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Sunday, Nov 7: Paul Sharits Program at the Anthology Film Archives


4:30 PM

More info here at the Anthology Film Archives website.

S:TREAM:S:S:ECTION:S:ECTION:S:S:ECTIONED
1968-70, 41 minutes, 16mm, color. Preserved by Anthology Film Archives with support from the National Film Preservation Foundation.

“A conceptual lap dissolve from ‘water currents’ to ‘film strip currents’/Dedicated to my son Christopher.” –P.S.

“Yes, S:S:S:S:S:S is beautiful. The successive scratchings of the stream-image film is very powerful vandalism. The film is a very complete organism with all the possible levels really recognized.” –Michael Snow

T,O,U,C,H,I,N,G (1969, 12 minutes, 16mm)
Newly preserved print!
Starring poet David Franks whose voice appears on soundtrack/an uncutting and unscratching mandala.

“Merges violence with purity.”  –P. Adams Sitney

“Surrealist tour de force.” –Parker Tyler

Total running time: ca. 60 minutes.

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