Screening
Rudy Burckhardt and Joseph Cornell's "Angel" Screens at The Met
On Saturday, June 29th, at 7pm, join us at The Met for a screening of our print of Rudy Burckhardt and Joseph Cornell's 1957 experimental short film ANGEL, which plays in the Museum's series "Short Films for Short Nights!"
With the advent of film came new ways of representing modern life. Join The Met’s Leonard A. Lauder Research Center for Modern Art for a three-part series featuring dozens of experimental short films made between 1909 and 1969 that collectively delve into the creative process. Program One, Images, explores two-dimensional surfaces through films that have been incised, painted, tinted, cut, or collaged; Program Two, Objects, features films about sculpture and inanimate figures; and Program Three, Collections, considers art and objects in museums, galleries, archives, and studios to think about the sites of culture cinematically.
Burckhardt and Cornell's film plays in Program Two, Objects, which is described as follows: "In the hands of modern artists, sculpture was loosed from its pedestal and freed from representing the human form. Filmmakers captured sculptors at work but also experimented with object-making themselves via animation. Mannequins and dolls became subjects of fascination, as directors tried to grapple with the enigmatic and disconcerting nature of inanimate figures. This program includes films that depict or contain volumetric forms."
The program will be accompanied by live music performed by Mary Halvorson and Tomas Fujiwara. Featured alongside Burckhardt and Cornell's film in this lineup is one of Cornell's solo efforts, Jack's Dream (1938), as well as: Sort of a commercial for an icebag (1969) by Michael Hugo, Visual Variations on Noguchi (1946) by Marie Menken, The Pottery Maker (1926) by Robert Flaherty, Light of the Darkness (1952) by Dušan Marek, Works of Calder (1950) by Herbert Matter, The Girl with the Prefabricated Heart (1947) by Fernand Leger (which is an excerpt from Dreams That Money Can Buy by Hans Richter), and Le sculpteur moderne (1908) by Segundo de Chómon.