Standish Lawder’s COLOR FILM is one of several experimental works being presented with a special new score at latest Cinema 16 event
The Kitchen
512 West 19th St. between Tenth & Eleventh Aves.
Tuesday, June 26, $12, 7:00
212-255-5793 ext11
www.thekitchen.org
In her first Cinema 16 presentation since her June 2011 show at the Met and the April 2012 passing of original Cinema 16 founder Amos Vogel, photographer and curator Molly Surno continues to keep the experimental aesthetic alive and well with another unique program at the Kitchen. On June 26, the Los Angeles-born, Brooklyn-based Surno will pair a specially commissioned score by New York City musician and visual artist Matteah Baim with a quartet of shorts: Standish Lawder’s 1971 Color Film, in which different colored strips make their way through a projector to music by the Mothers of Invention; Sabrina Ratte’s 2010 Mirages, a kaleidoscopic collaboration with Le Révélateur; Viking Eggeling’s 1924 Symphonie Diagonale, an early abstract silent examination of time and space; and Len Lye’s 1953 Color Cry, a series of photograms initially set to Sonny Terry’s “Fox Chase.” Following the presentation, everyone is invited to the after-party across the street at Gasser & Grunert gallery, which is currently displaying Rodney Dickson’s “Painting” exhibition.