Shorts Program Archive – February 2024

Friday, February 9th:

7:00 PM
Animated Animalia
Turtle Dreams (1987) dir. Robert Withers and Meredith Monk – 11 min.
Meow, Meow (1970) dir. Yvonne Andersen and Red Grooms – 6.5 min.
Chicken (1981) dir. Emily Breer – 6.5 min.
The Neighborhood Cat (1999) dir. Sarah Jane Lapp – 3 min.
Moonbird (1959) dir. Faith and John Hubley – 10 min.
Flying Fur (1981) dir. George Griffin – 7 min.
The Film-Makers’ Cooperative – Tickets

Sunday, February 11th:

8:15 PM
Haiti: Short Film Program – 95 min.
Haiti (1938) dir. Rudy Burckhardt – 15 min.
Simparele (Digital) [1974] dir. Humberto Solás – 30 min.
Radio Haïti (2001) dir. Moira Tierney – 4 min.
Regards de mémoire (Digital) [2003] dir. Sarah Maldoror – 24 min.
Brazil Is Thee Haiti Is (T)here / O que Há em Ti (Digital) [2020] dir. Carlos Adriano – 16 min.
Anthology Film Archives – Part of Struggle of Memory: Forgetting Haiti, Remembering Ayiti – Tickets

Saturday, February 17th:

12:15 PM
Saturday Afternoon Cartoons: Kings & Presidents – 60 min.
Metrograph – Tickets
*Introduction and Q&A with curator and animation historian Tommy José Stathes

5:30 PM
Hollis Frampton – 100 min.
Zorns Lemma (1970) dir. Hollis Frampton – 60 min.
Hapax Legomena I: (nostalgia) (1971) dir. Hollis Frampton – 36 min.
Anthology Film Archives – Part of Essential Cinema – Tickets

8:00 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

Sunday, February 18th:

4:45 PM
Ernie Gehr – 105 min.
Reverberation (1969) dir. Ernie Gehr – 23 min.
Serene Velocity (1970) dir. Ernie Gehr – 23 min.
Still (1971) dir. Ernie Gehr – 54 min.
Anthology Film Archives – Part of Essential Cinema – Tickets

Monday, February 19th:

Tuesday, February 20th:

7:30 PM
Five Films by Leonard M. Henny
Peace Pickets Arrested for Disturbing the Peace (1967) dir. Leonard M. Henny – 7 min.
The Resistance (1968) dir. Leonard M. Henny – 17 min.
Black Power—We’re Goin’ Survive America (1968) dir. Leonard M. Henny – 15 min.
Dead End Street? (1970) dir. Leonard M. Henny – 11 min.
Vietnam Veteran (1973) dir. Leonard M. Henny – 17 min.
Light Industry – Tickets

Friday, February 23rd:

8:45 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) [1959-1963] dir. Ken Jacobs & Bob Fleischner – 35 min.
Anthology Film Archives – Part of Essential Cinema – Tickets

Saturday, February 24th:

5:30 PM
Jerome Hill – 90 min.
Death in the Forenoon (35mm) [1934/66] dir. Jerome Hill – 2 min.
Canaries (35mm) [1969] dir. Jerome Hill – 4 min.
Film Portrait (35mm) [1971] dir. Jerome Hill – 81 min.
Anthology Film Archives – Part of Essential Cinema – Tickets

7:30 PM
Mary Helena Clarke PGM 1 – 65 min.
And the Sun Flowers (Digital) [2008] dir. Mary Helena Clarke – 5 min.
Sound Over Water (2009) dir. Mary Helena Clarke – 6 min.
By Foot-Candle Light (Digital) [2011] dir. Mary Helena Clarke – 9 min.
The Plant (Digital) [2012] dir. Mary Helena Clarke – 8 min.
Orpheus (Outtakes) (2012) dir. Mary Helena Clarke – 6 min.
The Dragon is the Frame (2014) dir. Mary Helena Clarke – 14 min.
Figure Minus Fact (Digital) [2020] dir. Mary Helena Clarke – 13 min.
Anthology Film Archives – Part of Figures Minus Facts: The Films of Mary Helena Clarke – Tickets

Sunday, February 25th:

5:30 PM
Hugo / Jacobs / Levitt / Maas – 55 min.
Bells of Atlantis (1952) dir. Ian Hugo – 10 min.
Little Stabs at Happiness (1959-63) dir. Ken Jacobs – 18 min.
In the Street (1952) dir. Helen Levitt, Janice Loeb & James Agee – 12 min.
Geography of the Body (1943) dir. Willard Maas – 7 min.
Anthology Film Archives – Part of Essential Cinema – Tickets

Monday, February 26th:

7:00 PM
Declarative Comparisons
Epileptic Seizure Comparison (1976) dir. Paul Sharits – 34 min.
Declarative Mode (1977) dir. Paul Sharits – 39 min.
The Film-Makers’ Cooperative – Tickets

Thursday, February 29th:

5:00 PM
Visible/Invisible; Seen/Unseen – 60 min.
Hamilton Grange Library will screen a selection of 16mm films related to the themes of visibility and invisibility as well as art, community, and life in Harlem.
New York Public Library (Hamilton Grange) – Part of The Little Screen: 16mm at NYPL & Visible/Invisible; Seen/Unseen: Harlem Portraits by Cathleen Campbell. – Tickets

7:00 PM
Jennings / Kirsanoff – 60 min.
Listen to Britain (35mm) [1941] dir. Humphrey Jennings – 19 min.
Ménilmontant (35mm) [1924-25] dir. Dimitri Kirsanoff – 38 min.
Anthology Film Archives – Part of Essential Cinema – Tickets

8:45 PM
Lawrence Jordan – 85 min.
Duo Concertantes (1962-64) dir. Lawrence Jordan – 6 min.
Hamfat Asar (1965) dir. Lawrence Jordan – 13 min.
Gymnopedies (1968) dir. Lawrence Jordan – 6 min.
The Old House, Passing (1966) dir. Lawrence Jordan – 45 min.
Our Lady of the Sphere (35mm) [1968] dir. Lawrence Jordan – 9 min.
Anthology Film Archives – Part of Essential Cinema – Tickets