Oil: A Symphony in Motion

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

A paean to modernity by two amateur movie enthusiasts. Through Soviet-inspired montage and an epic first person monologue, Oil itself narrates how it ‘came out of the earth to speed the birth of a machine age, and stayed to oil the wheels of the world’.

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