Early Monthly Segments
For the uninitiated, Early Monthly Segments is a monthly avant-garde and experimental 16 mm film screening series that takes place at the Gladstone Art Bar. It’s always something fascinating, no matter what it is, but this particular installment promises some mystery and even some unexpected synchrony....
Early Monthly Segments is a monthly screening series of seminal works in experimental and avant-garde film and video. In the history of this tradition, Babette Mangolte is well-known for her work as a cinematographer for Chantal Akerman and Yvonne Rainer in the 1970s, but Mangolte’s own film output is just as thoughtful, lyrical, exciting, and was just as formative of the traditions both within and outside the avant-garde as Akerman’s and Rainier’s. This Tuesday, July 20th, Early Monthly Segments presents Mangolte’s “The Sky on Location” (16mm, 1982, 78 minutes, USA). The film is a meditation on the rough Western landscape of...
The filmic category of ethnography (among its other, written or photographed, incarnations) has always been a controversial one. How to document truths of a given lifeworld without simplifying, judging, reducing, objectifying, or altogether perverting the issues at hand? Should the filmmaker’s hand be erased or formative of the perspective ultimately crafted? Experimental ethnographer Robert Gardner has mined this difficult territory throughout his career, and his 1964 film Dead Birds (USA, 83 min.) is being screened tomorrow (Monday, June 14th) at the Gladstone Hotel‘s Art Bar as part of the Early Monthly Segments screening series....
Early Monthly Segments is an avant-garde film screening series held at the Gladstone Hotel‘s Art Bar once monthly, and this March 16th marks their one-year anniversary. In celebration, they’re showing films by American experimental filmmaker Robert Beavers, from whose work the screening series takes its name. Screening experimental films in a salon-like setting is definitely a refreshing alternative to the darkness and solemnity of the dark movie theatre, and lively discussions usually follow the films (snacks and drinks are available to order from the Art Bar’s kitchen). Perhaps most significantly, Beavers famously restricted exhibition of his work, and even pulled...
