Mirrored Identities: The Self as Multiple
Films
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ExperimentalIntrospection
Sara-Kathryn Arledge16mm, color, sound, 6.25 minRental format: 16mm - Read More
ExperimentalMeshes of the Afternoon
Maya Deren16mm, black and white, sound, 14 minRental formats: 16mm, Digital file - Read More
ExperimentalPhases of The Moon
Tom Chomont16mm, color, silent, 3.5 minRental format: 16mm - Read More
ExperimentalPrivate Imaginings and Narrative Facts
Edward Owens16mm, color, silent, 6 minRental formats: 16mm, Digital file - Read More
AnimationExperimentalAstral Man
Stan Vanderbeek16mm, color, sound, 2 minRental formats: 16mm, Digital file - Read More
ExperimentalSelf Portrait
Maria Lassnig16mm, color, sound, 4.5 minRental format: 16mm - Read More
AnimationExperimentalRhythm & Form; Grey Area III
Gregory Anthon16mm, black and white, sound, 4.25 minRental format: 16mm - Read More
ExperimentalParallax
Rosalind Schneider16mm, color and b/w, sound, 21 minRental format: 16mm
Description
Join us at the FMC Screening Room (475 Park Avenue South, 6th Floor) on Saturday, May 13th, 2023, at 7pm, for a fascinating program of films examining the mutability of human identity through doubling, fracture, and dissolution, curated by Julia Curl!
The Surrealist movement reimagined the body as multiple: through gender play and an exploration of the uncanny, its early avant-garde artists engaged in a deliberate fracturing and recomposition of the self. Multiple exposure, mirrors, and creative framing methods provided new tools for destabilizing the viewer and provoking a conception of the individual not rooted in a unified, singular “ideal.”
This selection of films follows in that legacy — some overtly inspired by it, some not — and examines the mutability of human identity through doubling, fracture, and dissolution.