The Long View: A Film Exhibition

Through November 08, 2007 (check schedule for screening dates)

Screening dates:

October 28-November 15, 2006
January 15-February 1, 2007
April 16-May 3, 2007
July 16-August 2, 2007
October 15-November 8, 2007

Performance Space

Organized by CAC with guest curators Charles Woodman and Russ Johnson
In-kind equipment sponsor: Prestige Audio Visual

Filmmakers: Jean Luc Godard, Peter Watkins, Andy Warhol, Steve Gebhardt, Jonas Mekas, Frederick Wiseman, Hans Jurgen Syberberg, Edgar Reitz and Marco Tullio Giordana.

Traditional filmmaking is often bound by the constraints of time and Hollywood formats. However, many filmmakers have created works that push the limits of scale and running times, the long duration an essential strategy to portray the sweep of history or to immerse the viewer deeply into the milieu of the film. Most of these films have rarely been screened for the public. Their duration, often extending over 6 hours, makes it a difficult fit even for art house cinema. Typically, the films are screened once or twice in a venue on a “marathon” basis. The Performance Space of the CAC offers a unique opportunity to run these films continuously over the course of several days, and, in a sense, will become another gallery in the museum. Any visitor, on any day, could drop by the space and sink into a part of some reality unfolding that week. Viewers who get engaged in a particular film or who want to experience a work in its entirety have multiple opportunities to return to the museum and to absorb the full length of the work. Screenings will be free and open to the public during five time periods in the coming season. Highlights include complete screenings of Jean-Luc Godard's Histoire(s) du Cinéma (1988-1998), Andy Warhol's Empire (1964), Jonas Mekas' As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty (2000), and the world premiere of Cincinnati-based filmmaker Steve Gebhardt's Zaha Hadid & Her Museum (2000-2006).

The Long View: A Film Exhibition Screening Dates

October 28 – November 15, 2006
    October 28: Histoires du Cinema by Jean Luc Godard
    October 29 – November 15: La Commune by Peter Watkins
January 15 – February 1, 2007
    January 15 – January 21: Empire by Andy Warhol
    January 22 – February 1: Zaha Hadid and Her Museum by Steve Gebhardt
April 16 – May 3, 2007
    April 16 – April 22: As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty by Jonas Mekas
    April 22 – May 3: Near Death by Frederick Wiseman
July 16 – August 2, 2007
    July 16 – August 2: Our Hitler: a Film from Germany by Hans Jurgen Syberberg
October 15 – November 8, 2007
    October 15 – October 27: Heimat 3 by Edgar Reitz
    October 28 – November 8: The Best of Youth by Mario Tulio Giordano