The Cleveland Institute of Art’s Cinematheque, located in University Circle, welcomes the Society of American Archivists with a special program of newly restored films.
www.cia.edu/cinematheque Tuesday, August 18, at 6:45 pm
Richard Myers in Person!
RESTORED FILMS OF RICHARD MYERS
USA, 1960-70, Richard Myers
Richard Myers (b. 1937) is the dean of northeast Ohio filmmakers and one of the most prominent experimental filmmakers in the U.S. Winner of two Guggenheim Fellowships and an American Film Institute grant, Myers has shown his dream-based 16mm movies at MoMA, the Whitney, the Ann Arbor Film Festival, the National Film Theater in London, and the Venice Film Festival, among others. They are now in the process of being restored and preserved by the Archive of the Academy of the Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in Hollywood. Tonight Myers will present and discuss three of the Academy Archive’s recent restorations (all in 16mm):
The Path (1960, 20 min.), the first film in Myers’ 40+ year career;
Akbar (1970, 16 min.), a portrait of Ahmed Akbar, a black filmmaker and former student of Myers at Kent State University; and an excerpt from Myers’ dizzying 118-min. opus
Akran (1969). Total approx. 90 min.
Special $7 admission for badge-wearing attendees of the SAA Annual Meeting.
Tuesday, August 18, at 8:30 pm
New 35mm Restoration!
ORNETTE: MADE IN AMERICA
USA, 1985, Shirley Clarke
Saxophonist and free jazz legend Ornette Coleman, who died in June, was the subject of the final feature film by pioneering American independent filmmaker Shirley Clarke (
Portrait of Jason, The Connection). Clarke follows Coleman as he returns to his hometown on Fort Worth, Texas, in 1983, then tries to approximate his music with a free-flowing blend of interviews, performance footage, experimental music videos, and historical reenactments. With William S. Burroughs, Buckminster Fuller, Yoko Ono, Robert Palmer, et al. Cleveland revival premiere. 85 min.
Special $8 admission for badge-wearing attendees of the SAA Annual Meeting.
