the TVTV crew moved around the Convention floor with ease and speed. They came away with shrewd, sardonic portraits of the politicians, delegates and voters, providing an irreverent picture of the behind-thescenes political maneuvering. Presented without commentary, TVTV’s candid, close-up coverage offers a revealing look at one of the foundations of the American political process. Preceded by:
pHillycAm Voices feAtuRiNg coVeRAge of tHe 2016 democRAtic NAtioNAl coNVeNtioN iN pHilAdelpHiA
euRopA 2005, 27 octoBeR
Dir. Jean-Marie Straub & Daniele Huillet, France, 2005, video, French w/ English subtitles, 10 min
Saturday, July 23 at 2pm Family Matinee
RodNey mcmilliAN
Free ADmISSION
Jean-Marie Straub & Daniele Huillet
Dir. Jean-Marie Straub & Daniele Huillet, Italy/France, 1970, DCP, French w/ English subtitles, 88 min
Thursday, July 13 at 7pm A screening program organized in conjunction with artist Rodney McMillian’s exhibition, The Black Show, at the Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania. The evening will be comprised of an ecclectic range of material that gestures to Rodney’s interests across art, music, politics and science fiction and their impact on the possibilities for landscapes, bodies and futures. Introduced by special guest artist Dave McKenzie.
Thursday, July 21 at 7pm
Scarred by wartime occupation and postwar pollution, Coton Island is a palimpsest of history brought vividly to life in Jean Bricard’s childhood memories. The island, strategically located on the Loire, was once a lively port town with ash trees, vineyards, and tributaries alive with salmon and shad. But in 1944, Coton Island was occupied by the Germans and became the setting for brutal roundups and executions and for small acts of heroic resistance.
see tHe WoRld, feed youR miNd: liVe ActioN sHoRts fRom 2016 cHildReN’s film festiVAl seAttle Dir. Various, digital, in English, 78 min
Wednesday, July 20 at 7pm
sex ANd BRoAdcAstiNg: A film ABout Wfmu Dir. Tim K. Smith, US, 2014, DCP, 78 min
The characters in this collection of award-winning and audience-pleasing films are a determined bunch, unafraid to find their own way, create their own futures, search for happiness, find a way to save the planet and shoot for the stars. Join these amazing kids as they explore the countryside, cities and small towns of four countries, and look up at the skies to explore the worlds beyond.
Held together by an all-volunteer army of DJs, experts and weirdos, New Jersey radio station WFMU is something that by all rights shouldn’t exist – a completely listener-supported noncommercial enterprise.
Sunday, July 31 at 12pm
exHumed films pReseNts: mAsteRs of itAliAN HoRRoR It will be a very “Black Sunday” indeed when Exhumed Films presents five frightening features from Italy’s greatest horror directors: Suspiria (Dario Argento), Eyeball (Umberto Lenzi), The Black Cat (Lucio Fulci), Baron Blood (Mario Bava), and Torso (Sergio Martino). Tickets: General Admission $30, IHP Members $25.
JeAN-mARie stRAuB & dANiele Huillet selected WoRKs July 15 - 23, 2016 Following a complete retrospective of the films of Jean-marie Straub and Daniele Huillet earlier this year at the museum of modern Art in New York, International House is pleased to present a selection of important works by these two pioneering and controversial filmmakers. Jean-marie Straub (French, b. 1933) and Daniele Huillet (French, 1936–2006) were inseparable partners from 1954 until Huillet’s death, working intimately on every aspect of film production, from script writing to direction to editing. eschewing cinematic conventions and maintaining a rigorous structure, the films (adapted from classic literary works as well as a broad range of theater, poetry and operatic sources) are densely layered works that cycle through history, politics and the human condition in truly unique form.
