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Let The Record Show Shorts program

Wed, Nov 8, 2023
    Part of
  • BAM Film 2023
  • and
  • Let The Record Show: Archived Cinema
Directed by Brett Morgen

Join us for a post-screening Q&A with filmmakers Ken Jacob and Cat Jones.


 
Perfect Film (1985)
Dir. Ken Jacobs, 23min, 16mm

Director Ken Jacobs presents an out-take from one of history’s most famous events: the assassination of Malcolm X. Preserved as found on a reel he bought for $5 on Canal Street, this footage ties into Jacobs’ larger query into the meaning of news, history, and self. He writes, “The ‘news’—the worldwide events of the day—is a daily tidal sweep and very little of what we learn can stick, and move us to take action towards the control of events. Anything may be revealed for a day and then it must clear the stage immediately. Are we real? Or are we scattered, unable to retain and construct a consecutive history for ourselves?”


 
Augenzeugen (1993)
Dir. Klaus Vom Bruch, 6min, digital

Archival footage of the museum’s double doors contrasts with appropriated filmic images from newsreels and cinema in this series of cinematic philosophical speculations on the famous Third Reich propaganda building in Munich, which opened in 1937 to serve as the official German art museum.


 
Kewekapawetan: Return After the Flood (2014)
Dir. Jennifer Dysart, 29min, digital

Intimate film diaries interwoven with rich black-and-white archival film footage explore the demise and recovery of a remote First Nation community affected by a large-scale hydro-electric project in South Indian Lake in Manitoba, Canada.


 
An Ecstatic Experience (2015)
Dir. Ja’Tovia Gary, 13min, digital


A meditative invocation on transcendence as a means of restoration.

 
Another Decade (2018)
Dir. Morgan Quaintance, 13min, digital

While recent attention casts the 90s as a largely apolitical and monocultural time, this work seeks to exhume evidence buried in the shallow grave of cultural amnesia of a different, more political, iconoclastic, and confrontational decade that promised a future still yet to arrive. Combining archive and found footage from the 90s with newly shot 16mm film and standard definition video, Another Decade focuses on testimonies and statements made by artists, theorists, and cultural producers that are still pertinent over two decades later.


 
Playback (2019)
Dir. Agustina Comedi, 14min, DCP

In Córdoba, far from Argentina’s capital city, the end of a military regime promises a spring that doesn’t last long. “La Delpi” is the only survivor of the Kalas Group, a group of transgender women and drag queens who began to die of AIDS in the late 80s. In a Catholic and conservative city, they made improvised dresses and playbacks their weapons. Today, the images from this unique and unknown footage are not only a farewell letter, but also a manifesto of friendship.


 
I’ll Finish When I Can (2020)
Dir. Cat Jones, 13min, DCP

Filmmaker Cat Jones documents an honest discovery of self through a collection of digital collaging, audio/video recordings, paintings, sketches, and exploratory writing, brought together in one work of healing and resilience. Jones writes: “The discovery of my adoption at the age of 24 has shifted everything I know, have known, and will come to understand about myself in time.”

UPCOMING Screenings

      + Join us for a post-screening Q&A with filmmakers Ken Jacob and Cat Jones

      RUNNING TIME

      88min

      VENUE

      Peter Jay Sharp Building
      BAM Rose Cinemas

      FORMAT

      DCP

      TICKET INFORMATION

      General Admission: $16
      Members: $8

      Leadership support for
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      JL Greene

      Leadership support for
      BAM Film provided by
      the Ford Foundation and
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