Hands

Ralph Steiner, Willard Van Dyke

The US government looks to experimental film for inventive propaganda, hiring two veterans of the American avant-garde and cultural Left to depict the socio-economic value of collective hands put to work by the New Deal’s Works Progress Administration.

Courtesy of The Museum of Modern Art, New York

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