The Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation presents a lecture by Kaira Cabañas

July 6, 2012. 7:00 p.m.

The Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation (CIFO) is hosting a lecture with Kaira Cabañas titled Lettrist Cinema’s Public Education: Maurice Lemaître Séances at the CIFO Art Space for a special one day only event. Dr. Cabañas will visit CIFO on Friday, July 6th, 2012.

This lecture turns to Maurice Lemaître’s designation of his Lettrist work in film as a “séance de cinéma” and situates it in relation to the ciné-club tradition, a popular educational venue for learning about film. The lecture will feature a screening of his Le Film est déjà commencé? (Has the Film Already Started?, 1951), where the audience and entire theater staff became part of the work. Here, non-synchronization occurs not only between image and sound but also between what is on and off screen. Cabaña’s lecture will seek to account for his work’s incorporation of live debate as central to the séance as well as its pedagogical and communicative conceit.

Le Film est déjà commencé? will be screened just after the talk. (Film duration: 65 minutes.) Please RSVP for this event to [email protected]. General admission is $7 and students $3.

CIFO Art Space
1018 North Miami Avenue
Miami, FL 33136
305.455.3380
www.cifo.org

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