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Bette Gordon Films from Anthology Film Archives

Presented by Aurora Picture Show and Museum of Fine Arts, Houston at Museum of Fine Arts Houston - Brown Auditorium

August 21, 2011

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Aurora Picture Show and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston present Bette Gordon Films from Anthology Film Archives, Sunday, August 21 at 7pm. Archivist and filmmaker Andrew Lampert in attendance.

Called “an independent filmmaker with a penchant for unorthodox subjects” by critic David Sterritt, Gordon's films have been widely noted for their willingness to tackle topics like...

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Called “an independent filmmaker with a penchant for unorthodox subjects” by critic David Sterritt, Gordon's films have been widely noted for their willingness to tackle topics like pornography and motherhood from a decidedly feminist point of view. Ms. Gordon is on the faculty of Columbia University School of the Arts. This program features a selection of her early shorts, recently restored by Anthology Film Archives. Presented on 16mm, films include: Michigan Avenue (Bette Gordon & James Benning,1973) i-94 (Bette Gordon & James Benning,1974) The United States of America (Bette Gordon & James Benning, 1975) Still Life (Bette Gordon,1972) An Erotic Film (Bette Gordon,1975) and An Algorithm (Bette Gordon, 1977)

As Archivist at Anthology Film Archives in New York City, Andrew Lampert works with the film/media collections and is in charge of preservation. To date he has managed projects to preserve and restore more than 150 titles by Stan Brakhage, Jonas Mekas, Maya Deren, Robert Downey Sr., Ken Jacobs, Bruce Conner, Robert Breer, Carolee Schneeman, Wallace Berman, Paul Sharits and Harry Smith and many others. He co-programs Anthology’s two-screen theater and curates regular series including UNESSENTIAL CINEMA (featuring non-classics from deep within the collection), AUDIO VERITE (focusing on audio works), PERSONAL ARCHIVE (wherein invited guests present a sampler from their collection) and SINGLE FRAME (slide show presentations by artists and aficionados).

Related programming: The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston present Blank City and New York's No Wave. Céline Danhier’s excellent new documentary Blank City is accompanied by several of the films made in New York during the period she examines.

Pictured: "The United States of America" by Bette Gordon and James Benning.

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Museum of Fine Arts Houston - Brown Auditorium

1001 Bissonnet Street
Houston, TX 77006

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Tickets:

$10 General Admission (purchased at www.mfah.org)
$8 Film Buffs and Aurora Members (door sales only)

Times:

7 PM

Phone: 713 868-2101

Parking:

Museum Parking Garage
Located directly east of the Beck and Law buildings, the MFAH Visitors Center features a four-story covered parking garage.

The easy-to-find parking entrance is on Binz, marked by a large, yellow arrow.

You're always protected from the elements when you park your car in the Museum Garage. From there, you can go to the Visitors Center lobby and find a ticketing desk and up-to-the minute museum information.

As an added convenience, you can enter the Beck and Law buildings from the Visitors Center through security-monitored, climate-controlled tunnels connecting all three buildings.

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