Museum of Modern Art Announces Upcoming Film Screenings

MOMA announces upcoming screenings from February to March. 

FEBRUARY 18-MARCH 4, 2011

Upcoming Screenings

Disorder

Friday, February 18, 7:15 p.m.
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El Bulli: Cooking in Progress
Friday, February 18, 8:00 p.m.
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Karamay
Saturday, February 19, 1:30 p.m.
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The Desert of Forbidden Art
Saturday, February 19, 5:00 p.m.
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Looking at Music 3.0
March 2-10
Accompanying the gallery exhibition of the same name, this series explores the influence of music on contemporary art practices, focusing on New York in the 1980s and 1990s and the birth of "remix culture." These films and videos examine the birth of hip-hop; new articulations of feminism; AIDS activism; the artistic development of music videos; and the rise of the digital domain.

MoMA Premiere: Lynn Hershman Leeson's !Women Art Revolution: A Secret History
March 3
Compiled from hundreds of hours of interviews with visionary artists, historians, curators, and critics, !Women Art Revolution explores the development of the women's movement and feminist art since the 1970s, revisiting bellwether alternative art spaces and landmark exhibitions that called attention to the groundbreaking work of women artists. The film will be introduced by Gloria Steinem and followed by a discussion with the filmmaker and artists featured in the film.

Documentary Fortnight 2011: MoMA's International Festival of Nonfiction Film and Media
Through February 28
Established in 2001, MoMA's annual two-week showcase of recent nonfiction film and media takes place each February. This international selection of films presents a wide range of creative categories that extend the idea of the documentary form, examines the relationship between contemporary art and nonfiction practices, and reflects on new areas of nonfiction practice.

Weimar Cinema, 1919-1933: Daydreams and Nightmares
Through March 7
Organized in association with the Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau Foundation in Wiesbaden and in cooperation with the Deutsche Kinemathek in Berlin, this exhibition-the most extensive ever mounted in the United States of German films made between the world wars-includes 75 feature-length films and 6 shorts, along with a gallery exhibition of Weimar-era film posters and stills. In addition to classic films by Fritz Lang, F. W. Murnau, and G. W. Pabst, among others, the exhibition includes many films, unseen for decades, that were restored after German reunification. A fully illustrated catalogue accompanies the exhibition.

Abstract Expressionism and Film
Through April 23
Presented in conjunction with the exhibition Abstract Expressionist New York, Abstract Expressionism and Film comprises six programs of short and feature-length films, all drawn from the Museum's collection, that were both developed simultaneously with and inspired by the radical formal innovations of the New York School.

Modern Mondays
Ongoing
MoMA's ongoing showcase for innovation on screen, Modern Mondays allows contemporary filmmakers and moving image artists to present their work directly to audiences. On February 28, in conjunction with Documentary Fortnight 2011, artist Nao Bustamante presents some of her performance and video works.

An Auteurist History of Film
Ongoing
This ongoing screening cycle explores the evolution of film as a medium by charting the careers of several key directorial figures-not in order to establish a formal canon, but to develop one picture of cinematic history. Upcoming screenings focus on the work of George Cukor and Howard Hawks. Be sure to check out curator Charles Silver's Auteurist History posts at MoMA's Inside/Out blog.