2018 | Museum of the Moving Image Presents 'Wearing Time: Past, Present, Future, Dream'
6 – 22 April 2018
New York
06 April 2018
The Inferno Unseen
| Date & Time: | 06 April 2018 - 19:00 |
| Programme: | 2018 | Museum of the Moving Image Presents 'Wearing Time: Past, Present, Future, Dream' |
With Live music by Rollo Smallcombe Screening followed by a reception Tickets here The Inferno Unseen is a newly edited assemblage of rushes filmed in 1964. Together with his cinematographers Andréas Winding and Armand Thirard, Clouzot staged seemingly endless kinetic and optical experiments focusing primarily on actress Romy Schneider performing simple, seductive actions in carefully composed mises-en-scène. Departing from Serge Bromberg’s critically acclaimed documentary about the making of Clouzot’s film (2009), The Inferno Unseen focuses solely on Clouzot’s intoxicating visions, allowing them to build up their own momentum as they unfurl in all their glory. |
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07 April 2018
Tony Takitani
| Location: | Museum of the Moving Image - Redstone Theatre |
| Date & Time: | 07 April 2018 - 16:15 |
| Directed By: | Jun Ichikawa |
| Programme: | 2018 | Museum of the Moving Image Presents 'Wearing Time: Past, Present, Future, Dream' |
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An exquisitely stylish and poignant meditation on emotional attachment and loss, this adaptation of a Haruki Murakami short story is set against the background of postwar and modern-day Japan. It follows the life of Tony Takitani and Eiko, the young woman he marries. Eiko’s obsession with designer clothes and accessories is so powerful that it ends up consuming her and threatens to undo her. |
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Lady in the Dark & Rose Hobart
| Location: | Museum of the Moving Image - Redstone Theatre |
| Date & Time: | 07 April 2018 - 13.30 |
| Directed By: | Joseph Cornell, Mitchell Leisen |
| Programme: | 2018 | Museum of the Moving Image Presents 'Wearing Time: Past, Present, Future, Dream' |
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Ginger Rogers stars in Lady in the Dark as a magazine editor who sees a psychiatrist because she is torn between her attraction to her married publisher, another colleague, and a movie star. For Rose Hobart, collage artist Joseph Cornell recut the 1929 film East of Borneo, eliminating dialogue, destroying narrative logic, adding footage from scientific films and projecting it through a blue filter, transforming Hollywood schlock into a surrealist reverie. |
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08 April 2018
Opening Night
| Location: | Museum of the Moving Image - Redstone Theatre |
| Date & Time: | 08 April 2018 - 19:00 |
| Directed By: | John Cassavetes |
| Programme: | 2018 | Museum of the Moving Image Presents 'Wearing Time: Past, Present, Future, Dream' |
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Myrtle is haunted by hallucinations of an alluring teenage female fan, a symbolic image of a younger self, whose car accident she blames herself for. As reality starts to blur with dreams and the actress and character begin to merge, Myrtle reveals some profoundly uncomfortable truths about “the gradual lessening of [her] power as a woman” (as one character puts it) in the public eye. |
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After Reel Time
| Location: | Museum of the Moving Image - Redstone Theatre |
| Date & Time: | 08 April 2018 - 18:00 |
| Programme: | 2018 | Museum of the Moving Image Presents 'Wearing Time: Past, Present, Future, Dream' |
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This illustrated 40-minute talk explores the significance of Annabel Nicolson’s seminal 1973 performance Reel Time, which drew an explicit connection between the technologies of film and clothing, conjoining a film projector and a sewing machine through a loop of celluloid. Professor Alistair O’Neill will discuss the legacy of the artwork, showcasing artists’ films and photographs of the late twentieth century that notably foregrounded textiles, clothing and accessories. |
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Fashion: The Fabric of Time
| Location: | Museum of the Moving Image - Redstone Theatre |
| Date & Time: | 08 April 2018 - 16:00 |
| Programme: | 2018 | Museum of the Moving Image Presents 'Wearing Time: Past, Present, Future, Dream' |
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This film talk by series co-curator Marketa Uhlirova presents a selection of films offering contrasting perspectives on fashion, time, and the moving image— from recordings of the manufacturing process to explorations of fashion chronologies, metamorphoses and fantasy, to moments when dress and artifice come to embody the texture of time. |
