Marcel Broodthaers Retrospective: Rendez-vous mit Jacques Offenbach and other Films
Friday, July 11, 8:00pm
Saturday, July 12, 8:00pm
Anthology Film Archives
32 2nd Avenue
New York, NY 10003
Tickets $14 general / $10 students and seniors
Seating is limitedThe Broodthaers Society of America is pleased to share an upcoming Marcel Broodthaers exhibition at Anthology Film Archives, New York. Titled Marcel Broodthaers Retrospective: Rendez-vous mit Jacques Offenbach and other Films, the program will feature a film compilation that Marcel Broodthaers personally assembled that has never been seen in the United States. The program has been organized by Raf Wollaert, an art historian who specializes in the multimedia works of Marcel Broodthaers, in collaboration with Ivo van Vaerenbergh and Anthology Film Archives.
In addition to Rendez-vous—which includes La pipe (1968), La pluie (1969), and Un film de Charles Baudelaire (1970) in its compilation, among others—the program will include La clef de L'horloge (poème cinématographique en l'honneur de Kurt Schwitters), 1957, Le Poisson (Projet pour un film), 1970, and Figures of Wax, 1974. The same program will screen both nights, with a running time of about 62 minutes. It offers a rare opportunity to (re)discover Broodthaers' films as films, projected on the big screen.
Wollaert will be accompanied on the rostrum for both screenings by the eminent film scholar Bruce Jenkins and by Wollaerts' Belgian colleague Steven Jacobs. Wollaert and Jacobs recently published Marcel Broodthaers and Film: A Second of Eternity (2024), the first monograph dedicated solely to Broodthaers' film work. It is published by Leuven University Press and distributed in the United States by Cornell University Press.
Marcel Broodthaers (1924-1976) is widely recognized as one of the icons of postwar visual art. Nonetheless, his unique approach to filmmaking remains one of the less examined aspects of his oeuvre. Far from being a mere extension or documentation of his visual work, Broodthaers' films range from slapstick comedy and science fiction to pseudo-documentary and home movies and, in toto, form a singular body of work. Through their deliberate amateurism and anachronism, the films convey a true love for cinema that challenges their conventional and avant-garde brethren.
Raf Wollaert earned a PhD at the University of Antwerp and remains a member of its Research Centre for Visual Poetics. His work maps and analyzes the avant-garde media practices of Marcel Broodthaers. In 2021 he coedited La Lumière Manifeste, a vinyl record featuring newly discovered audio tapes of Broodthaers reading his own poetry. In 2023 he organized an international conference on Broodthaers' films, the outcome of which is the monograph cited above, co-edited with Steven Jacobs. He currently lives and works in Brooklyn as a Fulbright Visiting Scholar.
Steven Jacobs is is an art historian who specializes in the relationship between film and the visual arts. He is Associate Professor at Ghent University and the University of Antwerp, Belgium. He is the author of The Dark Galleries: A Museum Guide to Painted Portraits in Film Noir (2013, with Lisa Colpaert), Framing Pictures: Film and the Visual Arts (2011) and The Wrong House: The Architecture of Alfred Hitchcock (2007).
Bruce Jenkins is Professor of Film, Video, New Media, and Animation at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Prior to SAIC, he was the Stanley Cavell Curator at the Harvard Film Archive and the Curator of Film and Video at the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis. He has authored a book on Gordon Matta-Clark and edited the writings of Hollis Frampton. He is currently at work on the second volume of the catalogue raisonné for the films of Andy Warhol.
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Anthology Film Archives is not wheelchair accessible from the street, but a ramp can be provided upon. request. Anthology does not have wheelchair-designated seating, but there is accessible space at the front, sides, and rear of each theater. The theaters are not equipped with audio or visual aids. The bathrooms are wheelchair accessible but do not have wheelchair accessible stalls. The second floor theatre and lobby is accessible via stairs only, please contact us if you will need assistance, 212-505-5181 x15.
Anthology has launched a capital campaign to expand and upgrade its facilities, which will include an elevator and renovated bathrooms to make the entire building wheelchair accessible.
Anthology Film Archives was founded in 1970 by Jonas Mekas, Jerome Hill, P. Adams Sitney, Peter Kubelka, and Stan Brakhage. In addition to its original conception as a venue dedicated to studying films as works of art rather than disposable entertainment, Anthology's mission now encompasses film and video preservation, a world-class reference library, and innovative and eclectic film programming. Anthology presents over 900 programs annually and preserves an average of 25 films per year.
