Fall Film Series: Narrative Deconstruction

Thursday, November 16 at 8pm

Uniting classic avant-garde and experimental films with recent underground filmmaking, this assortment of short films reconfigure the definition of narrative film.

We’ll be screening Maya Deren’s classic At Land; Janie Geiser’s spooky nocturne The Fourth Watch; Madison Brookshire’s rural experiment A Shout in the Street; and Laida Lertxundi’s Wish You Were Here, a comedic critique of the concept of vacation.

We’ll also enjoy Timothy Shearer’s Dirty White South Horse, an absurd crunk deconstruction of the 1980 Travolta classic Urban Cowboy; and Lewis Klahr’s film The Pony Glass, a stop-motion queer coming-of-age tale starring Superman’s pal Jimmy Olsen. We’ll conclude with Wilson Busfield’s The Spectacle, which combines a science-fiction plot, an obtuse domestic drama, a pretentious children’s theatre director, a hilarious pornographic interlude, and extensive war-reenactment footage into one stunning 25-minute epic.