Pirate Cinema 5

Feb. 1, 2009 - Feb. 2, 2009

 

    Twentieth Century Toxicity
   Sunday, February 1
      7 pm - 10 pm
     CAMP rooftop.

7: 00 pm
Safe
Todd Haynes
USA 1995 1 h 59 m
http://0xdb.org/0114323

9: 00 pm
The River
Tsai Ming-Liang
Taiwan 1997 1 h 55 m
http://0xdb.org/0119263


Take-Aways

Poison
Todd Haynes
USA 1991. 1h 25m

The Hole
Tsai Ming-liang
Taiwan, France 1998.  1h 35m



Two films about the interior and exterior of affliction. The hero gets it from playing dead in a river, the heroine from being "allergic to the 20th century".

Keywords: hermeticism, allergy, AIDS metaphor, bodies, bent neck, leaking water in father's room, icy detachment, nosebleed,  pine-scented, steam, Mcdonalds, black instead of teal, being held by the pillion-rider, slowly revealed that this is a family, could be a gay film.

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Pirate Cinema Bombay

Pirate Cinema from Berlin, who we are working with on the video archive http://pad.ma, present a series of weekly (Sunday) events in the Pirate Cinema tradition, on films and footage.



Events

CAMP Study Day
May 20, 2025
The Museum of Modern Art, New York (MoMA)

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CAMP Study Day, brings together leading scholars of media, law, cinema, and visual art on the occasion CAMP's exhibition Video After Video: The Critical Media of CAMP. With Erika Balsom, Lawrence Liang, Debashree Mukherjee, Ashish Rajadhyaksha and Laura U. Marks.

Reading Listening Seeing, Bombay Tilts Down
May 20, 2025
The Museum of Modern Art, New York (Moma)

A tour of the work with CAMP in three acts.

An Internet Movie about Housing in Bombay/Mumbai
May 19, 2025
Light Industry, NY

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Light Industry
7:00 pm
The first and last sections from a 6-hour-long video essay, presented live by CAMP.

TIME FLICKERS
April 26, 2025
CAMP Rooftop

Priyank Gothwal presents a series of 8 works as a physical exhibition and accompanying lecture-performance, on the experiences and abstractions of time.

April 25, 2025 Afterwaste

A conversation about toxicity, waste and equality at the closing of Mohit Shelare's exhibition at Chemould, with Yogesh, Zeenat, Priyank and Ashok.
first draft gathering
March 22, 2025
CAMP studio

"film objects"
A gathering organised by the Delhi based artist group first draft.
Saturday from 5 pm.

Video After Video : The Critical Media of CAMP
Feb. 20, 2025 - July 20, 2025
The Museum of Modern Art, New York (MoMA)

Phantas.ma Season - II
Feb. 17, 2025 - July 20, 2025

Phantas.ma is running a season dedicated to CAMP as part of Video After Video: The Critical Media of CAMP at MoMA.
A video a day, on the site.
sign up!

The (Reshuffled) Year of the Everlasting Storm
Feb. 2, 2025
CAMP Rooftop

Sunday, 7:00 pm
100 mins
Pandemic shorts by Panahi, Poitras, Apichatpong, Weiwei, and others.

A Terrible Beauty
Jan. 25, 2025
CAMP Studio

by Iram Ghufran
50 mins, 2023
7:00 pm

Introduction and post-screening discussion with Iram Ghufran.
A science-fiction fable set in the "miracle city" of Yiwu, in one of the world's largest wholesale markets for small commodities.

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