Marjorie Keller
Marjorie Keller’s Fallen World
Experimental filmmaker, author, activist, film scholar, and cultural worker Marjorie Keller (1950-1994) created a uniquely personal and feminist body of work for twenty years beginning in the early 1970s. Keller also served on the board of directors of the Collective for Living Cinema, was the founding editor of their journal, Motion Picture from 1984 to 1987 and was Director of the New York Filmmakers Cooperative in the late 1980s. Writer J. Hoberman called her “an unselfish champion of the avant-garde.” Her films deftly combine home movie and diary styles through a potent politicized lens. Herein (1991), Keller’s final film, charts the movement from political activism to filmmaking through the metaphor of a dwelling. An FBI film obtained under the Freedom of Information Act, Emma Goldman’s autobiography, the making of films on the Lower East Side, street prostitution & drug addiction, all inflect the sense of place, space & history. The Fallen World (1983) is an elegy for a Newfoundland dog named Melville and a portrait of his owner. Daughters of Chaos (1980) “…deals simultaneously with girls becoming women and a woman looking back on her childhood. It is pervaded with voluptuousness, with longing: the woman, disappointed in love, looking for lost innocence, the girl yearning for the power of her sex.” -Anne Becker
Programme:
Daughters of Chaos, Marjorie Keller, 16mm, 1980, USA, 20 minutes
The Fallen World, Marjorie Keller, 16mm, 1983, USA, 9 minutes
Herein, Marjorie Keller, 16mm, 1991, USA, 35 minutes
@ the Art Bar, Gladstone Hotel | 1214 Queen St West
Tuesday February 16, 2010 | 7:30 pm screening, $5
Daughters of Chaos
Daughters of Chaos
Daughters of Chaos