Barbara Rosenthal Turns 70! Outer Bodies, Inner Selves

A 70th birthday celebration and screening for Barbara Rosenthal
8 films
On August 15th at 7pm at the Film-Makers' Cooperative, celebrate Barbara Rosenthal's 70th birthday with a screening focusing on physical bodies to explicate humanity in terms that include, but are not limited to, sex.

Films

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    Pregnancy Dreams
    Experimental

    Pregnancy Dreams
    Barbara Rosenthal

    color and b/w, sound, 4 min
    Rental format: DVD NTSC
    • Body
    • Children / Youth
    • Family
    • Personal / Diary / Journal
    • Philosophical
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    Barbara Rosenthal Contemplates Suicide

    Barbara Rosenthal Contemplates Suicide
    Barbara Rosenthal

    color, 13 min
    Rental format: DVD NTSC
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    Push Me

    Push Me
    Barbara Rosenthal

    color, 6.5 min
    Rental format: DVD NTSC
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    A Paradise of Children
    Animation
    Experimental
    Narrative

    A Paradise of Children
    Noe Kidder

    video, color, sound, 3 min
    Rental format: DVD NTSC
    • Children / Youth
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    Baby Doll
    Documentary
    Experimental

    Baby Doll
    Tessa Hughes-Freeland

    16mm, black and white, sound, 5 min
    Rental formats: 16mm, DVD NTSC
    • Erotic
    • Dance
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    Chop Off
    Documentary
    Experimental

    Chop Off
    M. M. Serra

    sound, 6 min
    Rental formats: Digital file, DVD NTSC
    • Body
    • Arts / Artists
    • LGBT / Queer
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    SSS
    Experimental

    SSS
    Henry Hills

    16mm, color, sound, 5.5 min
    Rental format: 16mm
    • Dance
    • Music
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    Open 7 Days a Week, 24 Hours a Day
    Experimental

    Open 7 Days a Week, 24 Hours a Day
    Bill Creston

    color, sound
    Rental format: Digital file
    • Political / Social Activism
    • Arts / Artists
    • Biography / Autobiography

Description

On August 15th at 7pm at the Film-Makers' Cooperative, celebrate Barbara Rosenthal's 70th birthday with a screening focusing on physical bodies to explicate humanity in terms that include, but are not limited to, sex.

Join us in birthday cake, champagne and movies! “Outer Bodies, Inner Selves” is the theme for the night’s screenings by Barbara Rosenthal and other artists who have used their own and other physical bodies to explicate humanity in terms that include, but are not limited to sex.

This party is the kickoff to a year of Rosenthal’s Seventieth Birthday International Video Retrospective. It will begin here at 7pm on Wednesday, August 15th, with the following films (and then Barbara will be traveling throughout the year with various of the 130 video shorts she has made since 1976, to Miami and Buenos Aires (facilitator Daniela Luna), Berlin (Boddinale Film Festival), Helsinki (facilitatorr Charlie Morrow), Brussels (facilitator Alex Dementieva) and points east).

PROGRAM:
Barbara Rosenthal's News To Fit the FamilyPregnancy Dreams, Whispering Confession, Barbara Rosenthal Contemplates Suicide, and Push Me
Carolee Schneemann, Infinity Kisses
Charlie Morrow & Jerome Rothenberg, Songs of Flowers and Stones
Noe Kidder, A Paradise of Children
Pam Kray, The Ghost Sonata
Maria Beatty, Bandaged
Tessa Hughes-Freeland, Baby Doll
Joel Schlemowitz, Watch Abrasions
MM Serra, Chop Off
Coleen Fitzgibbon, Beach
Terry Berkowitz, Eye of the Camera (excerpt)
Ela Troyano & Henry Hills, SSS 
Bill Creston, Open 7 Days a Week, 24 Hours a Day

Seating is limited and film party RSVPs are strongly encouraged. PLEASE click “going” but ALSO RSVP to RSVP.eMediaLoft@gmail.com.


Suggested donation to Film Coop screenings: $10.