Cinema avant garde/Cinema of Poets
~ Confronting Vague Ideas with Clear Images ~‚Ä®‚Ä®‚Ä®Cin?©math?®que Fran?ßaise*‚Ä®51 rue de Bercy‚Ä®Paris

TAV FALCO
April 21, 2006
7:30 PM
In presence of Tav Falco
Tav Falco
performer & cineaste
leader of the group Panther Burns

From the masterpiece of radical simplicity and empathy that is represented by Honky Tonk, from the “magick” ambience of Love’ s Last Warning where one finds Kenneth Anger, from the influence of Jean Rouch and that of German Expressionism, the course of Tav Falco manifests an integrity well understood within the meaning of an exploration: opening gradually and resolving in a ritual of dances. At times the work of the cineaste treats the dance in its dimension of activity as instinctual, liberated, and improbable, and at times like a daily collective fest, like a ceremony of adjustment , like a group of disciplinary techniques, like the emergence of fables and corporal myths, or like hygiene for a vital elegance.

Shade Tree Mechanic dir. Richard Pleuger, USA/1986/21′ /16 mm ‚Ä®

‚Ä®Honky Tonk dir. Tav Falco, USA/1974/17′ /video ‚Ä®With Rural Burnside. The blues taken from its most intense source, a masterpiece of simple beauty… radical, spellbinding.

‚Ä®Memphis Beat dir. Robert Gordon, USA/1989/4′ /video‚Ä® Featuring the orchestra sauvage : Panther Burns.‚Ä®

‚Ä®Why Was I Born(Too Late) dir. Rainer Kirberg, Hungary/1992/5′ /35 mm ‚Ä® With Tav Falco engaged in a languid Tango duel at Club F?©szek.‚Ä®

‚Ä®Love’ s Last Warning dir. Rainer Kirberg, Austria/1995/6′ /35mm ‚Ä® Ritualistic transformation at Hotel Orient of Tav Falco into Fant?¥mas by the magus, Kenneth Anger.‚Ä®

* Cin?©math?®que Fran?ßaise :
~ the original cinematheque founded in Paris by Henri Langois upon which all others are modeled.