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Short Films for Short Nights
Friday–Sunday, June 28–30, 2024
The Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium


Experience early modern cinema with a series of film screenings with live music. With the advent of film came new ways of representing modern life. Join The Met's Leonard A. Lauder Research Center for Modern Art for a three-part series featuring dozens of experimental short films made between 1909 and 1969 that collectively delve into the creative process. Program One, Images, explores two-dimensional surfaces through films that have been incised, painted, tinted, cut, or collaged; Program Two, Objects, features films about sculpture and inanimate figures; and Program Three, Collections, considers art and objects in museums, galleries, archives, and studios to think about the sites of culture cinematically.

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Program One: Images
Friday, June 28, 2024, 7 pm

Modern artists invented new forms of image-making, from photography, to papier-collé, to gestural painting, and these techniques influenced cinema in turn. This program explores images and their surfaces through films that have been incised, painted, tinted, cut, or collaged. It also includes films that create after-images in the retina, treating the eye itself as a surface for composition.

Live music by Cecilia Lopez

Free Radicals (1958), Len Lye, sound, 4 min. 58 sec.
Voyage à la planète Jupiter (1909), Segundo de Chómon, silent, 8 min. 10 sec.
Form Phases #4 (1954), Robert Breer, sound, 5 min.
Mothlight (1963), Stan Brakhage, 16mm, silent, 3 min. 25 sec.
Little Dog for Roger (1967), Malcolm Le Grice, 1967, silent, 13 min.
A Visit to Picasso (1950), Excerpt from Paul Haesaerts,  sound, 4 min. 43 sec.
Cineblatz (1967), Jeff Keen, sound, 2 min.
Glen Falls Sequence (1937–46), Douglas Crockwell, silent, 8 min.
Les Astronautes (1959), Walerian Borowczyk and Chris Marker, sound, 12 min. 39 sec.
Cinderella (1922), Lotte Reininger, silent, 13 min.

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Program Two: Objects
Saturday, June 29, 2024, 7 pm

In the hands of modern artists, sculpture was loosed from its pedestal and freed from representing the human form. Filmmakers captured sculptors at work but also experimented with object-making themselves via animation. Mannequins and dolls became subjects of fascination, as directors tried to grapple with the enigmatic and disconcerting nature of inanimate figures. This program includes films that depict or contain volumetric forms.

Live music by Mary Halvorson and Tomas Fujiwara

Sort of a commercial for an icebag (1969), Michael Hugo, sound, 14 min.
Visual Variations on Noguchi (1945-46), Marie Menken, sound, 4 min.
The Pottery Maker (1926), Robert Flaherty, silent, 8 min.
Light of the Darkness (1952), Dušan Marek, silent, 7 min. 4 sec.
Works of Calder (1950), Herbert Matter, sound, 19 min. 43 sec.
The Girl with the Prefabricated Heart (1947), Fernand Leger, sound, 4 min. (Excerpt from Dreams That Money Can Buy, Hans Richter)
Le sculpteur moderne (1908), Segundo de Chómon, silent, 6 min. 22 sec.
Jack's Dream (1938), Joseph Cornell, sound, 4 min.
Angel (1957), Joseph Cornell and Rudy Burckhardt, silent, 3 min.

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Program Three: Collections
Sunday, June 30, 2024, 2 pm

In the 1870s, modern art entered the museum. Filmmakers turned their lenses on these spaces, as well as on galleries, archives, collections, and studios to think about these sites of culture cinematically. This program looks at collections of art and objects, from the atelier to the cabinet of curiosity, and from library to museum.

Live music by Matthew Shipp

Historia Naturae (1967), Jan Svankmajer, sound, 8 min. 38 sec.
The Gorgon's Head (1925), The Metropolitan Museum of Art, silent, 16 min.
All the Memories of the World (1957), Alain Resnais, sound, 20 min.
George Dumpson's Place (1965), Ed Emshwiller, 16mm, sound, 7 min. 52 sec.
Old Battersea House (1961), Ken Russell, sound, 17 min.
The White Rose (1965), Bruce Conner, silent, 7 min.

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