NEW YORK - MONA MOMDAYS

By viceland

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Tonight is this thing at the MOMA called "Modern Mondays." They show movies by challenging directors--e.g. "life-changing" OR "walk out now now now" bad. Afterwards the director answers questions, and then after that, something happens, but it is a surprise. Really, they asked us not to tell. This week they have two movies by Ernie Gehr. Not sure what to say about him. One movie is a lot of footage he shot in glass elevators in San Francisco. The other is two alternating shots of a hallway: close, far; close, far; close, far; close, far, repeat. We thought it was supposed to evoke the feeling of motion. We thought then, maybe, it was supposed to get you to think about why two alternating shots of a hallway would = motion. But my cinema studies professor said, "Wrong." Gerh will be there tonight, so I guess we can ask him. Ah whatever. THERE IS A SURPRISE WE CAN'T TELL YOU! Try this thing tonight. It's at 7 PM.

By viceland 4 years ago

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