Curated by Atelier Impopulaire
Presented by Pia Bolognesi, Giulio Bursi, Harvard Film Archive and Aldo Tambellini
When in 2010 we started our research on the NYC Downtown artist-run spaces of the 60s-‘70s, we found the lost archive of Aldo Tambellini, a pivotal figure of the Lower East Side. Our collaboration with the artist has begun back then, firstly studying and arranging his material in collections (Moving Image - now conserved at Harvard Film Archive, Video & Performance, The Black Gate Theatre, Center for Advances Studies MIT) and then reworking his footage for a new series of multimedia works.
On the occasion of the Avant-Garde Masters Grant from The National Film Preservation Foundation and The Film Foundation - the latter created by Martin Scorsese - that allowed the Harvard Film Archive to restore and preserve the entire Black Films Series, we have been invited to curate a special night at The Museum of Modern Art as part of To Save and Project.
The program includes the restored Black Film Series and a selection of unedited and never shown film works.
Black is, 1966, Black Trip, 1966, Black Trip 2, 1966, Blackout, 1966, Black Plus X, 1968, Black TV, 1968, Moonblack, 1969
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Sun Black, 1966-68, Black ’67, 1967
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Moondial, Jud Yalkut, 1966
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Special project by Atelier Impopulaire
October 18 6pm
MoMA
11 West 53 Street
Manhattan NYC
moma.org
