News/Links

The Red Book, Geiser's 1994 experimental film, was recently included in the 2009 National Film Registry.

The Library of Congress selects 25 films annually to be preserved  in the National Film Registry, as cultural, artistic and/or historical treasures for generations to come.  This yes's selections bring the number of films in the registry to 525, and includes such films as Once Upon a Time in the West, The Lead Shoes, The Incredible Shrinking Man. and Winsor McKay's Little Nemo.

 

Two scenes from Geiser's diorama-installation Evidence of Floods wil l be performed on February 28, 2010 at the opening  of the exhibition The Art of Contemporary Puppet Theater at the Katonah Museum of Art.  (Katonah, NY)

Janie Geiser will be performing with Judith Anderson and Diane Kempler. The exhibit features work by Janie Geiser, William Kentridge, Basil Twist, Julie Taymore, Dan Hurlin, Brian Selznick, Mabou Mines, Roman Paska, Hanne Tierney, Chris M. Green, Ralph Lee/Mettawee River Theater, Eric Bass/Sandglass Theater, and Liz Goldberg. 

http://www.artfixdaily.com/artwire/release/the-art-of-contemporary-puppet-theater-opens-at-the-katonah-museum-of-art-february-28-2010

 

Melinda Barlow's essay Toward a Feminist "Coney Island of the Avant Garde": Janie Geiser's Cinema of Attractions,  is included in the recently published anthology THERE She Goes: Feminist Filmmaking and Beyond, edited by Corinn Columpar and Sophie Mayer, published by Wayne State University/

http://wsupress.wayne.edu/books/974/There-She-Goes

 

Geiser's most recent film Ghost Algebra has been selected for the 2010 Rotterdam International Film Festival, the Courtisane Festival (Ghent, Belgium), and the san francisco film festival.

 

 Lost at sea: intermedial encounters in the Films of Janie Geiser, an essay by Genevieve Yue, appears in the latest issue of Grey Room. ( Grey Room 36, Summer 2009, pp. 114–129.) The full text is reproduced in this News/Links section, click the text on the left side of this page.

http://www.mitpressjournals.org/toc/grey/-/36

 

The Wexner Center for the Arts recently presented Janie Geiser presents Magnetic Sleep and Other Films on October 22, 2009.

http://www.wexarts.org/fv/index.php?eventid=4141

 

Cinema Project in Portland, Oregon presented the full 9 episodes of Magnetic Sleep (2009) on October 6 and 7, 2009, at 7:30 pm.  Geiser's first 16mm film, Babel Town (1992), will also be screened.

http://www.cinemaproject.org/screenings.html#echoes

 

Magnetic Sleep Episode 1 was screened at The Rotterdam International Film Festival in January 2009, as part of its seri es of sh ort avant-garde films, and at the Courtisane Festival in Ghent, Belgium.

 

 A Peepshow/Installation/Performance, Reptile Under the Flowers (Parts 1-12) premiered in May 2009 as a co-presentation of Automata and The Museum of Jurassic Technology at the Foshay Masonic Lodge in the Culver City area of Los Angeles.  All performances were sold out.  Look for further performances in winter/spring  2010.

THE REPTILE UNDER THE FLOWERS (PARTS 1-4) was presented as a work in progress at the Santa Monica Museum of Art in August 2008 to sold-out crowds.

 

The Griffith Park Ring Cycle, Geiser's  collaboration with architect Barbara Bestor, premiered June 26 at the Manual Archives in Los Angeles.

 

Automata hosted it's first benefit on Saturday March 21 at The Metabolic Studio at Farmlab.

 

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