Friday, July 15 at 7pm
Not RecoNciled, oR oNly VioleNce Helps WHeRe VioleNce Rules Followed by:
tHe BRidegRoom, tHe ActRess, ANd tHe pimp Friday, July 15 at 9pm
eyes do Not WANt to close At All times oR peRHAps oNe dAy Rome Will peRmit HeRself to cHoose iN HeR tuRN (otHoN)
Thursday, July 21 at 7pm
eVeRy ReVolutioN is A tHRoW of tHe dice Followed by:
too eARly/too lAte Friday, July 22 at 7pm
fRom tHe cloud to tHe ResistANce Preceded by:
euRopA 2005, 27 octoBeR Saturday, July 23 at 7pm
itiNeRARy of JeAN BRicARd Followed by:
coRNeille-BRecHt
AUGUST August 4-7
BLACKSTAR FILM FESTIVAL The BlackStar Film Festival is a celebration of cinema focused on work by and about people of African descent and indigenous communities in a global context. BlackStar highlights films that are often overlooked from emerging, established, and mid-career directors, writers and producers working in narrative, documentary, and experimental filmmaking. For titles and screening times, visit blackstarfest.org or ihousephilly.org/ blackstar.
ADAM ANT: STAND AND DELIVER
Dir. Mike Mansfield & Adam Ant, UK 1981, video 3 min
ADAM ANT: PRINCE CHARMING
Dir. Mike Mansfield & Adam Ant, UK 1981, video, 3 min
THE MODERN IMAGE
Dir. John Maybury, UK, 1978, video 13 min
SOLITUDE
Dir. John Maybury, UK 1981, video 13 min
BUNGALOW DEPRESSION
Dir. Grayson Perry & Jennifer Binnie, UK, 1981, video 4 min
THE PRIVATE VIEW
Dir. The Neo-Naturists, UK, 1981, video, 7 min
Followed by: Program Two – Home Taping
THE ATTITUDE ASSUMED: STILL LIFE WITH STILL BORN Dir. Cerith Wyn Evans, UK, 1980, video, 19 min
SKINHEADS AND ROSES Dir. Jill Westwood, UK, 1983, video, 7 min
Wednesday, August 10 at 7pm
THOUGHTS THAT ONCE WE HAD
Dir. Thom Anderson, USA, 2015, DCP, color, 108 min
This film from master cinematic essayist Thom Andersen (Los Angeles Plays Itself) is a richly digressive journey through cinema. A foundfootage film composed entirely of unidentified, yet often recognizable film clips and concise intertitles written by Andersen.
POP DOLPHIN
Friday, August 19 at 7pm This is Now: Film and Video After Punk Program Four – Before and After Science
LOST FOR WORDS
Dir. Anna Thew, UK, 1980, video, 26 min
THE GREEN WITCH AND MERRY DIANA Dir. Grayson Perry, UK 1984, video, 20 min
MEN WITHOUT HATS: SAFETY DANCE Dir. Tim Pope, UK, 1982, video, 3 min
Dir. Jeffrey Hinton, UK, ca. 1983, video, 23 min
CATHERINE DE MEDICIS PART 2
TILT
Followed by:
Dir. George Barber, UK, 1984, video, 7 min
BRANSON
Dir. George Barber, UK, 1983, video, 2 min
BLUE MONDAY
Dir. Duvet Brothers, UK, 1984, video, 4 min
THE COMMANDER IN CHIEF Dir. Gorilla Tapes, UK, 1984, video 4 min
ART OF NOISE: LEGS
Dir. George Barber & George Snow, UK 1985, video, 4 min
PASSION TRYPTYCH
Dir. Cordelia Swann, UK, 1982, video, 4 min
Dir. Steven Chivers, UK, 1984, video, 25 min
Program Five – Through a Glass, Darkly
Friday, August 12 at 7pm
This is Now: Film and Video After Punk Program One – Performing the Self
STILL LIFE WITH PHRENOLOGY HEAD
Dir. Cerith Wyn Evans, UK, 1979, video, 14 min
HUMAN LEAGUE: DON’T YOU WANT ME Dir. Steve Barron, UK, 1981, video, 4 min
CHAT RAP
Dir. John Scarlett-Davis, UK, 1983, video, 15 min
This program has been supported by a grant from the Dolfinger McMahon Foundation.
