Sam Green and Dave Cerf: Utopia in Four Movements
Live music by The Quavers
special guest Brendan Canty (Fugazi)
Live music by The Quavers
special guest Brendan Canty (Fugazi) on 10/7 and 10/8
Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Sam Green (The Weather Underground) and sound artist Dave Cerf create a “live documentary” which draws from the collective experience of cinema and the intimate immediacy of live performance to explore the utopian impulse of a bygone era and its battered state at dawn of the 21st Century. Premiering at this past year’s Sundance Film Festival in January, Green live narrates a poetic, entertaining, and poignant original text that accompanies his stunning cinematic collage of projected vignettes, stills, and moving images. Green is joined on stage by Brooklyn-based band The Quavers, who perform while Cerf weaves together the soundtrack. Together, they sift through a 20th century history of bold and giddy idealistic dreams, searching for insights about the way to build a vision of the future based on humankind’s noblest impulses.
This program is made possible with public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency. The Kitchen receives generous support from The Amphion Foundation, the Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust, The Aaron Copland Fund for Music, and with public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency.
Video still courtesy of the artist
October 7–October 9, 2010
Three ways to buy tickets: Click the BUY button above any time. For walk-ups and phone sales – The Kitchen’s Box Office is open 2 to 6pm, Tuesday-Saturday – (212) 255-5793 x11.
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