GERARD MALANGA VERY UNDERGROUND
12 November - 29 November, 2015
OPENING RECEPTION: November 12, Thursday 6pm -9pm
GERARD MALANGA POETRY READING / 8:15PM
Sla307 Art Space in New York is proud to announce Gerard Malanga's film program.
Gerard Malanga Very Underground marks the very first program of Gerard Malanga’s movies in New York in 45 years. The last screening took place at the Elgin Cinema under the program title The Personal Cinema of Gerard Malanga, Sunday night, December 21, 1970.
Gerard Malanga, poet, photographer and filmmaker, has always characterized his movies as “film notebooks” or “picture diaries,” depicting, as he says, “my presence at a certain place at a certain time. They are a record of the people I encountered along the way.”
Gerard Malanga’s photography, films and poetry have brought him a large international following.
He first got his start in the American underground cinema working as an assistant with the husband & wife filmmakers, Willard Maas and Marie Menken.
He also worked closely with Andy Warhol during the artist’s most creative period in the mid 1960s, on silkscreening and filmmaking, and together they co-founded Interview in 1969. The New York Times called him “Warhol’s most important associate.” In 1964 through ’66, they collaborated on the nearly 500 individual 3minute Screen Tests.
He is the author of a dozen books of poetry, and his work has appeared in Poetry, Raritan, Yale Review, Harvard Review, Paris Review, Partisan Review and The New Yorker.
He is presently writing his autobiography, In Remembrance of Things Past.
In 2005, he was fêtéd by the Vienna International Film Festival for his contributions to underground cinema.
His movie, In Search of the Miraculous was the official U.S. entry at the 10th Gran Premio Bergamo film festival in 1967, and was reviewed by Alberto Moravia in Il Messaggero as “a series of images strangely beautiful and revealing.”
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Further praise has been noted for his work over the years:
“Now and again a poet is found who is a complex of so many capabilities and patterns, all relating but none so isolating in its practice that the one is lost to the other. I have marvelled for years at Gerard Malanga’s articulate endurance as a poet - and also as a photographer of singular power. He has moved with deftness and great authority in the various worlds of art and pop, and never lost his wits or his footing. In short, he reminds me as do few others of what poets might be in a common world if only they could or would.”
- Robert Creeley, Chancellor, The Academy of American Poets, 1999-2005.
“Malanga has that great essential virtue of the photographer: humility before the complex splendor of the real thing.”
- Ben Maddow, poet/screenwriter/photography historian.
“An extravagantly ferocious filmmaker and poet.”
- Parker Tyler, poet/film critic/art critic.
“A filmmaker and poet with an aggressive sense of interpretation.”
- Andy Warhol, painter & filmmaker.
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Program:
* The Film Records... (1968), 15min.
* Andy Warhol: Portraits of the Artist as a Young Man (1964), 21min.
* Gerard Malanga’s Film Notebooks (2005), 27min.
* Giangiacomo Feltrinelli Film Portrait (1966), 3min.
* In Search of the Miraculous (1967), 29min.
Film screenings in November are shown all day in the continuous loop every hour on following days:
Thursday 12th, 11am-6pm
Friday 13th, 11am-6pm
Saturday 14th, 11am6pm
Friday 20th, 12pm-7pm
Saturday 21st, 12pm-8pm
Sunday 22nd, 12pm-6pm
Friday 27th, 12pm-8pm
Saturday 28th, 12pm-8pm
Sunday 29th, 12pm-6pm
To make time arrangement for viewing on other days please call : 518 567 8193