september-0ctober 2013 On September 10, 1988, Museum of the As we enter our 25th anniversary year, I while doing the rounds through the Moving Image opened its doors to the can tell you that it has been a thrilling ride galleries, and then repair a video arcade public. At the time, years before the for the Museum, at least as action-packed game. He was a true professional, but will promise of the Internet and digital media as The Great Train Robbery. We have be best remembered as a great husband, were captured in the now-quaint phrase transformed and expanded over the years father, and friend, and he will be missed. “Information Superhighway,” the idea of a to serve a growing audience and to offer an We will pay tribute to Richie on October Museum, built on an historic site for movie increasingly ambitious slate of exhibitions, 4 at an event to mark the opening of a production, that would take a unified view screenings, and education programs. wonderful photo exhibit, The Booth, about of the disparate worlds of film, television, Our film programs range from the best projectionists and their workspaces. and video games, seemed as audacious as of classic Hollywood—as in our complete it was unprecedented. There was, simply, Howard Hawks retrospective—to the best Richie was a great showman; more than no museum like it in the world. It was an of contemporary world cinema—as in our anything at the Museum, he was obsessed innovative blend of a science museum, focus on the great French director Claire with making sure that we put on the best an art museum, a technology museum, Denis. And our exhibitions range from Cut possible show. As we move into our next and a history museum, with a unique Up, a thoughtful survey of the Internet quarter century, all of us at the Museum mix of artifacts, commissioned artworks, phenomenon of short videos created by re- will honor his legacy by always putting on interactive experiences (at the time editing popular media, to Lights, Camera, a great show. employing such now-arcane technology Astoria!, a fascinating exhibit that looks at as laserdisc players, slide projectors, and the history of the Astoria Studios, which We’re glad that you are with us for the electronic synthesizers), and video clips. were built in 1920 and inspired the growth ride. The Museum is very grateful for your of a vibrant film and arts campus. interest and your participation. From its earliest days, the Museum has been committed to being at once forward- While this is indeed a time of celebration, looking, reflecting a subject matter that is it is also a bittersweet moment for the Carl Goodman defined by innovation, and to being rooted Museum. In August, our beloved Chief Executive Director in history, always remembering that the Projectionist, Richard Aidala, died after a latest advances are part of a continuum. brief illness. Richie started working at the Today’s YouTube videos of adorable cats Museum exactly 25 years ago, in August were preceded by short films of boxing 1988, and he was widely acknowledged cats shown in the 1890s on Thomas as a master of his craft. In addition to Edison’s Kinetoscopes. Today’s big-screen doing a great job in the booth, beautifully blockbusters have their roots in Edwin S. projecting hundreds of archival film prints Porter’s still-thrilling 1903 film The Great a year, and adapting to digital projection as Train Robbery. well, Richie was able to fix our Kinetoscope 2 RiChaRd aidala (1949–2013) Chief Projectionist, 1988–2013 3 SINGLE STREAM 5 Cut Up 6 PERSOL 7 MAGNIFICENT OBSESSIONS: 30 stories of craftsmanship in film The Complete Howard Hawks 8 See It Big! 12 New York City Greek Film Festival 14 THE BOOTH 15 The Booth: The Last Days of 15 Film Projection Five by Claire Denis 16 Lights, Camera, Astoria! 17 Fist and Sword 18 Senna 19 Mother of George 19 Enough Said 20 An Evening with East WillyB 20 Celebrating Jim Henson: A Biography 21 THE The Soundtrack Series 21 COMPLETE Roman Polanski 80th birthday 22 HOWARD screening and book signing ENOUGH SAID 20 HAWKS 8 DVD Dead Drop 22 The Wes Anderson Collection 23 Behind the Screen 24 From Mr. Chips to Scarface: 25 Walter White’s Transformation in Breaking Bad Focus on the Collection 26 Drop In Studio 27 Become a Member 28 Our Supporters 29 Host Your Event 30 THE WES Daily Schedule 31 ANDERSON Museum Information 32 REPULSION 22 COLLECTION 23 Cover: Joseph O. Holmes. Avon Theater, Stamford, CT. 2012. Pigment ink print. 