Shorts Program Archive – October 2024

Wednesday, October 2nd:

1:00 PM
Faith Hubley Program Five
Zuckerkandl! (35mm) [1969] dir. Faith Hubley & John Hubley – 15 min
Second Chance: Sea (1976) dir. Faith Hubley
Our Spirited Earth (35mm) [2000] dir. Faith Hubley
Amazonia (1990) dir. Faith Hubley
People People People (35mm) [1975] dir. Faith Hubley & John Hubley – 4 min.
Deliberating Man (1985) dir. Emily Hubley – 6 min.
Paraffin (DCP) [2017] dir. Emily Hubley
Commercials by Faith and John Hubley (DCP) [1955-1965] dir. Faith Hubley & John Hubley – 8 min.
The Museum of Modern Art – Part of Modern Matinees: Family—The Faith Hubley CentennialTickets

7:00 PM
Nightmare Angel (1986) dir. Zoe Beloff – 33 min.
The Film-Makers’ Cooperative – Tickets
*Followed by a conversation between filmmaker Zoe Beloff and curator (and Ballard enthusiast) Robert Schneider


Thursday, October 3rd:

7:00 PM
Maya Deren – 55 min.
Meshes of the Afternoon (1943) dir. Maya Deren & Alexander Hammid – 14 min.
At Land (1944) dir. Maya Deren – 15 min.
A Study in Choreography For Camera (1945) dir. Maya Deren – 3 min.
Ritual in Transfigured Time (1946) dir. Maya Deren – 15 min.
Anthology Film Archives – Part of Essential CinemaTickets


Saturday, October 5th:

4:30 PM
Kill Yr Landlords Short Film Program – 105 min.
The White Rose (35mm) [1967] dir. Bruce Conner – 7 min.
The Fall of the I-Hotel (Digital) [1983] dir. Curtis Choy – 59 min.
The End (1953) dir. Christopher Maclaine – 35 min.
Anthology Film Archives – Part of Kill Yr LandlordsTickets


Tuesday, October 8th:

6:30 PM
Kill Yr Landlords Short Film Program – 105 min.
The White Rose (35mm) [1967] dir. Bruce Conner – 7 min.
The Fall of the I-Hotel (Digital) [1983] dir. Curtis Choy – 59 min.
The End (1953) dir. Christopher Maclaine – 35 min.
Anthology Film Archives – Part of Kill Yr LandlordsTickets


Saturday, October 12th:

7:45 PM
György Kepes, PGM 2: Early Works – György Kepes, His Associates, and Students – 75 min.
A Lightplay: Black White Gray (1932) dir. László Moholy-Nagy – 6 min.
Der Feinschmecker (Digital) [1934] dir. László Moholy-Nagy, György Kepes & Sybille Pietzsch – 2 min.
[Unused special effects for William Cameron Menzies’s Things to Come] (DCP) [1936] dir. László Moholy-Nagy – 2 min.
Light Machine (Digital) [1941] dir. Nathan Lerner – 4 min.
You and Your Neighbourhood (Digital) [1955] dir. Charles M. Correa – 10 min.
Night Driving (1957) dir. Millie & Morton Goldsholl – 9 min.
Lens Distortion (1969) dir. Millie & Morton Goldsholl – 4 min.
Untitled (Colored Light Patterns) (Digital) [1964] dir. Woolf and Lau – 2min.
Illuminations (Digital) [1965]György Kepes – 2 min.
Squares Forming Patterns 1 (Digital) [1965] dir. György Kepes – 3 min.
Squares Forming Patterns 2 (Digital) [1965] dir. György Kepes – 3 min.
Ekta (Digital) [1966-67] dir. Frank Eidlitz – 6 min.
Raga Doll (Digital) [1966-67] dir. Frank Eidlitz – 7 min.
Calder (Digital) [1966] dir. Frank Eidlitz – 6 min.
Light (Digital) [1966] dir. Frank Eidlitz – 6 min.
Anthology Film Archives – Part of Media Avant-Gardes: György Kepes and CAVS/MITTickets


Sunday, October 13th:

5:15 PM
György Kepes, PGM 3: Experiments at CAVS Under Kepes’s Directorship – 85 min.
Moirage (1967) dir. Stan VanDerBeek – 10 min.
Electronic Light Ballet (Video) [1968] dir. Otto Piene – 5 min.
Video Luminar (Video) [1968]Ted Kraynik – 7 min.
Black Gate Cologne (Video) [1968/69] dir. Aldo Tambellini – 10-min excerpt.
Cybernetic Play On Franz Joseph Hayden’s “The Schoolmaster” (Digital) [1969] dir. Wen-Ying Tsai – 7 min.
Film Form No. 1 (1970) dir. Stan VanDerBeek – 11 min.
Poemfield No. 2 (1971) dir. Stan VanDerBeek – 6 min.
Flame Orchard (Digital) [1972] dir. György Kepes – 7 min.
The Austrian Tapes (Video) [1974] dir. Douglas Davis – 17 min.
Anthology Film Archives – Part of Media Avant-Gardes: György Kepes and CAVS/MITTickets


Sunday, October 20th:

3:00 PM
Peculiar Puppets Vol. VII – 90 min.
Roxy Cinema hereby presents a seventh retrospective screening featuring various peculiar examples of puppet films from the 1930s through the 1950s+. This particular showcase features spooky subjects in celebration of the Halloween season. Warning: You may find some of the offerings to be rather creepy, possibly unsettling, and even potentially controversial! 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.


Thursday, October 24th:

7:00 PM
Energies: A Moving Image Convening – 100 min.
They Shine (35mm) [2007] dir. Rosa Barba – 4 min.
Energy Budget (Digital) [2024] dir. Nina Canell & Robin Watkins – 8 min.
Landslide (Digital) [2016]Oleksiy Radynski – 29 min.
Crude Eye (Digital) [2022] dir. Monira Al Qadiri – 10 min.
A Gente Rio (We River) (Digital) [2016] dir. Carolina Caycedo – 29 min.
The Night We Became People Again (Digital) [2017] dir. Allora & Calzadilla – 15 min.
Anthology Film Archives – Tickets


Tuesday, October 29th:

7:30 PM
Beyond Meshes: The Film Music of Teiji Ito – Presented by Michiko Ogawa – 75 min.
Bagatelle For Willard Maas (1961) dir. Marie Menken – 5 min.
Hand Catching Flour (Digital) [2019] dir. Lyndsay Bloom – 5 min.
Meshes of the Afternoon (1943) dir. Maya Deren & Alexander Hammid – 14 min.
The Stigma Fog Saint Wards Off Extinction (Digital) [2019] dir. Angie Jennings – 6 min.
Dwightiana (1959) dir. Marie Menken – 3 min.
The Cosmic Music of Teiji Ito (Digital) [2021] dir. Michiko Ogawa & Manuel Pessôa de Lima – 20 min.
Anthology Film Archives – Tickets


Wednesday, October 30th:

5:15 PM
The Spook Fest – 60 min.
A selection of ancient animated shorts that are just right for Halloween. Come enjoy a creepy ghost story that interferes with an age-old love triangle; a sultry flapper’s musical encounter with nighttime spirits at home; a famous cat rubbing elbows with a clever witch; a lovable little ghost trying to find friendship among the living; an evil spider’s quest to decimate a couple of newlywed fleas, and more. Spanning the 1920s through to the ’50s, this assortment showcases classic characters such as Felix the Cat, Betty Boop, Popeye, Casper, and others.
Metrograph – Tickets
*Introduction and Q&A with cartoon curator and historian Tommy José Stathes