Book Launch + Screening: Laura Paul's "Film Elegy" and the Films of Amy Halpern
Films
Description
Join us at the Film-Makers’ Cooperative (475 Park Avenue South, 6th Floor) on Thursday, October 17th, 2024, at 7pm, for the NYC launch of Laura Paul’s new book FILM ELEGY, with a special screening of films of Amy Halpern. Laura Paul will be in attendance to discuss her book, the films, and answer audience members’ questions about her time working as Halpern’s assistant.
“Amy was a unique individual. Immensely talented, funny, and hard-working, she was probably the most outgoing and helpful student of our generation. Gone, but not forgotten. Amy was and is utterly unforgettable.” -Alex Cox, director of Repo Man
ABOUT THE BOOK:
“Laura Paul's Film Elegy is a document of personal loss and the decline of celluloid. Modified from 16mm and formatted to fit the page, Paul’s book asks to be viewed as much as read. Punctuation evokes flickering light, sprocket holes, and cutaway shots, layering photochemical processes as rhapsodic undertones.
'I burn bright | for you,” Paul writes, “for our love of images and silver | so combustible.'
Framed by Paul’s friendship and apprenticeship with the late filmmaker Amy Halpern (1953–2022), the book speaks to the communities and legacies of screen culture. It honors the encounters between spectators and films as well as the attachments formed between them—what Godard calls “the relation with me looking at it dreaming up a relation.” As our dreams of the screen flicker, Film Elegy projects words in silver gelatin."
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PROGRAM:
- Falling Lessons, 64 mins
- Filament (The Hands), 15.5 mins
- Invocation, 2 mins