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14/4/2011

Birds of Paradise

Museum of the Moving Image, Astoria

curated by Marketa Uhlirova, Ronald Gregg, Stuart Comer, Eugenia Paulicelli, Inga Fraser and David Schwartz

Museum of the Moving Image will present Birds of Paradise, a special edition of the London-based Fashion in Film Festival that will focus on costume as a form of cinematic spectacle. The two-weekend film series, from April 15 through 24, 2011, ranges widely through early cinema, Hollywood exotica, and the American underground, and features screenings, guest speakers, and silent films with live music.

From the exquisitely opulent films of the silent era to the lavishly stylized underground films of the 1940s through 1970s, costume has played a significant role in cinema as a vital medium for showcasing movement, change, light, and color. “The Fashion in Film Festival has established itself as a lively and wonderfully programmed event that spans a wide range of genres and periods, finding a common link on the medium’s emphasis on visual spectacle and dazzling excess,” said the Museum’s Chief Curator, David Schwartz.

Fashion in Film: Birds of Paradise features nearly two dozen films including rare screenings of Nino Oxilia’s Rapsodia Satanica (1915/1917), Jack Smith’s Normal Love (1964), Jose Rodriguez-Soltero’s Lupe (1966), and Alexandre Volkoff’s Secrets of the Orient (1928). There will also be a program devoted to artist, photographer, and filmmaker Steven Arnold—a muse and model of Salvador Dalí’s—whose Los Angeles circle resembled Warhol’s Factory. Additionally, avant-garde works by Ron Rice, Kenneth Anger, and James Bidgood’s Pink Narcissus (1971) will be shown.

Other screenings include classic films such as Cecil B. DeMille’s Male and Female (1919), Erich von Stroheim’s The Merry Widow (1925), Robert Siodmak’s Cobra Woman (1944), and Josef von Sternberg’s The Devil Is a Woman (1935). All silent film will be accompanied by live music, by Stephen Horne, Donald Sosin, or Makia Matsumara.

“These programs explore episodes in film history that foreground costume, adornment, and styling as vehicles of sensuous pleasures and enchantment,” said Marketa Uhlirova, Festival Curator. “The program forges a link between the visual intensity of underground cinema and the dreamlike world of silent cinema. In their magical, sometimes, phantasmagorical tableaux, costume and artifice are not merely on display. Instead, they dazzle, seduce, surprise, or dramatically metamorphose, becoming a type of special effect.”

Founded in 2005, Fashion in Film (fashioninfilm.com) is an exhibition, research, and education project based at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, University of the Arts London. Birds of Paradise, Fashion in Film’s second collaboration with Museum of the Moving Image, was organized in partnership with Yale University, the Center for the Humanities, and the Graduate Center at the City of New York.

This season of Fashion in Film runs in conjunction with a program of seminars at the Graduate Center at the City University of New York (April 19 and May 2), and will be followed by a symposium on Orientalism in cinema at Yale University in November of this year. For more information, visit www.fashioninfilm.com

The program was curated by Marketa Uhlirova, with assistance from Ronald Gregg, Stuart Comer, Eugenia Paulicelli, and Inga Fraser, and organized for Moving Image by Chief Curator David Schwartz.

Festival advisors: Serge Bromberg, Alistair O’Neill, Eric de Kuyper, Ronny Temme, Christel Tsilibaris, Marc Siegel. Supported by the British Council; the Italian Cultural Institute of New York; Film London, Arts Council England, and London College of Fashion. The season is part of the PMI2 Project funded by the UK Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) for the benefit of the United States and UK Higher Education Sectors.

SCHEDULE FOR ‘FASHION IN FILM FESTIVAL: BIRDS OF PARADISE (APRIL 15–24, 2011)
http://www.movingimage.us/films/2011/04/15/detail/fashion-in-film-festival-birds-of-paradise/

Films are included with Museum admission unless otherwise noted and take place at the Museum.

Press contact:
Tomoko Kawamoto
tkawamoto@movingimage.us
718 777 6830

Museum of the Moving Image
35 Avenue (at 37 Street) - Astoria
Hours: Tuesday-Thursday, 10:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Friday, 10:30 to 8:00 p.m. Saturday-Sunday, 10:30 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. Holiday Openings: Monday, April 18, and Monday, April 25 (Spring Recess for NYC public schools), 10:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. (Closed on Monday except for holiday openings).
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