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Bondage Boy DIRECTED BY: Chris Langdon. 1973. 5 min. USA. Color. English. 16mm.
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“X” DIRECTED BY: Barbara Hammer. 1973. 8 min. USA. Color. English. 16mm. I Change/I am the Same DIRECTED BY: Alice Anne Parker. 1969. 1 min. USA. B&W. Sound. 16mm. The Off-Handed Jape… & How to Pull It Off DIRECTED BY: Robert Nelson & William T. Wiley. 1967. 9 min. USA. Color. English. 16mm. Bondage Girl DIRECTED BY: Chris Langdon. 1973. 5 min. USA. Color. English. 16mm. The Last Supper DIRECTED BY: Mike Henderson. 1970/73. 8 min. USA. Color. English. 16mm. Schmeerguntz DIRECTED BY: Gunvor Nelson & Dorothy Wiley. 1966. 15 min. USA. B&W. English. 16mm.
The Academy Museum and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art present Derek Jarman's Blue in 35mm Fri, Dec 1 | 7:30pm | TMT
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.
The Academy Museum and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art present Derek Jarman’s Blue in 35mm Fri, Dec 1 | 7:30pm | TMT A prominent figure in avant-garde and queer London circles from the 1970s to the 1990s, filmmaker Derek Jarman (1942–1994) trained as a painter at the city’s Slade School of Fine Art from 1963 to 1967, and went on to develop a wide- ranging practice encompassing painting, writing, stage and costume design, filmmaking, and gardening. In 1986, after testing positive for HIV, Jarman became a leading voice of AIDS activism. Premiered at the Venice Biennale in June 1993, Blue was made after an AIDS-related infection rendered Jarman temporarily blind. As a result of the lesions discovered on his eyes, the artist suffered a condition whereby vivid flashes of blue light interrupted his vision. The film rejects images because, according to the artist, they “hinder the imagination and beg a narrative and suffocate with arbitrary charm, the admirable austerity of the void.” Blue not only recounts Jarman’s corporeal experiences with the virus, but also demands that viewers meditate viscerally on color, the void, and the somatic experience of living with AIDS. On the occasion of World AIDS Day / Day Without Art, the Academy Museum and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art present Jarman’s final feature, completed just months before his death in 1994 at age 52. Programmed by the Academy Museum and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Note from David Zwirner Gallery. DIRECTED/WRITTEN BY: Derek Jarman. WITH: John Quentin, Nigel Terry, Derek Jarman, Tilda Swinton. 1993. 79 min. UK/Japan. Technicolor. English. 35mm. Print courtesy of David Zwirner.
Welcome to the West Coast Underground Sat, Feb 17 | 7:30pm | TMT
In the 1960s–1970s, the notion of “underground cinema” represented an incredibly varied film culture that sought to challenge, transgress, and thumb its nose at a mainstream media landscape that was seen as regressive and calcified, and definitely not representing the contemporary moment. Independent cinemas, alternative film societies, activist arts groups, campus film clubs, and numerous other venues and organizations propelled the phenomenon of underground cinema to the forefront of cutting-edge cinematic culture. This program—inspired by the Academy Museum’s current exhibition Outside the Mainstream —is an all- 16mm, all–West Coast snapshot of films that found a home in the experimental cinema underground, ranging from post-Beatnik tomfoolery to comic gender performance satire to a talking blues retelling of the life of Jesus. Poetry, humor, and irreverence abound, culminating in a Ben Van Meter film documenting his and Bruce Conner’s appearance on Art Linkletter’s show to explain how they’re not actually pornographers. Programmed and note by Academy Film Archive Senior Film Preservationist Mark Toscano.
A NIGHT WITH GILDA PECK
A Night with Gilda Peck DIRECTED BY: Curt McDowell. 1973. 10 min. USA. Color. English. 16mm. Me & Bruce & Art DIRECTED BY: Ben Van Meter. 1968. 6 min. USA. Color. English. 16mm. Angel Blue Sweet Wings DIRECTED BY: Chick Strand. 1966. 3 min. USA. Color. English. 16mm.
All films courtesy of the Academy Film Archive, Canyon Cinema, and the filmmakers.
Total program runtime: 73 min.
Odds & Ends DIRECTED BY: Jane Conger Belson Shimané. 1959. 4 min. USA. Color. English. 16mm.
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