TUESDAY, MARCH 3 at 8 PM

Several years ago Dennis Doros and Amy Heller of Milestone Films started the remarkable Project Shirley to restore the films of the remarkable force of independent filmmaking, Shirley Clarke (1919-1997). Milestone Films has already brought out marvelous editions of the classic films Portrait of Jason, Ornette: Made in America and The Connection. Later in 2015 comes The Magic Box, an amazing three-disc collection of her short films and ephemera. Filmforum is delighted to host the forces behind Milestone Films tonight as we present some of Shirley Clarke’s wonderful short films, from her earliest dance films, Dance in The Sun and Bullfight, through the avant-garde classic Bridges-Go-Round, to her 1970s video experiments in dance and drama such as Trans and Tongues. Screening from Blu-Ray:  Bridges-Go-Round 1 (1958, 16mm, 3:50); Dance In the Sun (1953, b&w, 16mm, 7:03); In Paris Parks (1954, color, 16mm, 13:00); Bullfight (1955, color, 16mm, 9:00); Skyscraper (1959, b&w and color, 16mm, 20:00); Bridges-Go-Round 2 (1958, 16mm, 3:50); Four Journeys Into Mystic Time: Trans (1978, 16mm film & video, color, 9 min.); Tongues (1982, color, 1 inch video, 20:22) Dennis Doros and Amy Heller of Milestone Films in person!
 Tickets: $10 general, $6 students/seniors; free for Filmforum members. For more event information: www.lafilmforum.org or 323-377-7238

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