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ERIC MARCIANO AT MOMA

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Eric Marciano’s feature THE AGE OF INSECTS—and the shorts SPIN CYCLE and NARROWCAST—will screen at MoMA this weekend as part of the show CLUB 57: FILM, PERFORMANCE, AND ART IN THE EAST VILLAGE, 1978–1983.

The director will introduce the films, which were made during a transitional period when, per Marciano, “film married video and had a baby called digital.”*

 

ERIC MARCIANO—THE AGE OF INSECTS, SPIN CYCLE, NARROWCAST, Saturday, February 3, at 4 pm.

TITUS 2 THEATER, MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, 11 West 53rd Street, New York City.

* moma.org/calendar/events

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Eric Marciano, The Age of Insects (1990), from top: Jack Ramey; Marciano directing Dallas Munroe. Images courtesy Eric Marciano.

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ERIC MITCHELL’S KIDNAPPED

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Preserved by Anthology Film Archives, with support from the National Film Preservation Foundation and the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, KIDNAPPED—Eric Mitchell’s 1978 remake of Warhol’s Vinyl—is a downtown saga starring Anya Phillips, Patti Astor, Duncan Smith, Gordon Stevenson, and the director, and screens in conjunction with the MoMA exhibition CLUB 57: FILM, PERFORMANCE, AND ART IN THE EAST VILLAGE, 1978–1983.

“The film’s visually off-kilter conversations about sex, unfocused social commentary, and frenzied dance scene culminate in casual acts of recreational sadism.”*

 

KIDNAPPED, Wednesday, January 31, at 7 pm.

TITUS 2 THEATER, MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, 11 West 53rd Street, New York City.

* moma.org/calendar/event

CLUB 57: FILM, PERFORMANCE, AND ART IN THE EAST VILLAGE, 1978–1983, through April 1.
MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, 11 West 53rd Street, New York City.

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Kidnapped (1978), original poster. Image credit: Gallery 98.

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Kidnapped

THE JIMMY DONAHUE STORY

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This week—in the CLUB 57 program ERIC MARCIANO FROM FILM TO VIDEO—the Museum of Modern Art will screen Marciano’s jazz-infused take on alcoholic walker Jimmy Donahue, as well as the filmmaker’s mid-nineties 35mm work NARROWCAST.

THE JIMMY DONAHUE STORY and NARROWCAST

Monday, January 29, through Sunday, February 4, continuous gallery screenings.

Through April 1.
Museum of Modern Art
11 West 53rd Street, New York City.

Eric Marciano, The Jimmy Donahue Story (1981), written and produced by Marciano and Ignacio Valero.

From top:

Bill Brovold.

Barlo Perry, underground at Times Square subway station record shop.

Brovold and Perry drinking.

Perry and Frank Sinatra album in Ross Rare Records window on University Place.

Brovold and Perry.

Apartment scene with Victoire Taittinger, Brovold, and Perry (4).

RACHEL AMODEO’S WHAT ABOUT ME

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At Jack Smith’s 1989 memorial service, director Rachel Amodeo and a group of friends put together a germ of an idea for WHAT ABOUT ME, her black-and-white, 16 mm, cinema vérité starring Amodeo as Lisa Napolitano, a homeless outcast who crosses paths—some of them through Tompkins Square Park—with Richard Edson, Nick Zedd, and Richard Hell.

With music by Johnny Thunders, this essential downtown document screens twice as part of MoMA’s CLUB 57 exhibition.

 

WHAT ABOUT ME

Wednesday, December 27, at 7 pm. Introduction by Rachel Amodeo.

Monday, January 1, at 7 pm.

Museum of Modern Art

11 West 53rd Street, New York City

Above: Rachel Amodeo in What About Me (1989–93).

Below: Nick Zedd (left), Richard Edson, and Amodeo. Images courtesy of the filmmaker.

CLUB 57 AT MOMA — OPENING NIGHT

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Eric Marciano—director of The Age of Insects and four other films in MoMA’s collection—reports from the opening night of the museum’s new exhibition CLUB 57: FILM, PERFORMANCE, AND ART IN THE EAST VILLAGE, 1978–1983:
 “The reception at MoMA was stunning! I know that we will never again see that group of people together in one place at one time: Andre Degas, David Ilku, John Kelly, David Byrne, Bianca Bob, Chris Tanner, Alexa Hunter (Disturbed Furniture), Tessa Chua, Bob Carrithers, Marty Abrahams, Abel Ferrara, Michael Holman, Scott Covert, Henny Garfunkel, Scott Wittman, Art Labriola, M. Henry Jones, John Waters, Tish & Snooky (Manic Panic), Kenny Scharf, MoMA curators Ron Magliozzi and Sophie Cavoulacos, and guest curators Ann Magnuson and John “Lypsinka” Epperson were among the many in attendance. (Ignacio Valero—who was covering the bike path attack downtown—and Bill Brovold were unable to attend*)
“MoMA went all out. Truly a deep dive into one of the great scenes that was occurring in tandem with other great scenes. The show reveals an energy and crazy intensity in the art—people expressing themselves in an analog era when it took time to do art. Such an eclectic group came to admire and celebrate the work and reminisce about those vibrant (and dangerous) days. The Lingerie Family painting from The Age of Insects is one of the seminal works, with a video of Frank Holliday‘s eye taking the place of the lost original.”
Two days before the opening, participating artist Richard Hambleton died at 65.
CLUB 57: FILM, PERFORMANCE, AND ART IN THE EAST VILLAGE, 1978–1983, through April 1.
MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, 11 West 53rd Street, New York City.
*Bill Brovold, Victoire Taittinger, and Barlo Perry starred in The Jimmy Donahue Story (1982), written and produced by Ignacio Valero and Eric Marciano, and directed by Marciano—a participating artist in the CLUB 57 show.
Ann Magnuson at Club 57, circa 1980. Photograph by Robert Carrithers.
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