TIE Retrospective: The Shivering Eyelash
9/20/08 (8:PM) & 9/21/08 (3:PM)
Aurora Picture Show
800 Aurora St., Houston, Texas
 

- 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 featured
in a TIE-2005 festival program, showcasing educational films that were
released 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.

More info:
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