4/30/2010: WE SAW THE LIGHT: CONVERSATIONS BETWEEN NEW AMERICAN CINEMA & POETRY -- TALK & SCREENING.


FRIDAY, APRIL 30, 2010
6:30PM

It's officially SPRING FUNDRAISING WEEK over at the Poetry Project & Friday night has been appropriately taken over for purposes of raising neccessary funds. This event will totally be worth your funds & definitely worth the $10 to get in. See you there -- !
Ed & Nicole
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In We Saw the Light: Conversations Between the New American Cinema and Poetry (University of Iowa Press, 2009), Daniel Kane draws on correspondence and interviews with key figures in innovative cinema and writing of the 1960s to provide a fresh look at film’s influence on poetry. Please join us for a discussion amongst filmmakers and poets, and stay for a special screening of mainly 16mm prints.

Talk (6:30-7:30 PM) Ed Bowes, Jacob Burckhardt, Abigail Child, Cole Heinowitz, Jonas Mekas, Jennifer Reeves, and others TBA. Moderated by Daniel Kane.

Film Program (8 PM) A selection of short films by Ed Bowes, Stan Brakhage, Jacob Burckhardt, Rudy Burckhardt, Abigail Child, Christopher Maclaine, Jonas Mekas, Marie Menken, and more t.b.a.
- $10 Admission -

- PROGRAM SUBJECT TO CHANGE -

Thanks to the Filmmakers’ Cooperative, Jacob Burckhardt & Andrew Lampert at Anthology Film Archives.