'Leopards in the Temple' Film Screening Held at SculptureCenter, 1/18

A film screening of 'Leopards in the Temple' film series will be held on Monday, January 18 at the SculptureCenter in New York City.

Leopards in the Temple Film Screening at the SculptureCenter, located at 44-19 Purves Street, Long Island City. 718 361 1750. For information, visit www.sculpture-center.org

Silver and Salt
Monday, January 18th, 7:30 PM
at Anthology Film Archives

Exploring the dissonance between object and image, Silver and Salt is a program of artists' films that avoid cinematic narrative. While narrative has become increasingly sophisticated and atomized within contemporary culture, this program presents alternative ways of relating to objects as images. From Nashashibi/Skaer's exploration of the Metropolitan Museum at night, Flash in the Metropolitan (2006), to the visual and linguistic interplay of John Smith's Associations (1975), this program highlights ruptures in the relationship between the filmed object and the image that it becomes. Marie Menken explores sculpture in four dimensions in Visual Variations on Noguchi (1945), Lois Rowe's Argument from Design (2006) constructs an absurdist monologue around a glass house, and Margaret Salmon's PS (2002) excavates the tensions of pastoral images and a sun-bleached suburbia.

Films selected by artist Lucy Skaer and curator Isla Leaver-Yap.

Nashashibi/Skaer, Flash in the Metropolitan, 16mm, 3 minutes, 2006
Marie Menken, Visual Variations on Noguchi, 16mm, 4 minutes, 1945
John Smith, Associations, DVD, 7 minutes, 1975
Nashashibi/Skaer, Pygmalion, 16mm, 2 minutes, 2008
Margaret Salmon, PS, 16mm transferred to DVD, 8minutes, 2002
Lois Rowe, Argument from Design, DVD, 5 minutes, 2006
Nashashibi/Skaer, Our Magnolia, 16mm, 4 minutes, 2009

A conversation with Skaer and Leaver-Yap follows the screening.

Upcoming Screening

João Maria Gusmão and Pedro Paiva
Monday, March 8, 7:30 PM
at Anthology Film Archives

Described as "poetic philosophical fiction", João Maria Gusmão and Pedro Paiva's 16mm films explore and interpret the uncanny through acts of magnetism, transference, and material transformation. Influenced by alchemy, science fiction, ethnography, and speculative philosophy, their silent films question the boundaries of the perceivable world through short, enigmatic scenarios. Having represented Portugal at last year's Venice Biennial, Gusmão and Paiva (collaborators since 2001) will present a selection of their highly suggestive meditations on the paranormal, including recently completed 35mm works.

Part of the SculptureCenter exhibition Leopards in the Temple, the filmmakers will be on hand.

Please visit www.sculpture-center.org for complete information on exhibitions and events.

Photo: Nashashibi/Skaer, Still from Flash In The Metropolitan, 2006. João Maria Gusmão and Pedro Paiva, Still from Fulcrum, 2005.