Shorts Program Archive – June 2024

Saturday, June 1st:

5:45 PM
Barry Gerson, Prog. 2 – 70 min.
Grass (1969) dir. Barry Gerson – 1 min.
Ice (1969) dir. Barry Gerson – 2 min.
Snow (1969) dir. Barry Gerson – 1 min.
Vibrations (1969) dir. Barry Gerson – 8 min.
Water (1969) dir. Barry Gerson – 4 min.
Contemplating (1969) dir. Barry Gerson – 12 min.
Generations (1969) dir. Barry Gerson – 8 min.
Sunlight (1970) dir. Barry Gerson – 4 min.
Floating (1970) dir. Barry Gerson – 15 min.
Afternoon (1970) dir. Barry Gerson – 8 min.
Anthology Film Archives – Part of Windowed Worlds: The Films of Barry Gerson – Tickets

7:45 PM
Barry Gerson, Prog. 3 – 75 min.
Beaded Light (1970) dir. Barry Gerson – 4 min.
Dissolving (1970) dir. Barry Gerson – 4 min.
Beyond (1970) dir. Barry Gerson – 4 min.
Portrait of Diana (1970) dir. Barry Gerson – 4 min.
Portrait of Andrew Noren (1972) dir. Barry Gerson – 4 min.
Luminous Zone (1973) dir. Barry Gerson – 28 min.
Translucent Appearances (Digital) [1975] dir. Barry Gerson – 22 min.
Anthology Film Archives – Part of Windowed Worlds: The Films of Barry Gerson – Tickets

Sunday, June 2nd:

7:00 PM
Barry Gerson, Prog. 4 – 85 min.
The Secret Abyss (1979) dir. Barry Gerson – 12 min.
Shadow Space (1973) dir. Barry Gerson – 6 min.
Celluloid Illuminations (1975) dir. Barry Gerson – 32 min.
Episodes from the Secret Life (Digital) [1982] dir. Barry Gerson – 30 min.
Anthology Film Archives – Part of Windowed Worlds: The Films of Barry Gerson – Tickets

Thursday, June 6th:

7:30 PM
Work and Place in the Workplace: The Films of Lily Jue Sheng – 65 min.
Heritage Architecture (2024) dir. Lily Jue Sheng – 9 min.
Five Movements (Digital) [2018/24] dir. Lily Jue Sheng – 19 min.
Change (16mm dual projection) (2016-2017) dir. Lily Jue Sheng – 6 min.
Force Majeure (2015-2017) dir. Lily Jue Sheng – 5 min.
Mercurial Matter (2014-2017) dir. Lily Jue Sheng – 6 min.
Ikebana (Digital) [2021] dir. Lily Jue Sheng – 13 min.
Anthology Film Archives – Tickets
*Sheng will be in attendance and will discuss these issues further with labor researcher, writer, and guest moderator Steff Hui Ci Ling in a post-screening Q&A.

Friday, June 7th:

7:00 PM
From West and East: Canyon Cinema Meets the Coop
The Cage (1947) dir. Sidney Peterson – 28 min.
Visions of a City (1957) dir. Lawrence Jordan – 6 min.
Dufus (1970) dir. Mike Henderson – 8 min.
Saint Flournoy Lobos-Logos and the Eastern Europe Fetus Taxing Japan Brides in West Coast Places Sucking Alabama Air (1970) dir. Will Hindle – 12 min.
Krystallnacht (1979) dir. Chick Strand – 8 min.
Decodings (1988) dir. Michael Wallin – 16 min.
Luminae (Digital) [2022] dir. Dominic Angerame – 12 min.
Aeon (Digital) [2024] dir. Dominic Angerame – 12 min.
The Film-Makers’ Coop – Tickets

Saturday, June 8th:

6:15 PM
Harry Smith – 60 min.
Film Nos. 1-5, 7 & 10 (Early Abstractions) (35mm) [1946-57] dir. Harry Smith – 23 min.
Film No. 11 (Mirror Animations) (1957) dir. Harry Smith – 4 min.
Film No. 14 (Late Superimpositions) (35mm) [1964] dir. Harry Smith – 28 min.
Anthology Film Archives – Part of Essential Cinema – Tickets

Thursday, June 6th:

Saturday, June 15th:

12:00 PM
Saturday Afternoon Cartoons: Down on the Farm – 60 min.
Stathes joins Metrograph in mid-June with Down on the Farm, a selection of vintage animated shorts exploring country life among funny barnyard animals. Come enjoy a live action little human girl’s adventure among the cows and chickens; a famous cartoon rabbit’s follies with a mechanical cow; an unnaturally large and clumsy duckling’s unlikely heroism; a beloved wise-cracking sailor visiting his girlfriend’s new farm; and more. Spanning the 1920s through to the ’50s, this assortment showcases classic characters such as Alice in Cartoonland, Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, Popeye, Baby Huey, Farmer Alfalfa, and others.
Metrograph – Tickets
*Introduction and Q&A with curator Tommy Stathes

Saturday, June 29th:

3:00 PM
Peculiar Puppets vol. VI – 90 min.
Roxy Cinema hereby presents a sixth retrospective screening featuring various peculiar examples of puppet films from the 1930s through the 1950s+. Warning: You may find some of the offerings to be rather unsettling, and possibly even creepy! This event is programmed by early animation archivist and historian Tommy José Stathes, and prints are hand-selected from his personal 16mm film archive.
Roxy Cinema New York – Tickets
*Followed by a live Q&A session with Stathes

5:45 PM
Warhol / Watson & Webber / Whitney – 80 min.
Eat (1963) dir. Andy Warhol – 35 min.
Fall of the House of Usher (1928) dir. James Sibley Watson & Melville Webber – 13 min.
Film Exercises 1-5 (1943-45) dir. John & James Whitney – 18 min.
Lapis (1963-66) dir. James Whitney – 10 min.
Anthology Film Archives – Part of Essential Cinema – Tickets