Barking Water by Native American Director Sterlin Harjo Has a Weeklong Run at MoMA

NEW YORK, NY.- Sterlin Harjo’s Barking Water (2009), which was a highlight of the 2009 New Directors/New Films festival organized by The Museum of Modern Art and The Film Society of Lincoln Center, will have a weeklong engagement at MoMA in The Roy and Niuta Titus Theaters from May 12 through 17, 2010. Native American filmmaker Harjo traces the impromptu journey taken by weathered, handsome couple Frankie and Irene as they visit the stations of their fractured relationship. Though their [...]

New Work from Contemporary Chinese Artists Lu Chunsheng and Jia Aili at Iniva

LONDON.- Iniva presents new work by two contemporary Chinese artists at Rivington Place, with the European premiere of a film by Lu Chunsheng who showed in the Serpentine Gallery’s exhibition of contemporary Chinese art at Battersea Power Station. This is also the first solo exhibition in Europe, “Make Believe…”, by emerging artist Jia Aili. Both artists reflect on industrial progress, social corrosion and the individual’s struggle in the machine age. Lu Chunsheng’s film, “The first man who bought a juicer [...]

New Films from Germany at MoMA’s Survey of German Cinema

NEW YORK, NY.- The Museum of Modern Art marks its 31st annual survey of recent German cinema with Kino! 2010: New Films from Germany, from April 21 through 30, 2010. Included in this year’s exhibition is a selection of 10 features and 14 short films. Features by three leading directors—Andreas Dresen (Whisky with Vodka, 2009), Hans-Christian Schmid (Wondrous World of Laundry, 2009), and Margarethe von Trotta (Vision, 2009)—are highlights of the exhibition. Making their debuts at Kino! 2010 are filmmakers [...]

New Multichannel Video Installation by Alfredo Jaar on View at University of Connecticut

STORRS, CT.- On view from March 24 to April 22, the Contemporary Art Galleries at the University of Connecticut will present a new multichannel video installation titled “We wish to inform you that we didn’t know” by artist, architect and filmmaker Alfredo Jaar. Alfredo Jaar created The Rwanda Project, 1994-2000 as a response to the criminal indifference of the world community in the face of a genocide that claimed one million lives. This project lasted six years and included 25 [...]

Solo Show by John Smith Opens at the Royal College of Art

LONDON.- The Royal College of Art presents a survey exhibition of John Smith’s practice with supporting programme of talks and events. For the first time in the 18-year history of the RCA Curating Contemporary Art MA programme, final year students have decided to present a solo exhibition as their graduate project. Opening on 19 March, this will be the largest UK show by the pioneering east London based artist and filmmaker John Smith. Much loved for their wit, formal ingenuity [...]

Ramchand Pakistani to Have a Weeklong Engagement at MoMA

NEW YORK, NY.- Based on a true story, Ramchand Pakistani (2008), directed by Mehreen Jabbar, illustrates the political tensions between India and Pakistani through one family’s tragic story. The film screens at MoMA from April 21 through 26, 2010, as part of the monthly film series ContemporAsian, organized by Jytte Jensen, Curator, Department of Film, with William Phuan, independent curator, and the assistance of Laura Rugarber, Department Assistant, Department of Film, The Museum of Modern Art. In Ramchand Pakistani, an [...]

Fassbinder’s Visionary Science-Fiction Thriller to Have a Weeklong Run at MoMA

NEW YORK, NY.- World on a Wire (1973), written and directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder (German, 1945–1982) and based on the novel Simulacron-3 by American author Daniel F. Galouve, will have a weeklong run at MoMA, from April 14 through April 19, 2010. Originally made for German television in 1973, Fassbinder’s revolutionary adaptation has only been shown in America once before, in 1997, as part of a comprehensive Fassbinder retrospective at The Museum of Modern Art. Fassbinder is considered one [...]

Reagan ‘GE Theater’ Tapes Restored, Go to Presidential Library

SIMI VALLEY, CA.- All 208 episodes of television’s “General Electric Theater,” hosted by then-actor Ronald Reagan, are being delivered to former first lady Nancy Reagan on Wednesday as part of the two-year celebration of the late president’s 100th birthday. The 1954-1962 “General Electric Theater” tapes, most believed to be damaged or lost, were recently uncovered in the General Electric/NBC Universal archives. They were restored to broadcast quality for use in the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley. Reagan traveled [...]

News from the Near Future by Fiona Tan at Museum Kunst der Westkuste

AMSTERDAM.- Amsterdam-based photographer and video artist Fiona Tan (born 1966) has been a central figure on the contemporary art scene since the 1990s. In her video News from the Near Future (2003) a collage of historic film and audio material tells of man’s ambivalent relationship with water as a force of nature. Drawing on the archives of the Amsterdam Film Museum, Tan composed a narrative crescendo starting off with idyllic impressions of the watery world and building to increasingly menacing [...]

Annual Canadian Front Film Exhibition at MoMA Presents Eight New York Premieres

NEW YORK, NY.- The seventh edition of Canadian Front, MoMA’s annual survey of new Canadian cinema, includes the New York premieres of eight features made over the last 18 months. The exhibition is organized by Laurence Kardish, Senior Curator, Department of Film, in association with Telefilm Canada, and screens at The Museum of Modern Art from March 17 through 22, 2010. This year’s selection includes two comedies: from Montreal, Émile Gaudreault’s surprise hit Fathers and Guns (2009), and from Toronto, [...]