The Counter Cinema/Counter Media Project presents"A World Redrawn: Eisenstein and Brecht in Hollywood"
three new films by Zoe Belloff, followed by a discussion with Beloff in person
In 1930 Russian avant-garde filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein spent six months in Los Angeles under contract with Paramount. A decade later German playwright and theater director Bertolt Brecht, a refugee from Nazi Germany, lived there from 1941 to 1947. Both set out to make films in Hollywood on their own terms. Working in the world's most famous factory of dreams, they believed that artists must call into question the way we understand our world.They wanted to make art that was both radical and popular.
Through films, drawings, architectural models and archival documents, my project explores their unrealized film scenarios Glass House and A Model Family in a Model Home. Both concern architecture as a concrete representation of social relations. The installation re-imagines their ideas for today.
The exhibition centers around three films. They can be screened in a cinema or exhibited in a gallery in dialog with the objects and drawings. They are available for preview on Vimeo following the links below.
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Two Marxists in Hollywood - 26 minutes HD video, sound (2015)
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GLASS HOUSE - 22 minutes HD video, sound (2014)
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A MODEL FAMILY IN A MODEL HOME - 22 minutes HD video sound (2015)
Date: April 28, 2016
Time: 7:30 PM - 9:00 PM
See:http://aworldredrawn.com/index.html
Date: April 28, 2016
Time: 7:30 PM - 9:00 PM
See:http://aworldredrawn.com/index.html