Moma ANNOUNCES a SELECTION of SPRING and SUMMER 2020 FILM PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS

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MoMA ANNOUNCES A SELECTION OF SPRING AND SUMMER 2020 FILM PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS

NEW YORK, February 11, 2020—The Museum of Modern Art announces film program highlights of the spring and summer 2020 seasons, including a Tsai Ming-Liang retrospective, a series celebrating the 15th anniversary of Participant Media, and a noteworthy French New Wave program highlighting the genre’s lesser known filmmakers.

Starting things off this spring is Tsai Ming-Liang: In Dialogue with Time, Memory, and Self (April 10–25, 2020), a full retrospective comprising 13 feature films and a selection of shorts. For close to three decades since his debut feature Rebels of the Neon God (1992), Tsai Ming- Liang (b. 1957) has built a contemplative body of work that ruminates on fundamental experiences of existence. Examining themes of solitude, alienation, and desire early in his career, and the passage of time, memory, and spirituality later on, Tsai observes life and, consequently, puts his inner self on display. A maverick who has stretched the limits of minimalism and cinematic stillness, Tsai’s celebrated work includes Vive l’amour (1994), The Hole (1998), Goodbye, Dragon Inn (2003), Stray Dogs (2013), and the North American premiere of Days (2020), among many others.

In partnership with Participant Media, MoMA celebrates 15 years of Participant’s use of entertainment to incite and inspire social change with Participant at MoMA (April 29–May 17), a 15-film series highlighting the dynamic union of art and activism. Selections include Good Night, and Good Luck (2005), An Inconvenient Truth (2006), Food, Inc. (2009), Page One (2011), Middle of Nowhere (2012), Citizenfour (2014), The Look of Silence (2015), Spotlight (2015), The Post (2017), Wonder (2017), A Fantastic Woman (2018), RGB (2018), Roma (2018), American Factory (2019), and Collective (2020).

And this summer, MoMA presents Forgotten Filmmakers of the French New Wave (May 27–July 6). The French New Wave of the 1950s and ’60s radically transformed the language of cinema. While its leading figures are widely recognized—over the years, surnames like Godard, Truffaut, Rohmer, Rivette, Chabrol, Varda, Resnais, Demy, and Marker have all been the subject of retrospectives at MoMA and beyond—there were many other New Wave filmmakers whose work has remained largely unsung. This major survey, including more than 30 features and 25 short films, will allow audiences to rediscover some of them, drawing upon the dictionary of 162 new filmmakers that appeared in the December 1962 issue of Cahiers du cinéma. Included among these is Alain Cavalier’s rarely screened L’insoumis (1964), starring Alain Delon, as well as other films relating to the Algerian War, including James Blue’s The Olive Trees of Justice (1961) and Jacques Panijel’s banned film October in Paris (1962). The series also includes female filmmakers of this period, including Paula Delsol and Yannick Bellon.

EXHIBTION ORGANIZATION AND SPONSORSHIP:

Tsai Ming-Liang: In Dialogue with Time, Memory, and Self Organized by La Frances Hui, Associate Curator, Department of Film. Special thanks to Taipei Cultural Center.

Participant at MoMA Organized by Rajendra Roy, The Celeste Bartos Chief Curator of Film, Department of Film.

Forgotten Filmmakers of the French New Wave Organized by Jean-Michel Frodon, guest curator, and Joshua Siegel, Curator, Department of Film.

Support for the exhibitions are provided by the Annual Film Fund. Leadership support for the Annual Film Fund is provided by Steven Tisch, with major contributions from Jo Carole and Ronald S. Lauder, Association of Independent Commercial Producers (AICP), The Brown Foundation, Inc., of Houston, Marlene Hess and James D. Zirin, Karen and Gary Winnick, and The Junior Associates of The Museum of Modern Art.

PRESS CONTACT: Maureen Masters, [email protected] Press Office, [email protected]

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PUBLIC INFORMATION: The Museum of Modern Art, 11 West 53 Street, New York, NY 10019, (212) 708-9400, moma.org. Hours: Daily, 10:30 a.m.–5:30 p.m. Open until 9:00 p.m. Fridays and the first Thursday of each month. Museum Admission: $25 adults; $18 seniors 65 years and over with I.D. and visitors with disabilities; $14 full-time students with current I.D. Free admission for Members and children 16 and under. Admission to MoMA is free for all visitors every Friday evening, 5:30–9:00 p.m., during UNIQLO Free Friday Nights. Tickets include admission to special exhibitions, films, and MoMA PS1.

FILM ADMISSION: Admission to the day’s film program is free for Museum ticket holders, but separate screening tickets are required. A film admission ticket does not include admission to the Museum galleries. The price of a film admission ticket may be applied toward the price of a Museum admission ticket or MoMA membership within 30 days. Film Program Admission: $12 adults; $10 seniors, 65 years and over with I.D.; $8 full-time students with current ID. Members and children 16 and under admitted free; guests of Members $5.