Store Days I and II

Store Days I and II

16mm, black and white, silent, 14.15 min
Early in 1962, Claes Oldenburg offered a remarkable series of ten "Happenings" in a store on East Second Street in New York City. The audiences were kept small to heighten the intimacy of the ...
Rental format: 16mm

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About

Early in 1962, Claes Oldenburg offered a remarkable series of ten "Happenings" in a store on East Second Street in New York City. The audiences were kept small to heighten the intimacy of the experience. What is a "Happening"? It would seem impossible to describe afterwards. Yet Raymond Saroff compressed the rich and sprawling imagery of each evening-length work to the essential matter in hand, reassembling a visual realization of what was seemingly consigned to the memories of its audience. All the characterizations, the unprepared transitions, the very personal rhythms with something of Saroff's own: the Happenings' impact in a sensitive eye, its reduction to a single and coherent point of view. –Howard Rose (1962)

Programs

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    Seeing the City: Avant-Garde Visions of New York from the Film-Makers' Cooperative Collection and Beyond

    A 10-program series of films about NYC in collaboration with Film at Lincoln Center

    Film at Lincoln Center and The Film-Makers’ Cooperative present "Seeing the City: Avant-Garde Visions of New York from The Film-Makers’ Cooperative Collection and Beyond," to be presented at FLC from May 3rd–7th, 2024. The series will feature a selection of films from the Film-Makers’ Cooperative catalog, and elsewhere, that paint a unique portrait of the city, with many presented on 16mm.

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