Common to most sessions was the pairing of two — sometimes more — films together, thus opening possibilities of dialogue or clash between them.
whatever
or, the worst blind is the one who wants to see
—a film screening program with usually two or more films per session
screening program
21st January
Nuts in May
Mike Leigh
80 min., color (1976)
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Naked
Mike Leigh
131 min., color (1993)
18th February
Vai E Vem
[Come and Go]
João César Monteiro
176 min., color (2003)
«The only light is the one of the harquebus.
The only art is the one of the blunderbuss.»
3rd March
Jeux d’Echecs avec Marcel Duchamp
[A Game of Chess with Marcel Duchamp]
Jean-Marie Drot
56 min., B&W, color (1963)
«Duchamp: I always thought, or rather I came to the conclusion, that, as Brancusi put it, Art is above all a fraud.»
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In Girum Imus Nocte Et Consumimur Igni
Guy Debord
95 min., B&W (1978)
«There they are,
Those young girls
Who’ll give you all,
First, good-night
And then their hand…
In Via Filangieri there’s a bell;
And each time it tolls,
There’s a conviction…
The flower of youth
Thus dies in prison.»
17th March
The Old Place
Jean-Luc Godard
49 min., color (1998)
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Die Schöpfer der Einkaufswelten
[The Creators of Shopping Worlds]
Harun Farocki
75 min., color (2001)
31st March
Eskimo
The Residents/ N. Senada
43 min., B&W, color (2003)
«Winter
had almost arrived, for the wind had a more pronounced bite in its
insistence. The noonday sun sat momentarily on the horizon before
hastening back into the icy waters.
Floating on the rising winds, the sounds of the narwhal horn and chanting combined to give assurance to the Eskimo hunters.»
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F For Fake
Orson Welles
88 min., color (1974)
«Orson Welles: It’s pretty, but is it art?»
7th April
Ordet
[The Word]
Carl T. Dreyer
119 min., B&W (1955)
«Mikkel: Have you spoken to Johannes?
Parson: Yes
Mikkel: I hope he wasn’t unpleasant to you.
Parson: No, no. But was he born, well, a little…
Mikkel: Yes, we don’t talk much about it up here, but with you… No. Something happened.
Parson: Was it… a love affair?
Mikkel: No, no. It was Soren Kierkgaard.»
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Rock My Religion
Dan Graham
55 min., B&W, color (1982-84)
«People clapped. They leaped up and down. Some removed their outer clothes. A fit of shaking passed over the group. Some shakers bowed down. Others were doubled over. Feet and hands linked, as they rolled on the floor. They rolled over and over, like wheels, or like rolling logs. Some got down on four legs, like dogs, growled and barked. Carnal mortification freed the shaker from false pride.»
14th April
Zombie, Dawn of the Dead
George A. Romero
116 min., color (1978)
«[observing the zombies from the roof of the shopping mall]
Francine Parker: What are they doing? Why do they come here?
Stephen: Some kind of instinct. Memory, of what they used to do. This was an important place in their lives.»
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The Filth and the Fury
Julien Temple
108 min., color (2000)
«Bill Grundy: Beethoven, Mozart, Bach and Brahms have all died...
John Lydon: They're all heroes of ours, ain't they?»
«We’re not coming. We’re not your monkey and so what? Fame at $25,000 if we paid for a table, or $15,000 to squeak up in the gallery, goes to a non-profit organisation selling us a load of old famous. Congratulations. […]»
— excerpt of the official announcement from the Sex Pistols regarding the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, 24th February 2006
