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Gladstone Gallery 530 West 21st Street: The Unfinished Film - Curated by Thomas Beard - 24 June 2011 to 29 July 2011 Current Exhibition |
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Erich von Stroheim, still from Queen Kelly, 1928
16mm film, 97 minutes |
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The Unfinished Film - Curated by Thomas Beard 24 June 2011 to 29 July 2011 Opening June 23rd 6-8PM 515 West 24th Street Gladstone Gallery is pleased to announce “The Unfinished Film,” an exhibition curated by Thomas Beard. What can be learned from unfinished films, from works that arrive to us as fragments? Considered collectively—from Erich von Stroheim’s Queen Kelly to Sergei Eisenstein’s Que Viva Mexico! to Orson Welles’s The Other Side of the Wind and beyond—perhaps they constitute a secret canon, the most raw and, in turn, revealing sides of an artist’s practice. Included in the show are projects that are intentionally unfinished as well as those abandoned out of frustration, halted by dwindling resources, cut short by death, or curtailed by political circumstance. Representing cinema in a wide range of intermediary states, these are works that unveil the particularities of their origins, lay bare the vicissitudes of their process and production. At the heart of the exhibition will be a black box theater with a regular, daily schedule of unfinished films and related works, many of which are rarely screened and some that have never before been exhibited publicly. The lineup—whose diverse contents feature the oneiric episodes of Harry Smith and Leslie Thornton alongside the incisive essays of Godard/Miéville and Pasolini—is anchored by the ultimate unfinished film, Hollis Frampton's Magellan. In its final form, Frampton’s epic cycle was to contain nearly 1,000 films totaling 36 hours in length that would unfold over an entire calendar year, though only a fraction of these were completed. The serial project, metaphorically modeled on Magellan’s circumnavigation of the globe, was to consume the last decade of Frampton’s career and its many ambitions included the “making of a coherent body of work that shall systematically map the terrain of film art, together with its boundaries, according to poetic principles extrapolated or induced from film’s irrational natural history,” or, put simply, “making film over as it should have been.” Accompanying the programs presented in the cinema will be a constellation of ephemera and works on paper, such as Kenneth Anger’s drawings for Puce Women, the unmade, feature-length version of Puce Moment, and Joseph Cornell’s scenario Monsieur Phot, represented by an edition that Cornell gave to Susan Sontag when they began their correspondence in the mid-1960s. A number of these pieces maintain a more diagrammatic character, like Dziga Vertov's 1936 schema for his unrealized "creative laboratory," or Paul Sharits’ drawings for Passare, a piece that was conceived as a lengthy, many-chaptered film series, but which had its final life as a suite of meticulous, multi-colored notational systems. Here and elsewhere in the show, the work on view is accompanied by another, imagined work, born out of the fantasy of the original’s completion. Said another way, as Frampton did when comparing Magellan to Tatlin's Monument to the Third International, “The Monument was not built. There are other ways to build monuments. The ways to build them are to build them immaterially, in the mind." “The Unfinished Film” will be accompanied by a publication with texts by Giorgio Agamben, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Sergei Eisenstein, Oskar Fischinger, Hollis Frampton, Gregory Markopoulos, Annette Michelson, Robert Smithson, and Dziga Vertov. Thomas Beard is a founder and director of Light Industry, a venue for film and electronic art in Brooklyn, New York. He recently co-curated the cinema for Greater New York 2010 at MoMA PS1 and is currently working on the film program for the 2012 Whitney Biennial. Gallery Hours: Monday - Friday,, 10am – 6pm For further information please contact Sascha Crasnow [email protected] The Unfinished Film - Screening Schedule Friday, June 24, 3PM The Director and His Actor Look at Footage Showing Preparations for an Unmade Film (2) Morgan Fisher, 1968, 15 mins Batman Dracula (excerpt) Andy Warhol, 1964, 68 mins Hollis Frampton, Magellan Monday, June 27, 3PM The Birth of Magellan Cadenza I and XIV 1977-1980, 12 mins Mindfall I and VII 1977-1980, 36 