This selection of 10 short film prints on loan from Canyon Cinema and Pacific Film Archive celebrates the mobile nature of the 16mm camera, and the limitations of its mechanism that allow for true experimentation and play. Curated and projected by Margaret Rorison.
Program:
- New York Near Sleep for Saskia (Peter Hutton, 1972, 16mm, 10 minutes)
- Ciao Bella (Betzy Bromberg, 1978, 16mm, 13 minutes)
- Elixir (Amy Halpern, 2012, 16mm, 7 minutes)
- Elasticity (Chick Strand, 1976, 16mm, 25 minutes)
- Sacred Heart of Jesus (Freude, 1965, 16mm, 6 minutes)
- Flight (Greta Snider, 1996, 16mm, 5 minutes)
- Piensa En Mí (Alexandra Cuesta, 2009, 16mm, 15 minutes)
- Goat (Paige Taul, 2021, 16mm to digital, 3 minutes)
- The Leaden Echo and the Golden Echo (Margaret Tait, 1955, 16mm, 7 minutes)
- Les Tournesols (Rose Lowder, 1982, 16mm, 3 minutes)
Total running time approximately 95 minutes.
Part of the Summer of 16mm: Celebrating 100 Years of Film series.