4 Photo by Jason Eppink in ThE lobby SINGLE STREAM A VIDEO INSTALLATION BY PAWEL WOJtasiK, Toby Lee, and ERNST Karel ThRoUGh novEmber 3, 2013 organized by Rachael Rakes and Jason Eppink, associate Curator of digital media LIVE EVENT artist talk with Paweł Wojtasik, Toby lee, and Ernst Karel Friday, October 11, 6:30 P.M. Paweł Wojtasik, Toby Lee, and Ernst Karel will talk about Brooklyn-based artist and anthropologist Toby their individual and collective practices with a focus on Lee (b. 1980, Los Angeles) works across video, SINGLE STREAM by Paweł Wojtasik, Toby Lee, and Ernst SINGLE STREAM (2013). performance, installation, and drawing. She holds a Karel, explores a zero-sort recycling center in Charlestown, PhD in Anthropology and Film and Visual Studies from Brooklyn-based filmmaker and video artist Paweł Massachusetts, where hundreds of tons of refuse are sorted Harvard University and currently serves as the Director Wojtasik (b. 1952 Łódź, Poland) creates poetic of the Collaborative Studio program at UnionDocs: and processed every day. Blurring the line between observation reflections on cultures and ecosystems in the form Center for Documentary Art in Brooklyn. and abstraction, SINGLE STREAM plunges the viewer into the of short video works and large-scale installations. steady flow of the plant, capturing the complex and fascinating His investigations into the overlooked corners of Cambridge-based Ernst Karel (b. 1970, Palo Alto) processes devised to treat the enormous amount of waste the environment have led him to pig farms, sewage works between experimental nonfiction sound and Americans produce every day. As it moves among criss-crossing treatment plants, and wrecking yards. His current electroacoustic music. He composes and performs project documents workers in Varanasi, India. with location recordings and/or analog electronics, conveyor belts, industrial paper shredders, and glass-smashing often for multichannel environments. Karel teaches drums, SINGLE STREAM examines the significant material a course in Sonic Ethnography in the Sensory consequences of our society’s culture of excess. Ethnography Lab at Harvard University. 5 in ThE amPhiThEaTER GallERy ThRough oCTOBER 14, 2013 organized by Jason Eppink, associate Curator of digital media From supercuts to mashups to remixes, Cut Up celebrates the practice of re-editing popular media to create new work, presenting contemporary videos by self-taught editors and emerging artists alongside landmarks of historic and genre-defining reappropriation. Easy access to editing tools and distribution platforms now gives more people than ever before the opportunity to respond to the commercial products that shape our cultural dialogues. By plumbing a vast shared vocabulary of image and sound, audiences can express affiliation, criticize, or construct entirely new content using popular media as raw material. Re-edited videos are created and shared online daily by publics that spend increasing amounts of social time in front of networked screens. As the distinction between consumer and participant becomes ever more fluid, re-editing popular media has emerged as a common way of participating in a shared cultural conversation. The exhibition presents a selection of short-form video works that take movies, music videos, television series, and news broadcasts as their source material, focusing on genres and techniques that have emerged online over the past decade and their on- and offline precedents. LIVE EVENT Supercut Superstars SEPTEMBER 6, 6:30 P.M. Rich Juzwiak and Duncan Robson, creators of some of the Internet’s most celebrated supercuts, discuss their processes and philosophies. 6 in ThE ChanGinG EXhibiTionS GallERy PERSOL MAGNIFICENT OBSESSIONS: 30 stories of craftsmanship in film ThRoUGh novEmber 11, 2013 Guest curator: michael Connor The third and final installation in a series of three exhibitions, PERSOL MAGNIFICENT OBSESSIONS: 30 stories of craftsmanship in film, uncovers ten powerful stories of obsessive workmanship within filmmaking. It offers a unique opportunity to view rarely seen artifacts from acclaimed films, as well as behind-the-scenes research notes, sketches, and materials used in the development process by some of the world’s best-known filmmakers. Among the craftspeople featured are Johnny Depp, who undertook extensive research to prepare for his role as Hunter S. Thompson in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas; Theadora Van Runkle, who created detailed illustrations to design the distinctive costumes for Bonnie and Clyde and The Thomas Crown Affair; the legendary editor/sound designer Walter Murch, who revolutionized the use of sound in film in Apocalypse Now; and Jennifer Connelly, who started making her own clothes in preparation for her part as the aspiring fashion designer Marion in Requiem for a Dream. The exhibition also looks at the work of director Ang Lee (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon); costume designers Eiko Ishioka (Bram Stoker’s Dracula) and Julie Weiss (Frida, Twelve Monkeys); cinematographer Sławomir Idziak (Three Colors: Blue); production designer Jeannine Oppewall (Catch Me If You Can), and director Spike Jonze / screenwriter Charlie Kaufman (Being John Malkovich). Publicity still from The Thomas Crown Affair. Courtesy of MGM Media Licensing / Core collection, Margaret Herrick Library, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. persol.com 7 Howard Hawks was the quintessential Hollywood director, a master of many genres who moved easily between drama and comedy with a style that was always lucid, energetic, and direct.