 01/16/07 e-flux
Extending its program from Berlin to New York, the unitednationsplaza is pleased to present Film Festival, by Ricardo Valentim, on view at e-flux, New York, from January 19th through March 9, 2007. Please join us for the opening reception on Friday, January 19th, 6 8 PM. Film Festival is comprised of a two-month series of screenings featuring seventy educational films produced for educational programs at the North American and British public schools and libraries between 1950s and 1980s. The films were originally commissioned from various agencies including advertisement firms, tourist boards, various universities, United Nations, US Department of Education and others. All films are in 16mm format and range in duration from 5 to approximately 30 minutes. The films have now been phased out of use. A small auditorium where two to three 16mm documentaries are shown daily and a brochure with the exhibition program compose this work. Since the films are constantly changing, this is a show in evolution, where the audiences perception of it will reflect the unique features of that particular days projections (or lack thereof). Film Festival aims to define a moment of doubt, questioning the concept and the image of the other. The act of voiding the notion of difference is a protagonist for the construction of a democracy of display. Film Festival is not an appropriation of documents but a representation of the reality today. Film Festival will offer daily screenings of two or three titles from the overall collection. (See program below.) Ricardo Valentim was born in Loulé, Portugal and lives in New York. Valentim studied anthropology, and currently works with film, photography, sculpture and installation. His work has been shown recently at Galeria Pedro Cera, Lisbon and at Contrabando (curated by Carolina Grau) at GaleriaLuísa Strina, São Paulo. Film Festival is an ongoing project, which was started in Lisbon and travels to New York from São Paulo. The New York presentation of Film Festival was initiated by Julieta Aranda as a collaboration with the unitednationsplaza program in Berlin. unitednationsplaza is exhibition as school. Structured as a seminar/residency program in the city of Berlin, it will involve collaboration with approximately 60 artists, writers, theorists and a wide range of audiences for a period of one year. In the tradition of Free Universities, most of its events will be open to all those interested to take part. unitednationsplaza is organized by Anton Vidokle. Film Festival opens on Friday, January 19th, 2007 at 6pm at e-flux, 53 Ludlow Street in New York City. Program: January 19th Friday 6:30 pm Washington Castle Films - Eugene W. Castle n/d 9min. 7:30 pm Natures Strangest Creatures Buena Vista Realease - Prod. Ben Sharpsteen n/d 14min. January 22nd Monday 3:00 pm Ruke I Niti Dunav Film n/d 9min. 4:30 pm Woman Power. Equality and Development United Nations Production - Dir. Elspeth McDougall e Mark Robbins 1974 26min. January 23rd Tuesday 3:00 pm Antonio Gaudí Media Film International Media Company - Prod. Ira Latour 1965 25min. 4:30 pm The Totem Pole Department of Anthropology, University of California,Berkeley - S.A.Barrette PH.D 1961 26min. January 24th Wednesday 3:00 pm Florida Seafare National Marine Fisheries Services n/d 25min. 4:30 pm Fishing in Hawai Columbia Pictures Corporation 1940 9min. January 25th Thursday 3:00 pm A Drum is Made - A Study in Yoruba Drum Carving Universities of Ibadan and Ife, Nigeria 1974 24min. 4:30 pm Meat Loaf (Bat Out of Hell) CBS Records Concert - Dir. Arnold Levine n/d 22min. January 26th Friday 3:00 pm Just One Child - What will I be Tomorow Reynolds Films Produtions - Dir. Don White 1981 12min. 4:30 pm Boy of Botswana Encyclopaedia Britannica Films - Dir. H. J. Lemieux 1970 16min. January 29th Monday 3:00 pm Meet the Mormons Brigham Young University 1973 24min. 4:30 pm Two Black Churches Yale University - William Ferris 1975 18min. January 30th Tuesday 3:00 pm Feeding the World Hearst Metrotrone News 1985 12min. 4:30 pm Latin American Overview McGraw-Hill Films Inc. - Vladimir Bibic Film Productions 1982 25min. January 31st Wednesday 3:00 pm Vandalism - It is a Big Deal Beacon Films 1983 20min. 4:30 pm Natures Strangest Creatures Buena Vista Realease - Prod. Ben Sharpsteen n/d 14min. February 1st Thursday 3:00 pm Throw that Bull! Castle Films - Eugene W. Castle n/d 8min. 4:30 pm Crocodile Thrills! Castle Films - Eugene W. Castle n/d 9min. February 2nd Friday 3:00 pm Masks Pegasus Film n/d 12min. 4:30 pm Made in Mississippi - Black Folk Art and Crafts Yale University by William Ferris 1975 18min. February 5th Monday 3:00 pm Cuba in the Shadow of Doubt Filmakers Library Inc. - Dir. Jim Burroghs, Prod. Suzanne Bauman, Carol Polakoff 1986 55min. 4:30 pm The Hoaxters MGM - Dir. Herman Hoffman 1952 