Old Time Comedy Night

Old Time Comedy Night

16mm, black and white, sound, 11 min
"In David Devensky's picture the audience is shown an audience. We are looking at a picture of them and they, it turns out, are looking at a picture of themselves. At the same time, the suspicion ...
Rental format: 16mm

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"In David Devensky's picture the audience is shown an audience. We are looking at a picture of them and they, it turns out, are looking at a picture of themselves. At the same time, the suspicion grows that these purposely gross caricatures of the average movie spectator are looking past their dark and flickering images to something else. As in The Lickerish Quartet there is the uneasy feeling that the actors and audience have changed places and these parodies of ourselves, facing us, looking straight into the camera, are looking through the screen and seeing us- and that they find the spectacle hilarious." –Donald Richie, MOMA

Films

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    Coffee Grinds
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    Shorts (8 Films)
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    David Devensky

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    Comedy Vignettes of 1970
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    Proof
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    Beethoven's Chicken
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    Caterpillars and Ants
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    Caterpillars and Ants
    David Devensky

    16mm, black and white, sound, 5.25 min
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    Evolutions's Step
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    Homecall
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    The Divine Comprehension
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    The Divine Comprehension
    David Devensky

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    I Wish I Could Shimy Like My Sister Kate
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    David Devensky

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    Vampeer
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    David Devensky

    16mm, color, silent, 10 min
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    The Gramophone Man
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    David Devensky

    digital, color and b/w, sound, 85 min
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    The Record Collectors
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    digital, color, sound, 34.18 min