Vever (For Barbara)

Vever (For Barbara) 2023

1

Deborah Stratman brings past perspectives into the contemporary moment in a montage of unfinished film footage from artist Barbara Hammer with evocative sound, texts, and teachings from artist Maya Deren. Vever poetically draws connects between three generations of women filmmakers who separately, and now together, have taken on unknown challenges, and opened themselves up to reinterpretation in their filmmaking practices.

2023

Béla Tarr: Mysterious Harmonies

Béla Tarr: Mysterious Harmonies 2008

1

Hungarian filmmaker Béla Tarr and film critic Howard Feinstein discuss his innovative filmography, punctuated by clips from his films.

2008

Bowling Alley

Bowling Alley 1995

1

A film made for multimedia artist Shu Lea Cheang’s first art installation features a series of bowlers staring into the lens of the camera, preparing to make a move. Commissioned by the Walker Art Center.

1995

Ether Reveries (Suite for Thérèse Rivière no.2)

Ether Reveries (Suite for Thérèse Rivière no.2) 2017

1

Drawing together footage, photographs and texts from archival sources as well as the artist’s personal collection of materials, Yto Barrada’s new film is as much a poetic enigma as it is a portrait of identity. Ether Reveries (Suite for Thérèse Rivière no.2) takes as its starting point the work and life of Thérèse Rivière (1901–1970), a French anthropologist whose remarkable working life was cut short following her confinement in psychiatric institutions.

2017