Saturday, September 20, 8pm
Sunday, September 21, 3pm
Christopher May in Attendance
WARNING: Adult Content
This screening will include a selection of experimental shorts from TIE, The International Experimental Cinema Exposition. TIE exists to illuminate experimental film of the highest caliber, as well as to join, recognize and serve filmmakers who are dedicated to the art and experimentation of the celluloid motion picture. Curated by TIE founder/director Christopher May, the program will feature historic works from past TIE festivals.
Titles include:
X-Ray Film I - The Alimentary System
(Fleisch Archive, 1936, 16mm, silent, 11 min., 22fps, Germany)
This is the first of several of Prof. Robert Janker’s x-ray films. The filmmaker was a pioneer of x-ray cinematography. The film was first featured in a TIE-2005 festival program that showcased educational films that were made during the Third Reich in Germany.
Un Chant D'Amour
(Jean Genet, 1950, 16mm, silent, 23min., 24fps, France)
One of the most memorable avant-garde films ever made, Un Chant D'Amour is also one of the most controversial. Made by the famed writer, Jean Genet, it features uncensored, sensual, jail-house scenes. Two prisoners in complete isolation, separated by the thick brick walls, and desperately in need of human contact, devise a most unusual kind of communication.
Spectator
(Frans Zwartjes, 1970, 16mm, optical sound, 11min., 24fps, Netherlands)
Hidden safely behind his camera, the photographer can't get enough of what the glamorous model, with her long eye lashes, has to offer him.
The Secret Cinema
(Paul Bartel, 1968, 16mm, optical sound, 30min., 24fps, USA)
The Secret Cinema is a black-comic tale of a woman whose fears that her life is being filmed for the entertainment of her friends turn out to be true. The film presaged the sardonic tone of most of the maker's later work (Eating Raoul), though he would mostly abandon The Secret Cinema's experimental aspects in favor of linear narratives with perverse touches.
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Christopher May is the founder, director and primary curator behind TIE, The International Experimental Cinema Exposition, which was conceived in Telluride, Colorado in 2000. Crediting the wide scope of his programming efforts to his continuing investigation of international avant-garde film, Christopher is currently continuing his research and presentation of the work of individual filmmakers and archives in South America.