Jun 11 – Jun 21; Food, Sex and Liberation (Go POP); Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Screening Room June 11, 2009

When:
Dillinger is Dead by Marco Ferreri
Thu, Jun 11 – Sat, Jun 13: 7:30 pm
Sun, Jun 14: 2:00 pm

We Want Roses Too by Alina Marazzi
Thu, Jun 18: 7:30 pm

Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai Du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles by Chantal Akerman
Sat, Jun 20: 7:00 pm
Sun, Jun 21: 2:00 pm

What:
Food, Sex and Liberation (Go POP)
Jun 11 – Jun 21
In this series, a comparison between Jeanne Dielman and Dillinger is Dead seems inevitable. Though one film is French and the other Italian, both films are innovative stylistic experiments communicating their stories almost entirely through the intimate gestures of cooking, the home and the body. The documentary We Want Roses Too--made also in the language of the personal and the private experience--about the feminist movement of the sixties and seventies is screened in between to help contextualize the private politics and ambiguous feminism of these formalistic masterpieces. Series guest curated and notes by Miriam Bale.

Dillinger is Dead
by Marco Ferreri
Thu, Jun 11 – Sat, Jun 13: 7:30 pm & Sun, Jun 14: 2:00 pm
In this should-be cult classic in a new 35mm print, Michel Piccoli has got a bad case of sixties ennui. One night, a lukewarm meal left by his pill-popping wife (Anita Pallenberg) is the last straw, setting off an exquisite train of triggers that leads to his liberation by the morning. Carefully shot to look very loose, this single night is shown only through the details of his nocturnal domestic rituals--cooking, painting, walking in and out of images from TV and home movies, listening to records, and dripping honey on the maid. (1969, 95 min, 35mm)

We Want Roses Too
by Alina Marazzi
Thu, Jun 18: 7:30 pm
A documentary that tells the history of feminism in Italy in the 60’s and 70’s through diaries, illustrated romance novels, pop songs, home movies and other found footage. The style is the content; the filmmaker’s rejection of objectivity and insistence on shaping history through a private and emotional point-of-view was in part what differentiated Italian feminism from the women’s movement in Britain and America. For Italian feminists, communication had to take new feminine forms and the political was highly personal. (2007, 84 min, digital video)

Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai Du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles
by Chantal Akerman
Sat, Jun 20: 7:00 pm & Sun, Jun 21: 2:00 pm
Jeanne Dielman is an uptight housewife who makes dish washing, veal breading, bathtub scrubbing and coffee making into an art. She keeps to a rigorous schedule, including regular afternoon prostituting to help fund this art, her domestic sanctuary for herself and her teenage son. When an orgasm interrupts her perfect order, she comes unraveled. This year marks the first time that the film has been screened in the U.S. in the 35mm print in which it was intended to be seen, revealing a breathtaking muted pastel palette designed with total precision. (1975, 201 min, new 35mm print)

Who:
Film series Food, Sex and Liberation (Go POP)

Where:
Food, Sex and Liberation (Go POP) – 701 Mission St., San Francisco, CA 94103 – YBCA Screening Room

Public Info:
415-978-2787 or ybca.org
$8 regular; $6 students, seniors, teachers & YBCA members