Christmas on Earth (Rubin, 1963) & Deux fois (Raynal, 1968): ICA Cinema, 6.30pm
This is a 'The Machine That Kills Bad People' screening.
Programme
Barbara Rubin, Christmas on Earth (1963), double 16mm projection, 29 min.
Jackie Raynal, Deux fois (1968), DCP, 66 min.
ICA introduction:
A double bill of films that double. Barbara Rubin’s underground classic Christmas on Earth (1963) possesses a spirit of riotous, orgiastic anarchism. Made when Rubin was still a teenager and inspired by Jack Smith’s Flaming Creatures,
this sexually explicit work sought to challenge the social mores of its
time – an attitude captured in its working title, “Cocks and Cunts.” Christmas on Earth is a double 16mm projection that incorporates live performative
elements, such as the use of coloured gels and a radio soundtrack, to
create a singular and spectacular cinematic experience. Deux fois
(1968) is the directorial debut of Jackie Raynal, a figure renowned not
only as a filmmaker, but equally for her work as Éric Rohmer’s editor
and as a programmer at New York’s Bleecker Street Cinema. Made under the
umbrella of the Zanzibar Group, with the patronage of Sylvina
Boissonnas, Deux fois deconstructs cinematic conventions through a
series of discrete episodes. In the words of Noël Burch, the film is
"an intentionally elementary meditation on certain primary functions of
film, that could be said to be at the roots of film editing as such –
expectations, exploring the picture, perceptual memory, relationships
between on-screen and off-screen space – all explored in a series of
free-standing sequence shots of perfect simplicity."
Here (and above) is an extract from Deux fois.
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