RETURN TO REASON: SHORT
FILMS BY MAN RAY
Monday, September 16th at 7:30 PM
$16 Public | $10 Members
Restored on the occasion of its 100th anniversary, Man Ray’s
first foray into filmmaking, the wildly improvisational and unapologetically
fragmentary Return to Reason, finds the artist exploding and
reconstructing the cinematic medium as a vehicle for accessing the abstract
essence of things by way of the rhythmic accumulation of visual details
glimpsed in part, never in their wholeness.
What emerges from this program—which combines Return
to Reason with several other kindred and newly restored early films by
Ray, set to haunting and hypnotic new music by SQÜRL (Jim Jarmusch and Carter
Logan)—is the sense of Ray as perhaps the modern artist par excellence, an
intrepid experimentalist absolutely committed to delving ever deeper into the
space between consciousness and unconsciousness, sense and nonsense,
wakefulness and dreaming.
Includes the films Return to Reason (1923), L'étoile de mer
(1928), Emak-Bakia (1927), and Les Mystères du Château du Dé (1929).
