Agnieszka Kurant's CUTAWAYS Set for Screening, Q&A, in NYC Today

A screening of the short film, Cutaways, commissioned by SculptureCenter for Agnieszka Kurant's solo show, exformation, currently on view through January 27, 2014, will take place today, November 23 at 3pm at the NeueHouse Screening Room, 110 East 25th Street, New York City. Co-presented with performance. Free Admission with RSVP. Space is limited.

Following the screening, Mary Ceruti (SculptureCenter Executive Director and Chief Curator) will moderate a conversation with the artist and Manuel Cirauqui (Associate Curator, Dia Center for the Arts and co-writer of the Cutaways script.

About the film: Agnieszka Kurant, Cutaways, 201321 min, HD film. Commissioned by SculptureCenter and Stroom den Haag Courtesy the artist and Galeria Fortes Vilaça and Tanya Bonakdar Gallery.

Cutaways - Agnieszka Kurant's collaboration with the American film editor Walter Murch (The Godfather, Apocalypse Now) - is a portrait of the invisible universe of phantom characters that have been completely deleted from the final cut of feature films after decisions regarding film duration or structure were made by editors, directors and producers, leaving no apparent trace in the stories yet strangely belonging to them-a no man's land or junkyard of surplus characters and deleted narratives. Addressing editing as basic common intellectual and political tool present everywhere in our lives, Cutaways narrates the encounter of three cut-out characters from different major American films, played by their originally assigned actors who continued to impersonate their characters: Charlotte Rampling as the hitchhiker cut out from Richard C. Sarafian's Vanishing Point (1971), Abe Vigoda as the lawyer and best friend of protagonist Harry Caul in Francis Ford Coppola's The Conversation (1974) and Dick Miller as Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction (1994) deleted junkyard owner Monster Joe.

Image: Agnieszka Kurant, Cutaways, 2013.