Join us at e-flux Screening Room on Tuesday, September 27 at 7pm for Monsters and Measures, a screening of recent films by Sasha Litvintseva and Beny Wagner, and at Bar Laika on Wednesday, September 28, 2022 at 9pm for More Than Cinema: Jean-Luc Godard, A Letter to Freddy Buache.
Program
Tuesday, September 27, 2022, 7pm
Monsters and Measures: Selected Films by Sasha Litvintseva and Beny Wagner
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e-flux Screening Room
224 Greene Ave
Brooklyn, NY 11205
Join us at e-flux Screening Room for Monsters and Measures, a screening of recent films by Sasha Litvintseva and Beny Wagner featuring A Demonstration (2020) and Constant (2022), andpreceded by the filmmakers’ video introduction. From the exploration of taxonomy in early modern science in A Demonstration to the investigation of the production of standardized measurement systems in Constant, Sasha Litvintseva and Beny Wagner’s latest two films explore different episodes in the history of science, offering theoretically rich ways of thinking about the gaps between the world and how we come to know it. The monster, on the one hand, is the object that breaks classification only to reinforce taxonomic logic, while measurement systems that attempt to remove human subjectivity are inscribed with the fallible human body at their core.
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Wednesday, September 28, 2022, 9pm
More Than Cinema: Jean-Luc Godard, A Letter to Freddy Buache
Free admission
Bar Laika by e-flux
224 Greene Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11238
Bar Laika is very pleased to invite all to a screening of Jean-Luc Godard’s A Letter to Freddy Buache (Lettre à Freddy Buache, 1982, 12 minutes). In A Letter to Freddy Buache, a police officer informs Jean-Luc Godard and his film crew that the only time they can stop on the side of the road is in an emergency. Godard tells the officer that they are indeed experiencing an unforeseen emergency since the sun will set shortly, after which they would be unable to capture the city’s image. This is a scene from Godard’s short film, addressed to the Swiss film critic Freddy Buache. The truth is that this essay film was never meant to be made. Godard was initially commissioned by the city of Lausanne to create a film commemorating the city’s 500th anniversary, but the filmmaker had refused to meet the conventional demands of the genre of expository documentary, and his film was rejected. What Godard was striving for was a more-than-human image of the history of his native city, an attempt that Gilles Deleuze dubbed constructivist, saying that Godard’s goal was to “rebuild Lausanne using colors, Lausanne’s speech, its indirect vision.” Following colors and contours that describe the terrain of Lausanne, Godard pushed the cinematic image towards abstract painting that exceeded the limits of what one expects from representational documentary. Both a refusal to compromise and a celebration of cinema, this essay film perfectly exemplifies Godard’s style, politics, and creative perseverance. Let’s meet at Bar Laika to raise a glass to the master of cinema, JLG!
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