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    Origins in Avant-Garde Film: Limite

    Origins in Avant-Garde Film: Limite

    Presented by International House Philadelphia at The Ibrahim Theater at International House

    April 16, 2011


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    The earliest experimental films were tied inextricably to certain painters, collagists, and photographers living principally in Paris, Berlin, and Munich during the twenties. These innovative figures were working within a loose network of new and unorthodox ideas about art practice and art itself. The apparatus of cinema allowed the visual arts new kinetic properties and these artists were quick to identify and explore ideas of motion and change. Limite, dir. Mário Peixoto, Brazil, 1931, 16mm, 120 mins, b/w, sound. Mário Peixoto’s visually entrancing Brazilian classic is a stunning silent poem inspired by a photograph by André Kertesz. Described by Peixoto as “a tuning fork” to capture the pitch of a moment in time, it recounts a simple story of three people adrift on a boating trip.


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        The Ibrahim Theater at International House

        3701 Chestnut Street
        Philadelphia, PA 19104

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        $8
        Student/senior: $6
        Internationalist members: $5
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        Dates:
        April 16, 2011

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        7:30 pm

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