Film Screening | "Americans in Paris" Program 2 at Anthology Film Archives: Robert Breer, Kenneth Anger, and Carmen D’Avino

As a cinematic sidebar to Americans in Paris, Anthology Film Archives will host four programs featuring American expat artists who are showcased in the exhibition, and for whom living in Paris played a formative role in their lives and artistic development.

This program brings together work by Robert Breer and Kenneth Anger, two artists whose place in the pantheon of experimental filmmakers is undisputed, as well as painter and animator Carmen D’Avino, whose films were celebrated in their time but have since fallen into relative obscurity.

Program

Kenneth Anger
RABBIT’S MOON, 1950-70, 15 min, 35mm.
Preserved by the UCLA Film & Television Archive, with funding from the Film Foundation.

Robert Breer
RECREATION, 1956, 1.5 min, 16mm-to-35mm
MOTION PICTURES NO. 1, 1956, 4.5 min, 16mm, silent
JAMESTOWN BALOOS, 1957, 6 min, 16mm-to-35mm
EYEWASH, 1959, 3 min, 16mm-to-35mm

RECREATION, JAMESTOWN BALOOS, and EYEWASH were preserved by Anthology Film Archives with generous support from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts.

Carmen D’Avino
THE ROOM, 1959, 5 min, 16mm. Print courtesy of the Academy Film Archive.
PIANISSIMO, 1963, 6 min, 35mm. Print courtesy of the Academy Film Archive.
BACKGROUND, 1973, 19 min, 35mm. Print courtesy of the Academy Film Archive.

Total running time: ca. 45 min.

Visitor Access & Registration

Purchase tickets in advance on Anthology’s website; tickets are also available at Anthology’s box office.