Dir. Various, UK, 1984, video, 28 min
Followed by: Program Seven – Entering the Dream Space
THE TECHNOLOGY OF SOULS IN EXCELSIS DEO
THE MIRACLE OF THE ROSE Dir. Cerith Wyn Evans, UK, 1984, video, 25 min
THE UNION JACKING UP
THE BRANKS
Saturday, August 27 at 2pm
Dir. Michael Kostiff, UK, 1983, video, 10 min Dir. Akiko Hada, UK, 1982, video, 7 min
GRAYSON/FLOWERS/JEWELS Dir. Jennifer Binnie, UK, 1985, video, 3 min
LYRICAL DOUBT
Dir. Judith Goddard, UK, 1984, video, 16 min
Dir. John Maybury, UK, 1985, video, 18 min
Family Matinee
SEE THE WORLD, FEED YOUR MIND: ANIMATED SHORTS FROM 2016 CHILDREN’S FILM FESTIVAL SEATTLE Dir. Various, digital, in English, 66 min
Zip around the world with this baker’s dozen of high-energy, high-imagination animated shorts. You’ll be dazzled by the light, color and storytelling in this vibrant celebration of creativity.
Wednesday, August 24 at 7pm Wednesday, August 17 at 7pm
THE ACADEMY OF MUSES
RISATE DI GIOIA [THE PASSIONATE THIEF]
Dir. Jose Luis Guerin, Spain, 2015 DCP, color Spanish w/ English subtitles, 92 min
Dir. Mario Monicelli, Italy, 1960, DCP, b/w, Italian w/ English subtitles, 106 min
A university professor teaches a class on muses in art and literature as a means of romancing his female students in this breathtaking new film from Jose Luis Guerín, director of the widely heralded In The City of Sylvia.
On New Year’s Eve, an insecure, struggling actress has nothing to do. When a colleague invites her to a New Year’s party, she jumps at the opportunity. Accidentally, she runs into an old acting acquaintance, who is helping a professional pickpocket steal from people during the hustle-bustle of New Year’s Eve festivities.
Thursday, August 18 at 7pm This is Now: Film and Video After Punk Program Three – Just Images
THE COURT OF MIRACLES Dir. John Maybury, UK, 1982, video 44 min
GLORY BOYS?
Dir. Vanda Carter, UK, 1983, video, 4 min
TERRITORIES
Dir. Isaac Julien, UK, 1984, video, 24 min
Thursday, August 25 at 7pm
VITA ACTIVA: THE SPIRIT OF HANNAH ARENDT Dir. Ada Ushpiz, 2015, Israel/Canada, DCP, German/ English/Hebrew w/ English subtitles, 132 min
This thought-provoking and spirited documentary, with its abundance of archival materials, offers an intimate portrait of Hannah Arendt’s life.
PSYCHIC TV: UNCLEAN
Dir. Cerith Wyn Evans & John Maybury, UK, 1984, video, 9 min
The majority of these films have, for the most part, remained unseen until now. As part of a major restoration endeavor, the BFI National Archive has digitally remastered twenty Super 8 and 16mm films from this period, including titles by Isaac Julien, John Maybury, Sophie Muller, The Neo-Naturists, Grayson Perry, John Smith, Cordelia Swann, Jill Westwood and Cerith Wyn Evans. Presented in conjunction with the 35th anniversary of the launch of MTV, this series is a collision of art, music, fashion and experimental filmmaking from a (not so) bygone era.
THE GREATEST HITS OF SCRATCH VIDEO VOL. 2
LIQUID VIDEO
THIS IS NOW: FILM AND VIDEO AFTER PUNK AUGUST 12 - 26, 2016 Friday, August 12 at 7pm THE COMMANDER IN CHIEF This is Now: Film and Video After Punk is a major new touring program rediscovering key underground films from the post-punk era in the UK (1978–85). This period saw an explosion in artist filmmaking amongst clubbers, art students, new romantics and members of the post-punk scene, who embraced cheap new domestic technologies and used them to bold and uncompromising effect.
Dir. Various, UK, 1984, video, 16 min
Dir. Sophie Mueller, UK. 1983, video, 26 min
Dir. Cordelia Swann, UK, 1983, video, 12 min
Dir. Richard Heslop, UK, 1983, video, 5 min
Eva Hesse (1936-1970) is one of America’s foremost postwar artists. Her pioneering sculptures, using latex, fiberglass, and plastics, helped establish the post-minimalist movement. Eva Hesse, the first feature-length appreciation of her life and work, makes superb use of the artist’s voluminous journals, her correspondence with close friend and mentor Sol LeWitt, and contemporary as well as archival interviews with fellow artists.
