A Weekend of Films by Emile de Antonio
May 9, 2016
Still from Underground (1976) by Emile de Antonio, Mary Lampson, and Haskell Wexler. Image © Nancy de Antonio
Public Programs organized a three-day screening series highlighting the films of Emile de Antonio, one of the most important political filmmakers of the twentieth century. The screening took place over the weekend of April 1-3. This event was co-organized by Donna de Salvo, Deputy Director for International Initiatives and Senior Curator, in tandem with the exhibition Laura Poitras: Astro Noise. The films included Underground (1978), In the Year of the Pig (1968), Millhouse: A White Comedy (1971), Point of Order! (1963), and Mr. Hoover and I (1989).
Left to right: Douglas Kellner, Mary Lampson, and Donna De Salvo, April 2016. Photograph by Patrick MacLeod
After the screening of Mr. Hoover and I on April 3¸ De Salvo, Douglas Kellner, media culture theorist and UCLA professor, and Mary Lampson, filmmaker and de Antonio collaborator, discussed the legacy of the filmmaker’s work. Lampson shared personal anecdotes from the time she worked with de Antonio, and the group presented clips from other de Antonio films, including Painter’s Painting (1973). De Antonio’s challenges to establishments of power resonate with the critiques of contemporary surveillance practices in Laura Poitras: Astro Noise.
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Jackie Kong, Public Programs Intern