Film Program: The Tour Continues

A middle-aged Wall-Street broker, Mark likes spending time in the Vermeer galleries at the Met when he’s off work. One day, he meets a French actress named Anna, who looks exactly like The Girl with a Pearl Earring and leaves her his number. The story about the impossible romance between the world of money and the world of art by the important American experimental filmmaker Jon Jost won the Caligari Film Award at the Berlin Film Festival in 1991. Garage Screen will present the premiere of the restored version.

In 1913, the inventor of modern dance Isadora Duncan suffered a tragic loss: her two children and their governess drowned when their car crashed into the Seine. In 1921, Duncan dedicated Mother—an overwhelming dance piece choreographed to the music of Scriabin—to her children. A century later, four Frenchwomen—three dancers and a famous choreographer—are studying the score of Mother. One is trying to choose an appropriate intonation for it, trying to avoid the aestheticization of trauma; the other two, a teacher and a student, stage the piece, while the fourth woman watches the production from the audience. This elegant and mesmerizing picture about dance and cultural continuity won French filmmaker Damien Manivel the Best Director award at the Locarno International Film Festival.

A divorced puppeteer Suzanne (Juliette Binoche), hires Chinese film student Song as a nanny for her seven-year-old son Simon. During walks with Song, a big red balloon appears out of nowhere and follows Simon. In the European debut by a key director of the Korean new wave Hou Hsiao-Hsien, shot with the support of Musee d'Orsay, art—represented by puppet theatre, film, and music, references to French painting and cinema—is dissolved in the everyday and acts as a tuning fork for a story of childhood and a family falling apart.

An odd-looking European man wrapped in a Roman toga waters his flowers and goes for a morning run, listening to Jay-Z. He gets dressed, puts on a fancy scarf, and cycles around Berlin and its outskirts, meeting friends. This Gentleman is Karl Holmqvist, a Swedish artist and poet who lives in Berlin, and the film presents a day in his life recorded by the Thai artist Rirkrit Tiravanija.

A middle-aged Wall-Street broker, Mark likes spending time in the Vermeer galleries at the Met when he’s off work. One day, he meets a French actress named Anna, who looks exactly like The Girl with a Pearl Earring and leaves her his number. The story about the impossible romance between the world of money and the world of art by the important American experimental filmmaker Jon Jost won the Caligari Film Award at the Berlin Film Festival in 1991. Garage Screen will present the premiere of the restored version.

In 1913, the inventor of modern dance Isadora Duncan suffered a tragic loss: her two children and their governess drowned when their car crashed into the Seine. In 1921, Duncan dedicated Mother—an overwhelming dance piece choreographed to the music of Scriabin—to her children. A century later, four Frenchwomen—three dancers and a famous choreographer—are studying the score of Mother. One is trying to choose an appropriate intonation for it, trying to avoid the aestheticization of trauma; the other two, a teacher and a student, stage the piece, while the fourth woman watches the production from the audience. This elegant and mesmerizing picture about dance and cultural continuity won French filmmaker Damien Manivel the Best Director award at the Locarno International Film Festival.

A divorced puppeteer Suzanne (Juliette Binoche), hires Chinese film student Song as a nanny for her seven-year-old son Simon. During walks with Song, a big red balloon appears out of nowhere and follows Simon. In the European debut by a key director of the Korean new wave Hou Hsiao-Hsien, shot with the support of Musee d'Orsay, art—represented by puppet theatre, film, and music, references to French painting and cinema—is dissolved in the everyday and acts as a tuning fork for a story of childhood and a family falling apart.

Johan is a former music manager who works as a guard at Vienna's Museum of Art History. Anne comes from Canada to Europe for the first time in her life to visit her ailing cousin. Their chance encounter makes both reconsider their own lives and the history of art.

A middle-aged Wall-Street broker, Mark likes spending time in the Vermeer galleries at the Met when he’s off work. One day, he meets a French actress named Anna, who looks exactly like The Girl with a Pearl Earring and leaves her his number. The story about the impossible romance between the world of money and the world of art by the important American experimental filmmaker Jon Jost won the Caligari Film Award at the Berlin Film Festival in 1991. Garage Screen will present the premiere of the restored version.

