"What a film series does is let you take a critical idea and then put into practice. You say, 'let's look at these films, and what do the actual films on screen show us.'"
Exploring cinema doesn't just end when the final reel spools; it's also about learning the history and future of how moving images play into our daily lives. At the Museum of the Moving Image, David Schwartz programs the films that accompanying and work into the Astoria-based institution dedicated to this mission. In his conversation with Peter, David describes how he originally got hooked into New York's repertory film scene and how it eventually led him to programming. They discuss the importance of exploring new media and the avant-garde, the difficulties and advantages of the digital transition, and working with an ever changing audience. They finish off their conversation with a discussion of Andy Warhol's Beauty #2, an avant-garde work that David argues for the very precise control of the director in this apparently improvised movie.
0:00-0:57 Opening
2:03-6:00 Establishing Shots - Harris Savides / Trivia Round
6:45-1:00:42 Deep Focus - David Schwartz
1:02:07-1:25:18 Double Exposure - Beauty #2 (Andy Warhol)
1:25:20-1:27:17 Close / Outtake
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Notes and Links from the Conversation
-MoMA's Harris Savides retrospective
-Peter on Van Sant's Gerry and Fincher's Zodiac
-John Simon's Ingmar Bergman Directs
-Bleeker Street Cinema
-William Everson
-Rochelle Slovin
-Behind the Screen
-Edison's Boxing Cats
-DVD Dead Drop
-See It Big!
-Play This Movie Loud!
-Pinewood Dialogues
-Program Guides: Jack Smith and Ken Jacobs,
-Tom Gunning and The Cinema of Attraction
-Brakhage on Criterion
-Phil Solomon's America Falls
-Jerry Lewis and Peter Bogdonavich
-Daisy Ad
-Nixon's "Convention" Ad
-The Living Room Candidate
-P. Adams Sitney's Visionary Film: The American Avant-Garde
-Watch Andy Warhol's Beauty #2
-David on Warhol
-Hollis Frampton's (nostalgia)
-Raoul Walsh's The Big Trail
-Peter on Van Sant's Gerry and Fincher's Zodiac
-John Simon's Ingmar Bergman Directs
-Bleeker Street Cinema
-William Everson
-Rochelle Slovin
-Behind the Screen
-Edison's Boxing Cats
-DVD Dead Drop
-See It Big!
-Play This Movie Loud!
-Pinewood Dialogues
-Program Guides: Jack Smith and Ken Jacobs,
-Tom Gunning and The Cinema of Attraction
-Brakhage on Criterion
-Phil Solomon's America Falls
-Jerry Lewis and Peter Bogdonavich
-Daisy Ad
-Nixon's "Convention" Ad
-The Living Room Candidate
-P. Adams Sitney's Visionary Film: The American Avant-Garde
-Watch Andy Warhol's Beauty #2
-David on Warhol
-Hollis Frampton's (nostalgia)
-Raoul Walsh's The Big Trail
Theme Music: “Forward” by Northbound
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