Shirley Clarke Tribute
Saturday, January 30 - 7:30pm
322 Union Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11211
Suggested donation $7
Discussion with filmmakers Donna Cameron, Jonas Mekas (founder of Anthology Film Archives and founding member of The Filmmakers' Coop), and film critic-programmer Cullen Gallagher.
This event is part of a monthly screening series with The Film-Makers’ Cooperative, and focuses on the legacy of American filmmaker Shirley Clarke, thirteen years after her death.
- BRIDGES-GO-ROUND by Shirley Clarke (USA, 1958, 7 minutes, 16mm. Color, Music by Louis & Bebe Barron; Teo Macero)
American filmmaker Shirley Clarke, with whom Cameron worked one-on one from 1987-1990 on their collage portrait work Shirley Clarke in Our Time, created this masterpiece of experimental dance film using Manhattan’s Bridges. In this film Manhattan Island becomes a maypole around which its bridges, detached from moorings, execute a bewitched and beguiling dance. The filmmaker has magically set them dancing to two different music tracks- an electronic score by the Barrons and a jazz score by Teo Macero. Each track affects the viewer’s response to the imagery of the film differently.
- SHIRLEY CLARKE IN OUR TIME by Donna Cameron (USA, 1987-1993,63 minutes, 16mm to Amiga Toaster technology to 1? and betaSP video tape, Color, Sound, New DVD release: 2010)