MoMA Film Exhibitions to Showcase Queer Experimental Film and Warner Bros.

The Museum of Moden Art announces its film exhibitions for July and August of 2013, including queer experimental films, an auteurist history of film, an exploration of scoring and a look at the past two decades of film produced by Warner Bros.

Dirty Looks at MoMA: Mining the Collection
July 8-October 31
Dirty Looks NYC, a platform for queer experimental film and video, goes on location, staging alternative screening interventions at MoMA and MoMA PS1 throughout the summer and fall. Programs take place once a month, July through October.

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A View from the Vaults: Warner Bros. Today
July 9-August 14
The Warner Bros. film studio was founded in April 1923 by a quartet of immigrant brothers, Albert, Sam, Harry, and Jack Warner, who had previously worked as traveling film exhibitors throughout Ohio and Pennsylvania. Over the last two decades the studio has given global audiences epic film franchises like the Harry Potter series and a formidable trilogy of trilogies: The Lord of the Rings, Christopher Nolan's Batman, and The Matrix; elegant examinations of American history (Good Night and Good Luck); and cheeky humor (The Campaign, Dark Shadows, The Hangover). This selection of Warner Bros. productions from the past 20 years, all drawn from MoMA's collection, illustrates the studio's continuing commitment to the artistic and commercial legacy of the four Warner brothers, some 90 years later.

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MoMA Presents: Sophie Letourneur's Les Coquillettes
July 17-23
Filmmaker Sophie brings her film, and her friends Carole and Camille, to the Locarno Film Festival. The festival is a merry-go-round of parties, and these girls are boy crazy-when Sophie's not stalking Louis Garrel, ineffectual attempts to hook up with unimpressed guys, and emotional meltdowns, ensue. Sophie Letourneur's comedy of arrested development is a delightfully giddy, screwball lark, a self-mocking, thirty-something French counterpart to Lena Dunham's Girls. Are Letourneur, Camille Genaud, and Carole Le Page playing themselves?Espérons que non!

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MoMA Presents: Etant Donnés's Jajouka, Something Good Comes to You
August 6-12
In Jajouka, a village nestled in Morocco's Rif mountains, magic rites accompanied by a peculiar music performed by "the Master Musicians of Jajouka" (a brotherhood of musicians) are commonplace. Acclaimed musicians Eric and Marc Hurtado, founders of the group Etant Donnés, explore these rituals and legends in fascinating complicity with the master musicians and other villagers of Jajouka. Weaving documentary and fiction, the Hurtados eschew an investigation of the healing power and spiritual transcendence of Jajouka; instead, they have created a film so riveting and poetic that it transposes the experience of trance and emotional release onto the viewer.

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Soundings: A Contemporary Score, the Film Program
August 14-19
Held in conjunction with the gallery exhibition Soundings: A Contemporary Score, this series is as much an exploration of sound as of the moving image, focusing on documentary and "essay" films that take viewers to unusual sonic realms. For Evaporated Music, Philip Brophy composed alien sounds that perfectly match well-known performers' movements and vocalizations culled from pre-existing imagery. Aaron Aites and Audrey Ewell's Until the Light Takes Usexplores the Norwegian black metal scene. Alfredo Jaar's Muxima is a visual lamentation in the form of cantos dedicated to the people of Angola. Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard's Fucked Up Lover, in which 12 friends describe specially made mix tapes, is presented with their video for Nick Cave's "Dig, Lazarus, Dig!" Luke Fowler's programs reveal how he regularly collaborates with sound artists to examine time-based alliances.

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MoMA Presents: Sebastián Silva and Pedro Peirano's Old Cats
August 20-26
Isadora, an octogenarian living comfortably with her husband and two cats, suddenly finds herself fighting a battle on two fronts when the onset of dementia arrives at the same time that her daughter's attempt to scheme the landlord seems to require that Isadora sign over the lease on her Santiago apartment. Unfolding with black humor and empathy in equal measure, the film emphasizes both the confusion in Isadora's psyche and the claustrophobia of her domestic landscape. A hit at the Cannes and New York film festivals in 2010, this is the film's long-awaited theatrical run in the U.S.

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MoMA Presents: Santiago Mitre's The Student
August 22-28
Winner of Special Jury Prizes at BAFICI (Buenos Aires) and Locarno, and a highlight of the New York Film Festival, Santiago Mitre's El estudiante (The Student) (2011) is a tense and shrewdly observed political drama about the still-unhealed wounds of Argentina's Dirty War, and the clash between old-guard Peronists and a younger generation of leftist activists in Buenos Aires today. Writer-director Mitre's debut feature charts the political awakening of a student at the University of Buenos Aires.

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ContemporAsian
Throughout July and August
ContemporAsian, MoMA's showcase of Asian cinema, typically features weeklong engagements of films that capture the various styles, histories, and changes in Asian cinema. In July we present Vincent Sandoval's Apparition, a stylistically and thematically unique film from the exciting Philippine cinema scene. In August, Focus on South Korea, a special multifilm program, celebrates one of the most successful national cinemas on the global film circuit.

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An Auteurist History of Film
Throughout July and August
This ongoing screening cycle is intended to serve as both an exploration of the richness of the Museum's film collection and a basic introduction to the emergence of cinema as the predominant art form of the twentieth century. The auteurist approach to film-articulated by the critics of Cahiers du Cinéma in the 1950s and brought to America by Andrew Sarris-contends that, despite the collaborative nature of the medium, the director is the primary force behind the creation of a film.

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