BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//http://www2.movingimage.us//NONSGML kigkonsult.se iCalcreator 2.10.23// X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/New_York BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20260415T215219CEST-6382H9v0KU@http://www2.movingimage.us DTSTAMP:20260415T195219Z DESCRIPTION:\n With a special introduction by programmer and Film As a Subv ersive Art co-editor Herb Shellenberger. Followed by a live taping of the podcast The Last Thing I Saw.\n \n \n\n\n Punishment Park \n \n Dir. Peter Watkins. 1971\, 91 mins. DCP. “The British director of The War Game offers a radical film about America's future. Based on the President's pow er\, under the 1950 McCarran Internal Security Act\, to set up detention c amps for the radical Left in case of an insurrection\, this ‘allegory in t he form of a documentary’ postulates a situation\, some years hence\, in w hich revolutionaries are confined without due legal recourse and given the choice of either serving 15 years in a concentration camp\, or three days in a special ‘punishment park.’ Here they must attempt\, on foot and with out water\, to reach an American Flag\, situated about 50 miles away in an arid desert landscape\, while pursued (and if possible\, trapped) by poli ce and National Guard\; if they reach their goal\, they are free\; if not\ , they must serve their sentence.” \n\n\n Interviews with My Lai Veterans \n \n Dir. Joseph Strick. 1971\, 22 mins. 35mm. “This deeply disturbing cinema-vérité study consists of uncensored interviews with American veter ans of the My Lai massacres. It is a film about death—and how somebody's d eath can be caused\, faced and then talked about by the assassin. Clean-cu t young Americans\, now back in civilian life\, recount with defensive smi les\, false indifference\, and concealed remorse\, how and why they murder ed. Disassociated from their acts\, destroyed by war\, dead in life\, alie n to guilt\, they emerge as victims as well as executioners. Their artless straightforwardness convinces us immediately of the veracity of their hor rifying self-indictment. The fact that their statements are accepted as tr uth is what creates the shattering\, seditious effect of this film and sep arates it from the propaganda.” \n\n\n The screening will be followed by a live taping of the podcast The Last Thing I Saw: \n \n Amos Vogel’s 1974 landmark book Film as a Subversive Art remains an unparalleled guided tour of forbidden cinema. A newly issued edition from Film Desk Books offers t he perfect occasion for discussing its rich and varied vision of cinema th at pushes boundaries in political\, aesthetic\, and sexual realms\, and fo r identifying examples of transgressive film today. This discussion will i nclude Amy Taubin\, critic and Artforum contributing editor\; Herb Shellen berger\, curator and co-editor of the new edition of Film as a Subversive Art\; and Thomas Beard\, cofounder and director of Light Industry. Moderat or: Nicolas Rapold\, writer and host of The Last Thing I Saw.\n \n\nTicket s: $15 / $11 senior and students / $9 youth (ages 3–17) / discounted for M oMI members ($7–$11). Order tickets. \;Please pick up tickets at the M useum's admissions desk upon arrival. All seating is general admission. Re view \;safety protocols \;before your visit. \n DTSTART:20211029T183000 DTEND:20211029T203000 LOCATION:Museum of the Moving Image - Bartos Screening Room SUMMARY:Punishment Park + Interviews with My Lai Veterans END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR