The new series by Ms. Davis, the archivist who delves most deeply into our basement, and Daniel Hendrickson, takes place in different places. This month, it’s in the Prinzessinengarten that the two will present an open-air program entitled “Borscht Belt Modalities”. On September 6, they will show a 16-mm print of A JUMPIN' NIGHT AT THE GARDEN OF EDEN (Michal Goldman, USA 1988) that follows Kapelye and Boston’s Klezmer Conservatory Band and was the first film to document the revival of klezmer music. This will be preceded by GRANPA SAM (2006), a series of celebrity photographs, commented by Vaginal Davis herself and Marc Siegel.

The next edition of our film workshop takes place on September 16, open to all children aged 5 years and older. Colors, dots and patterns dance to music, abstract shapes create a space for the concrete. This program focuses on films by artists that were made without a camera. In FREE RADICALS (USA 1958) Len Lye makes the lines scratched into film material dance to the rhythms of drums. In the hand-painted commercial film COLOUR FLIGHT (Len Lye, GB 1938), freely painted abstract shapes and stenciled planes happily make their rounds to music. The rhythmically composed play of light MOTHLIGHT (Stan Brakhage, USA 1963) has moths, blossom and leaves stuck to filmstrips appear fleetingly on the screen. Bärbel Neubauer also works with natural materials in ALGORITHMEN (Germany 1994) which acquires its colorful texture from the stamping of leaves. We use pens and tools to transform filmstrips and watch the results on the screen.