Sixties Surreal: Film Program
Fri, Oct 24, 2025
3–7:30 pm
Ed Emshwiller, still from Scape-mates, 1972, Video, color, sound; 28:16 min. Courtesy of Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI), New York.
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This program is organized as part of Sixties Surreal. Working with film and video was an important way for artists to explore the overarching themes of the exhibition and the era itself, including disorientation, erotic identities, and new assemblies of urban worlds.
Extending outside the gallery, the films presented in this program offer three disparate looks at how artists used the moving image and sound to explore their own relationships with the political and social undercurrents of the long Sixties. Kenneth Anger offers a bewitching and debaucherous look at overlapping cultures; Ed Emshwiller was an early experimenter in video, combining live action and animation with his interest in movement and technology; and Ken Jacobs’s focus on the immediacy of filmmaking is expressed by a three-part reverie that was edited in camera.
This film program will play on a loop from 3–7:30 pm and is free with museum admission. Seating is first-come, first-served
Program:
Kenneth Anger
Scorpio Rising, 1963
16mm film transferred to video, color, sound; 28 min.
© 1963 Estate of Kenneth Anger. Courtesy Brian Butler.
Ed Emshwiller
Scape-mates, 1972
Video, color, sound; 28:16 min.
Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI), New York
Ken Jacobs
Little Stabs at Happiness, 1960
16 mm film transferred to video, color, sound; 14:57 min.
Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI), New York
