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Friday November 6, 8pm<\/span>
\nMichelle Handelman<\/strong><\/span>
\nThe Spectre of Musidora: Live Remix<\/em><\/strong> <\/span>
\nwith MV Carbon and Brock Monroe<\/span><\/h1>\n

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\nPhoto by Olivia Wyatt – image courtesy of the artists<\/span>
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Filmmaker Michelle Handelman and musician MV Carbon present\u00a0The Spectre of Musidora: Live Remix<\/em>, a dissonant revisitation of the lost films of silent film star Musidora and her legacy as the first “vamp” of cinema: the iconic Irma Vep. \u00a0The Spectre of Musidora: Live Remix<\/em>\u00a0features musician MV Carbon performing a haunting and dissonant soundtrack to a live mix of films by Brock Monroe and Michelle Handelman that includes in addition to\u00a0Musidora\u2019s own lost films,\u00a0clips from\u00a0Les Vampires<\/em>\u00a0and Handelman\u2019s\u00a0recent Irma Vep, The Last Breath<\/em>\u00a0starring transgender artist Zackary Drucker (Transparent) & drag icon Flawless Sabrina (The Queen).<\/span><\/p>\n

Musidora, born\u00a0Jeanne Roques, was\u00a0an early 20th century feminist who used her fame as Irma Vep to become one of the first female feature film directors of French cinema. She was also a renegade artist who created sculptures, paintings, novels and plays in addition to acting and directing.<\/span><\/p>\n

Les Vampires<\/em>\u00a0premiered across Europe in November 1915. Shot during World War I, it follows the exploits of a brazen Apache gang who rob the elite of Parisian society. Its subtext of the working class versus the ruling class is cloaked in a macabre and ritualistic plot with episodic titles such as\u00a0The Severed Head<\/em>,\u00a0The Thunder Master\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0The Terrible Wedding<\/em>. Sometimes seductively garbed in a black catsuit, sometimes disguised as a boy, Musidora embodied a new type of liberated woman, a cinematic anti-heroine with intelligence and power who became the icon of French cinema.<\/span><\/p>\n

Michelle Handelman\u2019s ongoing project\u00a0Irma Vep, The Last Breathe<\/em>\u00a0examines the legacies of the silent film character Irma Vep from the film Les Vampires<\/em> (Louis Feuillade, 1915), and the life of the actress Musidora who portrayed her. The event is the last in a series of screenings, lectures and readings, which took place this month at Anthology Film Archives, Participant Inc., and Invisible-Exports, organized by Handleman in celebration of the 100th year anniversary of the movie\u00a0Les Vampires<\/em>\u00a0by Louis Feuillade starring Musidora as Irma Vep.<\/span><\/p>\n

$8 – general admission<\/span>
\n$6 – students with valid ID<\/span><\/p>\n

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\nMichelle HANDLEMAN is a filmmaker and interdisciplinary artist who makes confrontational works looking at the relationship between the forbidden and the sublime from a queer feminist perspective. She is a Guggenheim Fellow and recipient of several grants including Art Matters, Creative Capital MAP fund, and New York Foundation of The Arts. Her work has shown internationally including the Centre Pompidou, Paris; ICA, London; MIT List Visual Arts Center; PERFORMA 05; Participant, Inc.; Exit Art; Guangzhou 53 Art Museum, China; Eli & Edythe Broad Art Museum; SF MOMA; The Henry Art Gallery; and The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art. More info at\u00a0www.michellehandelman.com<\/span><\/p>\n

MV CARBON is a Brooklyn based artist who is recognized for her non-traditional approach to music. She plays cello through electronics, and uses tape machines, vocals, electronic processes, analog synthesis, frequency, tone and imagery to induce physical commotion. She was a recipient of Roulette\u2019s Spring 2015 Residency from the Jerome Foundation and has performed at MoMA P.S.1, The Guggenheim BMW Lab, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Issue Project Room, and The Clocktower Gallery, among many others. More info at\u00a0www.mvcarbon.com<\/span><\/p>\n

Brock MONROE is an artist and designer with a focus on live cinema and projector\u00a0performance.\u00a0His work has been presented at Lincoln Center, The Kitchen, Portland Institute of\u00a0Contemporary Art, The New Museum, and ISSUE Project Room, among others. As one of the lead artists in the Joshua Light Show, \u00a0Brock has collaborated with founder Joshua\u00a0White to create live cinema performances at The Barbican, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Transmediale\/CTM Festival (Berlin), Lincoln Center\u00a0Out of Doors, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, New World Symphony for Performa\/Art Basel Miami Beach, among others.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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