10 September, 8:30 pm, Gloria Kino

Chris Marker once described his favourite film as “a vertigo of space which is a vertigo of time”. This triple feature follows the twisted trail of three pivotal works of the twentieth century: a 1950s Hollywood thriller, a French science-fiction “photo-novel” from the 1960s and an ecstatic artist’s film made in 1970. For Alfred Hitchcock, Chris Marker and Robert Smithson (who was addicted equally to sci-fi and avant-garde films), film is a means of freeing biographical, historical and geological time from its dull reputation of linearity. All three create loops of time and space, spirals that extend from the bun of blonde hair of a woman visiting a museum in San Francisco through to a huge earth sculpture at the edge of a salt lake; and all three describe the double life between wishful projections and memory, between presentness and the ghostly return of the past. This programme deals with film and the museum, with archaeology and time machines and the desire deposited within them. “A message to alien gods.” (Dan Graham)


Vertigo
Alfred Hitchcock, 1958, 35 mm, colour, 128 min.

La Jetée
Chris Marker, 1962, 35 mm, b/w, 28 min.

The Spiral Jetty
Robert Smithson, 1970, 16 mm, colour, 35 min.

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