THE MINERS’ CAMPAIGN TAPES: THE LIE MACHINE
Dir. John Maybury, UK, 1981, video, 11 min
23 SKIDOO: F.U.G.I.
Dir. Marcie Begleiter, USA, 2016, DCP, 108 min
Dir. John Smith, UK, 1981, video, 32 min
WINTER JOURNEY IN THE HARTZ MOUNTAINS
Dir. Jill Westwood, UK, 1984, video, 18 min
Dir. Holly Warburton, UK, 1980-84, video, 5 min
EVA HESSE
ECHO & THE BUNNYMEN: SHINE SO HARD
THE WOUND
ALL VENEER AND NO BACKBONE
Thursday, August 11 at 7pm
Friday, August 26 at 7pm
This is Now: Film and Video After Punk Program Six – Video Killed the Radio Star
Program One – Performing the Self
STILL LIFE WITH PHRENOLOGY HEAD HUMAN LEAGUE: DON’T YOU WANT ME CHAT RAP ADAM ANT: STAND AND DELIVER ADAM ANT: PRINCE CHARMING THE MODERN IMAGE SOLITUDE BUNGALOW DEPRESSION THE PRIVATE VIEW Followed by:
Program Two – Home Taping
THE ATTITUDE ASSUMED: STILL LIFE WITH STILL BORN SKINHEADS AND ROSES POP DOLPHIN TILT BRANSON BLUE MONDAY
ART OF NOISE: LEGS PASSION TRYPTYCH
Thursday, August 18 at 7pm
Program Three – Just Images
THE COURT OF MIRACLES GLORY BOYS? TERRITORIES PSYCHIC TV: UNCLEAN Friday, August 19 at 7pm Program Four – Before and After Science
LOST FOR WORDS THE GREEN WITCH AND MERRY DIANA MEN WITHOUT HATS: SAFETY DANCE CATHERINE DE MEDICIS PART 2 Followed by:
Program Five – Through a Glass, Darkly
THE WOUND WINTER JOURNEY IN THE HARTZ MOUNTAINS
Saturday, August 27 at 7pm
DRAGON INN
Dir. King Hu, Taiwan, 1967, DCP, color, Mandarin w/ English subtitles, 111 min
The Chinese Wuxia (martial arts) picture was never the same after King Hu’s legendary Dragon Inn. During the Ming dynasty, the emperor’s minister of defense is framed by a powerful court eunuch and executed, and his family is pursued by secret police. In the ensuing chase, a mysterious band of strangers begins to gather at the remote Dragon Gate Inn, where paths (and swords) will cross.
LIQUID VIDEO THE BRANKS ALL VENEER AND NO BACKBONE 23 SKIDOO: F.U.G.I. GRAYSON/FLOWERS/JEWELS LYRICAL DOUBT Friday, August 26 at 7pm
Program Six – Video Killed the Radio Star
ECHO & THE BUNNYMEN: SHINE SO HARD THE MINERS’ CAMPAIGN TAPES: THE LIE MACHINE THE GREATEST HITS OF SCRATCH VIDEO VOL. 2 Followed by:
Program Seven – Entering the Dream Space
THE TECHNOLOGY OF SOULS IN EXCELSIS DEO THE MIRACLE OF THE ROSE THE UNION JACKING UP
SEPTEMBER RARE EARTHENWARE Dir. Toby Smith, UK, 2015, video, 7 min
TREASURE ISLAND
OBJECT
Dir. Karl Lemieux & David Bryant, Canada, 2014, video, 14 min
SUSPENDED BY SOUND FRITZ LANG’S DESTINY (DER MUDE TOD) Dir. Fritz Lang, Germany, 1921, DCP, tinted b/w, silent w/score, 98 min
A young woman confronts the personification of Death, in an effort to save the life of her fiance. Death weaves three romantic tragedies and offers to unite the girl with her lover, if she can prevent the death of the lovers in at least one of the episodes.
Thursday, Sept. 8 at 7pm
THE LATE MATHIAS PASCAL
Dir. Marcel L’Herbier, France, 1926, digital, b/w, silent with French Intertitles & English Subtitles, 170 min
Mathias, an eccentric dreamer, is trapped in the undertakings of daily life as he suffers his days in a loveless marriage, a dead end job and tyrannized by his ungrateful mother-in-law. Griefstricken by the death of his mother and infant daughter, Mathias flees to Monte Carlo, where a run of luck at roulette wins him a fortune. After his death is falsely reported, Mathias leaps at the chance of a second and adventurous life in Rome.