34min. February 6th Tuesday 3:00 pm Untitled (Olympic Games) Cappy Productions Inc. n/d 52min. 4:30 pm Aquatic Wizards Castle Films - Rod Warren Productions Inc. 1955 8min. February 7th Wednesday 3:00 pm Celebration del Matrimonio University of California-Extension Media Center by Margaret Nixon 1986 28min. 4:30 pm Getting Married Braverman Picture Corporation - Dir. Charles Braverman 1976 24min. February 8th Thursday 3:00 pm Washington Castle Films - Eugene W. Castle n/d 9min. 4:30 pm Bali Paradise Island Castle Films - Eugene W. Castle n/d 9min. February 9th Friday 3:00 pm Families of the World - Yemen Journal Films Inc. 1986 18min. 4:30 pm Eskimo Family Encyclopaedia Britannica Films - Prod. William Deneen 1959 16min. February 12th Monday 3:00 pm Mammals with Hoofs Coronet Films - Instructional Media 1977 10min. 4:30 pm The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau - The Tragedy of the Red Salmon Churchill Films, Matromedia Producers Corporation, Inc. 1970 24min. February 13th Tuesday 3:00 pm Fidel Castro - Biography McGraw-Hill Films Inc.- Prod. David L.Wolper, Dir. Alan Landsburg n/d 25min. 4:30 pm Gandhi Twentieth Century n/d 20min. February 14th Wednesday 3:00 pm People of Spain Encyclopaedia Britannica Films - Prod. Clifford J. Kamen 1955 15min. 4:30 pm The Zoo Encyclopaedia Britannica Films 1949 10min. February 15th Thursday 3:00 pm Hinduism and the Song of God Hartley Productions 1978 26min. 4:30 pm Holy Land: Judaism, Christianity and Islam in the Middle East Encyclopaedia Britannica Films - Dir. Jim St. Lawrence 1984 25min. February 16th Friday 3:00 pm Requiem - 29 Dir. David Garcia 1971 30min. 4:30 pm The Pigs vs. The Freaks Jack Epps Jr. (Pyramid Films) 1975 14min. February 20th Tuesday 3:00 pm Tunisia Home Movie 1964 24min. 4:30 pm Snowdonia British Council Film - Inspiration Pictures, by Horace Shepherd n/d 15min. February 21st Wednesday 3:00 pm Puritan Family of Early New England Coronet Films - Instructional Media 1955 10min. 4:30 pm Family Afoot in the Yukon Standard Oil Company of California n/d 21min. February 22nd Thursday 3:00 pm Families of the City - Adventure in Nairobi McGraw-Hill Films Inc. - Dir.Lee Bobker 1971 11min. 4:30 pm Two Families Learning Company of America - Columbia Pictures - Prod. Jonh H. Secondari Productions Ltd. - Dir. Helen Jean Secondari and Henri Toluzzi 1973 21min. February 23rd Friday 3:00 pm The City Encyclopaedia Britannica Films - Prod. Bert Van Bork 1962 10min. 4:30 pm The Home of the White Storks McGraw-Hill Films Inc. 1964 11min. February 26th Monday 3:00 pm In Praise of Hands The National Film Board of Canada 1974 28min. 4:30 pm Le France Creatrice - Henri Matisse Compagnie Generale Cinematographique - Dir. Andre Leveille n/d 22min. February 27th Tuesday 3:00 pm Portugal Barr Films by Stefan Duinth 1988 19min. 4:30 pm Samoa Walt Disney Productions - Prod. Ben Sharpsteen 1956 29min. February 28th Wednesday 2:00 pm Last Stand Farmer Silo Cinema Inc. - Prod. Richard Brick 1975 24min. 3:30 pm Portrait of a Fisherman National Geographic Society 1981 15min. 4:30 pm The Maple Sugar Farmer W. Graig Hinde and Robert E.Davis 1973 27min. March 1st Thursday 12:00 am The Apache Indian (Revised) Coronet Films - Instructional Media 1945-1975 10min. 2:00 pm Japan National Geographic Society - Dir. Stafford Garner, Prod.Sidney Platt 1987 25min. 3:30 pm Magicians of India Official Films n/d 8min. 4:30 pm The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau - The Tragedy of the Red Salmon Churchill Films, Metromedia Producers Corporation, Inc. 1970 24min. March 2nd Friday 3:00 pm Under a Gypsy Moon Pictoreels 1938 9min. 4:30 pm Songs of the Irish Castle Films - Eugene W. Castle 1946 7min. March 5th Monday 3:00 pm The Coronation of Pope John XXIII Castle Films - Eugene W. Castle 1958 8min. 4:30 pm The Coronation of their Majesties King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Pathegrams Inc. - Eugene W. Castle 1937 9min. March 6th Tuesday 2:00 pm Guyana South Americas Newest Nation McGraw-Hill Films Inc. 1969 16min. 3:30 pm Woodland Indians of Early America Coronet Films - Instructional Media 1958 10min. 4:30 pm Black Roots in Africa Atlantis Produtions - Prod. Jonh Simons 1978 16min. March 7th Wednesday 3:00 pm The Supai Indian Coronet Films - Instructional Media 1945 9min. 4:30 pm The Bedouins of Arabia Films Incorporated n/d 19min. March 8th Thursday 3:00 pm The Promise of Pakistan McGraw-Hill Films Inc. - The March of Time 1950 17min. 4:30 pm Feeding the World Hearst Metrotrone News 1985 12min. March 9th Friday 3:00 pm Not With an Empty Quiver Dir.Dennis Berrett, Prod. Mark Hathaway 1978 28min. 4:30 pm Sunday on the River Gordon Hitchens and Ken Resnick 1962 28min. For more information please contact Elizabeth Linden at liz@e-flux.com e-flux 53 Ludlow Street New York City 10002 USA t/f 212 619 3356 |
