Anthology Film Archives

CHAT D'OEUVRES, PART DEUX

October 14 – October 15

CHAT D’OEUVRES, PART DEUX

Dear fellow cats and cat lovers,

My name is Marcel because of my French heritage but I am a New Yorker tabby cat, absolutely bilingual as was my beloved adoptive father Petitloup, who created CHAT D’OEUVRES, the first NY cat art film festival, in 2009.
Now, according to his will, I am the new artistic director of CHAT D’OEUVRES – a pun in French, whereby chef d’oeuvre or masterpiece, is turned into Chat (cat), since many cats have been the subject of artists’ oeuvres.
This year we will screen a bunch of amazing films and videos from Europe and the U.S. that feature our international cat brethren. Jonas Mekas, Anthology’s tremendous founder and artistic director, will show something special for this event, and Robert Storr, the Dean of Yale University, will introduce an exceptional document of famous artists Mondrian, Duchamp and Calder playing with a kitten…
The program will also include a number of never-released shorts and vignettes. Acclaimed artists Tracey Emin, Michel Auder, and Rob Wynne, all of whom contributed to the first festival, asked me to bring the festival back. I received such enthusiastic responses from artists and filmmakers that many of them – agnès b, Joan Jonas, Paul-Armand Gette, Anne Deleporte, Eleanor Hubbard, etc – have turned their cameras on their favorite felines and created original films for this second edition of CHAT D’OEUVRES.

Miaou-Meow
Marcel
Les Films du Siamois, artistic director

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