On Tuesday, September 13 we will open our second season with Screen as Psyche, or Intensities for Damaged Eyes, a program of short films by Toshio Matsumoto, introduced by Julian Ross. On Friday, September 16, in collaboration with ArteEast, we will present Social Studies, featuring three films from Lebanon and Palestine by Maher Abi Samra, Marwa Arsanios, and Jumana Manna, and followed by a conversation with Jumana Manna moderated by Amir Husak. On Tuesday, September 20, in collaboration with Queer|Art, we will present the world premiere of Rraine Hanson’s Mooncake, followed by a Q&A with the filmmaker.
The fall program will continue with films and videos by Barbara Hammer, Peggy Ahwesh, Dara Birnbaum, Shigeko Kubota, and Han Ok-hee as part of our long-term screening series “Revisiting Feminist Moving Image.” Other programs include films and video works by Peng Zuqiang, Daniel Jacoby, and Alison Nguyen, as well as a special program focusing on queer video art from Eastern Europe and a discursive program on the legacies of Straub-Hulliet. The ongoing lecture series “Film Beyond Film” will feature talks by Erika Balsom and Johanna Gosse. Alongside the events at the Screening Room, Bar Laika by e-flux will continue having special screenings of artists’ short films and videos every second Wednesday. Upcoming screenings this season include works by Joan Jonas, Mark Leckey, Bruce Baillie, Jan Švankmajer, Peggy Ahwesh, Emilija Škarnulytė, and Pierre Huyghe. Stay tuned for more information on these events among many others to come this fall at e-flux Screening Room and Bar Laika.
e-flux Screening Room is a seventy-seat cinema presenting artists’ films, video art, and experimental film. Located in Brooklyn at 172 Classon Avenue, it opened last winter and has since featured works by Martha Rosler, Su Friedrich, Éric Baudelaire, Dane Komjlen, Maryam Tafakory, Jorge Jácome, Salomé Jashi, Alice Guy-Blaché, Kira Muratova, Tulapop Saenjaroen, Jonas Mekas, Ken and Flo Jacobs, Pedro Neves Marques, Natalia LL, Mantas Kvedaravičius, Elizabeth Povinelli, Piotr Armianovski, Mykola Ridnyi, Izza Génini, and other artists and filmmakers.
More information on upcoming events below.
Tuesday, September 13, 2022, 7pm
Screen as Psyche, or Intensities for Damaged Eyes: Selected Works by Toshio Matsumoto
Admission starts at 5 USD; get tickets here.
Join us for an evening of selected works by noted Japanese filmmaker and critic Toshio Matsumoto (1932–2017), presented with a video introduction by Julian Ross. Matsumoto was a prominent thinker and pioneer of experimental cinema and video art in Japan, questioning and pushing the traditions and frontiers of documentary, avant-garde, and narrative film. Widely known for his queer masterpiece feature film Funeral Parade of Roses (1969), Matsumoto worked in a variety of genres and styles throughout his artistic career. From his collaborations with the legendary collective Jikken Kobo in the late 1950s, to his expressive expanded cinema experiments in the 1960s, to his radical appropriation of emerging video technologies in the 1970s and the 1980s, Matsumoto was constantly testing and reinventing the moving-image medium. In this screening, we are thrilled to showcase rarely seen Matsumoto experimental films and videos that represent both: his formal explorations of the film medium, and his witty and humorous commentaries on traditions, society, politics, and the state of art.
Featuring For the Damaged Right Eye (Tsuburekakatta Migime no Tame ni), 1968, 12 minutes; Metastasis (Shinchintaisha), 1971, 8 minutes; Mona Lisa, 1973, 3 minutes;Andy Warhol: Re-reproduction (Andy Warhol: Fuku Fukusei), 1974; 23 minutes; Everything Visible is Empty (Shiki Soku Ze Ku), 1975, 7 minutes; Phantom (Gemmo), 1975, 10 minutes; Atman, 1975, 11 minutes; and Engram (Kioku Konseki), 1987, 11 minutes. With special thanks to Postwar Japan Moving Image Archive (PJMIA) and Hirofumi Sakamoto. Read more on the program and films here.
