Mirrored Identities: The Self as Multiple

A program of films examining the mutability of human identity through doubling, fracture, and dissolution
8 films
Join us at the FMC Screening Room (475 Park Avenue South, 6th Floor) on Saturday, May 13th, 2023, at 7pm, for a fascinating program of films examining the mutability of human identity through doubling, fracture, and dissolution, curated by Julia Curl!

Films

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    Introspection
    Experimental

    Introspection
    Sara-Kathryn Arledge

    16mm, color, sound, 6.25 min
    Rental format: 16mm
    • Dance
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    Meshes of the Afternoon
    Experimental

    Meshes of the Afternoon
    Maya Deren

    16mm, black and white, sound, 14 min
    Rental formats: 16mm, Digital file
    • Philosophical
    • Personal / Diary / Journal
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    Phases of The Moon
    Experimental

    Phases of The Moon
    Tom Chomont

    16mm, color, silent, 3.5 min
    Rental format: 16mm
    • Philosophical
    • Personal / Diary / Journal
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    Private Imaginings and Narrative Facts
    Experimental

    Private Imaginings and Narrative Facts
    Edward Owens

    16mm, color, silent, 6 min
    Rental formats: 16mm, Digital file
    • Arts / Artists
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    Astral Man
    Animation
    Experimental

    Astral Man
    Stan Vanderbeek

    16mm, color, sound, 2 min
    Rental formats: 16mm, Digital file
    • Philosophical
    • Spiritual / Mystical
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    Self Portrait
    Experimental

    Self Portrait
    Maria Lassnig

    16mm, color, sound, 4.5 min
    Rental format: 16mm
    • Biography / Autobiography
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    Rhythm & Form; Grey Area III
    Animation
    Experimental

    Rhythm & Form; Grey Area III
    Gregory Anthon

    16mm, black and white, sound, 4.25 min
    Rental format: 16mm
    • Arts / Artists
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    Parallax
    Experimental

    Parallax
    Rosalind Schneider

    16mm, color and b/w, sound, 21 min
    Rental format: 16mm

Description

Join us at the FMC Screening Room (475 Park Avenue South, 6th Floor) on Saturday, May 13th, 2023, at 7pm, for a fascinating program of films examining the mutability of human identity through doubling, fracture, and dissolution, curated by Julia Curl!

The Surrealist movement reimagined the body as multiple: through gender play and an exploration of the uncanny, its early avant-garde artists engaged in a deliberate fracturing and recomposition of the self. Multiple exposure, mirrors, and creative framing methods provided new tools for destabilizing the viewer and provoking a conception of the individual not rooted in a unified, singular “ideal.”

This selection of films follows in that legacy — some overtly inspired by it, some not — and examines the mutability of human identity through doubling, fracture, and dissolution.

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PROGRAM:

Sara-Kathryn Arledge, Introspection (1946, color, sound, 6.5 minutes)

Maya Deren, Meshes of the Afternoon (1943, black and white, sound, 14 minutes)

Tom Chomont, Phases of the Moon (1968, color, silent, 4 minutes)

Edward Owens, Private Imaginings and Narrative Facts (1966, color, silent, 6 minutes)

Stan VanDerBeek, Astral Man (1957, color, silent, 2 minutes)

Maria Lassnig, Self Portrait (1973, color, sound, 4.5 minutes)

Gregory Anthon, Rhythm & Form: Grey Area III (1987, color, sound, 5 minutes)

Rosalind Schneider, Parallax (1973, B&W, sound, 21 minutes)

Total Run Time: 63 minutes.