Alice Guy Blache – Part 1
Sunday November 15, 2009
2:00pm
8 Classic Short Films of Alice Guy Blanche – Cinema Pioneer
Live Music by DAVID ARNER
The Stepmother (1906) 6:38
The Sticky Woman (1906) 2:22
The Results of Feminism (1906) 7:00
A Four-year-old Heroine (1907) 8:18
The Making of an American Citizen (1912) 15:53
For Love of the Flag (1912) 13:40
The Thief (1913) 16:37
New Love and the Old (1912) 4:50
The Whitney Museum of Art
Madison Avenue and 75th St.
New York City
(212) 570-3600
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Why you should come to this performance:
1. Arner is a pioneer in the re-vitalization of silent film music. Alice Guy Blanche is a pioneer in making films, period. Some of these films are from 1906.
2. Arner’s favorite short being screened, The Sticky Woman (a kind of Dadaist-slapstick piece), is only 2 minutes and 20 seconds. The longest one is only 17 minutes.
3. For the 1st time in more than 20 years, Arner will be performing on an electronic keyboard!! (Actually it’s the second time. A month ago Arner covered a restaurant gig for the great pianist Nina Sheldon, which was on a keyboard, and it suddenly became strangely interesting to him.)
4. If you live in the city, it’s easier than going Upstate Films.
5. It’s at the Whitney. Always worth a visit. Check out the other exhibitions before or after the films.
“His [Arner’s] process will transfix and awe” (Cadence Magazine)
“Emphatic yet empathetic” (Signal To Noise)