The Moving Image Source Calendar is a selective international guide to retrospectives, screenings, festivals, and exhibitions.
Descriptions are drawn from the calendars of the presenting venues.
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Play This Movie Loud!
May4-June 15, 2013 at
Museum of the Moving Image,
New York
"This film should be played loud!" is the title card at the beginning of The Last Waltz, Martin Scorsese's 1978 concert film featuring The Band. Scorsese raised the music film to a cinematic art form,… more May4-June 15, 2013 at Museum of the Moving Image, New York
"This film should be played loud!" is the title card at the beginning of The Last Waltz, Martin Scorsese's 1978 concert film featuring The Band. Scorsese raised the music film to a cinematic art form, with top-notch cinematography and a superbly crafted stereo sound mix. Other music films, such as D.A. Pennebaker's Don't Look Back, offer a more raw and spontaneous experience, capturing the excitement of live performance and the candid reality of backstage life. And some, such as Richard Lester's Hard Day's Night, put a real band into a fictional context. This series features all three of these types of films: concert films, vérité documentaries, and fiction films. What the movies all have in common is that each one focuses on a single performer or band... and all of them are meant to be seen-and heard-in a theater, played LOUD!
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Chinese Realities/Documentary Visions
May 8–June 1, 2013 at
Museum of Modern Art,
New York
Amid China’s epochal transformations over the last two decades, new documentary aesthetics emerged, as the overwhelming cultural and societal challenges… more May 8–June 1, 2013 at Museum of Modern Art, New York
Amid China’s epochal transformations over the last two decades, new documentary aesthetics emerged, as the overwhelming cultural and societal challenges caused by China’s transition to a free-market economy compelled professional and amateur filmmakers alike to capture new realities on screen. Working largely outside the state media apparatus, pioneer filmmakers like Wu Wenguang, Zhang Yuan, and Duan Jinchuan provided bracing alternative visions of both society and filmmaking, with an ethos based on direct observation of reality and uncensored personal expression. This newfound fascination with unbridled realism also informed the work of filmmakers as disparate as Zhang Yimou and Jia Zhangke and artists like Ai Weiwei and Ou Ning. The proliferation of the “reality aesthetic” has led to more complex notions of what reality means and how it is represented.
This series aims to reflect the evolution of documentary practice in China over the past 25 years, revealing the growth and ever-increasing influence of nonfiction film and media. The selections, encompassing a wide expanse of Chinese film and media, including state-approved productions, underground amateur videos, and Web-based Conceptual art, provide a vivid look into a society in perpetual transformation. Some screenings will be presented by the filmmakers and scholars.
Organized by Sally Berger, Assistant Curator, Department of Film, The Museum of Modern Art, and Kevin B. Lee, independent curator and Vice President, Programming and Education, dGenerate Films.
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World Science Festival 2013
May 31-June 1, 2013 at
Museum of the Moving Image,
New York
The exciting, multi-venue World Science Festival returns with a lineup of events throughout the city from May 29 through June 2. Museum of the Moving Image is the venue for the film programs, which… more May 31-June 1, 2013 at Museum of the Moving Image, New York
The exciting, multi-venue World Science Festival returns with a lineup of events throughout the city from May 29 through June 2. Museum of the Moving Image is the venue for the film programs, which include screenings of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation feature films from the 2012 and 2013 Sundance Film Festivals. Each screening is followed by a discussion with the filmmakers and some of the world's leading scientists-experts in the subjects explored by the films, which deal with the threat to the world's water supply, and the development of artificial intelligence through computer chess.
These programs are supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and its Public Understanding of Science and Technology initiatives.
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