Films by Luther Price and Tom Rhoads

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AGX FILM COLLECTIVE AND RPM FEST PRESENT

Acclaimed Massachusetts experimental filmmaker Luther Price (also known as Tom Rhoads) passed away last June and now Boston’s avant-garde film community comes together to celebrate his life and work with this special 16mm screening of three of Price’s early films.

No Brattle member passes accepted for this event ($12 discount tickets are available for Brattle members)

 

GreenTom Rhoads (Luther Price) | 1987-1988 | 36 minutes | COLOR | SOUNDGreen is a world where ghosts live.Emerging from silent memory, theyenter an image of reality, cool, crisp and static.Tromping forward, time unravelstracing to points of the past,conjuring the familiar, relivingevents unresolved, revealingvery little.

Beauty is continually redefined,celebrating life and death in aplastic world haunted.It is a romantic suicide.– Tom Rhoads

Warm BrothTom Rhoads (Luther Price) | 1988 | 36 minutesCarolee Schnneman had once [remarked] that watching Price’s Warm Broth (1988) was “an indelible experience. That really is the apposite word when describing Luther’s movies—indelible. They stay with you, like a childhood memory, or a scar.” Warm Broth, made when Price was going by the name Tom Rhoads, is directly informed by Price’s own childhood memories. He appears dressed as his mother as she goes shopping, hangs laundry, and so on. “There’s a moment in the film when sound and image sync exquisitely,” wrote Tanner Tafelski or Hyperallergic in 2015. “During a rigid and recurring shot of the mother from the chest down, we see her hands peeling potatoes (shades of Jeanne Dielman) at a counter.” At one point, “her hand swiftly goes to her wrist. It’s gasp-inducing, even though she doesn’t cut but merely scratches herself. In the next shot, a fudge bar melts, or associatively bleeds, and a pool of chocolate forms around a wooden stick. Through editing and montage, Rhoads reveals the violence inherent in such charged images.” – David Hudson

SodomLuther Price | 1989 | 16 minutesPreserved by Anthology Film Archive

“a vision of hell crafted from old gay porn, cheap color films faded into a sickly shitlike yellow-green-brown, with faces of men jittering inside hole-punched haloes, evoking at once ecstasy and torment.” – Ed Halter

All Films produced on Super 8 and presented on 16mm

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Tuesday, September 28, 2021 - 19:30

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Tuesday, September 28, 2021 - 19:30

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