Summer Film Series: Experimental Travelogues part 1

Thursday, July 12 at 8pm
Continuing the Bridge’s tradition of showcasing short experimental films, this two-part screening will present a selection of avant-garde travelogues, beginning on July 13 and continuing on July 26.

We’ll start off with two early films by Rudy Burckhardt, Seeing the World, part one and Haiti. (These films have been provided courtesy of Unseen Cinema: Early American Avant-Garde Film: 1893-1941, a collaborative film preservation project between Anthology Film Archives, New York and Deutsches Filmmuseum, Frankfurt am Main, and underwritten by Cineric, Inc.)

This first screening will also include Amarillo and Westcliffe Stampede, the two parts of Wildwest Suite, Holly Fisher’s fragmented document of a road-trip through the American Southwest; we’ll also screen The Glass System, shot on the streets of Calcutta and New York by Mark Lapore; and Cassis, a short travel film by the legendary Jonas Mekas.

The journey will conclude with The Man Who Could Not See Far Enough, Peter Rose’s five-part mini-epic which combines very personal narration and self-documentation with breathtaking optical printing effects; the film’s climax involves Rose traversing the length of the Golden Gate Bridge by climbing the Bridge’s suspension cables, camera in hand.

Click here for details about part two of Experimental Travelogues.