CONTENT WARNING: These films contain flashing lights which may not be suitable for photosensitive epilepsy.

Half of the films in this showcase will be presented on Super 8mm.

Saul Levine has taught at MassArt for the last 40 years, ushering in new generations of filmmakers into making experimental films and teaching alongside contemporary luminaries in the field. This program––adapted from a similar showcase that was presented at kindred microcinema La Cueva as part of last year's "Retrospectiva Saul Levine" in Mexico––collects films by Levine alongside those of his contemporaries and forebears, highlighting the unique methods of study and practice championed at The Massachusetts School of Arts and Design (MassArt).

Films in a state of decay and reinvention make up this program. From Tom Rhodes and Luther Price's bleak and beautiful WARM BROTH (1988), to Saul Levine and Pelle Lowe's cheeky READY-MADE (1992), this showcase presents the multifacetedness of the MassArt filmmakers. Aware of film as a material and always willing to push the medium's limits in terms of form and narrative, MassArt's filmmakers demonstrate a radical, perhaps waning, approach to experimental filmmaking in the United States. Within this short presentation exists a universe of filmmaking, held together by personal idiosyncrasies and uncompromising experimentation.

See the full program at spectacletheater.com.

Special thanks to Annalisa D. Quagliata Blanco, Saul Levine, Byron Davies, Lumia Lightsmith, Stephen Cappel, Nicolas Cadena, Mono No Aware, and Kathy Del Beccaro.

Davies and Lightsmith co-curated this program. The latter also formatted all of the graphics for this series. The banner and poster image for this program come courtesy of David Michael Curry, who participated in the filming of WARM BROTH. Davies's research project "Materialism and Geographic Specificity in the Philosophy of Film" forms the basis for these screenings, which are supported by Salón de Cines Múltiples.