Saturday, July 12, 8:00pm
Anthology Film Archives
32 2nd Avenue
New York, NY 10003
Tickets $14 general / $10 students and seniors
Seating is limitedThe Broodthaers Society of America is pleased to share an upcoming Marcel Broodthaers exhibition at Anthology Film Archives, New York. Titled Marcel Broodthaers Retrospective: Rendez-vous mit Jacques Offenbach and other Films, the program will feature a film compilation that Marcel Broodthaers personally assembled that has never been seen in the United States. The program has been organized by Raf Wollaert, an art historian who specializes in the multimedia works of Marcel Broodthaers, in collaboration with Ivo van Vaerenbergh and Anthology Film Archives.
In addition to Rendez-vous—which includes La pipe (1968), La pluie (1969), and Un film de Charles Baudelaire (1970) in its compilation, among others—the program will include La clef de L'horloge (poème cinématographique en l'honneur de Kurt Schwitters), 1957, Le Poisson (Projet pour un film), 1970, and Figures of Wax, 1974. The same program will screen both nights, with a running time of about 62 minutes. It offers a rare opportunity to (re)discover Broodthaers' films as films, projected on the big screen.
Wollaert will be accompanied on the rostrum for both screenings by the eminent film scholar Bruce Jenkins and by Wollaerts' Belgian colleague Steven Jacobs. Wollaert and Jacobs recently published Marcel Broodthaers and Film: A Second of Eternity (2024), the first monograph dedicated solely to Broodthaers' film work. It is published by Leuven University Press and distributed in the United States by Cornell University Press.
Marcel Broodthaers (1924-1976) is widely recognized as one of the icons of postwar visual art. Nonetheless, his unique approach to filmmaking remains one of the less examined aspects of his oeuvre. Far from being a mere extension or documentation of his visual work, Broodthaers' films range from slapstick comedy and science fiction to pseudo-documentary and home movies and, in toto, form a singular body of work. Through their deliberate amateurism and anachronism, the films convey a true love for cinema that challenges their conventional and avant-garde brethren.
Raf Wollaert earned a PhD at the University of Antwerp and remains a member of its Research Centre for Visual Poetics. His work maps and analyzes the avant-garde media practices of Marcel Broodthaers. In 2021 he coedited La Lumière Manifeste, a vinyl record featuring newly discovered audio tapes of Broodthaers reading his own poetry. In 2023 he organized an international conference on Broodthaers' films, the outcome of which is the monograph cited above, co-edited with Steven Jacobs. He currently lives and works in Brooklyn as a Fulbright Visiting Scholar.
Steven Jacobs is is an art historian who specializes in the relationship between film and the visual arts. He is Associate Professor at Ghent University and the University of Antwerp, Belgium. He is the author of The Dark Galleries: A Museum Guide to Painted Portraits in Film Noir (2013, with Lisa Colpaert), Framing Pictures: Film and the Visual Arts (2011) and The Wrong House: The Architecture of Alfred Hitchcock (2007).
Bruce Jenkins is Professor of Film, Video, New Media, and Animation at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Prior to SAIC, he was the Stanley Cavell Curator at the Harvard Film Archive and the Curator of Film and Video at the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis. He has authored a book on Gordon Matta-Clark and edited the writings of Hollis Frampton. He is currently at work on the second volume of the catalogue raisonné for the films of Andy Warhol.
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Anthology Film Archives is not wheelchair accessible from the street, but a ramp can be provided upon. request. Anthology does not have wheelchair-designated seating, but there is accessible space at the front, sides, and rear of each theater. The theaters are not equipped with audio or visual aids. The bathrooms are wheelchair accessible but do not have wheelchair accessible stalls. The second floor theatre and lobby is accessible via stairs only, please contact us if you will need assistance, 212-505-5181 x15.
Anthology has launched a capital campaign to expand and upgrade its facilities, which will include an elevator and renovated bathrooms to make the entire building wheelchair accessible.
Anthology Film Archives was founded in 1970 by Jonas Mekas, Jerome Hill, P. Adams Sitney, Peter Kubelka, and Stan Brakhage. In addition to its original conception as a venue dedicated to studying films as works of art rather than disposable entertainment, Anthology's mission now encompasses film and video preservation, a world-class reference library, and innovative and eclectic film programming. Anthology presents over 900 programs annually and preserves an average of 25 films per year.