MARVELOUS MOVIE MONDAYS!!
guest curator: Doug Klinger

theme: hybrid music video/documentaries

Director Tatia Pilieva’s 2017 video for “You’re The Best Thing About Me” by U2 is a hybrid music video/documentary about love and separation. The film profiles a newlywed military couple, high school sweethearts, a Syrian refugee family in Greece, and a young couple from Mexico City – all in the final 24 hours before one partner in each couple has to leave. The unbelievable access Tatia and her team were able to gain for this film, and the feat of organization it must have taken in order to pull it all off, deserves to be celebrated. But what really makes this film special is Tatia’s ability to tell rich and authentic stories, while keeping them grounded, despite using them in a music video for one of the biggest bands of all time. She creates something that feels both global and intimate, a spirit can be found it a lot of U2’s music. Tatia effectively taps into the feeling of love and loss that all of these people are feeling, and is able to connect them all together through their parallel experiences. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-x7Kd9_CGn8&feature=emb_logo

MARVELOUS MOVIE MONDAYS!!
guest curator: Amy Ruhl

For my final MALL MADNESS themed post, an unlikely film by Chantal Akerman during her post-1970s foray into popular cinema: Golden Eighties (1986).

MARVELOUS MOVIE MONDAYS!!
guest curator: Amy Ruhl

The theme of this month is MALL MADNESS: four moving image works that highlight the architectural space of shopping centers—whether as narrative backdrop, or character in itself. Complicated feelings about consumption abound!

Happy first of November!! New month means time to introduce a new film/video artist who will take us on a month-long cinematic journey on a theme of their choice in our weekly online-only screening series, MARVELOUS MOVIE MONDAYS!! Please join us in welcoming…

AMY RUHL!!

Amy Ruhl is a filmmaker and visual artist working across fields of performance, video, and installation. She has exhibited at galleries and venues such as Lubov, Essex Flowers, Storefront for Art and Architecture, Anthology Film Archives (New York), Vitrine Gallery (London), Public Fiction (Los Angeles), and Antimatter Film Festival (Vancouver, BC). She has performed at NYU Skirball Center, Roulette Intermedium and Irondale Theater (Brooklyn, NY), The Broad Museum and REDCAT (Los Angeles, CA) and the Live Arts Biennial at Bard Fisher Center (Red Hook, NY). Ruhl has attended residencies at Yaddo, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture and Harvestworks Digital Media. She completed her MFA at Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College in 2016 within the Film/Video Department.

MARVELOUS MOVIE MONDAYS!!
guest curator: Zachary Epcar

On our fourth and final week, closing out the theme of EXTRAVAGANT ACTS, we have part two of Robert Ashley’s 1984 television opera ‘Perfect Lives’: ‘The Supermarket (Famous People)’