New Music Circle will host a screening of experimental films (that, in hand, are heavily influenced by experimental music) created in the first decade of NMC’s inception (1959-1969). These experimental films play with the physicality of film itself and use film as a medium for conceptual art. The abstract and experimental films from this time period differed from conventional models of filmmaking in many ways; embracing chance, collaging, technical innovation, and also freeing the filmmakers to create personal films that reflected their lives and social beliefs.

Program:

• Science Fiction (1959) – Stan Vanderbeek
• Our Lady of the Sphere (1969) – Lawrence Jordan
• Sonata for Pen, Brush, and Ruler (1968) – Barry Spinello
• 7362 (1967) – Pat O’Neil
• TBD
• Fist Fight (1964) – Robert Breer
• The Very Eye of Night (1959) – Maya Deren
• Black Is (1965) – Aldo Tambellini
• Peyote Queen (1965) – Storm de Hirsch
• Rememberance: A Portrait Study (1967) – Edward Owens

Total runtime: 95 minutes