Jem Cohen "Curse and Blessing"
Light Industry
This event has ended.
“Everything is included in the new conception of the newsreel. Into the jumble of life resolutely enter.”
- Dziga Vertov, "Kinoks, a Revolution"
“...to that factory of film footage in which life, passing through the camera lens, does not vanish forever, leaving no trace, but does, on the contrary, leave a trace, precise and inimitable.”
- Dziga Vertov, "On Kinopravda"
“Not a film, but a filing cabinet.”
- Dziga Vertov, the Diaries
In my closets, cabinets, and storage rooms there are stacks of films. Some eventually become parts of finished projects, some were shown here and there in live music collaborations, some never make it beyond the apartment wall. An informal evening of mostly 16mm rarities and sketches; a few things never previously projected and at least one never previously seen, the journey more than the destination. - Jem Cohen
Subjects likely to include the following:
The Federal Prison on 2nd Ave. Brooklyn (just a few blocks from Light Industry).
The Eldridge Street Synagogue in disarray.
Steel factory madness in the North of Spain.
Italian Anatomy museum.
Springtime in Gowanus.
Media
Schedule
January 14, 2009 from 19:30