The Carnal Screen x J.Hoberman

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Filmmaker's Co-op and Museum of Sex present the latest edition of The Carnal Screen, programmed and presented by J. Hoberman on 16mm

- Christmas on Earth (Barbara Rubin / 1963 / 29 minutes)
"A study in genital differentiation and psychic tumult." –Candy O' Brien "What you will be renting now is just what was filmed, uncut, unedited. Projection instructions: The film remains on two reels (A and B), requiring two projectors, to be projected simultaneously at sound speed. The film on the first projector fills the screen, while the image on the second projector is approximately one half smaller and fills the middle of the screen, superimposing on the first image. This can be done either by using different lenses, or by placing one projector closer to the screen. They begin simultaneously, though due to slight differences in speed of each projector, they end slightly different.

- Kusama's Self-Obliteration (Jud Yalkut / 1967 / 24 minutes)
A film exploration of the work and aesthetic concepts of Yayoi Kusama, painter, sculptor, and environmentalist, conceived in terms of an intense emotional experience with metaphysical overtones, an extension of my ultimate interest in a total fusion of the arts in a spirit of mutual collaboration. "The obsessive act of covering (destruction of boundaries-identities) gradually equivalent to the ritual of uncovering (Striping away of ego); individual self, destroyed in mask/parody/clustering, is transcended. Mandalic (magic circle meditational form used to concentrate attention to a spiraling in/to a point through which new, expanded awareness is possible.

- I Was a Male Yvonne De Carlo (Jack Smith / 1967 / 28 minutes)
Restored by Jerry Tartaglia, 1997. "I WAS A MALE YVONNE DECARLO, which stars Smith himself, takes its title from one of his live performances: I Was a Male Yvonne DeCarlo for the Lucky Landlord Underground, staged in the early 1980s. Shot mainly during the late '60s and edited a decade or more later, I WAS A MALE YVONNE DECARLO is one of several films and slide shows that feature the filmmaker as a mock celebrity.

total runtime: 89 minutes

J. Hoberman wrote for the Village Voice for four decades and was the senior film critic from 1988 through 2011. He has taught cinema at Cooper Union, Harvard and Columbia and is the author of numerous books, including On Jack Smith's Flaming Creatures and Other Secret-Flix of Cinemaroc and (with Jonathan Rosenbaum) Midnight Movies.

Venue: 

The Roxy Cinema - New York, United States

Dates: 

Sunday, May 22, 2022 - 15:00

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Dates: 

Sunday, May 22, 2022 - 15:00

Venue: 

  • 2 6th Avenue
    Cellar Level of The Roxy Hotel
    10013   New York, New York
    United States
    Phone: (212) 519-6820
    40° 43' 9.048" N, 74° 0' 17.6976" W