ONGOING SERIES AVAILABLE SPACE
Glide of Transparency (2016)
Available Space is a recurring monthly series showcasing experimental and independent film and media, including artist retrospectives, historical and contemporary films, expanded cinema performances, special guest events, and restorations from international archives, as well as our own Academy Film Archive.
to screen the film with four 16mm projectors; the original masters have been optically printed onto a single “tiled” 35mm film negative. This presentation is a new restoration of the film. Programmed by Hyesung ii and K.J. Relth-Miller. Note by Rani Singh, Harry Smith Archives. Thanks to Rani Singh and Hilary Staff. DIRECTED BY: Harry Smith. 1970–80. 141 min. USA. Color. 4K DCP.
Harry Smith’s Film #18, Mahagonny in 4K Thu, Sep 12 | 7:30pm | TMT
You have to live Mahagonny, in fact be Mahagonny in order to work on it. ” Harry Smith Experimental filmmaker, anthropologist, painter, and musicologist Harry Smith’s final film, Mahagonny, was an epic four-screen projection. Smith worked on this cinematic transformation of Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht’s opera Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny for over ten years and considered it his magnum opus. Mahagonny explores the needs and desires of man amid the rituals of daily life in New York City. Much of the film takes place within the Chelsea Hotel and contains cameos of important avant-garde figures such as Allen Ginsberg, Patti Smith, and Jonas Mekas, intercut with installation pieces from Robert Mapplethorpe’s studio, New York City landmarks of the era, and Smith’s visionary animation. This screening represents the completion of an ambitious preservation project by the Harry Smith Archives with the assistance of Anthology Film Archives. The artist’s original intention was
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Betzy Bromberg: Glide of Transparency Thu, Oct 10 | 7:30pm | TMT In person: Betzy Bromberg.
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I like exalted states and long for finding ways to conjure the mystical and to transcend reality. Life is surely all mystery but filmmaking is indeed a ritual for me. ” Betzy Bromberg
Internationally recognized for her vivid and otherworldly cinematic experiences, Los Angeles
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