Johan is a former music manager who works as a guard at Vienna's Museum of Art History. Anne comes from Canada to Europe for the first time in her life to visit her ailing cousin. Their chance encounter makes both reconsider their own lives and the history of art.

Jessica Sarah Rinland's conceptual yet poetic pieces shot on 16mm film expose the tactile, visual, and aural relationship between art, the artist, and the viewer, exploring how we perceive art as well as how it perceives us. Garage Screen presents two works by Rinland, the short Expression of the Sightless and her full-length debut Those That, at a Distance, Resemble Another, the latter awarded a special mention at the 73rd Locarno International Film Festival.

An odd-looking European man wrapped in a Roman toga waters his flowers and goes for a morning run, listening to Jay-Z. He gets dressed, puts on a fancy scarf, and cycles around Berlin and its outskirts, meeting friends. This Gentleman is Karl Holmqvist, a Swedish artist and poet who lives in Berlin, and the film presents a day in his life recorded by the Thai artist Rirkrit Tiravanija.

A divorced puppeteer Suzanne (Juliette Binoche), hires Chinese film student Song as a nanny for her seven-year-old son Simon. During walks with Song, a big red balloon appears out of nowhere and follows Simon. In the European debut by a key director of the Korean new wave Hou Hsiao-Hsien, shot with the support of Musee d'Orsay, art—represented by puppet theatre, film, and music, references to French painting and cinema—is dissolved in the everyday and acts as a tuning fork for a story of childhood and a family falling apart.

Filmmaker Bertrand wanders through the rooms of Parisian museums, looking for an image of a perfect monster to inspire him for a new movie. In parallel with this, he introduces his creations in the cinematheque, gives interviews, and tries not to notice how a red spot in the shape of a handprint is growing on his back. Antoine Barraud's surreal fantasy explores how life imperceptibly but maniacally duplicates and extends art, adopting and expanding its representation, up to the most terrifying imagery, starring renowned director Bertrand Bonello, the author of Zombie Child, who plays an alternative version of himself.

Jessica Sarah Rinland's conceptual yet poetic pieces shot on 16mm film expose the tactile, visual, and aural relationship between art, the artist, and the viewer, exploring how we perceive art as well as how it perceives us. Garage Screen presents two works by Rinland, the short Expression of the Sightless and her full-length debut Those That, at a Distance, Resemble Another, the latter awarded a special mention at the 73rd Locarno International Film Festival.

Johan is a former music manager who works as a guard at Vienna's Museum of Art History. Anne comes from Canada to Europe for the first time in her life to visit her ailing cousin. Their chance encounter makes both reconsider their own lives and the history of art.

An odd-looking European man wrapped in a Roman toga waters his flowers and goes for a morning run, listening to Jay-Z. He gets dressed, puts on a fancy scarf, and cycles around Berlin and its outskirts, meeting friends. This Gentleman is Karl Holmqvist, a Swedish artist and poet who lives in Berlin, and the film presents a day in his life recorded by the Thai artist Rirkrit Tiravanija.

Filmmaker Bertrand wanders through the rooms of Parisian museums, looking for an image of a perfect monster to inspire him for a new movie. In parallel with this, he introduces his creations in the cinematheque, gives interviews, and tries not to notice how a red spot in the shape of a handprint is growing on his back. Antoine Barraud's surreal fantasy explores how life imperceptibly but maniacally duplicates and extends art, adopting and expanding its representation, up to the most terrifying imagery, starring renowned director Bertrand Bonello, the author of Zombie Child, who plays an alternative version of himself.

In 1913, the inventor of modern dance Isadora Duncan suffered a tragic loss: her two children and their governess drowned when their car crashed into the Seine. In 1921, Duncan dedicated Mother—an overwhelming dance piece choreographed to the music of Scriabin—to her children. A century later, four Frenchwomen—three dancers and a famous choreographer—are studying the score of Mother. One is trying to choose an appropriate intonation for it, trying to avoid the aestheticization of trauma; the other two, a teacher and a student, stage the piece, while the fourth woman watches the production from the audience. This elegant and mesmerizing picture about dance and cultural continuity won French filmmaker Damien Manivel the Best Director award at the Locarno International Film Festival.