Friday, September 16, 2022, 7pm
Social Studies: Films by Maher Abi Samra, Marwa Arsanios, and Jumana Manna
Admission is free; suggested donation 5 USD; get tickets here.
Join us for Social Studies, a film program co-presented with ArteEast and featuring Maher Abi Samra’s A Maid For Each (2016, 67 minutes), Marwa Arsanios’s I’ve Heard Stories 1 (2008, 4 minutes), and Jumana Manna’s Blessed Blessed Oblivion (2010, 21 minutes) at e-flux Screening Room. The program presents Christian Ghazi’s 1969 film A Hundred Faces for a Single Day in conversation with these three films from Lebanon and Palestine made between 2008 and 2016. Ghazi’s avant-garde cinematic manifesto captures a society at the cusp between Lebanon’s so-called Golden Age and the protracted civil war that would erupt soon after in 1975. Depicting the early days of a revolutionary moment—in which the filmmaker was a participant—that brought Palestinian and Lebanese liberation struggles together with workers’ movements, the film is a scathing critique of Lebanon’s political and cultural bourgeoisie, as well as a warning against neglecting one’s own internal pitfalls. Decades after Ghazi’s Hundred Faces, the films of Maher Abi Samra, Marwa Arsanios, and Jumana Manna can be said to turn our gaze inwards once again to grapple with social oblivion conveniently masked by more pressing political concerns. Their films ask how the task of building a shared social consciousness becomes constantly consumed by sectarian divisions, military occupation, and corruption, whereby any kind of social reckoning or emancipation remains a mostly private undertaking. When will such efforts gain entry into politics?
The films of Abi Samra, Arsanios, and Manna will be screened in-person at e-flux Screening Room on Friday, September 16, at 7pm followed by a conversation with filmmaker Jumana Manna moderated by Amir Husak. The full program, including Christian Ghazi’s A Hundred Faces for a Single Day, will be screened online on artearchive.org from September 17–23. This series is part of the legacy program Unpacking the ArteArchive, which preserves and presents over 17 years of film and video programming by ArteEast. Read more on the program and films here.
Tuesday, September 20, 2022, 7pm
Premiere: Rraine Hanson, Mooncake
Admission starts at 5 USD; get tickets here.
Join us for the world premiere of Rraine Hanson’s Mooncake (2022, 11 minutes), presented by Queer|Art. Hanson was the 2020 winner of Queer|Art’s Barbara Hammer Grant for Lesbian Experimental Filmmaking. Weaving together a collage of cinematic strategies and aesthetics, Hanson’s work speaks to a textured history of DIY queer filmmaking. The filmmaker often embeds poetry, analog photography, and autofiction to craft intimate queer narratives. Hanson’s latest work is a whimsical exploration of childhood memory. The film revisits an anonymous protagonist’s interior thoughts, invoking the tender dreams that once trailed their conscience. Ultimately, in this enchanting rendering of juvenile queerness, Hanson invites viewers to dive into those foundational, internal moments that inform selfhood. What can we learn from our formative fascinations? Where in our mind do they live? How do they re-emerge? The screening will be followed by a Q&A with the filmmaker. Read more on the program here.
Stay tuned to upcoming programs on our website, or subscribe to our Screening Room mailing list here. For more information contact program [at] e-flux.com.
Accessibility
–Two flights of stairs lead up to the building’s front entrance at 172 Classon Avenue.
–For elevator access, please RSVP to program [at] e-flux.com. The building has a freight elevator which leads into the e-flux office space. Entrance to the elevator is nearest to 180 Classon Ave (a garage door). We have a ramp for the steps within the space.
–e-flux has an ADA-compliant bathroom. There are no steps between the Screening Room and this bathroom.
