Wednesday / 09.07.11
7:30
Martha Colburn’s Collage Animation
Martha Colburn (U.S., 1995–2011)
In Person Martha Colburn
Martha Colburn’s labor-intensive, low-tech collages draw on a vast array of popular and underground culture. Withd aunting obsessiveness, she cuts out images, paints footage by hand, and mixes in her own flat puppets and drawings with a dash of punk rock poetry by friends. While the fast pace edginess of he work is immediately apparent, there are also many moments of beauty and pure pleasure. Colburn combines politics and play with inventiveness and perversity. “Bordering on the outrageous, (with) crackling frame energy, Martha Colburn films are naked testimonials of out rimes, and of her generation” (Jonas Mekas.)
Wednesday / 09.28.11
7:30
Zvenigora
Alexander Dovzhenko (U.S.S.R, 1928)
LIVE Judith Rosenberg on Piano
The first important film by the great Ukrainian director Alexander Dovzhenko, whose best-known work is the classic Earth (1930), Zvenigora is essentially an anthology of Ukrainian folk myths, centering on a grandfather figure who stands for the spirit of the Ukraine. The old man believes that there is a treasure hidden in the mountains of Zvenigora. At the end the real treasure turns out to be not gold or silver—it is the people, their intelligence and ambition, their harnessing of the land’s mineral wealth. The film is free flowing, impressionistic, and extremely symbolic (even for Dovzhenko), an incredibly rich and wonderful experience. Tom Luddy, Yvette Biro
(73 mins, Silent, Russian Intertitles with live English translation, B&W, 35mm, PFA Collection)
Total running time: c. 90 mins
Wednesday / 10.19.11
7:30
Jordan Belson: Films Sacred and Profane
Jordan Belson (U.S., 1959–2005) Radical Light
In Person Guest curator Cindy Keefer
Curator and archivist Cindy Keefer is the director of Center for Visual Music (CVM)
Jordan Belson trained as a painter before turning his attention to filmmaking after discovering the abstract films of Oskar Fischinger, Norman McLaren, and Hans Richter at the seminal Art in Cinema series. Since 1947, Belson has explored consciousness, transcendence, and the nature of light itself in a visionary body of work that has been called “cosmic cinema”—brimming with vibrant color, mandalas, liquid forms, and mesmerizing rhythms. This program features rarely screened films, including Séance (1959), new preservation prints of Momentum (1968) and Chakra (1972), and Epilogue (2005).
PACIFIC FILM ARCHIVE
Location
2575 Bancroft Way
Between College and Telegraph
PFA Theater Box Office Hours
Opens one hour before the first showtime of the day
Theater Admission Prices
Single Feature
$5.50 BAM/PFA members
UC Berkeley students
$9.50 Adults (18-64)
$6.50 UC Berkeley faculty and staff
Non-UC Berkeley students
Senior citizens (65 & over)
Disabled persons
Youth (17 & under)
Additional Feature
$4 All patrons
