Film series of interest at the National Gallery of Art in Washington this Spring

Dear fellow SHERAns,

I wanted to alert those of you who are in Washington, D.C. to a film
program that I am co-curating with Joanna Raczynska of the Department of
Film Programs at the National Gallery of Art this spring.

The series is titled "Artists, Amateurs, Alternative Spaces: Experimental
Cinema in Eastern Europe, 1960-1990." Its schedule of screenings can be
found here:
http://www.nga.gov/content/ngaweb/calendar/film-programs/experimental6090.html?pageNumber=1

Most of the films we're showing are very rarely screened in the U.S., and
as a group, they'll shed new light on the scope of experimental filmmaking
across the former socialist Bloc. We're hoping to have a website that
describes the series in detail, with stills, film descriptions, and some
film clips go live in May.

Our first screening will be this Saturday, *April 5* -- we'll be showing
Dušan Makavejev's "Innocence Unprotected" and Jonas Mekas' "Reminiscences
of a Journey to Lithuania." The screenings will be accompanied by a pane
discussion on these films and the essay film form co-organized with the
University of Maryland.

This is an excellent spring to be a lover of Eastern European cinema in
Washington because the NGA, in collaboration with the American Film
Institute, will also have two other film series:

A Jan Němec retrospective:
http://www.nga.gov/content/ngaweb/calendar/film-programs/nemec.html?pageNumber=1

Martin Scorsese Presents: Masterpieces of Polish Cinema:
http://www.nga.gov/content/ngaweb/calendar/film-programs/polishcinema.html?pageNumber=1

All of the NGA screenings are free and open to the public.

Ksenya Gurshtein

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Ksenya Gurshtein
Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Curatorial Fellow
Department of Photographs
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

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