Film Screenings / Programs / Series
VOYEURISM, SURVEILLANCE, AND IDENTITY IN THE CINEMA
October 14 – December 19
ICP PRESENTS:
VOYEURISM, SURVEILLANCE, AND IDENTITY IN THE CINEMA
This summer we inaugurated an ongoing collaboration with the International Center of Photography (now located in close proximity to Anthology, at 250 Bowery) with a film series inspired by the exhibition, PUBLIC, PRIVATE, SECRET. The ICP’s debut show in their new home explores the concept of privacy in today’s society and studies how contemporary self-identity is tied to public visibility. The film series expands on this idea by gathering a selection of films that engage the themes of voyeurism, surveillance, and privacy, and that demonstrate the various ways that media is used to fashion a sense of identity. Combining narrative films like De Palma’s BODY DOUBLE and Kieslowski’s A SHORT FILM ABOUT LOVE with experimental films, documentaries, and video art, the series demonstrates how central these ideas have been throughout the history of the cinema.
Launched in July, the series continues with installments in October, November, and December, as well as with a very special event on Thursday, October 13, with “paparazzo superstar” Ron Galella in person (see page ? for more details).
The ICP exhibition, PUBLIC, PRIVATE, SECRET, curated by Charlotte Cotton, will be on view until January 8, 2017. For more info, visit: publicprivatesecret.org, or www.icp.org.
Very special thanks to Pauline Vermare & Marina Chao (ICP), as well as to Charlie Ahearn; Peggy Ahwesh; Joe Gibbons; William E. Jones; Laura Poitras & Brenda Coughlin (Praxis Films); Amie Siegel; Brian Belovarac & Emily Woodburne (Janus Films); Daniel Bish (George Eastman Museum); Kitty Cleary (MoMA); Harun Farocki Filmproduktion; Athena Holbrook (MoMA); Eric Hynes (Museum of the Moving Image); John Kelly (Weinstein Company); Mark McElhatten (Sikelia); Marina Molarsky-Beck (Greene Naftali, New York); Paula Naughton (Simon Preston Gallery); MM Serra (Film-Makers’ Cooperative); Tomek Smolarski (Polish Cultural Institute New York); Zachary Vanes (Video Data Bank); and Gerald Weber (Sixpack).
