Film Program Summer 2007 National Gallery of Art, Washington Summer Series film Modernity and Tradition: Film in Interwar Central Europe New Romany Cinema from Hungary From Vault to Screen Lech Majewski Journey through the Russian Fantastik A King in New York (Photofest) Art Films and Events 15 Sun September 4:00 Modernity and Tradition: In the Shadow Goya’s Ghosts of the Machine; Mother Krausen’s Journey to 1 Sat Happiness; and Children Must Laugh 12:30 Art Film: Paul Mellon: In His Own Words New City Symphonies 21 Sat 3:00 Event: New Austrian Experimental Cinema 12:30 From Vault to Screen: Selva: Portrait of 2 Sun Parvaneh Navaï and Falling.Désert.Syn Paul Mellon: In His 2:00 Modernity and Tradition: The Blue Angel 2:30 From Vault to Screen: The Golden Bed 4:30 Event: New Austrian Experimental Cinema Own Words 22 Sun 3 Mon 4:00 Modernity and Tradition: Waxworks and 1:00 Event: Image Before My Eyes and Ringl and Pit The Magic Eye Partisans of Vilna 28 Sat 5 Wed Miss Universe of 1929 1:00 From Vault to Screen: Harvest: 3000 Years 12:30 Art Film: Paul Mellon: In His Own Words 4:00 From Vault to Screen: A King in New York 8 Sat New Austrian Experimental 29 Sun 2:30 Journey through Russian Fantastik: Cinema 4:00 Modernity and Tradition: The Dybbuk The Amphibian Man 9 Sun Image Before My Eyes 4:30 Journey through Russian Fantastik: Ruslan August and Ludmila Partisans of Vilna 4 Sat 12 Wed 1:00 Modernity and Tradition: City Films, Part 1 12:30 Art Film: Paul Mellon: In His Own Words Rockwell Kent 2:30 Modernity and Tradition: City Films, Part 2 15 Sat 5 Sun 2:30 Journey through Russian Fantastik: 4:00 Event: New City Symphonies Stalker 11 Sat 16 Sun June 12:30 From Vault to Screen: The Gang’s All Here 5:00 Journey through Russian Fantastik: 2:30 Lech Majewski: The Knight and The Roe’s Evenings on a Farm near Dikanka 24 Sun Room 22 Sat 2:00 Modernity and Tradition: Avant-garde 2:00 Art Film: Rockwell Kent Shorts (lecture and film showing) 12 Sun 4:30 Lech Majewski: The Garden of Earthly 23 Sun 30 Sat Delights 4:30 Journey through Russian Fantastik: To the 12:30 Modernity and Tradition: Hortobágy and Stars by Hard Ways and Cameraman’s Revenge The Hungarian Village 18 Sat 2:30 New Romany Cinema from Hungary: 1:00 Modernity and Tradition: The Last Laugh 29 Sat Dallas Pashamende; Romany short subjects; and 3:00 Modernity and Tradition: Address Unknown 2:30 Journey through Russian Fantastik: Planet Gypsy Moon 19 Sun of Storms and Interplanetary Revolution 4:30 Lech Majewski: Angelus 30 Sun 22 Wed 4:30 Journey through Russian Fantastik: July 12:30 Art Film: Paul Mellon: In His Own Words Zero City 1 Sun 23 Thurs 4:00 Modernity and Tradition: The Singing 12:30 Art Film: Ringl and Pit Films are shown in original format in the Earth 24 Fri auditorium of the National Gallery’s East Building at 4th Street and Constitution 7 Sat 12:30 Art Film: Ringl and Pit Avenue NW. Seating is on a first-come basis. 1:00 Modernity and Tradition: The Blue Light 25 Sat To ensure a seat, please plan to arrive at 2:30 Modernity and Tradition: Spring Shower 1:00 Modernity and Tradition: Masquerade in least ten minutes before showtime. 4:00 Modernity and Tradition: Faithless Vienna Marijka; Kuyaviak; and The Song of Ruthenia 3:00 Event: Miss Universe of 1929 Programs are subject to change. For current information, visit our Web site: 8 Sun 26 Sun www.nga.gov/programs/film.htm or call 4:30 Event: Goya’s Ghosts 4:00 Modernity and Tradition: Heave Ho! (202) 842-6799. 14 Sat 29 Wed 12:30 From Vault to Screen: Ten Cents a Dance 12:30 Art Film: Paul Mellon: In His Own Words 2:30 From Vault to Screen: Stolen Moments and The Young Rajah film National Gallery of Art, Washington Art, of Gallery National Summer 2007 Summer Program Film National Gallery of Art 4th Street and Non-Profit Org. Constitution Avenue nw U.S. Postage Paid Washington, dc Washington, DC Permit # 9712 Mailing address 2000b South Club Drive Landover, md 20785 www.nga.gov Films are shown in the East Building Auditorium Cover image from Mother Krausen’s Journey to Happiness (Deutsche Kinemathek) Film Program Summer 2007 Goya’s Ghosts New Austrian Experimental Cinema avant-garde shorts Washington premiere September 1 at 3:00, September 2 at 4:30 June 24 at 2:00 Milos Forman in person Austria’s reputation for dynamic experimen­ July 8 at 4:30 Opening this program, Marcin Gizycki· of tal cinema is demonstrated in these recent the Rhode Island School of Design presents Milos Forman’s most recent film (a collab­ short avant­garde works combining abstrac­ a lecture: Between Surrealism and Constructiv- oration with screenwriter Jean­Claude tion and narrative and revealing the film­ ism: Avant-garde and Film in Central Europe in the Carrière) is a visual feast. A rousing account makers’ distinctive command of their medium. 