I published a version of my introduction comments on another part of this website as Varda, Daguerréotypes (1975), and Women Respond (1975).
Remnants of Utopia: European Film, ca. 1975
A conference at Yale University, December 2-3, 2011
Whitney Humanities Center, 53 Wall Street, New Haven, CT
All featured films screened on restored or archival 35mm prints (unless noted) with English subtitles.
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Friday, December 2nd |
12:30 PM Daguerrotypes (Agnès Varda, France, 80 mins. DVD) Women Reply (Agnès Varda, France, 8 mins. DVD). Introduction by Charles Musser (Yale University)
2:30 PM Riddles of the Sphinx (Mulvey and Wollen, United Kingdom, 90 mins. 16 mm). Introduction by Katie Trumpener (Yale University)
4:15 PM PANEL: The Status of Feminism. Charles Musser, Katie Trumpener, Moira Fradinger (Yale University)
6:30 PM Benilde, or the Virgin Mother (Oliviera, Portugal, 106 mins. 35 mm) Introduction by K. David Jackson (Yale University)
8:45 PM Cria Cuervos (Saura, Spain, 110 mins. 35 mm) Introduction by Michael Anderson (Yale University)
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Saturday, December 3rd |
8:30 AM Coffee and Continental Breakfast
9:00 AM Jonah Who Will Be 25 in the Year 2000 (Tanner, Switzerland, 116 mins. 16) Introduction by Dudley Andrew (Yale University)
11:15 AM Lunch Break
12:15 PM Winstanley (Brownlow, United Kingdom, 96 mins. 35 mm) Introduction by Steven Pincus (Yale University)
2:00 PM PANEL: The Status of UtopianismDudley Andrew, Michael Cramer (Yale University), Patrick Reagan (Yale University)
2:45 PM Coffee Break
3:00 PM The Mirror (Tarkovsky, Russia, 108 mins. 35 mm) Introduction by John MacKay (Yale University)
5:00 PM PANEL: Andrei Tarkovsky & the Cinema of the Soviet Union John MacKay, Katerina Clark (Yale University), Mikhail Iampolski (New York University)
7:30 PM Kings of the Road (Wenders, West Germany, 175 mins. 35 mm) Introduction by Richard Suchenski (Bard College)