MoMA Film Announces Modern Mondays For April 2010

MoMA: The Museum of Modern Art announces Modern Mondays for April 2010 at The Roy and Niuta Titus Theaters 1 & 2

An Evening with Nathaniel Dorsky
April 12, 7:00 p.m.
At this event, the venerated filmmaker Nathaniel Dorsky (American, b. 1943) will discuss his methods of creating visual poetry. He will also premiere new work, and screen his recently completed quartet.
His silent films transmit a kind of internal music through their gracefully calibrated visual rhythms. Exquisitely framed images are joined together through meticulous editing, creating an experience akin to seeing the world anew. Dorsky will introduce his short films Sarabande (2008), Winter (2008), Compline (2009), and Aubade (2010), with a discussion to follow.

Program 90 min. T2

Organized by Jytte Jensen, Curator, Department of Film.

An Evening with Amie Siegel
April 19, 7:00 p.m.
As a prelude to MoMA's annual survey of recent German cinema, Kino! 2010, Amie Siegel (American, b. 1974) presents and discusses her film DDR/DDR (2000), a film essay about contemporary life in the former DDR (Deutsche Demokratische Republik, better known as East Germany). Siegel graduated from The Art Institute of Chicago and Bard College before heading to Berlin on an academic grant. There, she has created a number of distinguished installations and single-screen moving image pieces. Many of these works, which she refers to as "cine constellations," examine the nature of objectivity and historical memory.

Program 135 min. T2

Organized by Laurence Kardish, Senior Curator, Department of Film.

An Evening with Matías Piñeiro
April 26, 7:00 p.m.
Filmmaker Matías Piñeiro (Argentinean, b. 1982) presents the North American premiere of his feature Todos mienten (They All Lie, 2009). Winner of jury prizes at the Buenos Aires and Santiago international film festivals, They All Lie is a melodrama wrapped in a tantalizing intellectual mystery about Argentina's nineteenth-century history of dictatorship and liberalism. Set in a secluded country house where a group of girls and boys in their twenties play games of love and chance, invent stories, spy on each other, and plan a robbery, the film employs intricate plot lines, camera movements, and long takes, and situates Piñeiro as an exciting contributor to new Argentine cinema. In Spanish; English subtitles. A discussion with the director will follow the screening.

Program 90 min. T1

Organized by Joshua Siegel, Associate 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.

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