PARADISE NOW! Essential French Avant-garde Cinema, 1890–2008
Friday 14 March – Friday 2 May 2008
Tate Modern
Don't miss 7 weekends of the best French avant-garde cinema, including an unprecedented selection of over 80 pioneering experimental films from the last hundred years, including classics, as well as marvellous surprises, from psychedelia to erotica, via music videos and radical political filmmaking. The theme of each screening is inspired by manifestos written by celebrated DADA provocateurs Marcel Duchamp and Tristan Tzara, and is guaranteed to make you look at the French avant-garde in a new light. It also marks the 40th anniversary of the May 1968 protest movements that sparked a revolutionary shift which resounds today. The series demonstrates the political vitality and formal diversity of the French avant-garde from the beginnings of cinema to the present day.
The series includes pioneering films by Christian Boltanski, Alberto Cavalcanti, Marcel Duchamp, Jean Epstein, Gérard Fromanger, Philippe Garrel, Jean-Luc Godard, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Maria Klonaris & Katerina Thomadaki, Ange Leccia, Maurice Lemaître, Rose Lowder, Louis Lumière, Étienne-Jules Marey, Chris Marker, Georges Méliès, László Moholy-Nagy, Pierre Molinier, Marylène Negro, Man Ray, Carole Roussopoulos, Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet, Ben Vautier, René Vautier and many more.
Curated by Nicole Brenez, Michael Temple, Michael Witt, Pierre d’Amerval and Laurent Mannoni in association with Tate Modern and La Cinémathèque française.
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all screenings at
Starr Auditorium
Tate Modern, Bankside, London, SE1 9TG
Nearest Tube: Southwark / London Bridge / Blackfriars
Tickets: £5 / £4 concessions
Season Ticket: £50 / £40 concessions
Box Office: 020 7887 8888
http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/film
http://www.anderwald-grond.net