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Ciné Salon: Amy Greenfield: Flesh into Light

Media scholar Izabella Pruska-Oldenhof will focus on Amy Greenfield’s innovative film-dances that are simultaneously erotic, conceptual, formal, emotional, transgressive and lyric.

Monday, December 13, 2021
7:00pm – 9:45pm
Live & Online at Howe Library
Intended Audience(s): Public
Categories: Arts, Films, Lectures & Seminars, Off Campus Event

Online & Live at Howe Library - Showtime begins exactly at 7PM EDT, please arrive early!

https://thehowe.org/eventdetail.php/pid/2/sid/55/tid/141/eid/7632

To join Zoom, register at:

https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEudequpz8vH9NGEfYXCUwaVEOEdYPHVSd6

"Amy Greenfield's cinema is bound up in the dynamism of movement, in the voice of the human body, and the transformation of both through the language of film." —Robert Haller

Over her more than four-decade career, New York-based filmmaker, performer, and writer Amy Greenfield has achieved widespread critical acclaim for her genre-bending films which cross the boundaries of experimental film, video art, and multimedia performance—from her feature film, Antigone, Rites of Passion, to her major new live multimedia work, Spirit in the Flesh. Exploring the dynamism of movement and the resilience of the human spirit, Greenfield creates a new visual and kinetic language of cinema.

FILMS: Wildfire (2002) 11:39; Light of the Body (1998-2004) 11:13; Videotape for a Man and a Woman (1979) 33; MUSEic of the BODy (2009) 9:34; Antigone, Rites of Passage (1990) excerpt 6:10; Dark Sequins: Dance of the Seventh Veil (2005) 13:10; "A Love Letter to Robert” from Amy Greenfield (2021) with Jon Jost 12:17; Dervish 2 (1974, 1978) 15:47. TRT 114 mins. All films directed by Amy Greenfield unless noted.

BIO: Amy Greenfield is an internationally regarded experimental filmmaker, choreographer and performer, recently widowed with the passing of Robert Haller on April 28, 2021. Since 1970, she has pioneered a new cinematic language of human motion called the filmdance. This language evokes primal inner experience and a woman's representation of the body―intensely visual and kinesthetic―poetic, often nude and timeless.

BIO: Izabella Pruska-Oldenhof is a Toronto-based experimental filmmaker, scholar and an Associate Professor at the School of Image Arts, Ryerson University, Toronto. Her work as an artist and scholar is interdisciplinary and focuses on the intersections of art, body and technology. 

LINKS: https://denniscooperblog.com/amy-greenfield-day/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6SM83bHXqs&t=2868s

https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/F/bo12323546.html

https://ncac.org/event/amy-greenfields-club-midnightagainst-censorship-on-april-3-2010

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hJ1q-14GDo&t=8s

https://www.ryerson.ca/graduate/programs/comcult/people/faculty/pruska-oldenhof--izabella/

XXV:HALLER1: Ciné Salon Fall 2021 honors the remarkable film historian, film archivist and photo documentarian Robert A. Haller (1942-2021). http://anthologyfilmarchives.org/about/haller

 

For more information, contact:
Bruce Posner / Megan Coleman
bruce.posner@dartmouth.edu / megan.coleman@thehowe.org
603-640-3252
Permanent URL to this event: https://film-media.dartmouth.edu/events/event?event=65314

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