Screening + Discussion: Larry Gottheim's "Four Shadows"

Venue

The Film-Makers' Cooperative

Address

475 Park Ave South, 6th Floor, New York, NY 10016

Dates and Times

Tuesday, October 1st, at 7 PM

Tickets

Tickets are available for purchase online.

Host, Artists, Performers, or Collaborators

Larry Gottheim will be in attendance to discuss the film and answer audience questions.

Activity Description

Join The Film-Makers' Cooperative for a special screening of Larry Gottheim’s "Four Shadows," the third film in his "Elective Affinities" cycle. The film, which screened in the Biennial Exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art in 1978 and the Berlin Film Festival, will be projected digitally in the FMC Screening Room.

Gottheim describes "Four Shadows" as a "double chain of four image segments and four sound segments wheel[ing] past each other in 16 combinations." These segments include a family of Gibbon apes, a measured landscape, a shadowed diagram after Cezanne, a wintry urban scene, a text by Wordsworth, and a climactic scene from Debussy's opera Pelleas et Melisande. Gottheim notes that the film's "stately ceremony can generate rich, sensuous, cinematic pleasure as well as a free-flowing stream of associations," exploring themes of "containment and flowing free."