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ONGOING SERIES AVAILABLE SPACE
Three-Minute Hells (2010)
Available Space is a recurring monthly series showcasing experimental and independent film and media, including artist retrospectives, historical and contemporary films, expanded cinema performance, special guest events, and restorations from international archives, as well as our own Academy Film Archive.
Behindert Sat, Mar 4 | 3pm | TMT
Though avant-garde filmmaker Stephen Dwoskin (1939–2012) was born in and began his filmmaking career in New York alongside contemporaries Andy Warhol and Robert Frank, a Fulbright Scholarship took him to London in 1964 and led him to a life outside the US, where he worked primarily in the UK and Germany on independent projects and commissions for television. Living his adult life with post-polio syndrome after contracting the virus at age 9, Dwoskin walked with crutches and eventually used a wheelchair, and the reality of his body thematically works its way into many of his uncategorizable films, including his autobiographical Trying to Kiss the Moon (1994), the lyrical documentary Face of Our Fear (1992), and the hauntingly subjective Behindert (1974). Deriving its title from the German word for “disabled,” Dwoskin’s deeply personal masterpiece Behindert finds the filmmaker’s gaze replicated through the lens of a 16mm camera, bearing first-person witness to a budding romance between a man with physical disabilities and an able-bodied woman. Casting his then-ex-girlfriend Carola Regnier as the love interest aids in generating the film’s overwhelming, indescribable pathos, and the minimalist drone score by English composer Gavin Bryars imparts a haunting tone to this passionate and arresting film by a singularly visionary artist. An official selection of the Director’s Fortnight section of the 1976 Cannes Film Festival, Behindert is daring, revelatory, and unmissable. Programmed and note by K.J. Relth-Miller. DIRECTED BY: Stephen Dwoskin. 1974. 96 min. UK. Color. German. 16mm. Print courtesy of Canyon Cinema Foundation.
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Amy Halpern: Unowned Luxuries Thu, Apr 20 | 7:30pm | TMT Amy Halpern (1953–2022) is cherished not only for her memorable and beautiful films, but also for her inexhaustible engagement and enthusiasm as a devoted presence in the Los Angeles film and arts community She had a profound curiosity about nearly everything and everyone she encountered, and her extensive body of film work reflects this passion for the sights, sounds, textures, and complex connections to be found and explored in the world around us. This eclectic program includes an intricate sampling of Amy Halpern’s films spanning multiple decades, including several LA premieres drawn from the final batch of new 16mm films she released in June 2022. The title, Unowned Luxuries, not only derives from a small series of short films she authored (two of which are featured in this program),
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