Barbara Rosenthal Turns 70! Outer Bodies, Inner Selves

Join us in birthday cake, champagne and movies! “Outer Bodies, Inner Selves” is the theme for the night’s screenings by Barbara Rosenthal and other artists who have used their own and other physical bodies to explicate humanity in terms that include, but are not limited to sex.

This party is the kickoff to a year of Rosenthal’s Seventieth Birthday International Video Retrospective. It will begin here at 7pm on Wednesday, August 15th, with the following films (and then Barbara will be traveling throughout the year with various of the 130 video shorts she has made since 1976, to Miami and Buenos Aires (facilitator Daniela Luna), Berlin (Boddinale Film Festival), Helsinki (facilitatorr Charlie Morrow), Brussels (facilitator Alex Dementieva) and points east).

PROGRAM:
Barbara Rosenthal's News To Fit the Family, Pregnancy Dreams, Whispering Confession, Barbara Rosenthal Contemplates Suicide, and Push Me
Carolee Schneemann, Infinity Kisses
Charlie Morrow & Jerome Rothenberg, Songs of Flowers and Stones
Noe Kidder, A Paradise of Children
Pam Kray, The Ghost Sonata
Maria Beatty, Bandaged
Tessa Hughes-Freeland, Baby Doll
Joel Schlemowitz, Watch Abrasions
MM Serra, Chop Off
Coleen Fitzgibbon, Beach
Terry Berkowitz, Eye of the Camera (excerpt)
Ela Troyano & Henry Hills, SSS 
Bill Creston, Open 7 Days a Week, 24 Hours a Day

Seating is limited and film party RSVPs are strongly encouraged. PLEASE click “going” but ALSO RSVP to RSVP.eMediaLoft@gmail.com.

Suggested donation to Film Coop screenings: $10.