MoMA Film Hosts Modern Mondays This October

MoMA- The Museum of Modern Art presents Modern Mondays October 2010 at The Roy and Niuta Titus Theater 2

An Evening with Barbara Hammer
October 4, 7:00 p.m.
Barbara Hammer (American, b. 1939) presents previously unknown works from her archive, concentrating on performance, photography, and installation pieces, and discusses some of the lesser-known and hidden aspects of her practice. The evening includes a reprise of some of her plays on gender and identity, including her role as Bob Hammer in Tender Fictions (1995), and other performance-related projects like Homage to Sappho (1978), Put a Lesbian in the Whitehouse (1979), Available Space (1979), Changing the Shape of Film, Moving Projector, and Balloon Projection (all 2009). Program 90 min.

Organized by Sally Berger, Assistant Curator, Department of Film.

An Evening with Ming Wong
October 18, 7:00 p.m.
For this evening, multimedia artist Ming Wong (Singaporean, b. 1971) discusses his moving-image pieces, commissioned posters, and installations of collected documentation confronting notions of national, racial, linguistic, and gender identity. His work also references both Malay cinema and the films of Hollywood and the Western avant-garde when he directs himself in homemade versions of classic scenes from the films of Douglas Sirk, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Pier Paolo Pasolini, and Luchino Visconti. These works bring to light cross-cultural currents and obliquely reference Singapore's complex history and diverse population. Program 90 min.

Organized by Laurence Kardish, Senior Curator, Department of Film.

An Evening with John Gerrard
October 25, 7:00 p.m.
Media artist John Gerrard (Irish, b. 1974) presents his recent work in real-time 3-D. His digital landscapes-including a pig farm, an oil derrick, a grain silo, and a dust storm-lie somewhere between documentary and fiction. His works are constantly developing and regenerating and their underlying tension comes from Gerrard's moral discomfort with humankind's abuse of the environment. Organized in conjunction with Independent Media Arts Preservation (IMAP) and the International Network for the Conservation of Contemporary Art (INCCA), the program concludes with a conversation about media conservation featuring the artist, Associate Curator Barbara London, and Media Conservator Glenn Wharton. Program 90 min.

Organized by Barbara London, Associate Curator, Department of Media and Performance Art.

Tickets: $10 adults; $8 seniors, 65 years and over with I.D. $6 full-time students with current I.D. (For admittance to film programs only.) The price of a film ticket may be applied toward the price of a Museum admission ticket when a film ticket stub is presented at the Lobby Information Desk within 30 days of the date on the stub (does not apply during Target Free Friday Nights, 4:00-8:00 p.m.). Admission is free for Museum members and for Museum ticketholders.

Modern Mondays is a weekly program that brings contemporary, innovative film and moving-image works to the public and provides a forum for viewers to engage in dialogue and debate with contemporary filmmakers and artists. Modern Mondays presents new-and newly rediscovered-film and media works with the director in attendance, stimulating discourse, dialogue, and interaction in a social setting.

Organized by the Department of Film and the Department of Media and Performance Art. Modern Mondays is made possible by Anna Marie and Robert F. Shapiro. Additional support is provided by The Contemporary Arts Council of The Museum of Modern Art.