Event at Tisch: Beyond the Scorched Earth of Counter-Cinema

Attention St. John’s Students:

Please consider joining the Colloquium For Unpopular Culture at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts starting Friday.

See details below.

THE COLLOQUIUM FOR UNPOPULAR CULTURE presents:

LAURA MULVEY and PETER WOLLEN: BEYOND THE SCORCHED EARTH OF COUNTER-CINEMA – first U.S. retrospective of filmmakers’ and theorists’ groundbreaking work

Curated by Oliver Fuke

Sponsored by Department of Cinema Studies, Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality, Department of English Literature, Draper Program

WHEN: Friday 11 – Monday 14 November 2016
WHERE: Department of Cinema Studies, Tisch School of the Arts, 6th Floor, 721 Broadway [Waverly Place]
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

FULL SCHEDULE: http://tisch.nyu.edu/cinema-studies/events/fall-2016/laura-mulvey-and-peter-wollen

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LAURA MULVEY (b.1941) and PETER WOLLEN (b.1938) have long been celebrated as groundbreaking film theorists. Decades after their first publication, texts such as ‘Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema’ (1975) and Signs and Meaning in the Cinema (1969) – which wrestle with and brilliantly conjoin elements of semiotics, feminism, psychoanalysis and theory – are still widely read and debated.

Less known, especially in the United States, are the equally ambitious essay- and theory-films that they made together between 1974 and 1983. Informed and inspired by the Women’s Movement, post-Godardian modernism, and Latin American Third Cinema, they sought to create a new cinematic language that could address submerged feminist histories, the politics of desire and of the gaze, the neoliberalisation of the imagination.

LAURA MULVEY and PETER WOLLEN: BEYOND THE SCORCHED EARTH OF COUNTER-CINEMA, curated by Oliver Fuke, places these rarely-screened collaborations alongside a range of works made for television. Mulvey herself will be present for all screenings; there will also be contributions from and appearances by collaborators such as Yvonne Rainer, Tilda Swinton and Vitaly Komar.

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THE COLLOQUIUM FOR UNPOPULAR CULTURE (est. 2007): part archaeology, part astronomy

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QUERIES: ss162@nyu.edu