This 16mm program features four films engaged variously with ideas of "text-as-image." Whereas Chaplin and Murnau once rejected silent era intertitling practices as "unfilmic," these filmmakers explore how text on screen could be just the opposite. Proposing self-consciously literal responses to longstanding scholarly questions about "film language," these conceptual works are as playful and comedic as they are formally rigorous.

So Is This (1982) – Michael Snow
Word Movie (1966) – Paul Sharits
Associations (1975) – John Smith
Secondary Currents (1982) – Peter Rose

Saturday Dec. 6
Doors at 6:30pm / Films at 7:30pm
Special Features, NW Portland, OR
$10+ sliding scale, tickets sold at the door

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