ALL ROT
Dir. Max Hattler, Hong Kong, 2015, 3min
QUIET ZONE
Wednesday, Sept. 14 at 7pm
Dir. Carl-Johan Westregård, Sweden, 2014, video, 13min
(A)SYMMETRY
Dir. Dave Fischer, USA, 2015, video, 3 min
Wednesday, Sept. 7 at 7pm
CAMS
Dir. Elizabeth Lo & Melissa Langer, USA, 2014, video, 7 min
Dir. Tiago Marconi, Brazil, 2015, video, 7 min
SOUNDPRINT
Dir. Monteith McCollum, USA, 2014, video, 8 min
ICARUS
Dir. César Pesquera, France, 2013, video, 4 min
Dir. Paulina Skibi ska, Poland, 2015, 14min
Wednesday, Sept. 21 Special Event
INTERNATIONAL PEACE DAY FESTIVAL & MARKET IHP will host the International Peace Day Festival & Market in partnership with Penn Global on IHP’s front patio and Innovation Plaza. The outdoor festival will feature food trucks, local vendors, performances, activities, and more to celebrate and encourage peace and understanding among people of all nations.
Scribe Video Center’s Producers’ Forum
SEMBENE!
Dirs. Jason Silverman and Samba Gadjigo, USA/ Senegal, 2015, 86 min
Saturday, Sept. 17 at 2pm
With director Samba Gadjigo in person!
In 1952, Ousmane Sembène, a dockworker and fifth-grade dropout from Senegal, began dreaming an impossible dream: to become the storyteller for a new Africa. Sembene! tells the unbelievable true story of the father of African cinema, the self-taught novelist and filmmaker who fought a 50-year battle to return African stories to Africans. Producers’ Forums are supported by the National Endowment for the Arts, PNC Arts Alive, Philadelphia Cultural Fund, and the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. Tickets: General Admission $10, Students/ Seniors $7, Scribe members $5.
Family Matinee
BOY AND THE WORLD
Thursday, Sept. 15 at 7pm
Dir. Alê Abreu, Brazil, digital, musical/no dialogue, 80 min
Thursday, Sept. 22 at 7pm
Academy Award® nominee for Best Animated Feature Film. Cuca’s cozy rural life is shattered when his father leaves for the city, prompting him to embark on a quest to reunite his family.
Dir. Billy Woodberry, USA, 2015, DCP, 89 min
Imagine Science Film Festival Program One - Escape Velocity
MISSING ONE PLAYER Dir. Lei Lei, China, 2015, video, 4 min
GEOSYNCHRONOUS
Dir. Toby Smith, UK, 2015, video, 11 min
AND WHEN I DIE, I WON’T STAY DEAD
Billy Woodberry’s (Bless Their Little Hearts) much anticipated second feature film is a fascinating portrait of West Coast beat poet Bob Kaufman, often referred to as “the American Rimbaud.” And When I Die, I Won’t Stay Dead is a journey into the ferocious beauty of his work, and his insistence that poetry is fundamental to humanity’s moral survival.
MONKEY LOVE EXPERIMENTS
Dir. Ainslie Henderson & Will Anderson, UK, 2014, video, 9 min
UNCLEAR PROOF
Dir. Max Hattler, Hong Kong, 2013, video, 1 min
GHOST CELL
Dir. Antoine Delach, France, 2015, video, 7 min
Imagine Science Film Festival Program Three - The Phenomenology of Ghosts
MARS CLOSER
Dir. Luz Olivares Capelle, Austria, 2014, video, 23 min
Dir. Jonathan Minard, USA, 2015, video, 4 min
Friday, Sept. 9 at 7pm DOUBLE FEATURE!
