Shorts Program Archive – December 2024

Sunday, December 1st:

8:30 PM
Ahearn / Robakowski / Heller PGM – 75 min.
Doin’ Time in Times Square (Video) [1991] dir. Charlie Ahearn – 39 min.
From My Window / Z Mojego Okna (Digital) [1978-99] dir. Józef Robakowski – 19 min.
Astor Place (1997) dir. Eve Heller – 10 min.
Anthology Film Archives – Part of We Are Here: Scenes From The Streets – Tickets

Monday, December 2nd:

6:30 PM
Robert Frank: Remembering Harry Smith, Alfred Steiglitz, and Other Old Friends – 76 min.
I Remember (DCP) [1998] dir. Robert Frank – 7 min.
Sanyu (35mm) [2000] dir. Robert Frank – 27 min.
Fernando (DCP) [2008] dir. Robert Frank – 12 min.
Harry Smith at the Breslin Hotel 1984 (DCP) [2017] dir. Robert Frank – 11 min.
Ginsberg/Corso Tapes (DCP) [1984] dir. Robert Frank – 19 min.
The Museum of Modern Art – Part of The Complete Robert Frank: Films and Videos, 1959–2017 – Tickets

Wednesday, December 4th:

4:00 PM
North South East West: Travels with Robert Frank and June Leaf – 104 min.
Tunnel (DCP) [2008] dir. Robert Frank – 4 min.
Fire in the East: A Portrait of Robert Frank (DCP) [1986] dir. Amy Brookman & Philip Brookman – 28 min.
Robert Frank in Conversation with Clark Winter: 10 Films (DCP) [2024] dir. Clark Winter – 26 min.
June in the Studio (DCP) [2012] dir. Clark Winter – 8 min.
I’m Still Dancing (DCP) [2024] dir. Alice Attie – 10 min.
Hunter (1989) dir. Robert Frank – 36 min.
The Museum of Modern Art – Part of The Complete Robert Frank: Films and Videos, 1959–2017 – Tickets

6:30 PM
Meredith Monk, PGM 2 – 100 min.
Children (1967) dir. Meredith Monk – 8 min.
Millimeter Earrings (1966) dir. Meredith Monk – 4 min.
Ball Bearing (1968) dir. Meredith Monk – 7 min.
Quarry (Digital) [1975] dir. Meredith Monk – 6 min.
Ellis Island (Digital) [1979] dir. Meredith Monk – 7 min.
Faces (Video) [1994] dir. Meredith Monk – 5 min.
Mountain (Digital) [1971] dir. Meredith Monk – 6 min.
16 Millimeter Earrings (1979) dir. Robert Withers – 25 min.
Paris (Video) [1982] dir. Mark Lowry & Kathryn Escher – 28 min.
Anthology Film Archives – Part of Meredith Monk – Tickets

Thursday, December 5th:

Saturday, December 7th:

1:00 PM
Saturday Afternoon Cartoons: Frosty Fun – 60 min.
Stathes joins Metrograph in early December with Frosty Fun, a selection of vintage animated shorts exploring wintertime hijinks. Come enjoy a famous cartoon cat exploring a frigid exotic land; a wily woodpecker wreaking havoc at a ski lodge; a live action little girl adopting a cartoon kitten from a frozen pond; a foolish farmer playing in the snow with his barnyard friends; a flat-broke frog panhandling in icy weather, and last but certainly not least, the film debut of a very famous snowman! Spanning the 1920s through to the ’50s, this assortment showcases classic characters such as Krazy Kat, Farmer Alfalfa, Felix the Cat, Flip the Frog, Julius the Cat, Woody Woodpecker, and others.
Metrograph – Tickets
*Featuring introduction and Q&A with Tommy Stathes

1:30 PM
Robert Frank: Energy and How to Get It, and Other Life Lessons – 76 min.
Energy and How to Get It (Digital) [1981] dir. Robert Frank, Rudy Wurlitzer & Gary Hill – 28 min.
Project Tesla (1980) dir. Robert Frank, Rudy Wurlitzer & Gary Hill – 10 min.
About Us (1972) dir. Robert Frank – 38 min.
The Museum of Modern Art – Part of The Complete Robert Frank: Films and Videos, 1959–2017 – Tickets

4:00 PM
Robert Frank and John Cohen: High Lonesome Sounds – 94 min.
About Me: A Musical (Digital) [1971] dir. Robert Frank – 35 min.
The High Lonesome Sound (1963) dir. John Cohen – 30 min.
Roscoe Holcomb from Daisy, Kentucky (DCP) [2010] dir. John Cohen – 29 min.
The Museum of Modern Art – Part of The Complete Robert Frank: Films and Videos, 1959–2017 – Tickets

6:00 PM
Eyeworks Experimental Animation Series 2024: Program Two
Rockers (1990) dir. Ed Counts – 4 min.
Parabola (Digital projection) [1938] dir. Mary Ellen Bute & Ted Nemeth – 9 min.
Now or Never (Digital projection) [2024] dir. Ezra Wube – 6 min.
Wasteland No. 3: Moons, Sons (2021) dir. Jodie Mack – 5 min.
Sweat (Digital projection) [2021] dir. EXYL – 2 min.
Speed Reader (Digital projection) [2024] dir. Jennifer Levonian – 4 min.
Adulting (Digital projection) [2024] dir. James Duesing – 8 min.
Pomeriggio (Digital projection) [2023] dir. Ira Vicari – 3 min.
Laitue (Digital projection) [2008] dir. Nicholas Brooks – 10 min.
Love Under Will of the Hag’s Long Tooth (Digital projection) [2015] dir. Mica O’Herlihy – 3 min.
Smile Driver (Digital projection) [2019] dir. Jessica Wilson – 8 min.
Afterlife (Digital projection) [1978] dir. Ishu Patel – 7 min.
Museum of the Moving Image – Part of Special Screenings – Tickets

Friday, December 13th:

9:00 PM
Robert Frank + Harry Smith* – 60 min.
Harry Smith at the Breslin Hotel (DCP) [2018] dir. Robert Frank – 11 min.
Film No. 14 (Late Superimpositions) (35mm) [1964] dir. Harry Smith – 28 min.
Moving Pictures (Video) [1994] dir. Robert Frank – 16 min.
Anthology Film Archives – Part of Robert Frank Centennial: Influences – Tickets
*More films to be announced

Wednesday, December 18th:

6:45 PM
Franju / Genet – 50 min.
Blood of the Beasts (1949) dir. Georges Franju – 20 min.
Un chant d’amour (35mm) [1950] dir. Jean Genet – 26 min.
Anthology Film Archives – Part of Essential Cinema – Tickets

Saturday, December 21st:

5:45 PM
Eggeling / Grant / Jacobs & Fleischner – 60 min.
Symphonie Diagonale (35mm) [1924] dir. Viking Eggeling – 8 min.
Composition #2 Contrathemis (1941) dir. Dwinell Grant – 5 min.
Stop Motion Tests (1942) dir. Dwinell Grant – 3 min.
Color Sequence (1943) dir. Dwinell Grant – 3 min.
Blonde Cobra (35mm) [1959-63] dir. Ken Jacobs & Bob Fleischner – 35 min.
Anthology Film Archives – Part of Essential Cinema – Tickets