MediaScope is a new initiative devoted to artists and their recent media projects. Focusing on experimentation with form and content, the program features both emerging and recognized artists, who discuss their work with the audience. MediaScope is presented biweekly on Monday nights, and explores filmmaking and videomaking, as well as Web-based, installation, and digital art practices.
MoMA Film at The Gramercy Theatre
April 14 and 28
MediaScope is a new initiative devoted to artists and their recent media projects. Focusing on experimentation with form and content, the program features both emerging and recognized artists, who discuss their work with the audience. MediaScope is presented biweekly on Monday nights, and explores filmmaking and videomaking, as well as Web-based, installation, and digital art practices.
Organized by Sally Berger, Assistant Curator; Jytte Jensen, Associate Curator; Laurence Kardish, Senior Curator; Barbara London, Associate Curator; and Joshua Siegel, Assistant Curator, Department of Film and Media.
An Evening with Sarah Morris (New York)
MediaScope presents four major cycles of work, intoxicating film sequences that move through cities with pulsating speed and energy, produced in recent years by filmmaker, painter, and printmaker Sarah Morris: Midtown (1998), shot in New York City; AM/PM (1999), shot in Las Vegas; Capital (2000), shot in Washington, D.C.; and, most recently, Miami (2002), which is premiering in New York at MoMA and will be introduced by the artist and followed by a discussion.
Monday, April 14, 6:30 (Midtown, AM/PM, and Capital; program approx. 40 min.)
Monday, April 14, 8:00 (Miami, program approx. 60 min)
An Evening with Nancy Andrews (Bar Harbor, Maine)
Nancy Andrews makes handcrafted films mixing puppet animation and live action. Her works are at times playful, at times melancholic, but always original and mysterious. This evening will feature the premiere of Monkeys and Lumps (2003), about the human effort to understand nonhuman life-forms, and a screening of The Reach of an Arm (2002), about Frank Gooding and Peculiarity, who set out West in the 1800s. Artist present. Program approx. 90 min.
Monday, April 28, 8:00
The Gramercy Theatre
127 East 23 Street (at Lexington Avenue)
New York