Karen Cooper's Carte Blanche at MoMA features 3 of our titles:

Battle of Chile, Pt. 2 – Feb. 7
Underground Orchestra – Feb. 7&8
Colette – Feb. 14

Click here for more information and showtimes.

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This promises to be a "Joli Mai" as two events celebrate the work of French filmmaker and multimedia poet Chris Marker.

The Harvard Film Archive is offering a program entitled The Second Life of Chris Marker from May 9th to 16th with screenings of a selection of his films and a very special "virtual" appearance by Marker as he gives a live tour of his Second Life cyber-museum, "Ouvroir," and also answers
questions on-line from the audience on May 16th.

For more details and a list of the films being screened with showtimes, please visit the HFA website.

In New York City, the Peter Blum Gallery in Chelsea will present an exhibition of photographs and video installations by Marker, opening May 16th. The photographic series include "Koreans," a grouping of 51 images that Marker shot in 1957 when he was one of the few journalists allowed to travel freely in North Korea.

Visit the gallery's website for more information.

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First Run/Icarus films to be screened at the Organization of American Historians conference

During its 101^st conference taking place in NYC from March 28^th to 31st, the OAH will show 4 films from the FRIF catalog. THE SIXTH SIDE OF THE PENTAGON, THE CAMDEN 28, BEEN RICH ALL MY LIFE and THE PRIZE OF THE POLE have all been selected and represent an eclectic range of subjects such as reactions to the Vietnam war, a troupe of Harlem tap dancers and Arctic exploration.

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The Peter Blum Gallery will be hosting an exhibition of photography by Chris Marker: Staring Back. The exhibit is almost 200 photographs taken over the course of six decades by the enigmatic and influential French filmmaker. This show, organized by Bill Horrigan at the Wexner Center for the Arts, is the first exhibition of Marker's photographs, and consists of images selected by the artist himself from his own archive, including black-and-white portraits of individuals that Marker has encountered during the course of his world travels.

In conjunction with the exhibition, the gallery will present a selection of Chris Marker films, including THE CASE OF THE GRINNING CAT, on October 4, 11 and 18 at 7pm in their Chelsea gallery location.

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OUR DAILY BREAD has been selected to many film critics' top ten lists around the country. The New York Times' lead critic Manohla Dargis named it one of the best films of the year, non-fiction or fiction.

OUR DAILY BREAD is also #2 on the Best Documentary List on the 2006 indieWIRE film critics' poll, where Chris Marker's latest THE CASE OF THE GRINNING CAT is #5. 107 critics participated in the first indieWIRE Critics Poll, which is the successor to The Village Voice's Annual Poll.

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