MoMA Film Annonces Modern Mondays For February 2010

MoMA- The Museum of Modern Art Modern Mondays
February 2010
The Roy and Niuta Titus Theaters 1 & 2

An Evening with Jim Finn
February 1, 7:00 p.m.
Jim Finn (American, b. 1968) presents his feature film The Juche Idea (2008), a satirical mash-up of documentary, fictionalized restaging, and agitprop. His inspiration, and his target, are the film theories and principles of self-reliance espoused by North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Il. Finn subjects Kim's absolutist edicts to parody through genre-defying experimental conceits, incorporating scenes from North Korean melodramas and propaganda films dating back to the 1950s, allusions to the 1978 kidnapping of the late South Korean filmmaker Shin Sang-ok, and absurdist reenactments of English-language lessons from official textbooks. Finn also presents two recent short films, Dick Cheney in a Cold, Dark Cell (2009) and la loteria (2004-05).

Program 100 min. T2

Organized by Joshua Siegel, Associate Curator, Department of Film.

An Evening with Wolfgang Staehle
February 8, 7:00 p.m.
Wolfgang Staehle (German, b. 1950)-founder of The Thing, an online community made up of dozens of members' websites, mailing lists, and an online community forum of artists, writers, programmers,
curators, and political activists-discusses his recent installation A Matter of Time (2009), the fifth in a series of works based on live video streams and chronophotography. The program concludes with a conversation between Staehle, MoMA's Associate Curator, Barbara London, and Dieter Daniels, editor of the 2010 publication netpioneers 1.0, which contextualizes early Internet-based art.

Program 90 min. T2

Organized by Barbara London, Associate Curator, Department of Media and Performance Art.

In Conversation: An Evening with John Cale
Monday, February 15, 7:00 p.m.
For In Conversation: An Evening with John Cale, Cale (Welsh, b. 1942), artist, musician, sonic innovator, and a founding member of the experimental rock band The Velvet Underground, reflects upon the liaison between music and art. The evening includes a discussion of his recent work, Dyddiau Du (Dark Days) (2009), currently on view in the Wales Pavilion at the Venice Biennale. The installation exemplifies the multivalent nature of contemporary media art. The event will be moderated by MoMA's Associate Curator, Barbara London.

Program 60 min. T1

Organized by Barbara London, Associate Curator, Department of Media and Performance Art.

An Evening with Alfredo Jaar
February 22, 7:00 p.m.
In conjunction with MoMA's Documentary Fortnight, 2010, renowned artist, architect, and filmmaker Alfredo Jaar (Chilean, b. 1956), presents his most recent short film Le Ceneri di Pasolini (The Ashes of Pasolini) (2009), which was produced in conjunction with a series of related art projects. A tribute to the Italian filmmaker, intellectual, poet, critic, and journalist Pier Paolo Pasolini, The Ashes of Pasolini incorporates footage from Pasolini's films and rare interviews conducted prior to his sudden and mysterious death in 1975. The title refers to Pasolini's own poem, Le Ceneri di Gramsci, itself a eulogy to the Italian left-wing intellectual Antonio Gramsci.

Program 90 min. T2

Organized by Sally Berger, Assistant Curator, Department of Film.

Tickets: $10 adults; $8 seniors, 65 years and over with I.D. $6 full-time students with current I.D. (For admittance to film programs only.) The price of a film ticket may be applied toward the price of a Museum admission ticket when a film ticket stub is presented at the Lobby Information Desk within 30 days of the date on the stub (does not apply during Target Free Friday Nights, 4:00-8:00 p.m.). Admission is free for Museum members and for Museum ticketholders.

Modern Mondays is a weekly program that brings contemporary, innovative film and moving-image works to the public and provides a forum for viewers to engage in dialogue and debate with contemporary filmmakers and artists. Modern Mondays presents new-and newly rediscovered-film and media works with the director in attendance, stimulating discourse, dialogue, and interaction in a social setting.

Organized by the Department of Film and the Department of Media and Performance Art. Modern Mondays is made possible by Anna Marie and Robert F. Shapiro. Additional support is provided by The Contemporary Arts Council of The Museum of Modern Art.