Film Screening

Jan 14, 2017 | 05:00 pm - 09:30 pm

Film Screenings: Inventing Downtown
Lives of Artists 1 and Lives of Artists 2

5:00 pm: Lives of Artists 1 (90 min.): House of the White People (Kuchar on Segal) and Kusama’s Self-Obliteration (Yalkut on Kusama). 7:30 pm: Lives of Artists 2 (110 min.): Encyclopedia of the Blessed (Kuchar on Grooms) and Hats, Bottles and Bones (Edelheit on Dienes) Co-organized by Anthology Film Archives and NYU’s Grey Art Gallery. Tickets and complete film listings: […]

Film Screening: Inventing Downtown<br/>Exhibition as Stage

Jan 13, 2017 | 07:30 pm - 09:30 pm

Film Screening: Inventing Downtown
Exhibition as Stage

Exhibition as Stage (100 min.): Meat Joy (Schneemann), What’s Happening (with Kaprow, Lamont Young, Dick Higgins, et al.), and Doomshow (Wisniewski) Co-organized by Anthology Film Archives and NYU’s Grey Art Gallery. Tickets and complete film listings: anthologyfilmarchives.org.

Jan 12, 2017 | 07:30 pm - 09:30 pm

Film Screening
Aldo Tambellini II

Thursday, 7:30 pm (90 min.): Black Video 2 (study of light and real-time transmission); Black Spiral (a modified television sculpture); Black TV (contemporary violence on TV); and Inauguration, from the series A Day in the Life of Television—TV About TV.

Jan 10, 2017 | 07:30 pm - 09:30 pm

Film Screening
Aldo Tambellini I

Experimental short films, mostly from the 1960s, by Aldo Tambellini, artist in Inventing Downtown. Tuesday, 7:30 pm (highlights): Black Film Series Plus (includes opening of Black Gate Theatre, New York’s first “electromedia” space); Black Is (abstract images painted directly on clear film base); Black Trip 2 (American psyche seen through eye of a black man); […]

Nov 15, 2016 | 07:30 pm - 09:00 pm

Barbara Moore Presents Stockhausen’s Originale: Doubletakes

Peter Moore’s film Stockhausen’s Originale: Doubletakes documents the 1964 U.S. premiere production of Originale, a happening by German composer Karlheinz Stockhausen. It was filmed during two performances at Judson Hall in New York, produced by Norman Seaman and Charlotte Moorman. These took place as part of the 2nd Annual New York Avant Garde Festival. The […]

Nov 02, 2016 | 06:30 pm - 08:30 pm

Film Screening
Breaking the Frame

Breaking the Frame (Marielle Nitoslawska, 2012, 100 min.) This documentary profiles Carolee Schneemann, a pioneer of performance, body art, and avant-garde cinema, as well as a participant in Moorman’s festivals. Schneeman’s own collaged and diaristic approach to cinema is mirrored in Nitoslawska’s intimate portrait of her. With an introduction and Q & A by B. Ruby […]

Video Screening<br/>Rarely Seen Moorman Television Performances @ EAI

Oct 20, 2016 | 06:30 pm - 09:30 pm

Video Screening
Rarely Seen Moorman Television Performances @ EAI

This screening will present documentation of Charlotte Moorman’s performances for and with television and video, including 26ʹ1.1499ʺ for a String Player, in which she collaborated with Nam June Paik and Jud Yalkut to stage John Cage’s composition for broadcast television. Introduced by Barbara Moore, independent scholar and a close associate of Moorman’s. Titles to be […]

Film Screening<br/>Jud Yalkut, Charlotte Moorman, and Their Circle

Sep 22, 2016 | 07:00 pm - 10:00 pm

Film Screening
Jud Yalkut, Charlotte Moorman, and Their Circle

Program 1 features short films by Jud Yalkut—a pivotal force in the avant-garde scene in the 1960s and ’70s, intermedia artist, and video pioneer—featuring John Cage, Yayoi Kusama, Timothy Leary, Carolee Schneemann, and others. Program 2 documents Moorman’s festivals of 1966 and 1969, with artists such as Joseph Beuys, Allan Kaprow, Alison Knowles, and Shigeko […]

Oct 14, 2015 | 06:30 pm - 08:00 pm

Screening: Experimental Films of the 1960s from Nihon University

Selected by film scholar Go Hirosawa, Meiji Gakuin University, this program of 16mm black-and-white films features two produced by members of Nihon University's communist cinema collective in opposition and response to renewal of the US-Japan Security Treaty.

Film Screening<br/>The Paternal House and Needle

May 06, 2016 | 05:30 pm - 07:30 pm

Film Screening
The Paternal House and Needle

In The Paternal House (Iran, 2012, 105 min.), a terrible family secret haunts several generations of women. Needle (USA, 2013, 21 min.) follows young Lilly as she goes to get her ears pierced. With comments by Vahid Mortazavi, Film Khaneh. Curated by the Ajam Media Collective and Cine-Eye with NYU’s Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near […]

The Grey will be closed July 21–September 30, 2024, in preparation for our upcoming exhibition, Make Way for Berthe Weill: Art Dealer of the Parisian Avant-Garde. We will resume regular open hours on Tuesday, October 1.