Tuesday, January 31, 7:00pm Light Industry, 155 Freeman Street, Brooklyn, NY Kristina Talking Pictures Yvonne Rainer, 1976, 16mm, 90 mins Kristina Talking Pictures is a narrative film inasmuch as it contains a series of events that can be synthesized into a story if one is disposed to do so. (A European woman lion-tamer comes to America and takes… up choreography.) The film can also be characterized by its discursions from a strict narrative line via reflections on art, love, and catastrophe sustained by the voices of Kristina, the heroine-narrator, and Raoul, her lover. Within its form of shifting correlations between word and image, persona and performer, enactment and illustration, explanation and ambiguity, KTP circles in a narrowing spiral toward its primary concerns: the uncertain relation of public act to personal fate, the ever-present possibility for disparity between public-directed conscience and private will. Having just put your check to Amnesty International in the mailbox, you are mugged….or discover you have cancer….or perhaps you betray an old friend. Nothing can ensure that we remain honorable, nor save us from betrayal and death. In the next-to-last shot a love letter is recited. So you see, things aren’t all that bad. - Yvonne Rainer Tickets - $7, available at door. Please note: seating is limited. First-come, first-served. Box office opens at 6:30

Tuesday, January 31, 7:00pm
Light Industry, 155 Freeman Street, Brooklyn, NY

Kristina Talking Pictures
Yvonne Rainer, 1976, 16mm, 90 mins

Kristina Talking Pictures is a narrative film inasmuch as it contains
a series of events that can be synthesized into a story if one is
disposed to do so. (A European woman lion-tamer comes to America and
takes… up choreography.) The film can also be characterized by its
discursions from a strict narrative line via reflections on art, love,
and catastrophe sustained by the voices of Kristina, the
heroine-narrator, and Raoul, her lover.

Within its form of shifting correlations between word and image,
persona and performer, enactment and illustration, explanation and
ambiguity, KTP circles in a narrowing spiral toward its primary
concerns: the uncertain relation of public act to personal fate, the
ever-present possibility for disparity between public-directed
conscience and private will.

Having just put your check to Amnesty International in the mailbox,
you are mugged….or discover you have cancer….or perhaps you betray
an old friend. Nothing can ensure that we remain honorable, nor save
us from betrayal and death.

In the next-to-last shot a love letter is recited. So you see, things
aren’t all that bad.
- Yvonne Rainer

Tickets - $7, available at door.
Please note: seating is limited. First-come, first-served. Box office
opens at 6:30