Silent Film

Arner at the Whitney – Part 3

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

Arner at the Whitney – Part 2

5 Classic Short Films of Alice Guy Blache – Cinema Pioneer

Sunday December 27, 2009

2:00pm

Live Music by DAVID ARNER

The Floor Polisher (1907) 3:32

The Volunteer’s Fiancee (1907) 7:00

The Recalcitrant Donkey (1906) 5:00

The Beasts of the Jungle (1913) 31:36

The Life of Christ (1906) 33:23

 

The Whitney Museum
Madison Avenue and 75th St.
New York City
(212) 570-3600

Why you should come to this performance:

1.  If you missed Arner at the Whitney last month, here is your second chance.  There will be only one more in this series, on Sunday January 24.
2.  Alice Guy’s The Life of Christ features 25 elaborate sets and 300 extras, packed into a 33-minute epic (a long film for 1906).
3. The whole show will be about an hour.
4.  It’s at the Whitney.  Always worth a visit.