In April we returned to the Museum of the Moving Image with our latest season Wearing Time: Past, Present, Future, Dream, co-curated by Tom Gunning and Marketa Uhlirova. Thanks to everyone who came!
The programme included screenings, talks and debates taking a wide-ranging look at the relationship between fashion, cinema and time. On the opening night we presented the US premiere of The Inferno Unseen – in collaboration with MUBI and Lobster Films – brought to life by Rollo Smallcombe’s live electronic score, plus guest speakers including Alistair O’Neill, Jessamyn Hatcher, Francesca Granata, Ashish Pant and Drake Stutesman. Other highlights included a beautiful 4K restoration of Sergei Parajanov’s masterpiece The Color of Pomegranates (Sayat Nova, 1969), Mitchell Leisen’s rarely screened Lady in the Dark (1944) with Tom Gunning’s introduction, and Czechoslovakia’s adaptation of Stanislav Lem’s sfi-fi novel Magellanic Cloud (1953) Ikarie XB-1 (1963, released in the US as Voyage to the End of the Universe).
Click here to read the New York Times coverage; here for a Nowness article about The Inferno Unseen and here for j.b. spins blog about we like.
Click here for the full programme at MoMI.
With grateful thanks to Mary Lapides for supporting our opening event!