1920s and 1930s. of Spanish life as witnessed by Francisco Aquarena (Josef Dabernig, Isabella Hollauf ); Goya, eighteenth­century court painter and Being and Nothingness (Bady Minck); Elements Ghosts before Breakfast (Vormittagsspuk) is a celebrated society observer, the film covers (Dariusz Kowalski); A Million in Debt Is Normal, playful narrative in which bourgeois values the period from the end of the Inquisition Said My Grandfather (Gabriele Mathes); Planes are challenged and commonplace objects through Napoleon’s invasion. Goya’s Ghosts (Thomas Fürhapter); Instructions for a Light (such as cups, hats, and ties) revolt against presents the artist “as man rather than myth,” and Sound Machine (Peter Tscherkassky) are their daily use. (Hans Richter, 1927/1928, writes critic Jonathan Holland, “and Stellan among the selections. (Total running time 16 mm, silent, 6 minutes) Skarsgård plays the swaggering, devil­may­ approximately 85 minutes) Special thanks to Boots (Buty), hailed by the Polish interwar care painter, later descending into embittered Austrian Cultural Forum press as a “rare example” of Polish avant­ deafness, with perception and brio.” Support­ garde cinema, conveys a strong antiwar ing cast includes Javier Bardem as Brother Image Before My Eyes message as it experiments with form. (Jerzy Lorenzo, Randy Quaid as King Carlos iv, and also Partisans of Vilna Gabrielsky, 1934, 35 mm, Polish with sub­ Natalie Portman as Goya’s model Inés. (Milos September 3 at 1:00 titles, 12 minutes) Forman, 2006, 35 mm, 114 minutes) There Is a Ball Tonight (Dzis´ Mamy Bal), Joshua Waletzky’s landmark documentary, an impressionistic account of the annual Image Before My Eyes, tells the story of Jewish New City Symphonies architects’ ball, blends abstract form and life in Poland between the two world wars, August 5 at 4:00 shape with enticing location footage. (Jerzy using historical footage of urban and rural Zarzycki and Tadeusz Kowalski, 1934, City symphonies — fleeting, lyrical views of life as well as interviews with survivors of 35 mm, silent with music track and sub­ urban settings — have been a key experimen­ the period. Shown in conjunction with Foto: titles, 7 minutes) tal film genre since the 1920s. This program Modernity in Central Europe. (Joshua Waletzky, The Adventure of a Good Citizen (Przygoda updates the once popular genre to focus on 1981, 35 mm, 90 minutes) człowieka poczciwego), the only surviving Polish recent examples. Opening with Rudy Burck­ Partisans of Vilna, a valuable record of the work of the celebrated avant­garde artists hardt’s classic New York portrait Square Times World War II era, focuses on a city that for Stefan and Franciszka Themerson, considers (1967) and including Sway (2006), Pushcarts of centuries was a center of Jewish culture in the concept of subversion through the simple Eternity Street (2006), American Parade (2006), Eastern Europe. Interviews — some rousing act of walking backward. (1937, 35 mm, Pol­ Girl with Dog (2005), A Trip to the City (2005), (such as the story of Schmidt, an Austrian ish with subtitles, 8 minutes) Cairo by Night (2006), and others, the program sergeant who smuggled Jews), some bizarre In At the Prague Castle (Na Pražském hrad˘e) provides a contrast to the classic city films and incongruous (like the story of Rosenberg, artist Alexandr Hackenschmied explores presented in the series Modernity and Tradi­ whose scholarly project was titled Jewish Studies Prague’s Saint Vitus Cathedral. Adding the tion. (Total running time approximately without Jews) — are the core of the documen­ music of František Bartoš, he notes, “I have 110 minutes) tary. (Joshua Waletzky and Aviva Kempner, tried to find the relationship between archi­ 1986, 35 mm, 130 minutes) Introduction by tectural form and music... between the space Aviva Kempner Paul Mellon: In His Own Words of a picture and the space of a tone.” (Alex­ August 22 and 29 at 12:30 andr Hackenschmied, 1931, 35 mm, silent September 1 at 12:30 Rockwell Kent with music track, 11 minutes) September 5 and 12 at 12:30 September 22 at 2:00 In The Highway Sings (Silnice Zpívá), from the film atelier of the Czech shoe and tire fac­ Paul Mellon’s words and writings meld with Painter, illustrator, travel writer, and social tory Bat’a, a “singing tire” makes a journey photographs and family footage to celebrate activist Rockwell Kent (1882 – 1971) was an from its manufacture to its final destination the life of this prominent collector. (Joseph American celebrity of sorts in the 1930s and on an automobile.