ALTERNATIVE CINEMA FALL 2012 Tuesdays, 7:00 PM, Golden Auditorium, Little Hall, Colgate University Open to the Public Free Admission

AUGUST 28 OCTOBER 16 Decasia: The State of Decay (Bill Morrison, 2003, 67 minutes) Jordan Belson: Films Sacred and Profane (Jordan Belson, 1952-2005, What does it look like when a film dies? How might that death be transformed into 80 minute program) a spellbinding rebirth? Bill Morrison’s found footage film asks and answers these questions. Introductory lecture by Curator/Archivist Cindy Keefer, Center for Visual Music Born in Chicago and raised in the Bay Area, Jordan Belson trained as a painter SEPTEMBER 4 before turning his attention to filmmaking after discovering the abstract films of Oskar Selections from Landmarks of Early Film Volume I (Louis and Auguste Fischinger, Norman McLaren and Hans Richter. Since 1947, Belson has explored Lumière et al., 1894-1913, 10 minutes) consciousness, transcendence, and light in a visionary body of work that has been called “cosmic cinema.” Tonight’s program features rarely screened films including Luna Park (Edwin S. Porter, 1904, 1 minute) Caravan (1952), Séance (1959), a new preservation print of Chakra (1972), and more, Interior New York Subway, 14th St. to 42nd St. (Billy Bitzer, 1905, 4 including Belson’s latest film, Epilogue (2005). minutes) Dream of the Rarebit Fiend (Edwin S. Porter, 1906, 7 minutes) OCTOBER 23 The ‘Teddy’ Bears (Edwin S. Porter, 1907, 12 minutes) Casablanca (Michael Curtiz, 1942, 102 minutes) Ranked unanimously by film critics worldwide as one of the top ten films in the history Personal (Wallace McCutcheon, 1904, 5 minutes) of cinema, Casablanca has it all: war and peace, love and hate, sin and redemption — Those Awful Hats (D.W. Griffith, 1909, 2 minutes) and most of all, friendship. Come see what the fuss is about. Falsely Accused (Billy Bitzer, 1908, 20 minutes) A Corner in Wheat (D.W. Griffith, 1909, 15 minutes) OCTOBER 30 The Great Train Robbery (Edwin S. Porter, 1903, 12 minutes) An Autumn Afternoon (Yasujirō Ozu, 1962, 113 minutes) A Trip to the Moon (Georges Méliès, 1902, 12 minutes) “Down in the valley it is already spring/Clouds of cherry blossoms/But here, the The Musketeers of Pig Alley (D.W. Griffith, 1912, 17 minutes) sluggish eye, the taste of mackerel—/The blossoms are melancholy/And the flavor of This screening is a golden opportunity to discover the magic of moving images before sake becomes bitter.” After the loss of his mother, reknowned director Yasujiro Ozu studios, storyboards and sound! Come witness the cinematic pioneering of Louis and wrote this poem. He used the line, “the taste of mackerel” as the original Japanese title Auguste Lumière, Georges Méliès, and Edwin S. Porter. of this film.

SEPTEMBER 11 NOVEMBER 6 The Lonely Villa (D.W. Griffith, 1909, 8 minutes) Breathless (Jean-Luc Godard, 1960, 90 minutes) Seminal French filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard once said: “To make a good film, all The Fall of the House of Usher (Jean Epstein, 1928, 63 minutes) you need is a girl and a gun.” Breathless has both, as well as Godard’s crucial third The Haunted Castle (F.W. Murnau, 1921, 81 minutes) ingredient: a passion for cinema that extends from movie seat to critic’s pen, from The Architecture of Suspense director’s chair to fictional character. This screening features three different experiments in silent film form from three national film industries: American, French and German. Each film’s narrative uses NOVEMBER 12 – ATTENTION: MONDAY SCREENING! architecture as a literal and metaphorical structure for madness, danger and dread. Don’t miss these gorgeous early cinema thrillers! Metropolis (Fritz Lang, 1927/restored 2010, 148 min) Live musical accompaniment by the Alloy Orchestra Metropolis, a futurist thriller about a man who abandons his wealth and privilege to SEPTEMBER 18 join his society’s oppressed workers as they revolt, is one of the most influential and Battleship Potemkin (Sergei Eisenstein, 1926, 75 minutes) celebrated of all silent films. In the summer of 2008, 25 minutes of lost footage that In Battleship Potemkin, Sergei Eisenstein’s innovative montage dazzles as much today had not been seen since the film’s Berlin debut was discovered in Buenos Aires. This as it did nearly one hundred years ago. The film tells the story of a 1905 uprising of screening presents the newly restored “complete” version of the film, accompanied by battleship crewmen against their tyrannical officers. a spectacular musical score created and performed by the Alloy Orchestra. The three- man Orchestra has performed at prestigious film festivals and venues including Lincoln Center, the Academy of Motion Pictures, and the National Gallery of Art. This event SEPTEMBER 25 is generously funded by University Studies, CORE 152, and the Film and Media Rhythmus 21 (Hans Richter, 1921, 4 minutes) Studies Program at Colgate University. Ein Lichtspiel, schwarz weiss grau (László Moholy-Nagy, 1930, 6 minutes) Entr’acte (René Clair, 1924, 24 minutes) NOVEMBER 13 Etoile de mer (Man Ray, 1928, 17 minutes) 365 Without 377 (Adele Tulli, 2011, 53 minutes) Pour vos beaux yeux (Henri Storck, 1929, 7 minutes) Made in India (Rebecca Haimowitz & Vaishali Sinha, 2010, 97 minutes) Un Chien Andalou (Luis Buñuel, 1929, 16 minutes) This double feature explores contemporary documentary through the prism of social issues in contemporary India. 365 Without 377 is a vibrant celebration of the repeal Monsieur Fantômas (Ernst Moerman, 1937, 17 minutes) of sodomy statutes in India in 2009. Made in India charts the global trajectories of What happens when films break their own rules of spectator identification and Western families seeking surrogate mothers in India. These films are generously comprehension? Funny, cereberal, shocking, erotic and enigmatic, these canonical funded by LGBTQ Studies, Women’s Studies, Asian Studies and the Film and avant garde films from the 1920s form a compelling response. Media Studies Program at Colgate University.

OCTOBER 2 NOVEMBER 27 M (Fritz Lang, 1931, 117 minutes) Medium Cool (Haskell Wexler, 1969, 110 minutes) In M, a serial killer throws Berlin into turmoil, abducting and murdering innocent Are television and cinema really mortal nemeses? Wexler’s innovative Medium Cool is an children. Can the police apprehend this psychopath before he strikes again? With ingenious framing and use of sound, Fritz Lang turns the banal features of daily life (a interestng and provocative hybrid of the two. This politically-charged docu-fiction throws together helium balloon, a pencil, a whistled tune) into evil omens. a love story and the protests at the 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago. DECEMBER 4 Run Lola Run (Tom Tykwer, 1998, 81 minutes) Three strikes and Lola is out: Her boyfriend has lost an enormous sum of money which belongs to his gangster boss. Lola (scarlet-haired Franka Potente) has twenty minutes to help him get This series is made possible by the Department of Art and Art that sum back. Can she do it? How much can possibly happen in twenty minutes? Tykwer’s film History, a generous grant from the New York State Council is a heady mash-up of Berlin 1990s counterculture, American crime thrillers, anime, techno, and on the Arts Electronic Media and Film Program existentialism. and support from Doug Arthur ’79. Programmed by Jennifer Stob and Mary Simonson