Work It Kitty is part of Internet Cat Video Festival at Museum of Arts & Design (photo courtesy Walker Art Center)
Museum of Arts & Design
2 Columbus Circle at 58th St. & Eighth Ave.
Friday nights through October 30, free but tickets required, 7:00
800-838-3006
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The Museum of Arts & Design follows up its intense eight-week Andrei Tarkovsky retrospective with something a little less demanding. Running on Friday nights through October 30, the free “Remember Film?” series kicks off with “I Don’t Want My Pizza Burning: Comedy Came from the Internet,” comprising more than three dozen comic clips from the Web, and continues with such other unique programs as back-to-school episodes of Art Thoughtz with critic extraordinaire Hennessy Youngman; the 2015 Internet Cat Video Festival, a collection of crazy feline shorts that originated at the Walker Art Center; Phil Solomon’s In Memoriam trilogy, made from Grand Theft Auto footage; Sophie Fiennes’s 2006 The Pervert’s Guide to Cinema, in which Slavoj Žižek takes a unique look at the history of the movies; Star Wars Uncut: Director’s Cut, consisting of a shot-by-shot re-creation of Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope made by more than 1,500 people from around the world; 99%: The Occupy Wall Street Collaborative Film, a documentary of the grass-roots movement featuring such folks as Matt Taibbi, Naomi Wolf, and Boots Riley; and “Early Works of Ryan Trecartin,” which are just that, early videos made by the popular artist, primarily when he was still an undergraduate. The series was prompted by Fujifilm Global’s 2012 announcement that it was no longer producing motion picture film stock and the bankruptcy of Eastman Kodak, two major signals that digital video was defeating film, making everyone with a camera or cell phone a director.