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September 11-25, 2009

Steina Vasulka, still from Bad, 2:04 minutes from Ten, short works by Steina Vasulka, September 18; the shortest, Bad.

Selected Works of the Vasulkas
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
4525 Oak Street
816-751-1278
Kansas City

During the mid-1960s and early 1970s the Vasulkas began experimenting with real time video image manipulation including audio modulations of the live video signal.

September-November, 2009

Jim Jarmusch, Stranger Than Paradise, 35mm print, black and white, sound, 89 min., MoMA Collection, Acquired from the artist.

Looking at Music: Side 2
Museum of Modern Art
11 West 53 Street
New York
212-708-9400

New York City, early 1970s-early 1980s, art and music cross-fertilized with a vengeance following a stripped-down, hard-edged, anti-establishment ethos.

February 13, 2009-February 27, 2009

Chris Marker, still from La Jetée,
28 min., France, French
and German, Black and
White, Mono.

Time and Event
in the Still and Moving Image

Nelson-Atkins
Kansas City
816-751-1278

The nature of film is 25 still images per second. Films in this program use diverse strategies for organizing and experiencing still images as cinematic events.

January 15-February 28, 2009

Alex Rivera, Sleep Dealer, This gorgeously filmed feature debut is set in a near future marked by airtight international borders,

Expanding the Frame
Walker Art Center
1750 Hennepin Ave.
Minneapolis
612-375-7600

The Exiles, a tribute to Bruce Conner and Derek Jarman, and a performance by Dean & Britta Set to Films by Andy Warhol highlight Expanding the Frame.

January 14-30, 2009

Thiago Da Silva Mariz as Thiago and Izadora Cristiani Fernandes Silveira as Mother in Mutum, 2007, Brazil, Directed by Sandra Kogut.

Global Lens 2009
Museum of Modern Art
11 West 53 Street
New York
212-708-9400

Global Lens 2009, the sixth
annual touring film exhibition
was conceived to encourage
filmmaking in countries with
developing film communities

December 4-14, 2008

Still fromUn giorno perfetto (A Perfect Day). 2008. Directed by Ferzan Ozpetek.
Pictured: Isabella Ferrari and Valerio Mastandrea.

Filmmaker in Focus:
Ferzan Ozpetek

Museum of Modern Art
11 West 53 Street
212-708-9400

Ozpetek creates films that
display a unique thematic focus
while remaining ambitious in
scope and richly rewarding
in their technical achievement.

October 9-November 9, 2008

Still from Les Saignantes
(The Bloodiest)
,
Director
Jean-Pierre Bekolo

New Cinemas from Africa
House of World Cultures
John-Foster-Dulles-Allee 10
+ 49 - (0)30 - 397 87 0
Berlin

African Screens provides an
overview of contemporary
African cinema, with more than
40 feature films, documentaries,
and short films.

November 5-23, 2008

Still from In the Realm of the Senses
(Ai no corrida)
, 1976
Director
Nagisa Oshima

In the Realm of Oshima
Walker Art Center
1750 Hennepin Ave.
612-375-7600

Minneapolis

Nagisa Oshima is one of Japan’s master filmmakers — and arguably one of its most controversial. His work is filled with conventionbreaking, from his aesthetic to the subjects he tackles.

November 20-24, 2008

Still from Afterschool,
2008. USA,
Written and directed
by Antonio Campos

Best Film Not Playing
at a Theater Near You

Museum of Modern Art
11 West 53 Street
212-708-9400

The third edition of Best Film Not
Playing at a Theater Near You
is an exhibition of five films nominated
for “Best Film Not Playing at a
Theater Near You.".

October 15, 2008-November 26, 2008

Peter Doig,
Film poster for
The Passenger
by Michelangelo Antonioni, 2007.

Peter Doig's Studiofilmclub
Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt
+49-69-29-98-820
Römerberg


In 2003, Doig and artist
colleague Che Lovelace jointly
founded the STUDIOFILMCLUB
in Port of Spain, capital of his
adopted country Trinidad,

September 12-26, 2008

Still from
Spectropia, 2001
Directed by
Toni Dove.

Opening Networks
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
4525 Oak Street
816-751-1278
Kansas City

Opening Networks features in-person presentations by Mark Daggett and Jon Phillips introduce their work and other projects, showing how networks and social software are reshaping community.

August 18-December 21, 2008

Laurie Anderson,
Self-Playing Violin. 1974,
Modified violin with built-in
speaker and amplifier. 31 min.

Looking at Music
Museum of Modern Art
11 West 53 Street
212-708-9400
The Roy and Niuta Titus Theaters

Looking at Music features works by video artists and film directors, including John Cage, Lucinda Childs, Nam June Paik, Michael Snow, Kenneth Anger, Jack Smith, Wallace Berman, and Andy Warhol.

October 20, 2008-March 14, 2009

Sally of the Sawdust, 1925,
USA, Directed by D. W. Griffith, Courtesy The Museum of Modern
Art Film Stills Archive.

Hand-Painted Film Posters 1924-28
Museum of Modern Art
11 West 53 Street
212-708-9400
The Roy and Niuta Titus Theaters

Batiste Madalena: Hand-Painted Film Posters for the Eastman Theatre, 1924-1928 presents the work of Batiste Madalena, hired by George Eastman during the late period of silent cinema.

October 25, 2008-April 5, 2009

Chris Marker, La Jetée,
1962, 29’, bianco e nero,
suono,1962,
girato in film 35 mm.

Cronostasi. Tempo filmico
GAM
via Magenta, 31
+39 011 4429610
Torino

Un incontro tra due diverse concezioni del tempo: da un lato l’eterno presente dell’immagine filmica, che può vivere solo nel suo ripetuto svolgersi, e dall’altro il tempo passato, fermato nella fotografia.

April 16-September 15, 2008

Michael Caine and Eleanor Bron
in Alfie (1966), directed by Lewis
Gilbert, Courtesy: Photofest,
© Paramount Pictures.

Jazz Score
Museum of Modern Art
11 West 53 Street
212-708-9400
New York

Jazz Score illustrates the creative and collaborative relationship between postwar jazz composers and filmmakers, celebrating original jazz composed for film from the 1950s to the present.

June 26-July 23, 2008

Caroline Link, July 17 and 18
2008, Lea Kurka, Sidede Onyulo
in Nirgendwo in Afrika (Nowhere
in Africa)
, 2002.

Zeitgeist: The Films of Our Time
Museum of Modern Art
11 West 53 Street
212-708-9400
New York

Two decades of films celebrating Zeitgeist Films with the 20-title exhibition Zeitgeist: The Films of Our Time offers a fascinating snapshot of independent American and international film from the past 20 years,

April 11-25, 2008

Peter Greenaway,
The Bird
on a Hill
,
from The Falls.

The Greenaway Chronicles
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
4525 Oak Street
816-751-1278
Kansas City

Peter Greenaway is a prolific filmmaker, curator, writer and developer of projects for the internet. Beginning with shorts in the 1960s through his mainstream films and most recent multimedia projects,

March 2008

Still from
Older Than America, 2008,
Directed by
Georgina Lightning.

Women with Vision: Past/Present
Walker Art Center
1750 Hennepin Ave.
612-375-7600
Minneapolis

Sheryl Mousley, the Walker’s film/video curator, finds thematic threads connecting the films she selects as in Women with Vision 2008, celebrating directors, filmmakers, and artists.