mins Matrix 1977-1979, 28 mins Hollis Frampton Palindrome 1969, 22 mins Noctiluca 1974, 4 mins Tuesday, June 28, 3PM The Straits of Magellan Public Domain 1972, 14 mins Straits of Magellan: Drafts and Fragments 1974, 18 mins Ingenivm Nobis Ipsa Pvella Fecit 1975, 62 mins Summer Solstice 1974, 32 mins Pas de Trois 1975, 5 mins Wednesday, June 29, 3PM The Straits of Magellan Autumnal Equinox 1974, 27 mins Straits of Magellan: Drafts and Fragments 1974, 17 mins The Red Gate 1976, 52 mins Thursday, June 30, 3PM The Straits of Magellan Winter Solstice 1974, 33 mins Straits of Magellan: Drafts and Fragments 1974, 17 mins The Green Gate 1976, 53 mins Friday, July 1, 3PM The Death of Magellan Apparatus Sum 1972, 3 mins Otherwise Unexplained Fires 1976, 14 mins Quaternion 1976, 4 mins Yellow Springs 1972, 6 mins For Georgia O'Keefe 1976, 4 mins More Than Meets the Eye 1979, 8 mins Not the First Time 1976, 5 mins Tiger Balm 1972, 10 mins Procession 1976, 3 mins Gloria! 1979, 10 mins Tuesday, July 5, 3PM Orson Welles in Spain Albert and David Maysles, 1966, 10 mins Que Viva Mexico! Sergei Eisenstein, 1931, 85 mins Wednesday, July 6, 3PM Puce Moment Kenneth Anger, 1949, 6 mins Queen Kelly Erich von Stroheim, 1928, 97 mins Monday, July 11, 3PM Notes on an African Orestes Pier Paolo Pasolini, 1970, 73 mins Tuesday, July 12, 3PM White Dust from Mongolia Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, 32 mins, 1980 Wednesday, July 13, 3PM Notes on an African Orestes Pier Paolo Pasolini, 1970, 73 mins Thursday, July 14, 3PM White Dust from Mongolia Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, 32 mins, 1980 Friday, July 15, 3PM Ici et ailleurs Jean-Luc Godard and Anne-Marie Miéville, 1976, 53 mins David Gatten, Secret History of the Dividing Line, a True Account in Nine Parts Monday, July 18, 3PM Part I Secret History of the Dividing Line 2002, 20 mins Part II The Great Art of Knowing 2004, 37 mins Part III Moxon’s Mechanick Exercises or The Doctrine of Handy-Works Applied to the Art of Printing 1999, 26 mins Part IV The Enjoyment of Reading 2001, 16 mins Tuesday, July 19, 3PM Part I Secret History of the Dividing Line 2002, 20 mins Part II The Great Art of Knowing 2004, 37 mins Part III Moxon’s Mechanick Exercises or The Doctrine of Handy-Works Applied to the Art of Printing 1999, 26 mins Part IV The Enjoyment of Reading 2001, 16 mins Wednesday, July 20, 3PM Part I Secret History of the Dividing Line 2002, 20 mins Part II The Great Art of Knowing 2004, 37 mins Part III Moxon’s Mechanick Exercises or The Doctrine of Handy-Works Applied to the Art of Printing 1999, 26 mins Part IV The Enjoyment of Reading 2001, 16 mins Thursday, July 21, 3PM Part I Secret History of the Dividing Line 2002, 20 mins Part II The Great Art of Knowing 2004, 37 mins Part III Moxon’s Mechanick Exercises or The Doctrine of Handy-Works Applied to the Art of Printing 1999, 26 mins Part IV The Enjoyment of Reading 2001, 16 mins Friday, July 22, 3PM Part I Secret History of the Dividing Line 2002, 20 mins Part II The Great Art of Knowing 2004, 37 mins Part III Moxon’s Mechanick Exercises or The Doctrine of Handy-Works Applied to the Art of Printing 1999, 26 mins Part IV The Enjoyment of Reading 2001, 16 mins Monday, July 25, 3PM Kustom Kar Kommandos Kenneth Anger, 1965, 3 mins Peggy and Fred in Hell: The Prologue Leslie Thornton, 1984, 21 mins Peggy and Fred in Kansas Leslie Thornton, 1987, 11 mins Film No. 16: Oz, The Tin Woodman’s Dream Harry Smith, 1967, 15 mins Tuesday, July 26, 3PM Peggy and Fred and Pete Leslie Thornton, 1988, 23 mins The Witch’s Cradle Maya Deren, 1943, 12 mins (Dung Smoke Enters the Palace) Leslie Thornton, 1989, 16 mins Haiti Footage Maya Deren, 1947-1954, 30 mins Wednesday, July 27, 3PM Kustom Kar Kommandos Kenneth Anger, 1965, 3 mins Peggy and Fred in Hell: The Prologue Leslie Thornton, 1984, 21 mins Peggy and Fred in Kansas Leslie Thornton, 1987, 11 mins Film No. 16: Oz, The Tin Woodman’s Dream Harry Smith, 1967, 15 mins Thursday, July 28, 3PM Peggy and Fred and Pete Leslie Thornton, 1988, 23 mins The Witch’s Cradle Maya Deren, 1943, 12 mins (Dung Smoke Enters the Palace) Leslie Thornton, 1989, 16 mins Haiti Footage Maya Deren, 1947-1954, 30 mins Friday, July 29, 3PM Two Found Objects of Charles Boultenhouse Stan Brakhage, 1996, 7 mins Gammelion Gregory Markopoulos, 1968, 55 mins Playing between screenings: 1972 radio broadcast of Ken Jacobs discussing plans for his unrealized film performance A Good Night for the Movies. |
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