Tadanori Yokoo’s 1965 KACHI KACHI YAMA is one of six experimental films being shown in latest Cinema 16 presentation
The Kitchen
512 West 19th St. between Tenth & Eleventh Aves.
Wednesday, May 14, $20, 9:00
212-255-5793 ext11
www.cinemasixteen.com
www.thekitchen.org
Back in June 2011, photographer and curator Molly Surno told twi-ny, “The more experimental films I watch, the harder it is for me to sit through big-budget films. I mean, let’s put it this way: For me, a Saturday night spent among purely escapist entertainment would include The Godfather or The French Connection. . . . That is about as mainstream as I like to get.” Since 2008, the Brooklyn-based Surno, who earned her MFA from Columbia last year, has been reviving Cinema 16, the film society founded by Amos Vogel in 1947, combining experimental films with cutting-edge live music. The 2014 edition takes place May 14 at the Kitchen, with a half dozen far-from-mainstream films that examine the intersection of love, paradise, adventure, and mythology being accompanied by an original score by drum-synth collective IIII (“Four,” consisting of Hisham Akira Bharoocha, Ryan Sawyer, Brian Chase, and Ben Vida, joined by electronic musician Seja). The short films being presented are David Rimmer’s 1969 Migration, Frans Zwartjes’s 1968 Birds, One, Henri Platt’s 1968 I Am an Old Smoking Moving Indian Movie Star, Len Lye’s 1952-53 Color Cry, Tadanori Yokoo’s 1965 Kachi Kachi Yama, and Kihachirō Kawamoto’s 1965 Broken Branches.