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Beyond the Rocks
| Location: | Museum of the Moving Image - Redstone Theatre |
| Date & Time: | 08 April 2018 - 14:00 |
| Directed By: | Sam Wood |
| Programme: | 2018 | Museum of the Moving Image Presents 'Wearing Time: Past, Present, Future, Dream' |
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Cast as would-be lovers in a gloriously doomed romantic affair, Gloria Swanson and Rudolph Valentino star together for the only time, in this recently rediscovered gem. Swanson plays a habitual clotheshorse, showcasing glamorous gowns, while Valentino cuts a picture of elegance in a wardrobe designed by his then-lover Natacha Rambova. |
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13 April 2018
Holy Motors
| Location: | Museum of the Moving Image - Bartos Screening Room |
| Date & Time: | 13 April 2018 - 19:00 |
| Directed By: | Leos Carax |
| Programme: | 2018 | Museum of the Moving Image Presents 'Wearing Time: Past, Present, Future, Dream' |
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Carax's fantastically bizarre drama follows its protagonist, Mr. Oscar, through a single workday in Paris. As he is ferried around by chauffeur from one "appointment" to another, he undergoes a series of radical transformations, his white stretch limousine becoming a dressing room where new costumes and makeup are applied. |
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14 April 2018
Machines
| Location: | Museum of the Moving Image - Bartos Screening Room |
| Date & Time: | 14 April 2018 - 17:00 |
| Directed By: | Rahul Jain |
| Programme: | 2018 | Museum of the Moving Image Presents 'Wearing Time: Past, Present, Future, Dream' |
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Marrying stunning visuals with social advocacy, Rahul Jain's debut documentary takes audiences into the labyrinthine passages of an enormous textile factory in Gujarat, India. Jain's camera wanders freely between pulsating machines and bubbling vats of dye to create a moving portrait of the human laborers who toil away there for twelve hours a day creating fabric that will be used to create glamorous clothing. |
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Black Girl (La Noire de...)
| Location: | Museum of the Moving Image - Bartos Screening Room |
| Date & Time: | 14 April 2018 - 15:00 |
| Directed By: | Ousmane Sembène |
| Programme: | 2018 | Museum of the Moving Image Presents 'Wearing Time: Past, Present, Future, Dream' |
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Racism, colonial oppression, and injustice were recurring themes for Senegalese author Ousmane Sembène, who turned from literature to cinema in the 1960s to reach a broader audience. Mbissine Thérèse Diop plays Diouna, a black nanny to a French family. |
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15 April 2018
Don't Look Now
| Location: | Museum of the Moving Image - Redstone Theatre |
| Date & Time: | 15 April 2018 - 19:00 |
| Directed By: | Nicolas Roeg |
| Programme: | 2018 | Museum of the Moving Image Presents 'Wearing Time: Past, Present, Future, Dream' |
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A red-hooded coat—that fairy tale trope of Little Red Riding Hood—gains an ominous significance in Nicolas Roeg's masterful thriller. Based on a novella by Daphne du Maurier, the film tells of a married couple coming to terms with their daughter's accidental death by drowning. |
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The Colour of Pomegranates (Sayat Nova)
| Location: | Museum of the Moving Image - Redstone Theatre |
| Date & Time: | 15 April 2018 - 17:30 |
| Directed By: | Sergei Paradjanov |
| Programme: | 2018 | Museum of the Moving Image Presents 'Wearing Time: Past, Present, Future, Dream' |
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One of the most daringly experimental films ever made (and produced in pre-Glasnost Russia, where it was quickly banned), Paradjanov's tribute to the Armenian poet Sayat Nova rethinks the nature of cinematic space. Woven patterns and colours of traditional textiles and customs provide him with a different visual model. |
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Lola Montes
| Location: | Museum of the Moving Image - Redstone Theatre |
| Date & Time: | 15 April 2018 - 15:00 |
| Directed By: | Max Ophüls |
| Programme: | 2018 | Museum of the Moving Image Presents 'Wearing Time: Past, Present, Future, Dream' |
