Admission starts at $5
January 14, 2023, 5pm
Brooklyn, NY 11205
USA
Join us at e-flux Screening Room on Saturday, January 14 at 5pm for a screening of a selection of DeeDee Halleck’s films, followed by an in-person conversation with the artist.
An artist, filmmaker, and one of the original founders of Paper Tiger Television, DeeDee Halleck is an innovator in documentary, video art, and public access television. In collaboration with renowned American artists, Halleck has produced a unique body of work that reflects on art, academics, politics, performance, and live television. In this screening we are presenting a selection of Halleck’s rarely screened early portrait films and recordings of performances that have been recognized for being on the cutting edge of experimental documentary. As Halleck puts it, “It is one thing to critique the mass media and rail against their abuses. It is quite another to create viable alternatives.”
The screening is part of Revisiting Feminist Moving Image, a series at e-flux Screening Room aimed at revisiting the origins, contexts, developments, and impact of feminist video art and experimental cinema around the world from the 1960s through the present.
Films
Mr. Story (made with Anita Thatcher, 1969, 27 minutes) is a portrait of an 88-year-old neighbor who canes chairs and ruminates on women and morality.
Jaraslawa (1971, 10 minutes) is a film about a Ukrainian woman who was an ardent supporter of the Soviet Union. She bakes pirogi and speaks of her life. Music by the Penny Whistlers.
Dream of the Dirty Woman (1975, 13 minutes) is a performance by Margo Lee Sherman, Christian DuPavillon, and Kenny Eisenstat based on a dream that Elka Schumann had about the French Revolution. Originally filmed in 16mm in Glover Vermont. The digital version was edited recently by DeeDee Halleck and Mary Feaster.
Bronx Baptism (1982, 30 minutes) is a film about a church in the South Bronx. Begun as a landscape film about the destruction of the Bronx in the 1970s, it morphs into a lyrical view of a baptism that evokes Renaissance painting. Camera: Richard Serra, DeeDee Halleck, and Babette Mangolte.
For more information, contact program@e-flux.com.
Accessibility
–Two flights of stairs lead up to the building’s front entrance at 172 Classon Avenue.
–For elevator access, please RSVP to program@e-flux.com. The building has a freight elevator which leads into the e-flux office space. Entrance to the elevator is nearest to 180 Classon Ave (a garage door). We have a ramp for the steps within the space.
–e-flux has an ADA-compliant bathroom. There are no steps between the Screening Room and this bathroom.