Alice Guy Blache – Part 3
Sunday January 24, 2010
2:00pm
10 Classic Short Films of Alice Guy Blache – Cinema Pioneer
Live Music by DAVID ARNER
Dance of the Seville Gypsies (1905) 2:16
Dog Playing Ball (1905) 1:24
The Charity of the Magician (1905) 3:25
The High Cost of Living (1912) 13:00
First Class Nun (1902) 4:00
A Man’s a Man (1912) 9:02
The Sewer (1912) 23:18
The Child of the Barricade (1907) 4:39
The Gamekeeper’s Son (1906) 5:07
Goodnight – The Flower Fairy (1905) 00:46
The Whitney Museum of Art
Madison Avenue and 75th St.
New York City
(212) 570-3600
Why you should come to this performance:
1. These are films about gypsy dancing, dogs, a magician, the working class, labor battles, antisemitism, the sewers, the Paris Commune, humanity in the midst of strife, and/or existentialism. This broad palette of visual and dramatic expression is perfect for Arner’s equally diverse and eclectic musical palette.
2. Just as Alice Guy Blache was exploring the possibilities of the camera, so has David Arner been exploring the possibilities of live film music as an active part of the story at hand.
3. These films are hilarious, thoughtful, poignant, riveting, irreverent, and/or compassionate. All in the course of one hour!
4. This is the very last day of the Alice Guy Blache exhibition at the Whitney– a show not to be missed.
For more info about the exhibition go to
http://www.whitney.org/file_columns/0001/0459/aliceguyblache_press_release.pdf