VIOLENT COP
Dir. Takeshi Kitano, Japan, 1989, DCP, Japanese w/ English subtitles, 103 min
Writer/director Takeshi “Beat” Kitano plays Detective Azuma, a hostile cop who’s not afraid of using violent means to catch his culprits. When his sister is kidnapped by a sadistic drug lord, Azuma’s Dirty Harry-style tactics escalate in his quest for vengeance. Followed by:
BOILING POINT
Saturday, Sept. 17 at 5pm
ASTROBOTIC: THE MOON AND BEYOND Dir. Annelie Boros & Vera Brückner, Germany/Japan/ Latvia, 2015, video, 16 min
VOSTOK ZERO
Dir. Perttu Inkilä, Velda Parkkinen, & Liis Mehine, Finland, 2015, 5 min
COSMOG
Dir. Cindy Lo, France, 2013, video, 3 min
PLANET ∑
Dir. Momoko Seto, France, 2014, 12 min
Friday, Sept. 16 at 7pm
Imagine Science Film Festival Program Two - Unseen Waves, Invisible Forces
Dir. Takeshi Kitano, Japan, 1990, DCP, Japanese w/ English subtitles, 97 min
FLY, FLY SADNESS
In the second film from Kitano, two members of a Japanese junior baseball team get mixed up with the local yakuza after their coach is attacked by gangsters.
AS SOON AS WEATHER WILL PERMIT
Dir. Miryam Charles, Canada/Haiti, 2015, video, 6 min
Dir. Su Rynard, Canada, 2015, video, 15 min
APARICIONES THE TINIEST
Dir. Tomislav Šoban, Croatia, 2014, video, 16 min
QUIET TITLE
Dir. Alina Taalman, USA, 2015, video, 36 min
Saturday, Sept. 17 at 7pm Imagine Science Film Festival Program Four - Observer Effects
IN WAKING HOURS
PRIVATE PROPERTY
Dir. Leslie Stevens, USA, 1960, DCP, b/w, 79 min Two homicidal Southern California drifters wander off the beach and into the seemingly-perfect Beverly Hills home of unhappy housewife Kate Manx, in this long-lost film noir gem written and directed by The Outer Limits creator Leslie Stevens.
Dir. Sarah Vanagt & Katrien Vanagt, Netherlands, 2015, video, 18 min
Wednesday, Sept. 28
TRACK
OKTOBERFEST
Dir. Takeshi Nagata & Kazue Monno, Japan, 2015, video, 4 min
BLUE-EYED ME
Dir. Alexey Marfin, UK/Hong Kong, 2015, video, 7 min
INVISIBLE
Dir. Lia Giraud, France, 2014, video, 19 min
IMAGINE SCIENCE FILM FESTIVAL TOURING PROGRAM SEPTEMBER 15 - 17, 2016 Thursday, Sept. 15 at 7pm Program One - Escape Velocity
The Imagine Science Film Festival in New York City – the first science film festival created by scientists – emphasizes the importance of storytelling, narrative structure and visual communication. Chosen on the basis of both scientific and artistic merit, the annual roster includes genres that run the gamut from fiction and documentaries to experimental films, and hybrid forms of “docu-fiction.” The primary goal is to break down stereotypes and defy categorization of the “science film,” while the Festival showcases films whose chief purpose is to convey scientific information with artistry, it also celebrates abstract works designed to capture the magic and “cool” of science and its practitioners. This touring series comprises four programs that convey the breadth of the 8th Annual ISF Festival, which took place in NYC October 16-24, 2015.
Friday, Sept. 23 at 7pm
MISSING ONE PLAYER GEOSYNCHRONOUS MONKEY LOVE EXPERIMENTS UNCLEAR PROOF GHOST CELL ASTROBOTIC: THE MOON AND BEYOND MARS CLOSER VOSTOK ZERO COSMOG PLANET ∑ Friday, Sept. 16 at 7pm
Program Two - Unseen Waves, Invisible Forces
FLY, FLY SADNESS AS SOON AS WEATHER WILL PERMIT RARE EARTHENWARE TREASURE ISLAND (A)SYMMETRY QUIET ZONE
Special Event
In celebration of this annual festival held in Munich, Germany since 1810, International House will gather residents and community members for a traditional German cultural experience. The festive event will feature traditional cuisine, a sampling of German beers, German music, dancing, games, and more.
SUSPENDED BY SOUND SOUNDPRINT ICARUS Saturday, Sept. 17 at 5pm
Program Three - The Phenomenology of Ghosts
APARICIONES THE TINIEST QUIET TITLE
Saturday, Sept. 17 at 7pm Program Four - Observer Effects
IN WAKING HOURS TRACK BLUE-EYED ME INVISIBLE CAMS ALL ROT OBJECT
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