H2O

Ralph Steiner

Already a successful commercial photographer, H2O was Steiner’s first film. The visual poetry and rhythms of water won him the ‘nondramatic’ award at Photoplay’s 1929 annual amateur film competition. Steiner would join the Film and Photo League shortly after.

Introduction by Tom Hurwitz.

Sessions

One Screening Only
19 Oct • 19:00 / 57’
Cinemateca Portuguesa - Sala M. Félix Ribeiro

Retrospective Documentary on the March: The Turbulent 30s in New Deal America / Becoming Camera: Formal Experiments in and with ‘The Reality Film’

Manhatta

Paul Strand, Charles Sheeler

H2O

Ralph Steiner

A Bronx Morning

Jay Leyda

Oil: A Symphony in Motion

ARTKINO [M. G. MacPherson, Jean D. Michelson]

Footnote to Fact

Lewis Jacobs

Hands

Ralph Steiner, Willard Van Dyke