"8 ½" Film Screening

92YTribeca Art

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Just in time for Gay Pride Month, 92YTribeca presents QUEER/ART/FILM, a new series of all things hybrid and poly-sexual. Curated by Butt Magazine contributing editor Adam Baran and filmmaker Ira Sachs, the series invites some of the most exciting, innovative (and homosexual) artists from the dance/performance/film/visual and literary arts to present and discuss their favorite films, in rare prints, on the big screen.

The series asks the question: How does film create a link from one queer generation to the next, from John Kelly to Jean Cocteau, from 8 1/2 to Paris is Burning, from Marlon Riggs to Chantal Akerman? Join us every Thursday in June and bi-weekly in the months to follow, to explore these unexpected pathways from one artist to the next.

8 ½

This iconic film is about a man who's caught in several worlds: the world of his wife, and the world of his lover; the world of his past successes as an artist, and the world of the film he's struggling to create. Director Federico Fellini takes the viewer in and out of fantasy and memory in a way that suggests that we live with one foot in the real world, and the other in the deepest recesses of our psyche, family, and culture. Presented by filmmaker Jennie Livingston, who experiences the film as “intertwined with my sense of what it is to be a queer filmmaker; It's always seemed to me that our imaginative and simultaneous bridging of many worlds is what makes queer lives and queer perspectives unique, and important.”

Director: Federico Fellini. 1963. 138 mn. 35mm

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June 18, 2009 from 19:30

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