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Brancusi's Sculpture Ensemble At Tirgu Jiu (1984) by Paul Sharits

Thursday, October 3, 1985, 8:00 pm

New From Canyon Cinema

SAN FRANCISCO ART INSTITUTE

800 Chestnut Street

San Francisco, CA, 94133

A program of varied films which have recently been completed or made available for the first time. Included will be the West Coast premieres of Peter Hutton’s Budapest Portrait, a Hungarian-sponsored series of images and impressions of this Iron Curtain country, and Brancusi’s Sculpture Ensemble At Tirgu Jiu by Paul Sharits, a chronicle of a visit Sharits made to Roumania in order to see three of Brancusi’s most famous sculptures.

Films: Budapest Portrait (1984) and Lenin Portrait (1981-82) by Peter Hutton; Brancusi’s Sculpture… (1977-84) by Paul Sharits; Kaleidoscope (1935) and Colour Flight (1938) by Len Lye; Area Predictor (1983) by Bill Baldewicz, regular 8mm; Noh Tiger (1983) by Wendy Blair, super-8mm; Tracy’s Family Folk Festival (1983) by Bill Brand