The Screen - A Subversive Art: The Last Pictureshow
A SUBVERSIVE ART
Raiding the archives of Amos Vogel’s legendary film club, Cinema 16
The Last Pictureshow (1971) Peter Bogdanovich, 118mins. Cert 15.
The Screen at Contemporary returns. This season we celebrate the act of people gathering in a darkened room to watch films together. We present a selection of shorts and features from the infamous film society Cinema 16 (1947–63), run by Amos and Marcia Vogel, which proposed an alternative canon of avant-garde, underground and commercial film. Cinema 16 strived to show only the most pioneering films, and in the process was a major influence on postwar cinema.
We follow two young men about to graduate high school as they navigate football, girls, parents and their futures in a desolate small town. A sense of loneliness stalks the characters as the tokens of the American Dream rot around them. A seminal film of American New Wave that does what the films of this era can do so well: being within and looking at a world that’s outdated, stale and waning as the modern world of the future struggles to form. A film picked up and enjoyed by the bourgeoning counter culture at the time.
For the full programme of films, please click here
Event:
The Screen - A Subversive Art: The Last PictureshowDates:
2 Mar 2022, 6.30pmVisit Safely:
Viewing conditions tickets will be sold at 50% capacity. Guests will be asked to leave space in between each other.