Margarethe Von Trotta's VISION comes to the FILM FORUM October 13

OCTOBER 13-26 – TWO WEEKS ONLY MARGARETHE VON TROTTA IN PERSON OPENING WEEKEND! 209 W Houston Street (212) 727-8110 www.filmforum.org Showtimes: 1:00, 3:15, 5:40, 7:50, 10:00 Tickets available online beginning October 6 Hildegard von Bingen was truly a woman ahead of her time. A visionary in every sense of the word, this famed 12th-century Benedictine …

Assume Nothing by Rebecca Swan

Assume Nothing by Rebecca Swan Multi Media Performance Event Acclaimed mixed media artist Rebecca Swan from Aotearoa / New Zealand is in New York to launch Assume Nothing – a searingly beautiful book celebrating gender diversity. This work has been aptly described by Art News New Zealand as: “Touchingly intimate yet powerful no holds barred …

Barbara Hammer – MoMA Retrospective

Barbara Hammer MoMA Retrospective 9/15/10-10/13/10 MoMA CELEBRATES BARBARA HAMMER, WITH A MONTH-LONG RETROSPECTIVE OF THE PROLIFIC ARTIST’S EXTENSIVE BODY OF WORK Exhibition Includes the World Premiere of Hammer’s Newest Film, Generations, as well as Her Groundbreaking Experimental Short Films and Documentaries Barbara Hammer from September 15-October 13, 2010 at 
The Roy and Niuta Titus Theaters NEW …

Queers, Gringos, and Other Deviants: New Films from Mexico

Filmmaker Greg Berger, longtime resident of Mexico and professor at the Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Morelos, presents cutting edge new films from Mexico in Queers, Gringos, and Other Deviants. September 14, Tuesday 6 PM NYU Department of Social and Cultural Analysis 20 Cooper Square, 4th Floor NYC The legalization of same-sex marriage in Mexico …

Afghan Star: screening/discussion

Friday, April 9 4 to 7 PM The Kevorkian Center Screening Room 50 Washington Square South at 255 Sullivan Street Afghan Star (Havana Marking, 2008, 87 min.) After 30 years of war and Taliban rule, Afghan Pop Idol is taking the nation by the storm, and contestants are risking their lives to sing. Followed by …

Love Streams film screening @ NYU

THE COLLOQUIUM FOR UNPOPULAR CULTURE presents: THE SPEED OF YOUR HAIR A series on love LOVE STREAMS (dir. John Cassavetes, 1984) WHEN: 6:45pm, Monday 29 March 2010 WHERE: Room 471, 20 Cooper Square (Bowery and East 5th) ALL WELCOME. Refreshments – stiff, copious – provided. “Making a film has been compared, by many good directors, …

Tonight: LA MAMAN ET LA PUTAIN

THE COLLOQUIUM FOR UNPOPULAR CULTURE presents: THE SPEED OF YOUR HAIR A series on love. — LA MAMAN ET LA PUTAIN (dir. Jean Eustache, 1973) WHEN: 6.30pm, Monday 22 March 2010 WHERE: Room 471, 20 Cooper Square (Bowery and East 5th) ALL WELCOME. Refreshments – stiff, copious – provided. “If only people could see once …

The Films of William E. Jones @ Anthology Film Archives

February 26-March 4 @ Anthology Film Archives Beginning with his haunting 1991 feature debut, MASSILLON, an autobiographical account of growing up as a gay man in the American Midwest, William E. Jones has built a remarkable body of work that balances formal experimentation with astute cultural inquiry. Though his films are extremely varied – encompassing …

2010 New York Fornés Festival: Maria Irene Fornés

March 25th to April 5th, 2010 Presented by INTAR (International Arts Relations, Inc)  in association with NYU’s Department of English INTAR (Eduardo Machado, Artistic Director/John McCormack, Executive Director) will join New York University’s Department of English and its Program in Dramatic Literature to celebrate the 80th birthday of playwright, director and teacher Maria Irene Fornés. …