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The final film by Max Ophüls presents the real-life story of the scandalous nineteenth-century courtesan Lola Montès as it might have been presented by circus showman P.T. Barnum. In breathtaking CinemaScope and eye-popping colour, spectacle competes with moments of tenderness and loss as Montès's life is replayed as an acrobatic fashion show version of Remembrance of Things Past. |
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20 April 2018
Barbarella
| Location: | Museum of the Moving Image - Redstone Theatre |
| Date & Time: | 20 April 2018 - 19:00 |
| Directed By: | Roger Vadim |
| Programme: | 2018 | Museum of the Moving Image Presents 'Wearing Time: Past, Present, Future, Dream' |
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Barbarella testifies to a time in which a profound fascination with technological possibilities of the future had permeated mass culture. Based on Jean-Claude Forest's racy comic serial, Vadim's film details the adventures of a beautiful, kinky "cosmic queen" in the distant future of the year 40,000. |
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21 April 2018
Tales of Manhattan
| Location: | Museum of the Moving Image - Redstone Theatre |
| Date & Time: | 21 April 2018 - 16:00 |
| Programme: | 2018 | Museum of the Moving Image Presents 'Wearing Time: Past, Present, Future, Dream' |
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Tales of Manhattan presents a series of individual stories linked by a suit that seems to carry bad luck. Unlike many anthology films in which the linking device is little more than a convention, here the exchange of the suit carries an extra charge with its owners cutting across different class and social strata. An amazingly diverse cast fits into the suit as it migrates not only from wearer to wearer but also from genre to genre and through various fashionable situations. |
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Things to Come
| Location: | Museum of the Moving Image - Redstone Theatre |
| Date & Time: | 21 April 2018 - 14:00 |
| Directed By: | William Cameron Menzies |
| Programme: | 2018 | Museum of the Moving Image Presents 'Wearing Time: Past, Present, Future, Dream' |
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Although the streamline moderne style, which has come to define Things to Come in popular imagination, appears only in its final part set in 2036, it makes a profound visual impact. The "age of mechanical perfection" (in H.G. Wells's words) is overwhelmingly white in both architecture and clothing, cutting a serene image of a world cleansed of manual labor, disease and suffering. |
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22 April 2018
Solaris 19
| Location: | Museum of the Moving Image - Redstone Theatre |
| Date & Time: | 22 April 2018 - 18:30 |
| Directed By: | Andrei Tarkovsky |
| Programme: | 2018 | Museum of the Moving Image Presents 'Wearing Time: Past, Present, Future, Dream' |
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In contrast to the technotopian sci-fi productions of the 1950s and 1960s, Tarkovsky’s Solaris offered to early-1970s audiences a completely fresh take on a future world of interstellar travel. Within the genre, the film is uncharacteristically sombre and understated in its preference for familiar, "human" imagery of nature and sixteenth century Flemish painting over the exotically new. |
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Voyage to the End of the Universe (Ikarie XB-1)
| Location: | Museum of the Moving Image - Redstone Theatre |
| Date & Time: | 22 April 2018 - 16:30 |
| Directed By: | Jindřich Polák |
| Programme: | 2018 | Museum of the Moving Image Presents 'Wearing Time: Past, Present, Future, Dream' |
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Ikarie XB-1 is an ambitious science fiction space opera, possibly best known for prefiguring many visual and thematic motifs of Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey. This "Space Marienbad," as one critic called it, perfectly epitomises an era defined by a raging space race and cultural competition between the East and the West. The film portrays an idealised communist civilisation circa 2163, as it embarks on a voyage beyond our solar system. |
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Space is the Place
| Location: | Museum of the Moving Image - Redstone Theatre |
| Date & Time: | 22 April 2018 - 14:00 |
| Directed By: | John Coney |
| Programme: | 2018 | Museum of the Moving Image Presents 'Wearing Time: Past, Present, Future, Dream' |
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Space Is the Place is a rare, unmissable trash-culture, science-fiction classic. Starring the Afrofuturism jazz star Sun Ra, this loosely based biopic offers the uninitiated a tantalising glimpse into his fantastical world. |
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